Spawning generations : rants and reflections on growing up with LGBTQ+ parents / edited by Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Epstein-Fine, Sadie, 1992- editor.

Zook, Makeda, 1986- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of sexual minority parents.

Children of gay parents.

Parent and child.

LGBTQ+ parents.

Children of LGBTQ+ people.

LGBTQ+ families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 208 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2018]

Summary:

"As queerspawn, we have often presented our lives to conform to other people's expectations of what has been difficult for us, and what we have risen above. We have felt the pressure to be perfect in order to prove to the skeptics, the disbelievers, the pessimists, the straight-up haters, that we are a social experiment gone 'right,' producing 'well-adjusted' children. This anthology is about carving out a space for our voices. It is an attempt to create space for our stories without the pressures of having to conform to a narrative that demands perfection, that demands proving to on-lookers, both outside of and within queer communities, that we turned out 'all right.' If you are looking for that narrative in this collection, you won't find it. Instead you will find voices that ask: What does it mean to be 'well-adjusted' in a world that teaches us to lie about our imperfections and to believe that we are alone in those imperfections? What does it means to be 'well adjusted' in a world that is ripe with problems and fraught with violence? What does it mean to be resilient in a world that will not allow us to reveal our imperfections for fear of putting our family's safety at risk? We are in fact, and all at once, resilient, imperfect, and fiercely protective of our families. We exist in a world of grey and this anthology is a reflection of our actual experiences, airbrushed for no one - at times humorous, light, joyous, prideful, and hopeful, at other times sad, and full of grief, guilt, shame, denial, resentment, and anger."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. Beginnings

1. Rainbow Kid

2. Spawn

3. Gathering Voices

4. 1986

5. My Life as a Play

6. Insider/Outsider

7. Closets of Fear, Islands of Love

8. The Love of the Princess

9. Sweating the Gay Stuff

II. Middles

10. Eighteen

11. A Homophobe at Body Electric

12. Glitter in the Dishwasher

13. Leslie's Girl

14. Roots and Rainbows

15. Did I Make My Mother Gay?

16. Gayby Baby

17. Don't Leave Me This Way

III. Endings

18. Jannit's Pink Lesbian Kitchen

19. My Moms Are Getting Gay Married, But I Wont' Be There

20. If You're Gay, What Am I?

21. We Are Made of Generations

22. Watching Roseanne

23. Resistance, Like Leather, Is a Beautiful Thing

24. In Between Heart and Break

About the Contributors

About the Editors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77258-182-8