Spawning season : an experiment in queer parenthood / Joseph Osmundson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osmundson, Joseph, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Osmundson, Joseph, 1983-.

Osmundson, Joseph.

Sexual minorities' families--Social conditions--21st century--Biography.

Sexual minorities' families.

Children of sexual minority parents.

Sexual minority parents.

Familial behavior in animals.

Parenthood.

Child rearing.

LGBTQ+ parenthood.

LGBTQ+ parents.

Queer parents.

Queer families.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Memoirs.

Essays.

Physical Description:

201 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Experiment in queer parenthood

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

Since grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the queer scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia and the warming planet led to his decision not to reproduce. That is, until a lesbian couple he had known since college came to him with a proposition: would Joe be a bio-dad and would he co-parent alongside them? Soon everything was falling into place. But when the two partners communicated their need for a child to reflect their own racial backgrounds, Joe's whiteness exposed fault lines in their parenting journey. Spawning Season is a genre-bending memoir that treats the scientific as integral to the personal and that builds an entire species of the grief we carry in our bodies. In exploratory prose that builds on the work of Donna Haraway and José Esteban Muñoz, Osmundson considers the ethics of child-rearing in the 21st century, the brutal wonder of caregiving, and the joys and intricacies of building family beyond biology. -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Fry

Salt water

Humpy

Hatch.

ISBN:

1639737839

9781639737833

OCLC:

1533844832