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I posted the remaining copies of Decolonizing P@renting to my shop. There’s 30 available for purchase and once they’re sold there won’t be any until we do a second printing. Get your copy @ queerindigenousgirl.etsy.com! (Side note: I have 2 copies donated especially for queer parents of color so if you’d like a copy, message me!)

Decolonizing P@renting is a zine by & for queer parents of color, edited by Se'mana Thompson & María Teresa Carmier.

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TMP started a new (secret) Facebook group called “trans mama-ing.”

Trans Mama-ing is a digital support space for trans women + trans femmes who are seeking support, solidarity, and/or resources/advice regarding issues of mothering and motherhood. This space also seeks to facilitate intergenerational connections within our community.

If you are interested in joining this group, please message the Trans Mothering Project’s tumblr account or email us at thetransmotheringproject@gmail.com

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"Other lesbian moms ask, "Who was your sperm donor?" I share their desire for connection but fear the truth would separate us. I am Mira's sperm donor. I don't have a uterus, and I don't need to adopt Mira because the state already recognizes me as her parent. Sometimes I tell them that our sperm donor was a family member. Sometimes they see the hesitation in my eyes and apologize. Sometimes I want to playfully tell them that I am Mira's sperm mother."

Helen Reed, "Transparent Motherhood," Literary Mama

http://www.literarymama.com/…/02/transparent-motherhood.html

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“On a popular social media website, I found a closed group for trans women’s fertility. The group was small, with only eight members, about half of whom actively post. Yet it was here that I learned that I could simply buy a microscope to monitor my own fertility, and that I absolutely had to wear baggy clothes if this was going to work. I made all the images and videos in this piece myself, of my own sperm samples, with a microscope and slides I prepared with a pipette.”

Micha Cárdenas, "Pregnancy:Reproductive Futures in Trans of Color Feminism," Transgender Studies Quarterly, pg. 56

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"Katie Kaput is a queer radical transsexual single mama writer. Her work has been published in "Mamaphonic" (Seal Press), "It's A Boy!" (Seal Press), and "The People's Apocalypse" (Lit Star Press)."

(Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, 242)