Acknowledgements
Introduction, by Rachel Epstein
Part 1: Red Rock Baby Candy: Beginnings
The Squeaky Animal Hat Club: A queer Spawn Comes Out, by Melissa Hart
Box A: Celebrating our Forerunners
Go On, You Choose: The Ethics of Getting Pregnant by Nagging, by Emma Donoghue
Daddies & Papas 2B: The Evolution of Possibilities, Interview with Chris Veldhoven and Thom Vernon
Boldly Going Where Few Men Have Gone Before: One Trans Man’s Experience, by Syrus Marcus Ware
Red Rock Baby Candy: Infertile Homosexual Speaks!, by Shira Spector
Box B: Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Recommendations for Improving the Provision of AHR Services
The Making and Unmaking of Biological Ties in Gay and Lesbian Families, by Suzanne Pelka
Extra Love: An Open Adoption Story, Interview with Ann-Marie MacDonald
Part 2: From Queer to Paternity: Queering the Family Tree
The Gift of Life: Sperm Donors/Donor Dads — Then and Now Group, Interview with sperm donors/donor dads
My Co-world and Welcome To It: Adventures in Non-Conjugal Parenting, by Aviva Rubin
To Bi or Not To Bi: Bisexuality and Disclosure in the Adoption System, by Allison Eadie et al.
The Revolutionary Artist Mom and Baby League: Putting Young Queer Parents on the Map, by Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr
Beyond Thomas Beatie: Trans Men and the New Parenthood, by Maura Ryan
Box C: TransFathers 2B: A Course for Trans-Masculine Individuals and Trans Men Considering Parenthood
From Queer to Paternity: A Gay Man’s Uncharted Voyage into Co-Parenting, by Derek P. Scott
Hip Queer Single Mamas: A Community Group, Interview with single moms group
Beyond Normalization: An Analysis of Heteronormativity in Children’s Picture Books, by Anika Stafford
Part 3: Handing Out Cigars: History, Visibility and Social Change
Politics of the Heart: Recognition of Homoparental Families in Québec, by Nancy Nicol
Box D: Coalition des familles homoparentales/LGBT Family Coalition (Québec)
Handing Out Cigars: Outlaw Moms No More, by Lois Fine
Two Pathways to a Revolution: The Difference that Context Makes in Canada and the U.S., by David Rayside
Mommies in Critical Care, by Diane Flacks
Reading, Writing and Resilience: Queer Spawn Speak Out About School, by Rachel Epstein et al.
Box E: The W.I.S.E. Up! Model
A Queer Spawn Manifesto: Empowerment and Recognition, by Jamie K. Evans
Part 4: All Our Roots Need Rain: Parenting dilemmas in the day-to-day
Little White Children: Notes from a Chicana Dyke Dad, by Karleen Pendleton-Jiménez
The Move, by Cindy Holmes and Anne Fleming
All Our Roots Need Rain: Queer Parenting from the Sri Lankan Diaspora, by N. Gitanjali Lena
Race Relations in the Family: On Being a Transracial Spawn of White Queer Parents, by Tobi Hill-Meyer
Lost: The Unthinkable Cost of Love, by Serena Patterson
Radical Fairies and Lesbian Avengers: Reflections from a Gay Dad and His Dyke Daughter, by Julie Mooney-Somers and Eamon Somers
Box F: The Pop Luck Club and Gay Fathers of Toronto
This Hyphenated Mothering Thing, by Makeda Silvera
Part 5: Houses Full of Love: What we offer our children
Dear Who-Knows-Who: An Expectant Mother’s Parenting Intentions, by Elizabeth Ruth
In the Best Interests of the Child: The Awful Truth about Queer-Raised Kids, by christina starr
Is Queer Parenting Possible?, by Shelley M. Park
Sex and the Formerly Single Mom, by Jaime Grant
In Defence of “Traditional” Families, by Joanna Radbord
Houses Full of Love: Bringing up Children in Polyamorous Relationships, by Alessandra (Alex) Iantaffi
Who’s Your Daddy?: Reflections on Masculinity in Butch-Parented Sons, by Laurie Bell
I Am My Father’s Son, by Jonathan Feakins
Contributors’ Notes
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