Your Other Mother

Some updates: the show is going on hiatus, and I have so very much gratitude to everyone who's been listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This very special conversation between my godmothers and me is one of my favorites of the season (okay, aren't they all?!). Many thanks to my sweet aunties for sitting down for this conversation around their own relationships to parenthood as gay women, my growing up, and what the future holds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's conversation is with the inimitable Daisye, for whose wisdom, eloquence, and thoughtfulness I am so grateful. We talk about her experiences coming of age as a lesbian in the early 1990s while also navigating the experience of her mother coming out and entering a relationship with a woman around the same time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, I talk to Jesse, a fellow child of two moms who grew up in the Boston area, and who was the first person I met in adulthood also raised by two moms. It was such a treat to reconnect with Jesse after 10+ years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's episode is part two of a two-part conversation with my dear friend Sammy, a fellow child of two moms who grew up in the Boston area. If you haven't listened to part one, go back and check out Episode 6. We talk about the intersection of Jewishness and queerness, how our rearing in queer families has shaped our orientations to justice, and so much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, I talk to Sammy, a fellow child of two moms who grew up in the Boston area. Many thanks to Sammy for her generous trust in me to bring our conversation to you all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of Your Other Mother, I talk about depictions of queer families in the media I engaged with in the 1990s and 2000s, including films The Birdcage and The Kids Are All Right, and TV shows Friends and Will & Grace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A conversation with the incredible Jane (not her real name), a former "sperm broker" for gay women trying to have biological children in the 1980s in the Seattle area. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this (short) episode, I talk about the terms I use throughout the podcast and reflect on the complexities and nuances of the words we use to describe our families and ourselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, I interview three incredible advocates who have worked in the adoption space in Washington state over the past decades: Washington State Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu, attorney and former court commissioner Eric Watness, and attorney and advocate Barbara Wechsler. We discuss the history of same-sex adoption in Washington state, legislative changes that empowered queer folks to form legal relationships to one another, and what the future might hold for the legal treatment of queer family-making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.