On Tuesday morning, I was extremely excited and enormously relieved to reach the target for my crowd-funding campaign. The campaign was to cover the costs of self-publishing, ‘The Curse of Grandma Maple!’ a book for primary school kids that features a rainbow family. That evening – happily exhausted – I wrote this to say, ‘Thank […]
Kids and parenting
A New Book for Rainbow Families
‘The Curse of Grandma Maple!’ I’ve written a book for rainbow families – this time for the kids and their friends. It’s a fun, fast-paced mystery adventure about two Australian kids, Connor and Sam, and their Canadian cousins. I’ve decided to self-publish and I’m running a crowd-funding campaign to cover the costs. If you click […]
No. 4 Fertility for trans and gender diverse people – Dr Bronwyn Devine
This blog is a follow up to ‘Marc: The story of a trans dad’ and provides details of the issues associated with fertility for trans people. There’s a lot of practical information here, but what I love most about this interview is what Dr Devine says at the end: ‘I want people to not think […]
No. 3 Marc: The story of a trans dad
This is a great story for so many reasons, not least of which is that everyone involved is positive, supportive and affirming – medical professionals, childcare staff, teachers, friends and family. So much of what we read about trans issues at the moment is negative, ignorant or frightening, and I think it’s really important to […]
No. 2: The Challenges and Rewards of being a Gay Dad
This is the second in a series of four posts highlighting a new resource the, Early Years Support Guide, that I’ve developed in collaboration with Rainbow Families NSW. Recently, I was at a rainbow families event and was pleasantly surprised to see how many gay dads came along. We don’t have any statistics on this, […]