Tina’s book signing followed by an illuminating panel discussion with Jamie, Kerry, Danielle and the author herself
The retreat participants head down to the Lower East Side’s Bluestockings bookstore and activist center for a very special book signing & celebration with Tina Fakhrid-Deen, author of Let’s Get This Straight, a resource book for youth living in LGBTQ-parented households.
Daddy, dresses, deportations. Rising above complications.
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| — | Anonymous, 6 Word Memoir from the Social Media workshop |
The Director of the sperm bank nods. The women can become mothers. So it begins. This gift. My life.
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| — | Claire Knight, #twitterstory from the Social Media workshop |
Dad stylishly painted my nails until I was 4. Should have seen it coming.
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| — | Lauren, #twitterstory from the Social Media workshop |
trans dad
bio mom
so what?
bio mom
so what?
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| — | Heather Bryant - Six Word Memoir at the Social Media & Blogging Workshop |
Heather & Darnell’s Telling your Story: Social Media and Blogging workshop with special guest Noelle Howey, author of Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother’s, My Father’s and Mine and editor of Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents.
You’ll be amazed at how important your story is. And your story. That’s how we abolished the death penalty… That’s the way it’s gonna happen. It’s not gonna happen from me, it’s gonna happen from you.
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| — | State Senator Raymond Lesniak (D-NJ) on the best way to achieve marriage equality and other LBGTQ rights initiatives |
