Who's Your Daddy

Rachel Epstein has been a queer parenting activist, educator, and researcher for close to twenty years and coordinates the LGBTQ Parenting Network at the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario. She has published on a wide range of queer parenting issues, including assisted human reproduction, queer spawn in schools, butch pregnancy, and the tensions between queer sexuality, radicalism, and parenting. Rachel is the 2008 winner of the Steinert Ferreiro Award (Community One Foundation), recognizing her leadership and pivotal contributions towards the support, recognition, and inclusion of queer parents and their children in Canada.

Postmodern indeed. As a single Black lesbian mother, I assumed that a resource like this wouldn't yet exist. On searching, I discovered a literary road map to queer parenting and family that is current, diverse and mini-encyclopedic in its breadth. Reading this work made me feel as though I had added to my family of choice."" - Ruth Cameron, The Feminist Review

• Part 1: Red Rock Baby Candy: Beginnings ...The Squeaky Animal Hat Club: A Queer Spawn Comes Out Melissa HartGo On, You Choose: The Ethics of Getting Pregnant by Nagging Emma DonoghueDaddies & Papas 2B: The Evolution of Possibilities Interview with Chris Veldhoven & Thom VernonBoldly Going Where Few Men Have Gone Before: One Trans Man's Experience Syrus Marcus WareRed Rock Baby Candy: Infertile Homosexual Speaks! Shira SpectorThe Making and Unmaking of Biological Ties in Gay and Lesbian Families Suzanne PelkaExtra Love: An Open Adoption Story Interview with Ann-Marie MacDonaldPart 2: From Queer to Paternity: Queering the Family TreeThe Gift of Life: Sperm Donors/Donor Dads — Then and Now Groupinterview with sperm donors/donor dadsMy Co-world and Welcome To It: Adventures in Non-Conjugal Parenting Aviva RubinTo Bi or Not To Bi: Bisexuality and Disclosure in the Adoption System Allison Eadie et alThe Revolutionary Artist Mom and Baby League: Putting Young Queer Parents on the Map Rebecca Trotzky-SirrBeyond Thomas Beatie: Trans Men and the New Parenthood Maura RyanFrom Queer to Paternity: A Gay Man’s Uncharted Voyage into Co-Parenting Derek P. ScottHip Queer Single Mamas: A Community Group interview with single moms groupBeyond Normalization: An Analysis of Heteronormativity in Children’s Picture Books Anika StaffordPart 3: Handing Out Cigars: History, Visibility and Social ChangePolitics of the Heart: Recognition of Homoparental Families in Quebec Nancy NicolHanding Out Cigars: Outlaw Moms No More Lois FineTwo Pathways to a Revolution: The Difference that Context Makes in Canad and the U.S. David RaysideMommies in Critical Care Diane FlacksReading, Writing and Resilience: Queer Spawn Speak Out About School Rachel Epstein et al.A Queer Spawn Manifesto: Empowerment and Recognition Jamie K. EvansPart 4: All Our Roots Need Rain: Parenting dilemmas in the day-to-dayLittle White Children: Notes from a Chicana Dyke Dad Karleen Pendleton-Jiménez The Move Cindy Holmes & Anne FlemingAll Our Roots Need Rain: Queer Parenting from the Sri Lankan Diaspora N. Gitanjali LenaRace Relations in the Family: On Being a Transracial Spawn of White Queer Parents Tobi Hill-MeyerLost: The Unthinkable Cost of Love Serena PattersonRadical Fairies and Lesbian Avengers: Reflections from a Gay Dad and His Dyke Daughter Julie Mooney-Somers & Eamon SomersThis Hyphenated Mothering Thing Makeda SilveraPart 5: Houses Full of Love: What we offer our childrenDear Who-Knows-Who: An Expectant Mother's Parenting Intentions Elizabeth RuthIn the Best Interests of the Child: The Awful Truth about Queer-Raised Kids christina starrIs Queer Parenting Possible? Shelley M. ParkSex and the Formerly Single Mom Jaime GrantIn Defence of ""Traditional"" Families JoannaRadbord Houses Full of Love: Bringing up Children in Polyamorous Relationships Alessandra (Alex) IantaffiWho’s Your Daddy?: Reflections on Masculinity in Butch-Parented SonsLaurie BellI Am My Father’s Son Jonathan FeakinsContributors’ NotesResources