Lindsay King-Miller
Lindsay King-Miller
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She will deal with the repercussions of other people’s dysfunctional relationship with guns, whether she chooses to or not.
Read...Asking for help is the hardest part. The truth is that asking for help is uncomfortable, even when we’ve been repeatedly reassured that it’s welcome.
Read...People talk about skin care like it’s fun — a way to relax. But for me, the very idea opens onto a black hole of self-loathing.
Read...While it might seem frivolous to those who feel right at home in the titles "mom" or "dad," many queer parents agonize over what they want their children to call them.
Read...Brands getting in on the body love game might be a positive sign, but in and of itself it is not radical. We need to make body love radical again!
Read...I am a compulsive memorizer. I am terrified of making a mistake, ever. But I'm learning to let go of my perfectionism.
Read...The decision to terminate a pregnancy is often informed by the needs of the children a pregnant person is already raising.
Read...I never want my child to doubt herself the way I do myself. I never want her to feel the anxieties that weigh me down, though I know she already senses it.
Read...We’re always hardest on people who give into our own worst impulses, and I see my own shadow in those parents. I’m an over-sharer too.
Read...For queer parents like me, meanwhile — although I know that my whiteness and my class affords me a degree of protection from scrutiny and interference — the threat of being deemed an illegitimate parent also serves to silence any discussion of mixed feelings.
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