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Weathering Seasons of Change
Blueberry Blossoms: Shaped like Premonitions of the Fruit to Come It’s 43 degrees this early morning, and I’m sitting on a loveseat on my back porch, wrapped in a down blanket and a ski jacket. A cup...
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What Would Jesus Say About SB 101?
Who Would Jesus Refuse? It’s not often that I page through a Bible, searching for verses. It’s not often I boil with indignation over people taking Jesus’ name in vain. But damn, Indiana, if you didn’t...
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Religious Refusal Bills: The New Battleground for LGBTQ Rights
By now you’ve probably heard that Indiana passed Senate Bill 101, a Religious Refusal Bill (RRB) that grants individuals and business entities the right to deny service to LGBTQ customers, based on...
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Are You an OLP? (Overprotective Lesbian Parent)
This morning I dropped my ten-year-old son off at school with everything he needed to survive a two-night field trip in California’s Gold Country: two pairs of shorts (he hates pants), two shirts, two...
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Sex Talk: The Awkwardness of the Mother Is Visited Upon her Sons
In our local department store, The Emporium, I stood in front of the training bra display that segregated the girls’ department from the boys’, hoping my mother would notice. She didn’t. Maybe I was...
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Beyond Talk: Helping Kids Deal with Divorce
From the moment he’d arrived home from school, my eight-year-old son had been exhibiting signs of deep discomfort—grouchiness, defiance, then outright sobbing because “I shouldn’t have spent my whole...
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LGBT Allies: Small Gestures Make a Big Difference
Whenever I meet someone new, whether I’m walking into a job interview, chatting with a checker at a grocery store, or introducing myself to a parent at my kids’ school, a quiet question looms in the...
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The Divorce Files: Upsides of Moving Out
So you’re saying goodbye to your home. The space where friends and family have gathered in celebration, where you’ve found solitude and much-needed solace, where you’ve taught your children the...
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Divorce Sucks: The Birthday Episode
Act 1: Normally, the breakfast table would be decorated by birthday balloons, a handmade banner, cards, a wrapped gift or two and a 60-page photo book telling the story of my son’s past year. Instead,...
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Let’s Be the Allies Our Muslim Neighbors Need
Dear VillageQ Family, My heart is breaking for my Muslim friends. The Islamophobic rantings, the characterization of Muslims as terrorists, the unconscionable suggestions that Muslims be banned or...
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