Queerspawn Pieces

Mothers and Others
This piece speaks to the complexity of language within LGBTQ families. Producer Nava EtShalom explores how the challenge of describing her family growing up made things difficult -- but also allowed her family to invent new language and relationships.

Listen to interview (4:06)

Queerspawn Respond:
These three Vox Populi pieces come from the Queerspawn Archives. In them, Queerspawn reporters answered three questions:

• Who's in your family? (1:34)

Whether it's a family tree assignment in school or explaining why your mom's ex-lover's current girlfriend is picking you up from a birthday party, the question "who's in your family?" can be loaded for queerspawn. In this piece, queerspawn describe in both simple and complicated terms the people who make up their families.

• How has growing up in queer family affected your sexuality and relationships? (1:43)

Everyone from psychologists to Seventeen magazine is studying the sexuality of kids from queer families. The big question is always: How will they TURN OUT? Here queerspawn speak more deeply about the diverse ways queer family can shape, enrich, and challenge sexual identity.

• What do you think about same-sex marriage? (2:50)

In this piece, you can listen to experts whose voices are seldom heard in the hubbub about same-sex marriage: the people for whom queer family is home.

Broadcasts

• Queerspawn Diaries on "This Way Out" (RealAudio 28:51)

"This Way Out" an international Lesbian and Gay Radio Magazine featured Queerspawn Diaries March 2005. To listen, copy and paste this into a browser window: www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20050207.rm