Ocean Dreamer

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past couple of days reading some of my favorite blogs.  I am so deeply disappointed over CA’s passage of prop 8 (and the bans in FL, AZ, and AR, though those were less shocking), so much so that I really couldn’t write anything on here about [...]

For the past few years, I have been working with Push magazine, an all-volunteer run queer feminist magazine that is based here in Seattle. We put out one (sometimes two) issues a year, on topics such as class, sex and gender, and food. Each issue included essays, interviews, poetry, and artwork from queer [...]

So here’s an update on my adventures with biphobia on my lesbian moms listserve.  You can read about what happened here.  After my post on the listserve, I received many responses.  Some were from women who agreed with me (although one went back on her agreement under pressure from the group).  Most, however, were along [...]

I’m on several listserves for lesbian moms and women who are TTC.  One of them labeled themselves as being “just for lesbians.”  It was the first one I found and I joined it because I wanted the community, even though I was strongly opposed to the exclusionary policy.  Recently, the listowner received a request from [...]

A bit late, but here are some photos from Pride last weekend. I went to many of the events and loved it. Last year I skipped most of them because of my parents’ Conservative Cruise got into Seattle the same weekend. (Yes, you read that right. People from Fox News and [...]