Celebrating Lesbian Visibility Week with Our Favourite Stories
This year Lesbian Visibility Week runs from April 26 to May 2 with the intent to celebrate lesbians, and uplift other LGBTQ+ women and all nonbinary and trans people.
Aligning with our mission and drive at editaudio, it seemed only right to celebrate the week by highlighting some great stories from our favourite lesbians at If These Ovaries Could Talk, with hosts Robin Hopkins and Jaimie Kelton.
If These Ovaries Could Talk is a weekly podcast about making babies and queer parenting. The podcast launched with Robin’s and Jaimie’s own stories of motherhood, infertility issues, and finding a way to talk about their experiences openly, which will endear any listener immediately. But Robin and Jaimie didn’t stop there. Instead, they reached out to other families who could share their stories and expand listeners' ideas of what a family looks like and what it takes to create one.
- Rosie O’Donnell: Starting with a bang, this episode of ITOCT goes into an unfiltered interview with the celebrity herself. Discover what it was like as a trailblazing queer parent when few Hollywood stars were out, and even her struggles with personal relationships as well as with her children.
2. Our Shelves: In this outrageous episode, Alli and Jen talk about giving birth to a baby in a Subaru, the age gap between their kids, and how they started a diverse book box service with LGBTQ+ content for families.
3. Fight the Power: Amanda and Gab’s story is one of resilience and inspiration. When they both experienced microaggressions at the clinic where they were trying to make a family, instead of suing, they decided to work hand-in-hand with the clinic. They helped the clinic improve all aspects of how they interacted with the LGBTQ+ population.
4. Latter-Day Lesbians: In this hilarious clash of podcasts, Shelly and Mary tell their story. Shelly was a devout Mormon with a husband and 7 kids before she realized that she might be a lesbian. Enter Mary, a recovering evangelical Christian. While navigating their religious backgrounds together, both a family and the Latter-Day Lesbian podcast were born.
5. Coming Out with Eggs on Ice: Guests Emily VanDerWerff and Libby Hill dish about how coming out as transgender can affect a relationship. And an answer to the question tons of couples face — can a marriage survive when one person wants kids but the other does not?
6. Trailblazing Mamas: Finally, our last story is a Canadian classic. These Canadian moms, Penni and Sue, fought the Canadian government to get parental rights for Sue, a non-bio parent of their son. Hear their pivotal story of setbacks, debt, years of court postponements, and eventually a change in the very laws they were fighting. With the money they got back from their legal fight, they set up a fund for LGBTQ+ families in need of legal funds, with an understanding that laws are always changing and may not always support queer families through those changes.
If These Ovaries Could Talk features plenty more stories just like these that aren’t just about heartache and coming out, but the joys of growing a family, finding acceptance and just having a lot of fun in a non-traditional way.
What are the lesbian and queer stories you want to see uplifted beyond this week? Let us know in the comments below!
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