Parenting Beyond the Binary: Voices of Trans, Nonbinary, and Queer Parents
A panel about love, identity, and raising children with authenticity including topics such as:
Masculine motherhood, trans gestation, trans perinatal grief, raising twins as a solo parents, inducing lactation and feeding your baby as the non-gestational parent, and so much more.
Meet the panelists:
Kandy Stewart (she/her) is K.Stewart "Kandy" is the CEO and Co-Founder of the K. Stewart Foundation and a proud Masculine Mom. She is an advocate for masculine-presenting mothers, lesbians and masculine-presenting folks navigating pathways to parenthood, with a focus on making information, resources, and family-building options more accessible and affordable.
Eli Wallace (they/them) is the non-gestational, milk-making parent to an 18-month-old comedian. An educator and Jack of all trades, Eli is working toward adding IBCLC to the list of ways they add value to their community. Lately, they spend most of their time experiencing the world again through their child’s eyes (and cleaning up after meals, reading the same books 10 times in a row, potty learning, supporting her through the joys and disappointments of toddlerhood, etc).
Rachel Lark (she/her) is a writer, composer, and performer known for her incisive and catchy anthems about taboo topics. Lark’s work empowers people to chase connection, pleasure, and political action by inviting audiences into a shared cathartic experience of mutual recognition and dissatisfaction with the status quo. She is also a solo parent-by-choice to twin toddlers based in Brooklyn, NY (the unceded territory of the Lenape people).
Aakash Kishore (they/he) is Dr. S. Aakash Kishore is a clinical psychologist and proud gestational parent of three (two living) children. Aakash navigates themes of QTBIPOC joy, grief, and ritual in their clinical practice. They have shared aspects of their pregnancy journey in Oregon Humanities' online publication, Beyond the Margins and in Seahorses: Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Expansive Pregnancy.
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