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Smile – Raising Orlando
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Parenting a gender nonconforming child. August 2, 2015. August 2, 2015. Life has been kind lately. And I’ve reacquainted myself with long division and junior physics (hmm). Before we left Australia, I’d been struggling. A couple of times I’d woken at 3am absolutely sodden with grief. Riddled with it. I imagined getting out of bed to write in this blog:. I’ve been hollowed out with sadness. It is unbearable. Yet something shifted for me after a few days on Vanuatu. When you spend only a week in someon...
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Peace – Raising Orlando
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Parenting a gender nonconforming child. August 18, 2015. February 18, 2016. I’ve made peace this week. It’s partial, painful, perhaps impermanent. It’s also a good place to rest. Ariadne wrote recently that her mother’s behaviour regarding her partner’s transition brought back submerged, unwelcome memories of her childhood. I’ve recognized a similar situation in my own recent life with dismay! It was also normal to be silent on matters to do with sexuality, race, turbulent emotion, mental illness or mari...
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Captain Sarah – Raising Orlando
https://raisingorlando.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/captain-sarah
Parenting a gender nonconforming child. June 30, 2015. July 1, 2015. Every winter, inevitably, our family gets addicted to a TV show. The last two winters, this show has been. If you don’t know about. Save yourself the Google. Wherever you are in the world, you’ve seen something like it. It’s a generic lifestyle reality show where six hetero, mostly white, mostly Anglo couples renovate each others’ houses. The winner is rewarded with Every Aussie’s dream : paying off the mortgage. Captain Sarah had a bri...
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