Q: Your song "The Joke" (from 2018 album "By the Way, I Forgive You") won two Grammys and has become a queer anthem. If you're in the process of starting a family, I would really recommend not letting yourself be squeezed into templated parenting instructives and that you actually seek stuff out (that is LGBTQ-focused). Once we got past being competitive and deciding who was having the harder time with the process, Catherine went home and found a birth coach who actually helps same-sex parents through the pregnancy process in a way that was so intuitive and cool. Q: Do you have any advice for new or aspiring parents in the LGBTQ community?Ĭarlile: Try to replace your images of hetero domesticity with – hard to find, but available – images of families that look like the one you want to have. We took our marriage to a much deeper and important level after that.
Catherine had to admit she wasn't really a fan of her body pregnant, and I had to admit I wasn't a fan of the fact that I wasn't pregnant.
Cut to all the birthing classes, visits to the doctor, and even the marketing and things you have to buy – they're all so focused on hetero norms that it can be really hard to find your way into (same-sex) parenting unless you get really imaginative and seek out representation.
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