April 6, 2023
6-8 PM
Liberal Arts Engagement Hub
Queer families exist on spectrums, and form in a vast array of configurations. Queer families have a rich history. We are blessed by the nurture of grandparents, guncles and aunties who themselves don’t fit in. Our marriages and partnerships defy cultural conditioning. The legal steps we have to take to claim our children can be absurd and are necessary. We regularly overcome and break barriers in education, health care and social settings. LGBTQ+ families challenge the status quo through every part of bearing and raising up little humans who are full of promise and possibility.
This generation is not the first to have to figure out how to birth, parent, educate, and support as queer parents, while raising LGBTQ+ kids, while living under hostile political regimes. We offer thanks to our LGBTQ+ ancestors who’ve provided reproductive care, abortions, education, and family support. At this gathering, we will honor how their contributions are still alive today as we look at birth and the next generation of the LGBTQ+ community.
All ages. Substance-free event. ASL interpreted. This is a hybrid in-person and livestreamed event. In person, masks are required, and childcare is provided.
This event is presented in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s* Liberal Arts Engagement Hub and the Tretter Collection. Some funding for this event is provided by the Women’s Foundation Community Response Grant, and by Pfund. We are grateful to our partners and funders, and to all of our donors, for supporting this gathering and our work.