Queerbrood

In our final episode of Queerbrood,  Anya speaks with Sham and Hannah, parents to beautiful baby Jaya. Sham and Hannah talk about their journey to parenthood: what factors they took into consideration while deciding if they wanted to have a child, how they worked together as a couple to prepare for this journey, and how they navigated issues such as race, identity and gender. Sham also discusses t...

In this episode of Queerbrood, we hear from Steph, who, with her wife, has welcomed two beautiful children via IVF.  Steph talks us about how the couple researched their options and decided on a clinic before embarking on the at times really challenging journey. Steph is a statistician, poet, and queer parent. She recently published her first poetry collection “Pieces That Fit, and other poems set...

Mick, Bonz, Tiff, Loz and BB are a queer chosen Family, webbed together by strands of friendship decades, share-house life and parenting, and evolving love and relationships. Their Family currently spans Turtle Island to Naarm, in another practice at stretching! In this episode, they are reflecting on their shared family experience, as part of their chosen family web and connections to fam/partner...

Brent and Paul join us in this episode to talk about their expansive, loving queer family. Paul and Brent have been together nearly 25 years, making their home in the fabled Buggery Acres, an idyllic off-grid homestead where they have nurtured and enabled a brilliant brood of young queer folk as their family of choice. They are fierce advocates for justice, social transformation and queer and tran...

In this episode we hear from Govind and Adrian, who are parents to the beautiful Jasmine, who they welcomed through surrogacy. They walk us through their journey, from the decision to welcome a child into their family, to finding and travelling to their surrogate, the international breast milk network that fed Jasmine for a year, and their reflections now that Jasmine is a toddler. They provide li...

In this episode, Anya first speaks to Tarsh, a proud queer Palawa Iowana from Tasmania, who has been living in Melbourne for 7 years now. Tarsh talks about how she has forged queer blak family who embody culture through community. Anya also speaks with Sasja Sÿdek, an indigenous Singaporean trans woman of color, and co-founder of Trans Sisters United. Sasja is also the lead peer worker at the www....

In our first episode of Queerbrood, new parents Meri and Azja talk with Anya about community, family and some of the unique queer experiences of planning and caring for a newborn. Azja Kulpinska (they/she) is a mum to a toddler and a dog, community organiser, social worker, a friend, a reader and sometimes a writer/zine-maker and is based on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Meri Leeworthy (she/her) is...