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Human Parts

Fathers’ Day: Celebrating the Straight Man who Made me a Gay Dad.

The day once belonged just to both my husband and me, her gay adoptive dads. But this year, my daughter welcomed a third dad into her life.

Jun 12

Fathers’ Day: Celebrating the Straight Man who Made me a Gay Dad.

Jun 12

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An Injustice!

I’m White on the Outside, but Black Through and Through

My family had a complicated relationship with race

Nov 27, 2021

I’m White on the Outside, but Black Through and Through

Nov 27, 2021

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Be Yourself

I’m not afraid to spill family secrets

The cynic in me says I’ve made a side hustle out of airing my family’s dirty laundry.

Oct 14, 2021

I’m not afraid to spill family secrets

Oct 14, 2021

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Still Loving

I’ve often wondered what a dirt-poor, white handyman would see in a poorly educated, black domestic worker.

Jun 12, 2021

Still Loving

Jun 12, 2021

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The pandemic has placed my daughters on unequal footing. I’m not sure what’s next.

In the national debate over reopening school buildings, the parents of more than 50 million American school children were forced to make…

Aug 6, 2020

The pandemic has placed my daughters on unequal footing. I’m not sure what’s next.

Aug 6, 2020

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THE DNA OF DADS

DNA testing sometimes reveals truths– the ones your family will not. Recently it confirmed my life-long hypothesis: the man I knew to be my…

Nov 20, 2022

THE DNA OF DADS

Nov 20, 2022

Steve Majors

My daughter struggled through high school. Graduation season is bittersweet.

As each high school graduate approached the microphone at the synagogue we attend to discuss their future plans, I shrank back in my seat…

Jun 14, 2022

My daughter struggled through high school. Graduation season is bittersweet.

Jun 14, 2022

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Some of the best goals I’ve ever set at work or in life, I’ve missed.

For more than 15 years, I’ve been missing set goals. Each New Year’s Eve, my husband and I have a tradition. We each make a list of our…

Jan 7, 2022

Some of the best goals I’ve ever set at work or in life, I’ve missed.

Jan 7, 2022

Steve Majors

Racial ‘passing’ is still a reality. Here’s why I embraced my complex identity

How passing can teach us to reach our true identities

Dec 6, 2021

Racial ‘passing’ is still a reality. Here’s why I embraced my complex identity

Dec 6, 2021

Steve Majors

A birth certificate masked my multiracial truth

My face burned — whether with anger or shame, I wasn’t sure. In 1994, I stood outside human resources at the CBS offices in the Los…

Aug 31, 2021

A birth certificate masked my multiracial truth

Aug 31, 2021

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