LGBTQ Families Speak Out
  • Home
  • About
    • About the Project
    • About the Team
  • Videos
    • Toronto Area >
      • Alec
      • Bev
      • Catherine & Nazbah
      • Dale
      • Garrett
      • Ian, Ben, & Alexis
      • Jae & Daya
      • Jess & Evan
      • Karleen
      • Kevin & Mohan
      • Kiran
      • Lara
      • Mary
      • Nicole & Mita
      • Ruby & Wendy
      • Sarah
      • Skinner Family >
        • Skinner Parents
        • Stella & Jess
        • Stella
        • Skinner Kids
      • Victoria
    • London Area >
      • Zena & Pa
    • Ottawa Area >
      • Dawn
      • Michael & Ernst
    • Sudbury Area >
      • Brenda & Nim
      • Allie & Melissa
      • Anna
      • Dan & Chantale
      • Robin
      • Syn
      • Tobie & Andréa
      • Vincent
    • Themes >
      • Activism
      • Advice for Teachers
      • Allyship
      • Bullying
      • Community: people, resources and programs
      • Curriculum
      • Early Years & Elementary School
      • Family Structures
      • Gender Identity & Expression
      • High School
      • Indigeneity
      • Intersectionality
      • Law, Policy, & Human Rights
      • Politics of "Out"ness
      • Pride
      • Race
      • Religion
      • School Culture
      • Teacher Education
  • Out At School
    • Out at School, An Introduction
    • Out at School, Toronto Pride, 2019
    • Out At School Audio Play, 2021
  • Publications

Skinner Family: Building a Family

16/5/2016

0 Comments

 
Keywords:
community, family, family structure, legal issues, medical issues, out, support
Video Transcript

Alex: Um, when we first became family together, there were just the two children.
 
Tara: Okay.
 
AM: Um, there was my oldest girl, who uh, she has a different father. And they both had uh, their oldest son, GS. And uh, we just decided “You know, we’re not done”.
 
Tara: Okay.
 
Jessica: Yes which there was a lot of opposition from family. They were concerned. uh, “What are you” you know, “Does this make you a sexual deviant? Are your kids going to be, you know, is this a negative effect? What do you do in front of your children?” It was just like this whole mind-blowing scenario where they thought that we were like Loony Tunes, and you meet us and it’s perfectly fine, you know. It’s not like that. Um, so there was some uh, you know, court stuff, and uh, children’s lawyer things, things like that.
 
Alex: Yup.
 
Jessica: But uh, you know, we were deemed the best place to be, and everything’s gravy with the other side. And you know, communication is good.
 
Alex: We had a lot of support from uh, people like our family physician, and-
 
Jessica: Yeah.
 
Alex: And the children’s teachers, and people in the community that knew us.
 
Tara: Right.
 
Alex: We had a lot of support from basically everybody, I think that we knew.
 
Jessica: Yup.
 
Alex: And so that was, really, really good to feel like the community had your back, and that’s nice.
 
Jessica: And then yeah, we had two more kids. It was a little, people are very encouraged to come by and see your kids when you have like the heteronormative like, father, mother, kid. It’s a very exciting thing. But it was very quiet at our house. There wasn’t, there wasn’t visitors.
 
Alex: It was difficult at the hospital too, because I recall it was the first time they’d ever encountered a situation where there was more than two parents.
 
Tara: Right.
 
Alex: So they had to issue another bracelet for the parents.
 
Jessica: But they did that. They tried to accommodate us.
 
Alex: They just like called in a a social working and interviewed us, and made sure that we, you know, “Well who’s going to be like the mother, who’s going to be the father?”
 
Jessica: When we explained it, they were like “Okay” and they were hands off and it was okay, it was you know, all lovely, it was all good. But it was a different experience, unfortunately, than uh, when we had our first child, yeah. Well mind you, then we were still teenagers going to college and no one was very happy. No one was very proud of us about that.
 
Alex: Yes. Those were entirely different situations.
 
Jessica: So it was, it was a little, little weird for people at first. But we like, bonded like mad, and our kids were in lo- like really enjoyed each other, and were really close ages.
 
Alex: The oldest two are two weeks apart.

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Transcripts

    Transcripts are available for each video clip.  Click on "read more" under each video for access.

    Tags

    All
    Acceptance
    Activism
    Advice
    Advocacy
    Advocacy: Self
    Advocacy: Trans
    Allies
    Arts
    Assumptions
    Books
    Bullying
    Catholic School
    Celebration
    Coming Out
    Community
    Community Resources
    Consent
    Conversion Therapy
    Disability
    Discrimination
    Diversity
    Education
    Equity
    Family: Chosen
    Family Dynamics
    Family Life
    Family Planning
    Family Structure
    Family Structure: Multi Parent
    Family Structure: Poly
    French
    Friends
    Gender Identity & Expression
    Gender Neutral Bathrooms
    Gender Transition
    GSA
    Healthcare
    Heteronormativity
    Homophobia
    Human Rights
    Identity
    Identity: Names & Pronouns
    Identity: Non Binary
    Identity: Trans
    Inclusive Language
    Inclusivity
    Indigenous Culture & Teachings
    Intersectionality
    Legal Issues
    Love
    Marginalized Communities
    Mental Health
    Mother's & Father's Day
    Parenting
    Participant: Kiran
    Participants: Alec
    Participants: Allie & Melissa
    Participants: Anna
    Participants: Bev
    Participants: Brenda & Nim
    Participants: Catherine & Nazbah
    Participants: Dale
    Participants: Dan & Chantale
    Participants: Dawn
    Participants: Garrett
    Participants: Ian Ben Alexis
    Participants: Jae & Daya
    Participants: Jess & Evan
    Participants: Karleen
    Participants: Kevin & Mohan
    Participants: Lara
    Participants: Mary
    Participants: Michael & Ernst
    Participants: Nicole & Mita
    Participants: Robin
    Participants: Ruby & Wendy
    Participants: Sarah
    Participants: Skinner Family
    Participants: Skinner Kids
    Participants: Skinner Parents
    Participants: Stella
    Participants: Stella & Jess
    Participants: Syn
    Participants: Tobie & Andrea
    Participants: Victoria
    Participants: Vincent
    Participants: Zena & Pa
    Policy
    Positive Space
    Poverty
    Power & Privilege
    Pride
    Professional Development
    Race & Racism
    Religion
    Representation
    Resistance
    Resources
    Role Model
    Rural
    Safety
    School Administration
    School: Alternative
    School Culture
    School: Curriculum
    School: Grades 7:12
    School: PreK Grade 6
    School: Sex Ed
    Support
    Teachers & Teaching
    Transphobia
    Visibility

Proudly powered by Weebly