Teaching our daughter that she’s perfect and powerful just because she is, opening spaces for her to be all she can imagine, mirroring back how she matters when the news pronounces her future dead — this is the hardest part of parenting a Black LGBTQ child.
Author Archives: Matt Richardson
Matt Richardson is an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his new novel, “Black Canvas: A Campus Haunting,” is forthcoming from Transgress Press.

