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: Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Omise’eke Tinsley is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her next book is “The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival,” forthcoming from The University of Texas Press.