There are so many ways to bring a human life into this cursed world and if you’re old and gay, like I am, they’re all extremely expensive and physically draining. But sometimes after 3.5 years, seven IUIs, lots of crying, gallons and gallons of blood drawn from your tender veins, tons of money thrown into an endless abyss, and one major deviation from the original plan — you finally get pregnant. It’s not how you thought it would go. You’re not even the pregnant one! But pregnant someone now is, and shall continue to be.
In this new AF+ column "Baby Steps," I’ll be sharing the process of this pregnancy from the perspective of me, The One Who Is Not Pregnant. In this first edition we’ll be going back in time to bring you up to speed — how th...
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Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.
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