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A Black, Queer Single Mother On Why I Am Proud To Use The Term Single Mother By Choice

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A Black, Queer Single Mother On Why I Am Proud To Use The Term Single Mother By Choice

Dedicated to Joy Zarembka, Staceyann Chin and Julie Garnier

I read with great interest a story recently published in the Washington Post by Julie Kohler rejecting the term “single mother by choice,” saying that it creates a false hierarchy of single mothers–implying that some single mothers are better than others.

While the article does a decent job at articulating the reason for…

Please read original article A Black, Queer Single Mother On Why I Am Proud To Use The Term Single Mother By Choice posted on Huffington Post on 20 October 2016 | 11:30 am —

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