DIVA talks happiness, reinvention and childlessness with performer, theatre-maker and director Victoria Firth BY FELICITAS SOPHIE VAN LAAK After running the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield for 12 years, Victoria Firth has returned to her ambition to act. Her autobiographical solo show, How To Be Amazingly Happy!, deals with social and personal perceptions of childless [….]
“Knowing we’ve created something that makes [children] feel recognised, that’s a beautiful thing” BY FELICITAS SOPHIE VAN LAAK Barbie-brand Mattel has launched the first range of gender-neutral dolls under the name, Creatable World. On their website, the company states, “In our world, dolls are as limitless as the kids who play with them. Introducing Creatable [….]
What if, one day, there’s a knock at the door and there’s a donor child waiting to meet you? BY CRYOS INTERNATIONAL Why become a sperm donor in the first place? How much money do you get? What if there’s a knock at your door in 18 years and you find a donor child behind [….]
“I felt massively deflated. Gutted even” BY KATY ROBSON-MALONE So the journey began. We had set ourselves on IUI, with it being the least intrusive compared to IVF, and we were hopeful for good results. With our biggest tiny human it took three goes and with the mid-kid it was only one. The cycle started [….]
“We set up The LGBT Mummies Tribe to educate, share and celebrate women and their families” BY THE LGBT MUMMIES TRIBE, ILLUSTRATION BY SKETCHMYTRIBE I’m Laura-Rose, a 33-year-old, married lesbian mother of two. My wife and I have been together for 12 years, married for eight. We had IUI treatment through the The Centre For Reproductive [….]
“The first thing I asked was, ‘Can I have any further children?’” BY KATY ROBSON-MALONE “All parents know deep down how many people should be sitting around your dinner table”. This is what somebody said to us when I was pregnant with our tiniest human and I’ve not been able to shake it off. You’d [….]
“If I had to come out to my family all over again? I wouldn’t change a thing” BY YAIZA CANOPOLI Coming out via text was not my first choice – to be honest, coming out in general was never really the plan. My mom has always been a big supporter of Pride and LGBTQI movements [….]
