‘Our Conception Story’
Damien’s blurb:
As a family of two men and two boys, it often seems that people presume it to be axiomatic that we will describe how our family came into being. Yet to us this is most often a redundant question - we know who we are and how we relate to each other. This digidoc captures the complexities of our conception story in subtle ways that render our family visible for us to see, whilst not necessarily telling all of the story that other people might like to see. As such, it celebrates our family in a public way, whilst retaining the privacy that we wish and need.
Damien is an author, academic and the editor of ‘Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review’. Volume 3 is a special issue on Parenting, family issues and heteronormativity. Download at:
http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/glip/glip_review
He has also recently released a book ‘Becoming Parent : Lesbians Gay Men and Family’. More info at:
http://www.postpressed.com.au/academic/parenting.html
August 5th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Hey Sonja,
Well it has taken me this long, but having shown our digidoc to someone the other day i am now at a place where i am really glad we did it and can see it in a broader perspective whereby i recognise the immense importance and worth of digidocs more broadly. I still wish that the process had been different and dont think i/we had to go through all the did to get the product we did, but i really do love our digidoc now and am glad we have it as part of our own history as a family. So thank you for that. And may other people (ie funders) see the utility and importance of digidocs and support you in producing more.
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