Boygirls, Pill Bugs, and Cool Dudes
Filed by: Guest Blogger
March 28, 2008 2:07 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/03/boygirls_pill_bugs_and_cool_dudes.php[Editor's note: Dr. Paige Schilt is a dyke mama, a "low femme" nerd, an activist, and an occasional professor of LGBT studies. She works as the Media Director for Soulforce.]
Last week was spring break, so I got to spend a lot of time gardening with my four-year-old son, Waylon. He was really excited to capture his first roly poly bug of the season. The poor creature had curled up into a little protective ball, and Waylon was about to shove it in his pocket, but then thought better of it (ahem) with a little parental prodding. He decided instead to free it in a pot where we had just planted a little green succulent called "Mother of Millions."
"Mom, I put that roly poly in the plant, and he or she--or if it's a girlboy or a boygirl--is going to dig in the dirt and make it soft."
Waylon, you had me at "he or she."
