Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:19:08 +0200 From: S Silverstein To: S Silverstein Subject: Lesbian Moms-at-home moms-at-home@queernet.org is up and running! Moms-at-home@queernet.org is an email list for lesbian at-home mothers. This is a place to discuss the unique challenges and rewards of all aspects of life as a "stay-at-home" mom, including but not limited to parenting issues. The focus of this list is full time stay-at-home lesbian moms, but you are welcome to join if you work from home, work part time, or are considering staying home full time with your child or children. Bi-women who are at home caring for a child/children in a parenting relationship with another woman are also welcome. I expect the list will probably be fairly small and low volume, and not really in "competition" with the larger lesbian moms moms@queernet.org. It's just that the minority of us who stay at home tend to be overwhelmed by the majority who work, so I think some of us might prefer to share some stuff "off line" with others in the same situation. Some things I thought to talk about on this list are: where do you find support for being a lesbian mom, being a mom-at-home, how has your relationship with your partner changed, do you have any plans to go back to paid employment, timing of having more kids, does your partner want time staying at home too, money issues, and probably a bunch more things I can't think of off the top of my head. Moms-at-home is a closed mailing list; this means is that you must be a member of the mailing list in order to post to it. The subscription process requires that you confirm your request; this is to avoid pranksters subscribing other people to lists without their consent. Please limit your posts to subjects that are on-topic, not general news, as many subscribers belong to more than one mailing list. The homepage for the moms-at-home email list is: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/sls/parenting/momsathm.html Check out the following sites for more information on other relevant lists: http://www.queernet.org/ http://www.lesbian.org/lists.html http://www.lesbian.org/lesbian-lists/ http://www.qrd.org/qrd/electronic/email/ http://www.nyu.edu/pages/sls/baby/baby.html ADMINISTRATIVE INFO: To un/subscribe send a request to majordomo@queernet.org. In the body of your message write: un/subscribe moms-at-home There is also a digest form of this list. To un/subscribe send a request to majordomo@queernet.org. In the body of your message write: un/subscribe moms-at-home-digest After sending a subscription request you will receive an automated reply with a request for you to confirm. Follow the instructions in that message, and send the reply back in to majordomo@queernet.org. Only after you send in the confirmation will the mailing list administrator receive your subscription request for approval. If you do not understand the majordomo instructions, please write to majordomo@queernet.org with the message: help If all else fails, write me, the listowner Sharon Silverstein Sharon Silverstein co-author of Straight Jobs, Gay Lives (Simon & Schuster, 1995) Available through the authors for $18 including tax, shipping, postage. Make check or money order payable to Sharon Silverstein, 3525 Del Mar Heights Rd. #384 San Diego, CA 92130. Add $2 for orders outside the U.S.) Web page: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/sls/sjgl/ Sharon ssilverstein@mba1990.hbs.edu http://www.nyu.edu/pages/sls/silverst/sshome.html