My first step on this journey came when my youngest child and I were eating dinner one fall evening. Homecoming was around the corner,...

All I’d ever known of queer humans were stories of hiding and shame. A friend in his late thirties whose entire family was told by the...

November is Transgender Awareness Month, so Mama Dragons is highlighting a few of our favorite posts featuring heartfelt stories from...

November is Transgender Awareness Month, so Mama Dragons is highlighting a few of our favorite posts featuring heartfelt stories from...

On Trans Parent day, Mama Dragons celebrates transgender parents who model the joy of authenticity. This blog post shares one transgender...

November is Transgender Awareness Month, so Mama Dragons is highlighting a few of our favorite posts featuring heartfelt stories from...

Quilts have been a significant part of my life. This seems strange to say, as I am neither a skilled crafter nor the owner of any...

By Laura Howells Leavitt This has been a humbling year for me as I’ve invited and gathered the sometimes heartbreaking, oftentimes...

My name is Mary, a woman with many adjectives. I’m a mom to 5 in a blended family, finally married to my best friend. I’m an artist, a...

When my 6th grade granddaughter came out as bisexual at school, she was bullied for it.  During that trying time in 2015, my wife and I...

Photo by Jonathan Canlas Hey y’all, my name is Marion McClellan, and I am so grateful/thankful/blessed to be a Mama Dragon. I live in...

Clip, Clop, Clip, Clop. I sat in my car crying, watching five-year-old Phoebe walk down the driveway towards her cousin’s Princess Tea...

Peace starts with how we treat our most vulnerable. I have always had a heart for the underdog. As a pediatric nurse I’ve been drawn to...

I was the parent who prepared for everything. When I found out I was pregnant with my oldest child, the nursery was painted that week and...

Watch Julie's video about her experiences with a gay son and Mama Dragons.

It was September 2017. Our son, 16 yrs old and a sophomore in high school, sent a text to my husband and I on our family chat during his...

By Lindsay Brunt Four and a half years ago, I walked into the Utah Pride Center with my son for the first time.  He’d been there before...

My dad was a gay man in the 80’s and 90’s and died from AIDS complications in 1998. I was 16 years old. I begin with this not for shock,...

I was one of those kids who was in church pretty much from birth. There was never a time in my life when I didn’t believe. I married a...

By Shauna Jones I lost 45 pounds during my pregnancy with Beckett, my oldest child. I had a pregnancy condition called hyperemesis...