Οι μαμάδες της Κριστιάνας Τζόνσον ήταν μαζί για οκτώ χρόνια αλλά κάθε χρόνο η γιορτή της μητέρας ήταν μια μέρα γλυκόπικρη γι’ αυτές αφού η κόρη τους δεν μπορούσε να βρει μια κάρτα κατάλληλη για να τις ευχαριστήσει και να τους δείξει ότι αναγνωρίζει την σκληρή δουλειά που κάνουν σαν μητέρες για να την μεγαλώσουν. Αυτός ήταν και ο λόγος που ξεκίνησε μια αναφορά στο Change.org όπου μαζεύει υπογραφές για να πείσει την Hallmark να δημιουργήσει κάρτες για λεσβίες μαμάδες για την Ημέρα της Μητέρας και κάρτες για την Ημέρα του Πατέρα για ομοφυλόφιλους γονείς.
«Έχοντας δύο μπαμπάδες ή δύο μαμάδες δεν σημαίνει ότι έχεις μια οικογένεια με λιγότερη αγάπη ή μια οικογένεια ειδική.» γράφει η Τζόνσον στην αναφορά της η οποία ήδη σήμερα έχει μαζέψει 1.000 υπογραφές. « Γελάμε μαζί, κλαίμε μαζί και γιορτάζουμε μαζί. Ξέρω ότι θα σήμαινε πολλά για τις μαμάδες μου αλλά και για μαμάδες σαν τις δικές μου σε όλη την Αμερική εάν η Hallmark έκανε κάρτες για να γιορτάζουν οικογένειες σαν τη δική μας»
Η Τζόνσον σημειώνει ότι το 2009 η Hallmark άρχισε να παράγει γαμήλιες κάρτες που απευθύνονται σε ζευγάρια του ίδιου φύλου. « Ως η μεγαλύτερη εταιρία παραγωγής ευχετήριων καρτών στις Η.Π.Α. η Hallmark έχει την ευκαιρία να παίξει και πάλι ρόλο καθοδηγητικό για όλη την αντίστοιχη βιομηχανία παράγοντας κάρτες που να απεικονίζουν τις ζωές όλων των οικογενειών» γράφει η Τζόνσον.
Μπορείτε να υπογράψετε την αναφορά εδώ και να ενταχθείτε σε εκείνους που προκαλούν την Hallmark να παράγει ευχετήριες κάρτες για όλες τις οικογένειες που γιορτάζουν.
http://www.change.org/petitions/hallmark-make-mother-s-day-and-father-s-day-cards-for-same-sex-parents#
Daughter of Lesbian Moms Petitions Hallmark to Create Gay Mother's Day Cards
A 23-year-old pharmacy technician from Lexington, South Carolina is challenging the nation's largest greeting card manufacturer to recognize her two moms, and gay and lesbian parents around the country.
Kristiana Johnson's moms have been together for eight years, but every mother's day is bittersweet, since Johnson can't find cards that appropriately thank and recognize the hard work her moms put into raising her. That's why she's started a petition at Change.org to convince Hallmark to create Mother's Day and Father's Day cards for same-sex parents.
"Having two moms or dads doesn't make a family any less loving or special," Johnson writes in the petition, which currently has more than 1,000 signatures. "We laugh together. We cry together. And we celebrate together. I know it would mean so much to my moms — and moms like mine all over America — if Hallmark made cards celebrating families like ours."
Johnson notes that in 2009, Hallmark began producing wedding cards targeted to same-sex couples. "As the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States, Hallmark has the opportunity to lead the industry again by providing cards that reflect the lives of all families," Johnson writes.
You can sign the petition here, and join the call upon Hallmark to make greeting cards that celebrate all families.
http://www.change.org/petitions/hallmark-make-mother-s-day-and-father-s-day-cards-for-same-sex-parents#
As a kid, my grandparents, and millions of other viewers rarely missed an episode of the television program “All in the Family.” For those too young to know, Norman Lear’s aboriginal must-see TV hilariously highlighted the friction between the nineteen-sixties’ “progressive” generation and their parents via the bigoted, but strangely lovable, character of Archie Bunker. I suspect most of its viewers shared more in common with Archie’s prejudices than they wanted to admit, but laughing at him allowed one to take the first step towards changing one’s own biases, whether one knew it or not.
I like to imagine that my grandparents were always progressive, tolerant people in favor of things we now take for granted, but I know that’s probably wishful thinking. I’m not even sure about myself in this regard. Fortunately, we humans are incessant editors, never happy with the first draft of anything. This tendency towards revision can cause problems, though. For example, most memories I have of my daughter as a baby have been systematically and irrationally replaced by a mental image of how she appears now—an eight-year-old—because I simply can’t believe she was ever so small. In fact, when she was born, one of my friends, while cradling her fragile seven pounds, couldn’t believe it then, saying, “God, why don’t we just die the second we’re born? We’re so delicate and vulnerable!” My wife’s mother, who was visiting, didn’t miss a beat: “It’s mothers, honey. It’s our job to make sure that never happens.” Well, score one for Moms, I thought.
Now that the numbers are in on same-sex marriage, many Republicans are falling like dominos all over themselves to express their support for something that only a few months ago they steadfastly claimed to stand against. They’ll probably soon claim that this is how they felt all along, and they were simply too hamstrung by politics to be able to say what they really meant. Well, okay. In the spirit of openheartedness and what life is really all about, I’ll go so far as to say that the fear of others may mask some deep-seated desire to understand, and maybe even to love. Because really, what is there to be afraid of? Few people today don’t know—or have in their families—at least one loving couple who are raising children, same-sex or not. And it’s really just the loving part that matters. That same-sex marriage could go from its preliminary draft of “diagnosable” to the final edit of “so what?” must indicate some positive evolution on the part of the larger human consciousness. My wife, being a biology teacher, puts it even more succinctly: “Why are all these people so worried about who everybody else is sleeping with, anyway?” (Score two for Moms.)
So, a final draft: happy Mothers’ Day, moms. We are grateful to, and love, you all
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