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Despite society having made a lot of progress when it comes to same-sex relationships and alternative families, it’s not so commonplace that many queer parents are still presented with questions about their lifestyle from straight people.

And while queer parents probably (rightfully) grow tired of answering certain questions day in and day out, having open conversation helps break through the lack of understanding which causes stigma and misconceptions in the first place.

In a now-viral video shared to their Instagram, lesbian moms Allie and Sam Conway answer commonly asked questions they get as a queer married couple with twins.

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Of course, they started with the age-old question:

“Who’s the real mom?”

Though people by and large are able to differentiate biological connection from emotional connection (like with adoptive parents or step-parents to take on an active role in their step children’s lives), this is still a question that same-sex parents face regularly. And it’s a fairly harmful one at that, as it implicitly undermines the non-biological parent’s role in the family.

So, to Sam’s point: “We’re both the mom.”

Allie also told Upworthy that the usual response to this answer is “oh my gosh! That’s amazing!” Which makes her—and us—”smile so much.”

Next up:

“Who’s the dad?”

To which they replied: “there isn’t a dad.”

This is also a question fused with negative connotation, as it suggests a father figure is necessary for raising well-adjusted kids. But research shows that kids born to same-sex parents fare just as well as the children of straight couples, indicating that what’s really necessary for a child’s development is two healthy, loving parents. That’s it.

Okay, this next one actually had an answer that surprised some folks:

“Who carried them?”

Though Sam wanted to be the one to get pregnant, Allie agreed to try after Sam’s “long fertility journey” of three IUI’s, three embryo transfers and multiple chemical pregnancies with one miscarriage.

However, the couple used Sam’s eggs, and Sam did the breastfeeding.

How the heck did that happen, you might wonder. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. So did lots of viewers. Sam underwent induced lactation, which tricks the body into thinking it’s pregnant and producing breast milk—it’s something often utilized by adoptive mothers.

Lastly, a fun one:

“What do the kids call you?”

“Mummy and other mummy,” Sam quipped. “We’re rotating all day,” Allie added.

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Without proper understanding, stigma persists. That’s how myths like “queer parents turn their children gay” or “children of two-mother families are more likely to be bullied” continue. And while it’s certainly not the responsibility of parents like Allie and Sam to educate folks on the realities of queer parenting, it’s great that they do offer genuine insight.

And thankfully, they are usually met with positive reactions from people, Allie tells Upworthy. Which only further encourages them to answer more question and offer glimpses into “different types of families.”

At the end of the day, families are made up of people who love and support one another. Everything else is just window dressing.

Check out even more heartwarming family content from Allie and Sam on Instagram.

It has been a while since we last heard from PartyNextDoor. The Canadian crooner’s last full-length release (Partymobile) came out in 2020, and while he re-released his Colours EP for streaming and dropped another EP, Partypack, in the years since, he’s flown pretty far under the radar for the past few years*. He’s back and is taking the rollout for his fourth studio album, PartyNextDoor 4, seriously, following up his most recent 2023 single “Resentment” with a new song, “Real Woman.”

*His reason for this? Being distracted by “relationships” — the very thing that fuels most of his creative content. “I get into relationships and then music becomes second,” he explained to Billboard.I ” think I’m going to take a break from relationships, a long break, and just get back to making music.”

Getting back to making music is just what he’s done. While he released sporadic singles last year — the aforementioned “Resentment” and “Her Old Friends” — he told Billboard, “This is the hardest I’ve ever worked on an album. This is the proudest I’ve felt.” He also explained how PartyNextDoor 4 would differ from the relatively disappointing showings on PND 3 and Partymobile. “I was still handling that sh-t like demos,” he noted. This time, he says, he won’t “cheat” the process again. He revealed the release date for the long-awaited album during his performance at Billboard’s SXSW show: April 26.

Listen to “Real Woman” above.

PartyNextDoor is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Patton Oswalt stopped by Watch What Happens Live this week where the comedian revealed how he became friends with the late chef Anthony Bourdain. Surprisingly, the iconic travel host was a huge fan of Ratatouille. That’s right, the Disney-Pixar movie where a cartoon rat voiced by Oswalt expertly prepares French cuisine by hiding under a chef’s hat and pulling a man’s hair.

Turns out Bourdain felt the movie got a lot of things right. The Bear before The Bear, if you will.

“I became friends with him because he was a huge fan of Ratatouille,” Oswalt revealed in response to a viewer question. “He was like, ‘They got kitchens and chefs right. It’s very, very accurate.’”

With their friendship in full swing, Oswalt reveals that Bourdain gave the comedian and his late wife, Michelle McNamara, advice on how to best enjoy their honeymoon in Paris. Unfortunately, Oswalt learned the hard way that people treat the world-renowned chef better than a stand-up comedian.

Via Entertainment Weekly:

“He sent back this amazing paragraph that, like, a Beat poet would write, going, ‘Don’t do, just walk in anywhere, you gotta wander around, and let it happen,’” Oswalt recalled. “And we found out very quickly, that works great if you’re Anthony Bourdain. But if you’re me, you need to call ahead and make reservations. You’re not getting in anywhere.”

Let us all pause and reflect on the thought of the late, great Anthony Bourdain watching Ratatouille and thinking to himself, “You know what? This could work. They know their stuff.”

Thank you for that image, Patton.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

It’s never been a better time to be Carla Gugino. The actress, who’s popped up in some of the buzziest genre fare of the past decade – see Mike Flanagan’s multiple Netflix horror hits, the female-fronted action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake, and Diablo Cody’s Lisa Frankenstein – is chowing down on the kind of meaty, deliciously complex roles women over the age of 40 in Hollywood are rarely afforded.

Metaphorical harbingers of doom, tortured mothers haunting the halls of cursed mansions, deadly librarians, Gugino is a bit of a shapeshifter, able to effortlessly inhabit worlds not her own. Something she does again in Max’s latest political drama, The Girls on the Bus.

Based on New York Times journalist Amy Chozick’s memoir, Chasing Hillary, the show follows four female correspondents from wildly different backgrounds, all charting the presidential hopes of a group of flawed and forgettable candidates. Gugino’s Grace is a long-hauler, a celebrated writer with a knack for sniffing out scoops who sometimes takes her younger peers under her wing … and sometimes pushes them out of the nest before they’ve learned to fly.

Uproxx chatted with Gugino about the cutthroat world of political journalism, the feminist themes of the show, and her desire to mentor young women in her own industry – albeit in a gentler way than her on-screen counterpart.

I think if you were to ask anyone how they felt about politics at the moment, they’d probably say they’re sick of it, and yet you chose to do this show. Why?

[laughs] Why? Why?! I wasn’t raised in a political family so I actually didn’t choose this for the political backdrop of it. What I do think is really interesting in the wild circus of politics and journalism is that we have these four different women from completely different backgrounds, different ideologies, different political perspectives, different generations, and they have been thrust into this very close-quartered, intimate sort of journey in which they find their way.

We’re in a world right now that is so agitated. People are required to be reactive and take sides, and it ends up being really divisive and it’s not conducive to communication or conversation. So what I love is that these women, even in the moments when they disagree with each other about certain things, what comes first is being there for your friend, connecting about something. That is what I believe in in the world. If you can do that in a way that’s not preachy and that has humor in it and reveals some sort of things for us to think about — that’s what drew me to the show.

What a wild introduction to the world of political journalism. What did you learn?

I know journalists follow candidates on the campaign trail, but in terms of the day-to-day and the fact that it’s a very formidable job, it’s not a glamorous job. There’s a lot of drinking, and a lot of wearing the same clothes for three days in a row … you’re seeing the good, the bad, and the ugly. That was sort of informative to me.

One of my favorite things about acting is that it allows me to see into worlds that I didn’t know before. That’s the reason I choose parts oftentimes. I get to then do research and sort of understand things from a different perspective. The reason that I decided to act when I was very young, 13, was that I really thought, ‘Oh, this is a way both for myself to find empathy and to give the world empathy because you can see things through different people’s eyes.’

I do think that that is the magic of storytelling. The other thing that I didn’t quite know was the urgency in terms of the pace at which you have to get the truth out there. It’s an unpopular profession in the sense that it’s a little bit like a detective where you’re getting information about people that they don’t really want to give, and then your job is to get it out to the world with as much accuracy and speed as possible, and I didn’t really understand how quickly that needed to happen.

Where does your character fit into the group?

I think she’s seen these cycles, political cycles, but also human cycles, right? How we are continuing to have the same conversations, the same resistances, the same dynamics. So I think she is like, ‘Yeah, I’ve seen this before. It’s going to pass.’ I think realistic is probably the right word more than jaded.

She doesn’t suffer fools, she speaks very bluntly, she’s incredibly articulate, she does have very strong opinions. What was really important to me, was that she remained curious. That is what has made her a very good journalist, what helped her remain passionate and hungry about her profession. That’s why she ultimately does give Lola [Natasha Benham] the time of day. Her belief is, ‘This is not real journalism, it’s on TikTok.’ Right? That’s Grace’s perspective. But she starts to hang out with this young journalist and she’s like, ‘This girl has got the goods.’ And so I think her mind can be changed, and I think that was really key.

She’s kind of the veteran of the four, and you’re one of the more experienced leading cast members on the show. How does that translate on and off-screen?

I wasn’t really interested in Grace just being sort of salty. All of that can be there, and she does have some amazing one-liners, but it was key to me that the two things can coexist. I said to Amy, ‘The female mentors that you’ve had in your career and female mentors I’ve had, it may not come to you sweetly, but there is generosity of heart and that’s why they become a mentor because they actually want to help you and they actually want to usher you [forward].’

When I was a young actress in a couple of different productions, older women were really mean to me. And of course that’s representative of their insecurities and all of those things. But I just remember at a very young age going, ‘I will never do that to a young actress. I will only be there to help them learn.” Grace is probably a little bit more jaded than I am and definitely less of a hippie than I am, but I do think that under there, she actually really cares.

Now I’m curious, who did you look to as a mentor coming up in the business?

I’ve gotten to work with some extraordinary women like Blythe Danner, Sigourney Weaver, Ellen Burstyn. Angela Lansbury I got to work with on a movie with Jim Carrey, that was extraordinary. She said something to me that was kind of amazing. I think I was in my early 40’s. We were working together and I said, ‘At the point at which they don’t want me to play leading ladies anymore, I just want to go produce and do theater until I can play the really rad old woman.’ And she looked at me and she said, ‘But you’re such a baby!’ She said, ‘I didn’t even start my Murder She Wrote till I was 50.’ She just couldn’t conceive of it.

It was wonderful because it wasn’t advice, it was just shock that I could even feel that way. She was in her 80’s and thriving. So I think that it’s been by example.

It looks like Cardi B is really getting serious about putting out her second album. In addition to dropping a new single today, “Enough (Miami),” she’s been making the media rounds, appearing on Big Boy’s Neighborhood to reveal her secret relation to another rising rapper and stopping by the MIllion Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast to chat with host Gillie Da Kid about advice she got from mentor Remy Ma that might have helped save her career.

The podcast’s Instagram shared a preview clip ahead of the episode’s debut. You can check it below and watch the full episode tonight at 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT.

Cardi also joked with the hosts that she’s “not a feminist” anymore in a separate behind-the-scenes clip posted by co-host Wallo earlier this week. Really, she was giving her nuanced take on relationship dynamics, saying, “You cannot just be a b*tch that’s like, ‘Oh, my man take care of me,’ but what do you do? What are you contributing? You can’t be complaining like, ‘Oh, I cook, I clean every day.’ It’s like, ‘OK, but you don’t work. You don’t contribute to the house.’ … That’s what I’m saying, like, I’m not a feminist anymore, because it’s like… sometimes it’s like, y’all b*tches ain’t living in the real world. Y’all not living there.”

Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Life became a little bit easier for quarterbacks, offensive linemen, running backs, and offensive coordinators on Friday afternoon. Aaron Donald, the legendary Rams defensive lineman who earned All-Pro first-team honors eight times in his 10-year career, announced his retirement from the NFL. It’s not the first time that Donald floated the idea of retiring, but this time, he went through with calling it a career.

Donald will turn 33 in May and played at an All-Pro level last year, so it’s not like he’s lost a step or two at the time of his retirement. The Rams acknowledged this in a tweet that simply said “quarterbacks rejoice,” and while it’s unclear if he saw that, Arizona Cardinals signal caller Kyler Murray to that literally and replied to Donald’s retirement announcement.

In another tweet, Murray expressed his appreciation for getting to play against Donald and wished him well, but also made it a point to say he really hopes that Donald doesn’t end up having second thoughts here.

Our assumption is that every quarterback in the NFL — especially the ones in the NFC West — agree with everything Murray is saying here. In their last matchup, Donald and the Rams beat Murray and the Cardinals, 37-14. While Donald did not sack Murray in the game, he registered a pair of QB hits.

Back in December, Bhad Bhabie revealed that her forthcoming baby is a girl. Now, the natural next piece of news has arrived: Bhabie has given birth. As Complex notes, Bhabie made the announcement quietly, sharing a photo of herself holding her baby on her Instagram Story.

In a People interview from February, Bhabie revealed she found out she was pregnant on July 11 last year, saying, “I was a day late and I took a test, but I took a test only a day late, because I was just eating so much and I felt like something was off.”

She also explained the name Kali Love, saying, “The name doesn’t really have any specific meaning, it’s just his mom picked the middle name and then I had a list of five names I liked, and Kali was one of them. I thought that Love went good with Kali.”

Bhabie also preemptively shrugged off the haters of her as a mom, saying, “I even see people saying, ‘Oh, I don’t think she’s ready. I don’t think she’s ready.’ It’s like, ‘How can you, from your computer screen, determine if I’m ready to be a mother or not?’ I don’t even be on [social media], so how can you determine that? You know? It’s just kind of off.”

Sydney Sweeney has already begun her pivot to Scream Queen after her upcoming horror film Immaculate was met with early praise. It’s a stark departure from her Euphoria character who famously cowered in a bathtub. Cassie would never have survived at a monastery.

But now that she’s already dipped her toe into the horror genre, Sweeney is set to star in Ron Howard’s upcoming thriller Eden, which features a stacked cast and a bizarre premise that turns out to be a true story. Howard has reportedly been trying to make this movie for over 15 years, and now that he’s not making another Star Wars movie, he can focus his efforts on the upcoming thriller. Here is everything we know so far about Eden.

Plot

The film is based on a real-life story about a group of people who abandon society and travel to the Galapagos islands to find the meaning of life and live off the land, as one does, but things quickly turn into disaster. The mystery was also chronicled in the documentary The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden. The story has been on Howard’s mind for years, and Daniel Bruhl, who has worked with Howard before, explained how the film came to fruition.

So I remember shootin Rush one day, and [Howard] said, ‘Oh, hey, Daniel, I really enjoy working with you and there is a fascinating story about some guys in the Galapagos Islands, and I wanna do that with you one day.’ And so I thought, ‘Yeah, well, Ron is the nicest guy, but will that ever happen? I don’t think so.’

Now, 10 years later, I was shooting Karl Lagerfeld in Paris when I got a call from him. ‘Hi, this is Ron. I’m in Paris. Can I visit you on set?’ It’s also so sweet that he’s curious in what I’m doing, and, ‘Can I come to set?’ The French team, they were so nervous that Ron was showing up that nothing worked on that day, so I think that it was a complete disaster, but there he was, polite and generous and kind as he was, with his base[ball] cap. Then, at the end of the day, he said, ‘Do you remember that Galapagos project? I’m doing it. Would you be so kind as to read the script?’

Here is the official synopsis, “Based on an unsolved mystery that unfolded on a remote island in the Galapagos, Eden is a provocative and surprising survival thriller about the lengths we will go in pursuit of happiness.”

Cast

The star-studded class includes Sweeney, Jude Law, Ana De Armas, Daniel Brühl, and Vanessa Kirby.

Release Date

There is no release date yet, though filming concluded in February, so it will likely hit theaters in early 2025.

Trailer

Now that filming has concluded, keep an eye out for a trailer in the coming months. You can watch the trailer for The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden to get the gist of the whole ordeal. The doc features real diary entries and first-hand accounts read by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger and Connie Nielsen.

In addition to being one of the more exciting young voices in rap music today, it’s turning out that GloRilla is also one of the best connected. After Glo recently revealed that she and Lil Uzi Vert are cousins and sharing a cute moment with Saweetie backstage at the Billboard Women In Music Awards, another of her relations was revealed.

Appearing on Los Angeles radio show Big Boy’s Neighborhood while doing press in the city for her new album rollout, Cardi B casually dropped that she just found out that GloRilla is her cousin as well. According to Cardi, her grandfather lived in Tennesse for a time, having a child with a woman who wasn’t Cardi’s grandmother. That child is GloRilla’s dad! Big Boy, like all of us, looks to be blown away by this tidbit.

Cardi and Glo collaborated in 2022 on the remix of GloRilla’s single “Tomorrow,” a song that turned out to be a fan favorite and helped propel GloRila to her current level of popularity. It looks like that song wasn’t just another example of solidarity for women in rap — it was also a family reunion. Does this mean Cardi is related to Lil Uzi Vert too? Probably not directly, but it is fun to see how connected the rap world really is because it’s a reflection of how connected we all are as people.

You can watch Cardi’s full interview with Big Boy up top.

Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

2023 was an outstanding year for Gunna, who came back from six months of incarceration to have one of the biggest album runs of his career. Gunna was released from jail in December 2022 and immediately went to work, beginning the rollout for his fourth studio album A Gift & A Curse, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and spawned one of the songs of the summer, “FukUMean,” Gunna’s first solo top-10 Hot 100 single. Fans are already wondering about a possible follow-up just a year later.

So, will Gunnna drop a new album in 2024?

With two new singles out — “Bittersweet” and “Prada Dem” featuring Offset — and the Bittersweet Tour set to kick off in May, signs are pointing to “yes.” While Gunna technically didn’t go on a tour for A Gift & A Curse, he did perform two high-profile shows in Los Angeles and New York, so theorietically the Bittersweet tour title may suggest an album of the same name coming out within a similar timeframe — or even as early as April. Offset’s partcipation on “Prada Dem” may also suggest that Gunna’s time in trap rap exile is coming to an end, as even Young Thug’s father has said Gunna “can’t hurt” the YSL founder’s defense against racketeering charges and even seemed to suggest that calling him a “snitch” is inaccurate.

If all this means that Gunna’s speculative 2024 album sees him reunite with other fan favorites and frequent collaborators, it’s only good news.

Gunna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidary of Warner Music Group.