Colleen Gillespie
Colleen Gillespie
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As a parent, you want everything for your child. We want this event to tell our daughter that she is as welcome on the White House lawn as any other kid in the world.
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When I talked about my partner, you could see them sort of processing that information and trying to figure out what to do with it. But very soon, you get past any initial sort of hesitation to where you're talking about your kids, and what they're going to wear and what they were like as a toddler, and sharing blankets and doughnuts.
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We were feeling really powerless and frustrated. We were literally trying to imagine what we could do to change how we were being talked about and represented and portrayed. I don't think there's any other family celebration that's so public and so well covered.