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Amber Leventry

Amber Leventry is a queer, nonbinary writer and advocate. They live in Vermont and have three kids, including twins and a transgender daughter. Amber’s writing appears on The Washington Post, Ravishly, Grown and Flown, Longreads, The Next Family, and PopSugar, and The Temper. They are a staff writer for Scary Mommy. They also run Family Rhetoric by Amber Leventry, a Facebook page devoted to advocating for LGBTQ families one story at a time. Follow them on Twitter and Instagram @amberleventry. And visit their website https://amberleventry.com/ to hire them for speaking engagements and LGBTQ training sessions. Amber is the 2019 recipient of the Iris Breakout of the Year award at Mom 2.0 Summit.
I Don't Want My Kids To Go "Back" To School, I Want Something Better
"Back to school" means a fresh start as students get back to a routine of learning, assignments, and extracurricular events. The beginning of a new school year is exciting even with first-day anxieties, but for some students and families it may mean…
By Amber Leventry
My Kid Is A Copycat & Here's How I'm Dealing
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery right? Not if it’s coming from your copycat little sister, according to my oldest daughter. And not if you are a parent on the outside looking in at a kid you so desperately want to have the confidence to…
By Amber Leventry
Hey Businesses: LGBTQ Parents Shop All Year Round
Marrying, divorcing, parenting, buying and selling products: none are exclusively straight, cisgender topics and activities. But seeing Pride shoes and generic "Love is Love" t-shirts and rainbow onesies you would think that LGBTQIA+ parents and…
By Amber Leventry
June Shouldn't Be The Only Month We Feel Safe
I was in elementary school the when I saw my first visible sign of LGBTQ allyship. I didn’t call it that, and I certainly didn’t stare at it for too long. What if someone saw me looking at the upside-down pink triangle? What if someone could see…
By Amber Leventry
Teachers Are Punishing Kids For Calling Body Parts By Their Correct Terms, & It Has To Stop
My kindergartener came home one day laughing as he pointed at his penis and said, “Look at my wiener!” Nope. “First of all, that is your penis,” I told him. “And why do I need to look at it? Is there something wrong? Did you hurt yourself? Why is…
By Amber Leventry