Is Queer Parenting Making Us Too Hard on Ourselves with James Greenwood

Homo Sapiens

Christopher Sweeney

Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Arts

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week returning co-host James Greenwood joins me to get deep on queer parenting, surrogacy and donor conception and how much we might be overthinking it as parents.

We talk about internalised shame, the fear of being judged, and the pressure to get everything “right.” At times it feels like therapy because parenting has a way of bringing everything to the surface...

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0:00.0	You do look very handsome today, James.
0:15.6	Oh, thank you, Chris.
0:17.1	What kind.
0:18.5	I'm full of cold.
0:19.5	Sorry, that's a nice compliment.
0:21.5	Well, I've had a shocker.
0:24.1	Sorry, that's why I was a bit rushed.
0:25.9	Well, because it's blowing a hooly out there.
0:27.6	It really is.
0:29.4	Storm Desdemona or whatever it's called.
0:31.6	Oh.
0:32.7	So I came back and my seed trays had blown everywhere.
0:38.3	No.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:40.3	Disaster.
0:41.3	True story.
0:43.3	It is very blowy.
0:44.3	How's your eucolic life, James?
0:47.3	Well, we had, talking of plants, we had quite an event for a week actually with Mark having to go to hospital, believe it or not.
0:54.3	Oh, no, what happened? Mark being your husband. Yeah. Titty. Titty got pricked by, yeah,
1:02.4	by a hawthorn, believe it or not, which sounds fair to mind. But it was over his joint and his finger
1:10.2	like blew up like this huge marshmallow.
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