Lane Igoudin

“Raising Them to Be Strong” Featured in Bay Windows

Bay Windows, Boston-based LGBTQ newspaper and news site, appoached me asking to reprint “Raising Them to Be Strong: A Gay Dad’s Reflections on Parenting Daughters,” my Father’s Day article published earlier this year by Family Equality, the nationwide gay family advocacy organization. I gladly said yes and am delighted to see it both on theContinue reading ““Raising Them to Be Strong” Featured in Bay Windows”

#AWP22 Panel Proposal Accepted

The upcoming #AWP22 (Philadelphia) has accepted my panel proposal for Where Every Voice Matters: Community College Literary Journal Showcase. I am thrilled to moderate a panel with such accomplished writers/teachers as Maria Frances Brandt, Joe Baumann, Omar Figueras, and Magin LaSov Gregg. #AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) – a carnival, a marathon, aContinue reading “#AWP22 Panel Proposal Accepted”

Writing Inward: The Power of Critical Self-Reflection

What is critical self-reflection? How does it apply to writing and language studies? My chapter “Critical Ethnography and Dialogic Reflection in Student-Led Language Research” in a new academic volume What Is Critical in Language Studies: Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice (Routledge, 2021) discusses critical self-reflection in language studies and is related to a study IContinue reading “Writing Inward: The Power of Critical Self-Reflection”

“Raising Them to Be Strong” | Father’s Day Post on Family Equality.org

Happy Father’s Day 2021! It’s been a deeply fulfilling, spiritually transformative journey for my husband and me. Our story, featured today on FamilyEquality.org, the nationwide LGBTQ family advocacy organization, recounts the joys and challenges of two men raising daughters since babyhood. So how do we do it?

Reading a New Story Live at AWP21

Read “The Grass Eater,” my new personal essay as part of a live virtual reading organized by the AWP Creative Writing Caucus at the virtual AWP 2021 on March 4. At the center of the story is a devilish 7-year-old who wrecks his mother’s seaside honeymoon. The setting is the Republic of Georgia; the timeContinue reading “Reading a New Story Live at AWP21”

“The iPad Wars” in City Tales 2020, a YouTube storytelling show

This was a new performance format for me to learn – I’d taped myself reading the essay “The iPad Wars” for City Tales, the annual storytelling reading by LACC students and faculty, and sent it to the organizers for post-production. The show went live on YouTube June 4. Previously published in The Citadel, “The iPadContinue reading ““The iPad Wars” in City Tales 2020, a YouTube storytelling show”

AWP20 “More Than Me” Panel Review in Assay

Great write-up in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies about our panel at AWP. I didn’t know about it until a friend alerted me. Thank you, Stacy Murison and Heather Kim Lanier.

From a Failed Burglary to Hanukkah History

With these new additions, the Heliodorus stele places of the beginning of the Hanukkah story in its historical context.

Bird Sacrifices in Ancient Israel

Touring the caves of Tel Maresha in Beit Guvrin National Park (Israel), we came upon a columbarium – nesting boxes or perches for thousands of pigeons and doves.

“Christmas Dreidels” in The Citadel 2020

“Christmas Dreidels” explores one gay couple’s experience of building an adoptive family built on the richness of Jewish and African American heritages, one in which widely diverse cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds add up to a new, organic whole.