Josie Leimbach

Joselyn (Josie) Leimbach is a Senior Lecturer with the Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia Athens (UGA). She was instrumental in establishing the LGBTQ certificate at UGA, receiving the 2021 Founder’s Award for service to the LGBT Community at UGA from UGA’s LGBT Resource Center. She earned her Ph.D. in Gender Studies from Indiana University in 2014. Josie is published in numerous anthologies. She currently lives with her wife and daughter in Athens, Georgia.

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Josie Leimbach (left) and Lynae Sowinski met in Bloomington and got married in 2017. Their journey to parenthood has been similar to that for heterosexual couples in many ways, but the journey has also been more difficult emotionally, physically, and financially. | Courtesy photo

Celebrating Diverse Families: Our Journey to Queer Parenthood

Josie Leimbach and Josie Leimbach

Preparing to have a child is similar in many ways for queer couples as for heterosexual couples, write Lynae Sowinski and Josie Leimbach, who got married in Bloomington in 2017 and now live in Georgia. But in a variety of ways, their parenthood experience has been different — and emotionally, physically, and financially more difficult. Read about their journey to queer parenthood.