I Refuse to Do Free Work for My Family. They’re All Having a Meltdown.

I'm tired of my three older siblings trying to pawn off theirs every time I come home to visit.

I finally snapped when my brother told his whining kid to play with me because he was busy playing a video game.

I held out my hand and told my brother it would be $ 20 . I told him I get paid to deal with other people's kids, and if he wants the same, he needs to pay up.

A co-worker friend homeschools her children specifically to keep them away from “gay people” As a queer and trans person, I don’t know how to interact with her at work.

I want to aggressively correct her next time she uses the wrong pronouns for me, even though I ignore it when the rest of my co-workers use the wrong pronoun.

Do correct her if she continues to mis-pronoun you, but do so in a tone you would use to correct any error.

Could you ask the person who told you about Jane ’s homeschooling to speak with her? A lot of people rethink some of their own bigotry when they get to know people they were taught to despise.