Icicle Ornament Memorial (2 Photos)
Dublin Core
Title
Icicle Ornament Memorial (2 Photos)
Subject
Christmas tree ornaments
Autobiographical memory
LGBTQ people
Parental Grief
Lesbian mothers
Description
Photos of icicle memorial ornament at the top of a Christmas tree with white lights, by a lesbian co-parents to honor the daughter they lost prior to the birth of their twins.
“We had been given an icicle ornament [by a friend] to represent the loss of a child, the loss a baby…. We didn’t have anything to put on top of the tree, so we got that icicle ornament and put it at the top …. Her ornament is at the top of the tree and the tree is like sprinkled with tons of stuff from the twins [who we had a year later], you know the daycare made ornaments and kids crafts … and they’re not even old enough to walk ((laughs)).”
“We had been given an icicle ornament [by a friend] to represent the loss of a child, the loss a baby…. We didn’t have anything to put on top of the tree, so we got that icicle ornament and put it at the top …. Her ornament is at the top of the tree and the tree is like sprinkled with tons of stuff from the twins [who we had a year later], you know the daycare made ornaments and kids crafts … and they’re not even old enough to walk ((laughs)).”
Creator
Participants in Reproductive Losses Research Project
Source
Personal Collection of LGBTQ Reproductive Losses Study Participant
Publisher
unpublished
Date
Circa 2013
Contributor
Participant in LGBTQ Reproductive Losses Research Project
Craven, Christa
Lane-Davies, Hannah
Rights
Format
jpeg
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Identifier
Icicle Ornament Memorial (2 Photos)_01
Citation
Participants in Reproductive Losses Research Project, “Icicle Ornament Memorial (2 Photos),” LGBTQ+ Reproductive Loss, accessed March 24, 2023, https://lgbtqreproductiveloss.org/items/show/15.