Now streaming for free on CBC GEM, The Butch and the Baby Daddy is an animated short, excerpted from the book How to Get a Girl Pregnant. Alex has wanted to have a baby almost as long as she can remember. But how is a trans/butch lesbian supposed to get sperm? When she considers asking Mateo, a close gay friend of hers, Alex is forced to investigate what she really values.
This project is a collaboration of the director/animator Barb Taylor and writer/director Karleen Pendleton Jiménez. For more information: howtogetagirlpregnant.com
“I was a butch lesbian and I wanted to have a baby”
Sweet review of our short The Butch and the Baby Daddy by Trent School of Education, celebrating both our streaming on CBC Gem short and an upcoming Trent event focused on fertility https://www.trentu.ca/news/story/41577.
Joining the CBC Canadian Reflections Collection
We are super happy to share that The Butch and the Baby Daddy (excerpt from How to Get a Girl Pregnant) is available on CBC Gem. GEM is free, so hop on and check it out. Our animated short will be part of the Canadian Reflections Collection, a showcase of independent Canadian shorts. It includes some…
Tonight CBC Broadcast
TONIGHT hope you can catch our national broadcast on https://gem.cbc.ca/live of The Butch and the Baby Daddy! 11:30pm in all time zones.
The Butch and the Baby Daddy – 3 Awards!
These 3 fabulous awards wrap a wonderful year of festival screenings around the world for the short animation The Butch and the Baby Daddy. We’re so happy to have participated in many Latinx, LGBTQ+, women’s and documentary festivals. Sending out our appreciation to everyone who runs these festivals and their hard work. Also many, many…
