Adele Failes-Carpenter (she/her) is a public educator and labor organizer residing on Ohlone land where she teaches Women’s and Gender Studies at City College of San Francisco. Adele has spent decades organizing with young people, GI resisters, anti-war veterans, and labor unions. She writes about queer parenting and intergenerational queer belonging. Adele was a Lambda Literary Summer 2024 fellow in Creative Nonfiction and is pursuing a MFA at Antioch University Los Angeles.