Cristina Olivetti
Cristina Olivetti
 
 
 

Welcome!
Parents, Friends and Allies.

I’m a writer, educator and parenting coach. My debut memoir and parenting guide, About Bliss: Fighting for My Trans Son's Life, Joy, and Fertility will appear on bookshelves in February 2025. Written as a series of letters to my son, the book documents our family decision making during the year before his medical transition. I address gender dysphoria, hormone blockers, reproductive consequences of pediatric gender affirming care, and a myriad of issues that many parents of gender non-conforming children will face. More than that though, this book is about the power of parental imagination, and the work every parent does to ensure the best possible future for their child. I regularly host gender education workshops and work directly with parents of gender diverse kids. I am so looking forward to sharing my book with you.

 
 

Through a series of letters to my son, I
document our family decision making during
the year before his medical transition.

 

Forthcoming February 2025 | Pre-order Amazon or Bookshop

 
“Cristina Olivetti’s About Bliss is an indispensable resource for anyone who has a child, a relative, a coworker or a student who is gender nonconforming. More informative than any memoir, and more deeply personal than the usual guidebooks, About Bliss invents a new hybrid form to provide the blueprint for an informed and loving ally-ship. This book will help us build a better and more gender-compassionate world, and I am grateful for it.”
— Benjamin Anastasauthor of the memoir Too Good to Be True

writing

My published writing has appeared in national publications, anthologies and journals (both online and offline). The Return, appeared in the Postpartum Progress Mother's Day Rally May 2015

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coaching

Need support on your parenting journey? Have secret dreams about becoming a writer? You don't need to worry or dream alone. I coach because I believe each one of us contributes to the greater good and together we are greater than the sum of each of us...

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My mission is to liberate as much creative energy into the world as I can. In the day-to-day this looks like:

   Championing art and artists I admire.   //   Researching how creative people, especially women writers, generate their most juicy work.   //   Amplifying women’s voices through coaching and women’s circles.   //   Engaging in social justice causes that create the conditions for a broader range of people to generate their most creative contributions.   //   Producing my own best creative work and encouraging each of my family members to do the same.    

 

 
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