Reproduction: Death, Birth & The Turkey Baster Method is a graphic memoir and practical guide by Ellie Anglin that traces one queer family’s pursuit of parenthood in the shadow of profound loss. Ellie charts her and her wife’s attempt to conceive while navigating the fertility industry, which is interrupted by the deaths of both of her parents within a single year, and the psychic disorientation that comes with grief. Their journey ultimately leads them away from institutional medicine and toward the time-honoured lesbian tradition of at-home insemination, affectionately known as the Turkey Baster Method.

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Told through poignant illustrations and whimsical, full-colour collages assembled from Open Access image collections, the book moves between the clinical and the cosmic, the instructional and the intimate. As ovulation charts collide with a séance, candle magic pours into grief counselling sessions, quilts and queer archives intertwine, a patchwork of doctor’s visits and dream visitations start to form a queer spiritualism as Ellie asks whether the boundaries between self and other—or even between life and death—are really as impermeable as we are taught to believe.

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Part memoir, part ritual, part how-to guide, Reproduction: Death, Birth & The Turkey Baster Method is an honest, darkly funny, and deeply personal exploration of creation in all its forms (PS Guelph, 2026).