Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form Bradway Tyler
Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form Bradway Tyler The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. The contributors…
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Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form Bradway Tyler
The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. The contributors challenge dominant theories of kinship that ignore the devastating impacts of chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and racialized nationalism on the bonds of Black and Indigenous people and people of color. In a contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism, fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, they approach kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility.
Among other topics, they examine the "blood tie" as the legal marker of kin relations, the everyday experiences and memories of trans mothers and daughters in Istanbul, the outsourcing of reproductive labor in postcolonial India, kinship as a model of governance beyond the liberal state, and the intergenerational effects of the adoption of