Queer Kinship

“This brilliant collection is essential reading for anyone concerned with the surge of same-sex marriage and normative kinship and its consequences for the unmaking of racialized migrant families under global capital. Teagan Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman’s hard-hitting volume makes it clear that we need queer theory more than ever to understand the ongoing transformations and upheavals of family and kinship today.” - David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

“Defining the ironies and ambivalences of both kinship-as-experience and the very idea of kinship itself, this collection does nothing less than reinvent kinship theory as a means of understanding how race, sexuality, nation, gender, history, and political economy are inextricably bound up together. I am aware of no other volume that works at these timely and provocative intersections as ambitiously and creatively as Queer Kinship.” - Sarah Franklin, author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship

"The book is primarily an important creative and analytic contribution to contemporary queer, trans, critical race and kinship theory. Nevertheless, it is also of value for those who explore narratives and form as well as belonging and heritage 'beyond' kinship relations. As Weston illuminates, when exploring kinship, it can, if we are open to it, take us on unexpected routes." - Rebecka Rehnström, Anthropology Book Forum

"Queer Kinship constitutes a remarkable achievement. Highly readable,theoretically rigorous and exemplary in its commitment to decentring colonial epistemologies, this collection stands to make a seminal contribution to queer and kinship studies. . . . Queer Kinship elicits that most elusive of sensations in the reader: excitement." - Ry Montgomery, LSE Review of Books

"With its ambitious, international scope, Queer Kinship is an informative resource for anyone researching the political issues revolving around nonheteronormative kinships in different cultural contexts. Its unbiased treatment of sensitive issues guides us to think clearly about the reinvention of kinships in this century and how heteronormativity influences our lives still. Queer Kinship is a read that is engaging because of its honesty and introspective take on issues that impact queer and minoritized communities today." - Xin Ying Lim, Journal of Gender Studies

"The authors do an excellent job consistently discussing intersectional identities, shared trauma, decolonization, creation/destruction of kin, and many other topics that tend to be ignored in discussions of kinship or tend to solely be viewed through a cis-heteronormative or descent-only lens." - Patrick Barchett, Nebraska Anthropologist