Queerness is increasingly entangled with the fertility industry, signaled by an emerging discourse of queer reproductive citizenship. The introduction positions contemporary queer family making as a rich site from which to explore cultural understandings of race, sexuality, and relatedness. Foregoing a critical impulse to scrutinize queer practices by degrees of normativity, affective interview methods are used here to explore the intimate textures of how queer people understand and enact reproduction and racialized belonging in their everyday lives. The introduction argues that race operates as a technology of intimacy, with a foundational but underdetermining relationship to heteronormative kinship.