... Through ethnography, Lionel Cantú explores the ways sexuality has impacted the experience of immigrant men. He sheds light on how traditional family and chosen family relationships shape and influence migration. Cantú argues for the centrality of a queer political economy in order to unveil how...

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... The conclusion explores the questions of choice, biology, and inheritance that are central to queer narratives of family making through assisted reproductive technology. A prevailing discourse of queer family making emphasizes empowered reproductive citizenship and expansive choice. Yet...

... draws on a decades-long queer vernacular of chosen family and has proved deeply effective in securing public legitimacy for queer parenting. However, in today's multiracial terrain of queer family building, a discourse of love can risk effacing race and racism by mobilizing a colorblind ethic...

... 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...

... Chapter 2 explores how everyday experiences of queer family making challenge a prevailing discourse of reproductive choice that is central to the global fertility industry. In practice, queer family making in Australia is characterized by compromise, creativity, and translational work. Many...

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... Chapter 3 explores how race is materialized in diverse ways when queer people search for sperm or egg donors. In donor conception, race is often constructed as inhering in sperm and eggs, reinforced by fertility-clinic practices of racial categorization. But the queer families in this book...

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... The first half of the book draws on examples from The Addams Family , The Brady Bunch , Family Matters , and other TV shows and films to explore the ways the structure of the sitcom has allowed for a capacious and yet constricted understanding of the family, one that can use queer figures...

... into relations and currencies of intimacy. Trans people deploy the family as a form of intimacy but strategically rework it through queer alignments and ties. Through an intertwined network of care, labor, love, joy, and affect, they consistently invest in their friendships, contest the primacy given to blood...

... Frankenstein's monster, the evil twin is a common narrative trope, found everywhere from daytime soaps to Pasolini. As queer theory's evil twin, transgender studies brings trouble into the family. The author names three of the writers with whom she was in dialog as Judith Butler, Sandy Stone, and Leslie Feinberg...

...Part III In this chapter, Jennifer DeVere Brody situates E. Patrick Johnson’s play Strange Fruit within a critical genealogy of black gay image-making. Brody asserts that Johnson’s artistic work, along with that of other black queer men, facilitated the emergence of black queer studies...

... In this chapter, Bernadette Marie Calafell interviews Strange Fruit creator E. Patrick Johnson. Johnson opens the interview by sharing that he wanted Strange Fruit to be an homage to the women in his family and black feminists, to whom he credits his own awakening about gender and sexuality...