...Julianne Pidduck This article explores the relationship between queer thought and kinship through a study of video autoethnographies by Jean Carlomusto and Richard Fung. I propose the concept of ambivalence as a useful point of departure for grappling with the conflicted political, affective...

... to Leibovitz's project to redescribe kinship as queer or lesbian history. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 RETOUCHING QUEER KINSHIP Sontag, Leibovitz, and the Ends of the Photographic Lens Karen Jacobs I first encountered Annie Leibovitz’s photographs of her dying and finally dead partner...

... as well as white, heteronormative kinship formations, I turn to ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an animal shelter to describe alternative and promisingly queer affective attachments rooted in how the dogs themselves relate to both humans and other dogs. The “intimacy without relatedness...

...Lauren Heintz “The Crisis of Kinship: Queer Affiliations in the Sexual Economy of Slavery” reexamines the discourse of queer kinship in order to take up Sharon Holland's call that queer studies has yet to reckon with the institution of slavery. I consider how the crisis of the oedipal drama—namely...

...Mark Rifkin Duke University Press 2006 ROMANCING KINSHIP A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sˆa’s American Indian Stories Mark Rifkin By kinship all Dakota people were held together in a great relation- ship that was theoretically all-inclusive and co-extensive...

... through an analysis of his male nudes and the sexual history for which they are a visual record. In this article, I show how both Lynes's fashion images and his male nudes emerged from a market-imbricated queer kinship network to produce a discourse of interwar glamour that accommodated both dominant...

...Jenny M. James This article offers a comparative analysis of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt , and Todd Haynes’s 2015 film adaptation, Carol , to bear witness to the often-overlooked history of pre-Stonewall queer parenthood and to imagine a more radical future of queer kinship...

... identity, affinity, and community across prison walls. Reflecting on the authors’ friendship and the possibilities for mutual recognition that queer kinship has afforded them—even across the distance and disposability produced by incarceration—these letters reveal transness as a practice of seeing. Through...

...: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890−1910 , Joseph M. Pierce , Albany : State University of New York Press , 2019 . 336 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 In Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890–1910 (2019) Joseph M. Pierce analyzes how...

... Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (2006), in which she deals with shame and empathy in human-canine relations. Brenna M. Munro is assistant professor in the English department at the University of Miami. She is working on a book manuscript titled “Queer Constitutions: Sexu- ality...

... Promises: Inhuman Intimacies and Queer Kinships in an Animal Shelter .” GLQ 21 , nos. 2 – 3 : 343 – 63 . Queer studies human/animal studies the couple the pet posthumanism Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Donna Haraway antinormativity anthropomorphism attachment impersonality...

... along with our conception of the victim of a human rights violation. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 transgender rights queer kinship affect relational witnessing and testimony hate crimes References Ahmed Sara . 2004 . The Cultural Politics of Emotion . New York...

... that it has nothing at all to do with children. Not to mention fathers. To be sure, the terms mother and father are loaded in the context of contemporary queer kinship theory. The great divide between procreative identity and sexual identity is dated, and the placing of the procreative mandate...

...). The anthology draws on Jasbir Puar’s formulation of “queer necropolitics” to elaborate some specifically queer aspects of the necropolitical (2), including con- vergences between US militarism and queer kinship, the criminalization of people living with HIV and transgender sex workers...

... on intersections of gender, sexuality, and race. He is the author of Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (2023), which explores the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled abandoned and runaway youth to survive in tenderloin districts across...

... conceptualizations of gender, sexuality, and kinship and produced shame. Sexual orphanings queered children away from their bodies and sexualities, which also worked to orient them away from the future. I turn to Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998) to consider what erotics might remain for these children...

... of pregnant androids and clone sister- mothers that can be read as queer and trans algorithms of kinship. The character of Number Eight, Sharon “Boomer” Valerii from Battlestar Galactica, played by Grace Park, a Korean Cana- dian actress, embodies the story of an android pregnant...

... of family tradition but also of an expanded queer kinship revolving around the shared, ongoing process of what Mann describes in the same interview as “trying to juggle a very deep-seated Appalachian identity and a very frank gay identity.” References Bégin Camille . 2016 . Taste...

.... Mna Ndiyayazi Uba Ndizotshata Intombazana , I for One Know That I Will Marry a Woman : (Re) Creating Family and Reflections on Rural Lesbian Women s Experiences of Child Rearing and Kinship. In Queer Kinship: South African Perspectives on the Sexual Politics of Family- Making and Belonging, edited...

... with the messy difficulties of doing abolition work and building queer kinship within institutional spaces that are imbricated in carcerality. Like Reed's reflections on her own navigation through carceral institutional spaces as an abolitionist, Lorenzo Triburgo and Sarah Van Dyck carefully attend...