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The contributors to\xa0Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form\xa0(Duke UP, 2022) assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. 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. 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. Among other topics, they examine the \u201cblood tie\u201d 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 Indigenous children as a technology of settler colonialism.\xa0Queer Kinship\xa0pushes the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of queer theory forward while opening up new paths for studying kinship.\nTyler Bradway is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of\xa0Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading.\nElizabeth Freeman is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and author of\xa0Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century, and other books also published by Duke University Press.\nSohini Chatterjee\xa0is a PhD Candidate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Western University, Canada. Her work has recently appeared in Women's Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal, South Asian Popular Culture and Fat Studies.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies