Tyler Bradway is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading.

Elizabeth Freeman is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and author of Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Kincoherence/Kin-aesthetics/Kinematics / Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman 1
Queering Linages
1. Kinship beyond the Bloodline / Judith Butler 25
2. The Mixed-Race Child Is Queer Father to the Man / Brigitte Fielder 48
3. World Making: Family, Time, and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Istanbul / Dilara Çali¿kan 71
Kinship, State, Empire
4. In Good Relations: Native Adoption, Kinstillations, and the Grounding of Memory / Joseph M. Pierce 95
5. Queering the Womb: Surrogacy and the Economics of Reproductive Feeling / Poulomi Saha 119
6. Beyond Family: Kinship’s Past, Queer World Making, and the Question of Governance / Mark Rifkin 138
7. Ecstatic Kinship and Trans Interiority in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet / Aqdas Aftab 159
8. Marielle, Presente: The Present and Presence in Marielle Franco Protests / Juliana DeMartini Brito 180
Kinship in the Negative
9. Akinship / Christopher Chamberlin 203
10. Against Friendship / Leah Claire Allen and John S. Garrison 227
11. Kidless Lit: Childlessness and Minor Kinship Forms / Natasha Hurley 248
12. Till Death Do Us Kin: Sworn Kinship and Queer Martydom in Chinese Anti-imperial Struggles / Aobo Dong 269
Epilogue. How Did It Come to This? Talking Kinship with Kath Weston / Kath Weston, Elizabeth Freeman, and Tyler Bradway 291
References 303
Contributors 333
Index 339