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Queering Families traces the shifting dominant meanings of queer family from the late twentieth century to today. With this book, Tamara Lea Spira highlights the growing embrace of normative family structures by LGBTQ+ movements—calling into question how many queers, once deemed unfit to parent, have become contradictory agents within the US empire’s racial and colonial agendas.
Simultaneously, Queering Families celebrates the rich history of queer reproductive justice, from the radical movements of the 1970s through the present, led by Black, decolonial, and queer of color feminist activists. Ultimately, Spira argues that queering reproductive justice impels us to build communities of care to cherish and uphold the lives of those who, defying normativity’s violent stranglehold, are deemed to be unworthy of life. She issues the call to lovingly wager a future for the world’s children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds, and in increasingly perilous times.
"The author does a fine job laying out the legacy of queer reproductive justice movements, pointing out that queering reproductive justice requires caring, life-affirming communities that resist the violent constraints of normativity and uplift those whose lives are too often deemed disposable."
“Sprira argues that reproductive justice for queer people requires developing a counter-narrative linking the struggles of communities of color, colonized people, and LGBTQ+ people. This is possible, she suggests, because these communities have the seeds of a common vision of community and care, seeds that have come from both ancestral cultures and necessity.”
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. The Beginning and the End of the World: Queering Families in Homonormative Times
1. The Long Story: The Nuclear Family and Its Other(s)
2. Opposing Figures: Good Families, Religious Liberties, and the Queering of Reproductive Justice
3. Your Children Are Not Your Children: Queer Investments in the Biogenetic Turn
4. Queering Family Abolition: Intergenerational Archives of Care
Epilogue. Dreams and Nightmares: Reproductive Dystopias, Reproductive Utopias
Notes
Bibliography
Index