![]() Queer transracial family as a critical practice seeks to enact a blended, open vision for belonging that contests colorblindness, homonormativity, and the consumerist, privatized family. Utilizing queer, feminist, and critical race theories of kinship, I advocate for “queer transracial family” as a form of differential becoming that is attentive to complex power relations. '‘Someone to Love: Teen Girls Same-Sex Desire in the 1950s United States,' in Queer 1950s: Locating Sexual Cultures in the West, Heike Bauer and Matt Cook, eds. transracial adoption, same-sex family recognition, shrinking public support systems for and growing criminalization of low-income women and families of color, gendered dynamics in parenting, and the shift toward foster-adoption permanency. Through critical autoethnography, it interweaves narrative about the evolving relationship we share with her birth family with analysis of intersecting, conflicting histories of U.S. ![]() This article attempts to answer the oft-asked question of where my daughter-an African American girl with two white, middle-class gay dads-“comes from,” by tracing power constellations that make our family possible. ![]()
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