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![getting back into this book after abandoning it for months. thanks @eseldee for lending it to me for way too long. #latergram #slowreader
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on heteronormativity & family:
“‘Wow', my friend said, filling [the mug] up. 'I've never seen anything so heteronormative in all my life'
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But what about it is the essence of heteronormativity? That my mother made a mug on a boojie service like Snapfish? That we're clearly participating, or acquiescing into participating, in a long tradition of families being photographed at holiday time in their holiday best? That my mother made me the mug, in part to indicate that she recognizes and accepts my tribe as family? What about my pregnancy-is that inherently heteronormative? Or is the presumed opposition of queerness and procreation (or, to put a finer edge on it, maternity) more a reactionary embrace of how things have shaken down for queers than the mark of some ontological truth? As more queers have kids, will the presumed opposition simply wither away? Will you miss it?
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When or how do new kinship systems mime older nuclear-family arrangements and when or how do they radically recontextualize them in a way that constitutes a rethinking of kinship? How can you tell; or, rather, who's to tell?”](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541f7152e4b0e2c159731e3d/59d73fd0bce176944e313cc4/5b282bc95ebcd56493aa0b10/1529359325722/)
![today i celebrate two fathers and the fact that i am the sum of their love and support to me, and to both of my mothers and sisters. thinking of the families who were recently separated by force as well as those who have been separated for a long time, by force, by choice, by societal pressure. my hope is that the current demand to keep families together at the U.S. border succeeds and eventually extends to all family types throughout the world, including birth/first families. [vid creds: shot by dad, edited by moi]](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541f7152e4b0e2c159731e3d/59d73fd0bce176944e313cc4/5b26f0197f09c6e7afa13e52/1529278508455/)
