%0 Journal Article
%T Akin to Kin: Queer Relationalities in Contemporary Family Memoir.
%A Carrillo Rowe A
%J J Homosex
%V 0
%N 0
%D Jul 2022 29
%M 35904880
%F 2.496
%R 10.1080/00918369.2022.2103877
%X This essay analyzes how traditional notions of family are "queered" in contemporary memoir. I explore how heterosexual coupling becomes unnatural, undermining its equation with reproduction-and even the predictable forward march of family time becomes circular, haunted by alternate kinship models. I refer to this dynamic as "akin to kin" to consider how these representations both approximate and depart from normative ideas of family. I analyze several contemporary family memoirs to tease out moments in which "family" is imagined otherwise through queer relationalities.