Queer and Non-Traditional Family-Making

Is biological birth essential to “true” parenthood? This week challenges conventional notions of family and origin.

Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts explores what “family” means when biology isn’t the ground. How do bodies and identities reconfigure origin stories? Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous renders inheritance as both wound and gift.

José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of queer futurity offers new ways to think about birth—not as reproduction of the same, but as the creation of something genuinely new.