Astrée Duval ~ Communal Queer Kinship

Thesis Advisor: Amit Rai

Thesis: Communal Queer Kinship

July, 2024 

Abstract

This essay is a study of utopian experimentation in structures of care and transmission within the queer subculture. It demonstrates how the gay liberation movement radically challenges the western codes of social reproduction, most centrally through a questioning of the first capitalist institution, the family. What alternatives to the norm emerge from this space of discourse and action, especially in concordance with a feminist ethos? What lessons can we draw from our histories of queer resistance? Grounded in a materialist, post-structural philosophy of difference, the proposed notion of Queer Communal Kinship is a conceptual assemblage conceived to inspire future generations keen to challenge the status quo.

Author Astrée Duval