2024 article

A (m)Other's Work Is Becoming Undone: Liminal Belonging and Trans Potentialities

Watts, M. A., & Dominguez, C. M. (2024, June 22). QUALITATIVE INQUIRY.

author keywords: revolutionary mothering; queer kinship; trans parenting; critical community; relational ethnography
Source: Web Of Science
Added: July 1, 2024

In this relational ethnography, we write as two white afab genderqueer/trans parents who often find ourselves at best pulled between spaces and parts of ourselves, and at worst pressured to choose between the false dichotomy of our “illegible” place within transness/queerness and “aparent” place within motherhood. Weaving together autoethnographic vignettes of our lived experiences with the writings of QTBIPOC thinkers and pedagogues and their anti-racist white comrades, we reflect on themes of liminality, loneliness, hope, grieving, and love in mothering, kin, and community building and theorize, as queer trans (m)othering mother-ers, about the trans potentialities of being/becoming-with-longing queerly.