Price: $39.95
Page Count: 280
Publication Date: April 2027
ISBN: 978-1-77258-618-3
This anthology provides readers with a wide variety of voices, observations, and experiences, specific to realizations of, and reflections on, radical kinship. The chapters inside are thoughtfully woven together, creating an engaging and accessible read. The unique style and format of this collection also invites readers to interact with, and reflect on, the text in such a way that the reading of it becomes a means of generating connection and radical kinship itself. Creative, insightful, and thought-provoking, this is a valuable and worthwhile literary addition for all those wanting to learn more about diverse aspects of radical kinship, or for those interested in increasing their understanding about the many ways in which we connect with each other.
- Victoria Bailey, PhD - Author, Scholar, Mother
Prologue: More than a Cover
Introduction: The Gifts of Radical Kinship
A Ritual for Reading
A Lyrical Odyssey in Search of Radical Kinship
Susan Picard
Ritual: Closer to You
Speaking Us into Being
Otter Day
Ritual: Words Live Me
“Making the Other, the Self”:
Matrifocal Families to Enhance Kinship and Reduce Systemic Patriarchal Oppressions
Blythe Collier
Ritual: “One Bowl, One Spoon”
“I Say to You World” On Maternity and Kinship
Olivia Heal
Ritual: Sea-Swim Kinmaking
Imagining More-Than-Human Kinship through Epistolary Praxis
Rachel Epp Buller, Sindija Franzetti
Ritual: Epistolary Kinning
Wild Entanglements:
An Apprenticeship with Radical Kinship
Michelann Parr
Ritual: Making Kin
Breach
Annabel Howard
Ritual: Breachwork
The Labour of Thrivance:
Intergenerational M(other)work and the Captive Maternal
Amber Acosta
Ritual: Thrivance
An Ounce of Shared Milk:
Black Birth Workers Reclaiming Communal Breastfeeding and Milk Sharing
Through Radical Kinship
Tracey Lewis-Elligan
Ritual: One Ounce, A Circle
Florence O’Neill and I:
Not alone, but singing alongside one another in the wilderness
Terry A Campbell
Ritual: Singing Beside the Archive
Kin Poems
Tracey Royne
Ritual: Kin Made in Passing
Notes on Contributors
Michelann Parr is a Full Professor in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University. A mother, grandmother, educator, and researcher, her work explores narrative inquiry, identity as lifework, sustainability, and family engagement through community partnerships. Her recent and forthcoming edited collections include Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Solidarity, Tales of Boundary-Busting Mamas, What the Pain of Mothers Must Never Expose, and Radical Kinship.
