Queering Family Trees by Sandra Patton-Imani

Author:Sandra Patton-Imani
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press

Emphasizing bad or deviant reproductive decisions deflects attention from the social circumstances that prevent women excluded by definitions of legitimacy from being able to access options that are technically available, but financially inaccessible. This is not only true for queers of color, but for all families outside the heterosexual patriarchal nuclear family norm.

This legal strategy positions LGBTQ parents (imagined as white) against unwed mothers experiencing poverty (imagined as straight and of color). In order to argue for equality in access to legal marriage, the lawsuits deployed a sameness argument that paved over gayness by emphasizing commonalities between white middle-class same-sex couples and the traditional American family. The terms of the narrative make no room for people that challenge representations of LGBTQ folks as white.

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