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Choosing family : a memoir of queer motherhood and black resistance / Francesca T. Royster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royster, Francesca T., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Royster, Francesca T.
- Lesbian mothers--United States--Biography.
- Lesbian mothers.
- African American adoptive parents--Biography.
- African American adoptive parents.
- African American lesbians--Biography.
- African American lesbians.
- Multiracial families--United States--Biography.
- Multiracial families.
- African American mothers--Illinois ‡--Chicago--Biography.
- African American mothers.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Biography.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., 2023.
- Summary:
- A professor of English literature presents a memoir of family, identity, and acceptance that examines the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a black, queer, and feminist perspective.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface. Looking For Signs : April 2012
- Part I Blueprints for a Queer Family
- 1. Evocation: A Gathering of Mothers
- 2. Queer Roots: When The World is Not Enough
- 3. Becoming Us: Our First Nine Years
- 4. Changing My Mind: Rethinking Marriage
- 5. The Little House: Making Home With Queer Joy
- 6. Adoption: and The Arithmetic of Loss and Gain
- 7. The Backyard: Our Last Summer Before, 2011
- 8. Doing the Limbo: The Winter Before, 2012
- 9. And Now We Are Three: Spring 2012
- Part II The Three of Us and More
- 10. Binge-Watching Cece: Spring Into Summer, 2012
- 11. Snapshot: Summer 2012
- 12. Mom, Since I Saw You Last: Fall 2012
- 13. We're Getting Married: June 2014
- 14. Cece's Body: Fall Into Winter, 2014
- 15. Sister-Cousins: Summer Into Fall, 2015
- 16. Resetting The Table: August 2015
- Part III Girl Meets World-Summer 2016
- 17. We Also Belong To The World: Summer 2016
- 18. Stories We Tell After Orlando: June 2016
- 19. To My Love: July 2016
- 20. Black Lives Matter At Home: August 2016
- Part IV Cece's Journey-Dreaming the Future
- 21. Time Line: Age Five: Summer 2017
- 22. A Toy Story: September 2017
- 23. Make it Funky, Mom: November 2017
- 24. The Baby Store: January 2018
- Part V Reckonings- All You Change Changes You
- 25. When Trouble Calls: February 2018
- 26. Tracing Time: Seven Tattoos: Summer 2018
- 27. Kissing Doesn't Kill: And Other Queer Lessons I Learned From My Mother
- Coda. Stone Soup Love, With Ann Russo
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Further Reading.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Royster, Francesca T. Choosing Family
- ISBN:
- 9781647003760
- OCLC:
- 1365334466
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