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Reimagining Biological Relatedness: Epigenetics and Queer Kin

This essay develops a sideways reading of environmental epigenetics by contesting some of the social and cultural norms that inform epigenetic research. Through this analysis, I seek to demonstrate how multiple communities of belonging—not just those considered family—become embodied. My reading of environmental epigenetics pushes beyond heteronormative understandings of biological relatedness and argues for a more collective—and feminist—understanding of inheritance, one that does not center heterosexuality, homonormativity, or the family and its privatization of care.