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092    BIO|bROYSTER 
100 1  Royster, Francesca T. 
245 10 Choosing family :|ba memoir of queer motherhood and Black 
       resistance /|cFrancesca T. Royster. 
246 30 Memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance 
264  1 New York :|bAbrams Press,|c[2023] 
300    xix, 264 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) 
505 00 |tPreface: Looking for signs: April 2012 --|tBlueprints 
       for a queer family --|tThe three of us and more --|tGirl 
       meets world - Summer 2016 --|tCece's journey - Dreaming 
       the future --|tReckonings - All you change changes you --
       |tCoda: Stone soup love, with Ann Russo. 
520    "As a multiracial household in Chicago’s North Side 
       community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca
       T. Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday 
       acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly 
       means. Like Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, this lyrical 
       and affecting memoir focuses on a unit of three: the 
       author; her wife Annie, who's white; and Cecilia, the 
       Black daughter they adopt as a couple in their forties and
       fifties. Choosing Family chronicles this journey to 
       motherhood while examining the messiness and complexity of
       adoption and parenthood from a Black, queer, and feminist 
       perspective. Royster also explores her memories of the 
       matriarchs of her childhood and the homes these women 
       created in Chicago’s South Side—itself a dynamic character
       in the memoir—where 'family' was fluid, inclusive, and not
       necessarily defined by marriage or other socially 
       recognized contracts. Calling upon the work of some of her
       favorite queer thinkers, including José Esteban Muñoz and 
       Audre Lorde, Royster interweaves her experiences and 
       memories with queer and gender theory to argue that many 
       Black families, certainly her own, have historically had a
       'queer' attitude toward family: configurations that sit 
       outside the white normative experience and are the richer 
       for their flexibility and generosity of spirit. A powerful,
       genre-bending memoir of family, identity, and acceptance, 
       Choosing Family, ultimately, is about joy—about claiming 
       the joy that society did not intend to assign to you, or 
       to those like you." --publisher's website. 
600 10 Royster, Francesca T. 
650  0 Lesbian mothers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 African American adoptive parents|vBiography. 
650  0 Racially mixed families|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 African American mothers|zIllinois|zChicago|vBiography. 
650  0 African American lesbians|vBiography. 
650  0 LGBTQ+ people|vBiography. 
650  0 Autobiography. 
651  0 Chicago (Ill.)|vBiography. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft