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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. 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. Little House: Making Home With Queer Joy
• 6. Adoption: And The Arithmetic of Loss And Gain
• 7. Backyard: Our Last Summer Before, 2011
• 8. Doing The Limbo: The Winter Before, 2012
• 9. And Now We Are Three: Spring 2012
• pt. II 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
• pt. 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
• pt. IV Cece's Journey
• -Dreaming the Future
• 21. Time Line: Age Five: Summer 2017
• 22. Toy Story: September 2017
• 23. Make It Funky, Mom: November 2017
• 24. Baby Store: January 2018
• pt. 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.

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Author/Creator:

Royster, Francesca

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Choosing family: a memoir of queer motherhood and black resistance [by Royster, F.]

Subjects:

Royster, Francesca T.

Lesbian mothers — United States — Biography

African American adoptive parents — Biography

African American lesbians — Biography

Multiracial families — United States — Biography

African American mothers — Illinois — Chicago — Biography

Chicago (Ill.) — Biography

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HQ75.53 .R69 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781647003760 (electronic book)
1647003768 (electronic book)
1419756176 [Invalid]
9781419756177 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1365334466

Other Control Numbers:

EBC7184576 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp19327608