“Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?” n.d. Accessed October 1, 2025. [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/article/9630/pdf](https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/article/9630/pdf). “If we understand kinship as a set of practices that institutes relationships of various kinds which negotiate the reproduction of life and the demands of death, then kinship practices will be those that emerge to address fundamental forms of human dependency, which may include birth, child-rearing, relations of emotional dependency and support, generational ties, illness, dying, and death (to name a few).” (Butler, 2002, p. 14)