Conclusion

Abstract

The conclusion explores the questions of choice, biology, and inheritance that are central to queer narratives of family making through assisted reproductive technology. A prevailing discourse of queer family making emphasizes empowered reproductive citizenship and expansive choice. Yet in the folds of this discourse lurk other feelings—compulsion, desire, longing, need, contentment, grief. Rather than looking to novel technologies and biomedical horizons to solve the ongoing challenges in queer reproductive narratives, this chapter centers affective charges as a window into how care is assembled in the generative mess of the everyday. The conclusion presents a vision of queer reproduction premised on antiracist nurture, in the form of a manifesto.