ABSTRACT
The growing area of digital queer research points to new relations, new practices and new relationality through online platforms. Jack Halberstam's 1998 text Female Masculinity has never been more timely in the way it looks at masculinity without 'men', and the later Gaga Feminism tackled similar social codes. Postgenderism is a social, political and cultural movement which arose from the eroding of the cultural, biological, psychological and social role of gender, and an argument for why the erosion of binary gender will be liberatory. More recently, trans and genderqueer feminisms demonstrate that cis-definitions of 'girls' and 'women', as well as more traditionally framed notions of 'feminism' no longer cut it. Queer kinship also explores vast intimate landscapes: schooling and alternative kinships, illness and death, migration experiences, family shame and secrets. But queer kinship studies also lay bare the interstitial spaces and harms done when alternative kinships go unrecognised, or when queer relationalities deviate from socially dominant 'kinship norms'.
