ABSTRACT
Relationships with and between domestic animals, digital devices, natural plant, mineral and living/non-living beings with our intimate objects of gender fluidity all contribute to ways of understanding 'family' for gender-creative beings. This chapter explores how these assemblages cohere at times into suggestions of more-than-human and more-than-gendered society. It looks at some ways in which queer kinship is increasingly more-than-human in a range of ways including digitally and caninely intimate, personally tracking and genderly fluid. The chapter also looks briefly at fitbit activity devices and their increasing presence in the intimate lives of people and families. It discusses the evolving notions of queer kinship assemblages that challenge humanist concepts of family, but also notions of kinship as cognitively and habitually relational. The chapter argues with scholars who advance families as constellations that are affective nodes, a definition which easily accommodates animal, mineral, digital and other forms of kinship relations.
