From assimilation, through transformation to studies within relationships: Understandings of nonheteronormative motherhood and ways forward
From assimilation, through transformation to studies within relationships: Understandings of nonheteronormative motherhood and ways forward

Summary/Abstract: Nonheteronormative motherhood has been explored in many studies so far, aiming to explore the strategies of women who develop and maintain kinships in patriarchal settings. So far, the approaches to motherhood beyond hetero/normativity have been mostly focused on considering either assimilationist strategies or transformational potential of families of choice. In this article I would like to propose one of the possible ways enabling us to avoid these approaches. I argue that Rosi Braidotti’s framework of nomadic subjectivity and considering nonheteronormative motherhood as embodied experience might provide us with a lens through which we can look at mothering as de-centred, continuous becoming on a daily basis.

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