If there is a universal theme to this volume it is a call back to the micro. Not in a reductionist, ever-smaller building blocks kind of way, but a whispering that is humble, grounded, and embracing, rather than seeking to flee or supersede the limitations of our earthly condition.

David L. Eng’s beautifully presented and compellingly argued "The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy" creatively retheorizes kinship and intimacy by rerouting such practices as same-sex domesticity and transnational adoption through the histories of capital, diaspora, and empire.