Tag: fictive kin
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The Highs and Lows of digitizing Indigenous Familial Knowledge

Describing Native kinship can be one of the most frustrating, amazing, wonderful, and confusing things that one can do. Jessica Restaino, in her discussion of role and misfit spaces, says there is a shifting space where processes reshape who we are (p.85). Fictive kinship reflects this same idea; our relationships and obligations change in this…