Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance

"Francesca T. Royster and her wife, Annie, decide they want to raise a child when they’re in their 40s and 50s respectively. Overwhelmed and awed by this desire, Royster, who is Black, and Annie, who is white, consider the most ethical way they can do so. In what is both a memoir and a work of accessible queer theory, Royster explores how Black families have historically needed to reinvent the institution. Indeed, Royster finds in her own family history, and its many and varied matriarchs, a kind of roadmap for her own coming parenthood."