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the kinship command operates by way of the carrot of status, honor, affection, and camaraderie, and the stick of the fear of exclusion and the various social emotions (shame, pity, sympathy, envy, and so on).
Agnes Callard • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
we are more likely to behave altruistically, and less likely to behave selfishly, towards close relatives than distant relatives, and towards distant relatives than to unrelated folk.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
We acquire the feelings of others, especially beloved others, and imagine that what we have never seen or touched belongs to us, too, by imaginative connection.
Siri Hustvedt • Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
mutual and consensual.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The most liberatory, evolved, boundary-breaking people I know hold identities that are marginalized in some way. And when that marginalization, that experience of being “othered” is focused on your ability to make family, then of course you create other models.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
standard pronoun was first-person plural, as if parent and child had merged:
Peter Hessler • Other Rivers
Family
shashaank • 5 cards