The Story of Family and Belonging in Contemporary France

Daniel Nabil Maroun (French and Italian) is a 2025–2026 HRI Faculty Fellow. His current research project, “The Politics of Kinship: Writing Queerness, Filiation, and Race in Contemporary France,” reexamines the story and legitimacy of family as a social construct in France, exploring how different queer populations reconstruct what constitutes a family through new forms of […]

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