Why I Stopped Using the Term “Chosen Family”

Family is family.

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CW: References to bigotry, racism, sexism, queerphobia and xenophobia.

Having been estranged from the majority of my extended biological, blood related family, I have come to build my own version of family. This is by no accident, and generally the way I prefer to experience my life. The people that surrounded me when I began life do not…