Kinshipista
Kinshipista refers to a person who foregrounds kinship networks—blood relatives, adoptive ties, and chosen family—as the primary basis for social life and communal support. A kinshipista envisions social organization built around extended family and interdependent networks that provide care, resources, and resilience. This approach emphasizes mutual aid, intergenerational caregiving, and collaborative decision making within kinship circles, often in parallel with or in critique of formal institutions.
The term is a neologism used in contemporary sociocultural discourse and speculative anthropology to describe a
Common practices associated with kinshipistas include kinship mapping to visualize supportive networks; care cooperatives and shared
Critics caution that a heavy emphasis on kinship can inadvertently marginalize non-kin and minority voices, invite
See also: kinship, social network, mutual aid, chosen family, collective care.