Unsettled Home

What does it mean to build a family when the world tells you your love doesn’t count or that you shouldn't exist?

In this bold auto-ethnographic research, we learn about queer lives of people in five Central Asian, post-Soviet countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The findings also reflect the author's own life and struggles. From chosen families, building kinship, to legal restrictions, this publication sheds light on an invisible queer community of Central Asian countries.

Unsettled Home: Queer kinship,“traditional family values” and the sense of (un)belonging brings together stories, reflections, and realities that challenge the norm and re-frame the meaning of family.