Queering the Modern Family: The Transracial Adoptee as Agent/Accessory.

This essay focuses on Lily, who enacts queerness in Modern Family's portrayal of gay lives. Represented alongside her two white, gay dads, she queers an otherwise homonormative, monoracial family. While various scholars have used queerness to dismantle normative ideas of adoption and kinship, this essay examines instead how transracial adoption's queering potential is mediated through Lily's simultaneous commodification as an adoptee. To that end, this analysis considers how her racial identity is imperfectly mobilized to reflect her parents' sexuality and articulates the ways in which the queerness of transracial adoption must resist the intertwined structures of commodification, colorblindness, and queer liberalism to maintain nonnormative understandings of kinship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]