Expansive Kinship with Jennifer Luciani // Diverse Futures // Sep 16

This is the second presentation in the Diverse Futures series at Northern Commons in St. Paul. The series features a different presenter each month and that presenter's view of what the future can be if diversity is embraced rather than quashed. Come, join us.

Expansive Kinship

Our next presentation will be Expansive Kinship with Jennifer Luciani.

The presentation will be at 7:00 p.m. on September 16th, 2026 at Northern Commons, 308 E. Prince St. #246, St. Paul, MN.

You can RSVP on Luma.

Expansive kinship encompasses relational practices that push back against patriarchal, heteronormative, capitalist, and colonialist supremacy. Jennifer will give a short introduction to her work on expansive kinship and then lead a discussion on the topic.

Expansive kinship is an umbrella term for varieties of relational diversity. It is the cornerstone of Jennifer's vision of a thriving, interdependent future. Relational diversity includes forms of relating that extend far beyond our current cultural notions of nuclear family, marriage, single-family households, child-rearing, and caregiving.

About the Presenter

Jennifer Luciani (she/they) is a relational trauma-informed coach, a facilitator of discussions on polyamory and relationship anarchy, and has been an educator/mentor for unschoolers and eclectic homeschoolers, including her child. She holds multiple long-term radical identities (queer/pansexual, polyamorous, relationship anarchist, feminist, and past co-creator and resident of intentional community).

Learn more about her work and writings at www.JenniferLuciani.com and jenniferluciani.substack.com.