“…However, any discussion of human‐microbial relationality cannot ignore the relational ontologies, sovereignties, and scholarship of Indigenous peoples without risking appropriation and erasure (Porter et al., 2020; Tallbear, 2011; Todd, 2016; Watts, 2013). Further, considering more‐than‐human thinking and kin relations and ontologies, Indigenous, Black, Queer and feminist scholars are leading the way in renewed discussions of relationality (Benezra, 2022; Tallbear, 2011). While simultaneously reclaiming relational concepts such as kin (e.g., Kanngieser & Todd, 2020), they are showing how microbes ‘take up new (old) kinship formulations … [as] oddkin, chemical kin, cohort kin, environmental kin, situated kin [and] Land/body relations’ while arguing for relational accountability (Benezra, 2022, p. 512).…”