“Making kind”, is a different order of gathering together non-genetic non-species likeness, and also most beautifully extends kin to imply kindness.

The wild law and earth jurisprudence movements explore what “kind” might entail, in efforts to redress the destructive anthropocentrism that existing legal and political structures are based on.

For example, Te Urewera in Aotearoa has been granted human rights as an ancestor river. Of the river, their family begins with the view ‘that it is a living being, and then [we] consider its future from that central belief.’