In this panel, we invite reflections on friendship as a feminist proposal and a field of anthropological research, as an alternative way of perceiving social and kinship relations, breaking with more traditional approaches to fundamental aspects of life such as care, mutual support and activism, but also as a source of pleasure and fun. In the social sciences, friendship has been studied less than other interpersonal bonds (couple, sex-affective or maternal-filial relationships). Among the works (in Spanish) that initially focused on friendship, an author of obligatory reference is Josepa Cucó who reviewed anthropological studies on friendship in her book La Amistad. Persepctiva antropologica (1995). She identified certain distinctive elements of friendship ties, such as: it is a voluntary and long-lasting bond between individuals or group; it is ritualized; and t is reinforced or expressed in a system of reciprocal obligations and trust (1995: 34). In another classic book, The Anthropology of Friendship (Sandra Bell and Simon Coleman, 1999), we have an analysis of the basic assumptions of friendship from an intercultural and comparative perspective that questions the characteristics of the Western notion of friendship. As Beatrice Gusmano points out, in recent years friendship has become "a legitimate subject of sociological analysis" (2018: 91) and we have witnessed an increase in research on friendship, especially in feminist and LGBTI studies. According to Bell and Coleman (1999), this increase is due to changes in the role of friendship in the transformations of intimacy in the social and political context of globalization; particularly feminist and LGBTI collectives' reflection on forms of collective life as an alternative to the traditional model of the family as the only refuge of recognition and support. We invite studies which elucidate the role of friendship in dynamic social networks and relationships where it acquires either a specifically political or affective dimension, where, through friendship, the boundaries and hierarchies of gender, origin, kinship, sexuality and the production of knowledge are dislocated and challenged. Particularly welcome are contributions that focus on the experiences and strategies of (re)subjectivation and resistance of social collectives (women, LGBTI+ persons, migrants…) who are redefining classical notions of family, affection and reciprocity, and putting into practice alternative ways of conceptualising friendship and kinship, as they contest the deficit of social and political recognition.