“…Winnicott, from his experience as a pediatrician and psychoanalyst, theorizes individuals’ capacities for “creative living” and contributions to and participation in “cultural experience” (1978:100) as deriving from psychological interactions between persons. While the concept of relationality has roots in developmental psychology and psychoanalysis, contemporary scholars in Black studies (Feldman, 2016), queer studies (Muñoz, 2009), and literary studies (Sanborn, 2022) are engaging with relationality, as are childhood studies scholars such as Gitz-Johansen (2022) in exploring very young children’s and adults’ participation in moments of shared awareness and interest, and Rimmer (2017) in discussing children’s “relational interdependencies” (568) in experiences with music.…”