Amandine Gay’s book-length personal essay, Une poupée en chocolat (2021), first and foremost treats the politics and violences of transracial adoption. Yet, alongside her critique of transracial adoption both within and beyond France, Gay also speaks of her own lack of desire to become a biological mother or to partake in traditional family-making, culminating in her seeking out voluntary sterilisation at the age of thirty-five. Her fight to get a hysterectomy—accounts of which are rarely explored by literature or personal writings, especially among cisgender women of ‘reproductive’ age—is a radical act of defiance and self-determination. For Gay, it is as much an act of self-care as it is a reclamation of her body from the sexist and racist paternalism which underpins medical discourses. In this chapter, I argue that Une poupée en chocolat is a rageful reclaiming of autonomy, autocreation and agency for the (Black) non-mother and transracial adoptee. By refusing the glorification of biological or normative kinship, Gay imputes new ways of understanding care, ethical kinship and love grounded in Afrofeminist and radical Black feminist ethics, thus negotiating non-/other-motherhood beyond the colonial and racialised logics of traditional family-making.