This article theorizes the concept of kinship in the context of a time-bound university-community collaboration between a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) team and an undergraduate course at an elite liberal arts college in the Midwest. The two co-authors, the two adults involved in this partnership, build on the YPAR team's definition of and emphasis on kinship in their research and action to center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) youth in creating liberatory educational spaces. We examine how this concept can guide the development of university-community collaborations that move away from a history of extraction and exploitation. Kinship can instead point us toward the possibility of being together "otherwise" by creating multiple opportunities to collectively refashion the role that young people can play in educational and activist spaces. This case study also provides a concrete example of how to move beyond platitudes about putting relationships first in such collaborations.