Verso Books | Family abolition | Sophie Lewis @VersoBooks | Uploaded 5 years ago | Updated 15 hours ago
Capitalism and capitalist states rely heavily on the family as a unit of social discipline, social order, austerity.
Family abolition is about the proliferation of relationships of care, not a destruction of the relationships we already have; a process of growing the solidarity we deserve.
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis is out now versobooks.com/products/711-full-surrogacy-now?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_video
Sophie Lewis is a writer, translator and feminist geographer living in Philadelphia. Her translations include Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak (MIT, 2016, with Jacob Blumenfeld), A Brief History of Feminism by Antje Schrupp (MIT, 2017) and Unterscheiden und Herrschen by Paula-Irene Villa and Sabine Hark (Verso, 2019). Lewis is a member of the Out of the Woods collective, an editor at Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry, and a queer feminist committed to cyborg ecology and anti-fascism. She has published her work, on subjects ranging from Donna Haraway to dating, in Boston Review, Viewpoint magazine, Signs, Dialogues in Human Geography, Antipode, Feminism & Psychology, Science as Culture, Frontiers, Gender Place & Culture, Jacobin, The New Inquiry, Mute, and Salvage Quarterly.
Capitalism and capitalist states rely heavily on the family as a unit of social discipline, social order, austerity.
Family abolition is about the proliferation of relationships of care, not a destruction of the relationships we already have; a process of growing the solidarity we deserve.
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis is out now versobooks.com/products/711-full-surrogacy-now?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_video
Sophie Lewis is a writer, translator and feminist geographer living in Philadelphia. Her translations include Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak (MIT, 2016, with Jacob Blumenfeld), A Brief History of Feminism by Antje Schrupp (MIT, 2017) and Unterscheiden und Herrschen by Paula-Irene Villa and Sabine Hark (Verso, 2019). Lewis is a member of the Out of the Woods collective, an editor at Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry, and a queer feminist committed to cyborg ecology and anti-fascism. She has published her work, on subjects ranging from Donna Haraway to dating, in Boston Review, Viewpoint magazine, Signs, Dialogues in Human Geography, Antipode, Feminism & Psychology, Science as Culture, Frontiers, Gender Place & Culture, Jacobin, The New Inquiry, Mute, and Salvage Quarterly.
