Name: The Politics of Childhood
Start: 2023-09-03T10:30:00-0500
End: 2023-09-03T12:00:00-0500

The Politics of Childhood

In this conversation, Sophie Lewis and Jules Gill-Peterson will discuss the urgent project—and problem—of solidarity across reproductive justice and trans justice movements. Mounting losses in access to abortion and transition in the US have traded in extremist moral panics over children’s bodies. What sort of affirmative, political constituency that includes young people might grow in response? Jules Gill-Peterson will participate in this session remotely.

Speakers

Jules Gill-Peterson

Jules Gill-Peterson is an associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (2018). Her next book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny (2024), is forthcoming from Verso. Jules is also a member of the Death Panel podcast... Read More →

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer and independent scholar living in Philadelphia. She is the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso, 2019); and their second book, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, was published by Salvage Editions in 2022. Currently... Read More →

Rosie Warren

Rosie Warren is the editor-in-chief of Salvage and the co-author of The Tragedy of the Worker (2021). She is a parent of the chapel of the National Union of Journalists at Verso Books, where she is also an editor. She lives in London.

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