Name: Family Abolition Today: Care Beyond Capitalism
Start: 2023-09-02T19:30:00-0500
End: 2023-09-02T21:00:00-0500

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Family Abolition Today: Care Beyond Capitalism

Join M. E. O’Brien, Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi for a panel conversation on family abolition, care, and the family in racial capitalism. Occasioned by the publication of M. E. O’Brien’s Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, this panel brings together three leading family abolitionist scholars and activists.

Speakers

Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is an academic and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, politics, and identity. She is co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, a sci-fi novel published in 2022 with Common Notions Press. Abdelhadi... 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 →

M. E. O'Brien

M. E. O'Brien writes on gender and communist theory. She has published two books: the co-authored speculative novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022) and Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto... Read More →

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