Sophie A. Lewis
Posted on 02/28/2020 2:07:02 PM PST by Trump20162020
A little more than two weeks before I planned to meet the feminist theorist Sophie Lewis, her mother died. She had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in March, requiring Lewis to travel back and forth between her home in Philadelphia and a hospital in the UK—a journey she technically wasn’t allowed to make due to the pending status of her green card. When her mother passed away in late November, she did so thousands of miles away, while Lewis and her brother sang the Taylor Swift song “Safe and Sound” to her over Skype.
Earlier that month, at a lecture in Lower Manhattan hosted by the arts journal e-flux, Lewis, who is 31, reflected on what some might see as an obvious irony to her crisscrossing the ocean to care for her ailing mother: Verso Books had just published her first book, Full Surrogacy Now, a polemic that calls for abolishing the family.
And so we can also make them different, Lewis argues. She imagines a future where the labor of making new human beings is shared among all of us, “mother” no longer being a natural category, but instead something we can choose.
Even those of us who might call our family situations relatively “happy” should sign onto this project of demolishing their essential structure, Lewis says. Nuclear households create the infrastructure for capitalism, passing wealth and property down family trees, concentrating it in the hands of the few at the top of our class hierarchy. Maintaining the traditional family structure over time has also meant exploiting people of color and disowning queer children.
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A reckoning is coming, my friend.
Best be ready.
L
I had an Evangelical who was all lathered up over Catholics calling Mary the Mother of God tell me Marry was, "just an incubator, nothing more than a human incubator."
Odd how people who most likely have very little else in common can insist that using term "mother" is bad.
They are not even trying to hide their agenda anymore.
Just putting it all out in the open
Stunned at how successful they are getting away with it
That was then - the mother of Yeshua; this is now liberal insane redefining.
Sounds like it might work for about 3/4 of a generation. Then... poof! All gone.
YES they are.
The saddest thing in the world is to see someone old and alone.
These fools are willingly seeking this outcome for themselves and others. Utter fools.
Just proving feminism was never abput equality at all.
Cmon guys we all knew it in our core.
Yes you’re correct.
Its just the modern version of the Marxist free love idea.
Can you image that your family is the public school system. Do you think that any of your teachers really gave a dam about you or your future. Something like that is what she envisions replacing your loving family.
These people are sick.
Such a demented bunch of savages.
You are not alone.
Jim Jones had a Marxist village. How’d that go?
I think when I went to school, I had maybe two teachers in grade school I would say felt that way about me. In my high school, I would say four. Most didn’t, but it may have been because their classes were not really ones I would be focusing on for my degree and career.
Elimination of the family unit is central to Communist ideology and a long time dream
Vice started out interesting with McInnes
Turned into Young Turks sissies
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