Sophie Lewis on Shulamith Firestone

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Rabbles

Alexander Stoffel and Felix del Campo

8 episodes

6 days ago

Rabbles is series of talks with radical thinkers and agitators who are pushing the boundaries of revolutionary queer praxis. The conversations are for anyone who wants to learn more about histories of queer social movements, and their contributions to contemporary socialist and communist politics. It aims to bridge the ever-widening gap between queer scholarly knowledge production within the academy and activist sites. Watch the episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjb7ZA9lxji0R5stAcLaqEA

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Sophie Lewis on Shulamith Firestone

Rabbles

1 hour 34 minutes 33 seconds

4 years ago

Sophie Lewis on Shulamith Firestone

In this episode, we talk to Sophie Lewis about Shulamith Firestone. How can her work inspire our present thinking around family abolition, the relationship between feminism and queer politics, femme- and somatophobia, and reproductive technology?

You can find Sophie on Twitter @reproutopia (https://bit.ly/3tleYUh), read more of her work at https://lasophielle.org/essay-archive, and support her on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/reproutopia.

🦋 NAVIGATION 🦋

1:40 — An introduction to Shulamith Firestone
17:10 — How to read radical feminist texts today
30:30 — Family abolition in the context of the sixties
41:28 — Family abolition in our contemporary context
50:48 — Tensions between the feminist and queer movement?
1:07:19 — Abolishing nature/culture
1:19:24 — Octopus-gate interlude
1:21:57 — The horizon of family abolition

🦋 FURTHER RESOURCES 🦋

"I think that will not be a problem": On Shulamith Firestone (Sophie Lewis): https://bit.ly/3tktZpc
Wages for Womb-Work, Polymaternalism, Critical Firestonianism (Sophie Lewis): https://bit.ly/3tqbyPT
Momrades Against Motherhood (Sophie Lewis): https://bit.ly/2YILDoz
With-Women: Grieving in Capitalist Time (Sophie Lewis: https://bit.ly/3jsN6sV
To Abolish the Family (Michelle O'Brien): https://bit.ly/36JUGtI
Kinderkommunismus (Kate Griffiths and JJ Gleeson): https://bit.ly/3cJS5nt
The Idea of Children (Madeline Lane-McKinley): https://bit.ly/39O9zgC

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