鈥淎bolish the family? You might as well abolish gravity,鈥 Sophie Lewis writes in her new book 鈥淎bolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation.鈥 She will discuss her work in a lecture titled 鈥溾 on Wed., March 1 at 5 p.m. in the Guerlac Room of the A.D. White House. Her talk will be followed by a reception and is free and open to the public.
Lewis will offer a deep dive into the history of radical movements and explore family abolition, which she characterizes as a turning away from the privatization of care, toward a future in which love, care, and belonging are a communal effort.
The talk is hosted by the Society for the Humanities and is co-sponsored by the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Departments of Literatures in English and Africana Studies.
鈥淟ewis helps us see family abolition as a world-making rather than as a subtraction of infrastructure,鈥 writes cultural theorist Sianne Ngai.
Lewis is a visiting scholar at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, 鈥淔ull Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family,鈥 explores the surrogacy industry (its conditions and wages). Lewis鈥檚 essays and commentaries appear in venues such as n+1, Boston Review, The Nation, The Baffler, Mal, e-flux, the New York Times and London Review of Books, and she frequently teaches courses on feminist, trans and queer politics and philosophy for the .
In addition to the lecture, Lewis will host a casual lunch discussion for humanities graduate and undergraduate students at the A.D. White House on Thursday, March 2 from 12-1 p.m. To RSVP for the lunch, please contact Alex McNeil at ahm53@cornell.edu.
Kina Viola is Program Coordinator for the Society for the Humanities.
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