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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