“Abolish the family? You might as well abolish gravity,” Sophie Lewis writes in her new book “Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation.” She will discuss her work in a lecture titled “Abolish Which Family? Black Familiality, Patriarchal Motherhood, and the Communization of Care” 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.

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