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Sophie Lewis & Lola Olufemi: Abolish the Family

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Family Abolition

Family abolition is one of these things that we, the way, the way it sort of gets painted wrongly and very, in very bad faith. I was maybe not even fully aware of this when I wrote my first book but then I did a bit of research because I was prompted to. People really kind of making a case for the deprivitization of care were more courageous than people like Shulamis Fiesto who said she didn't know if revolution was imminent enough so rearranging her psychical architecture would be worthwhile. But, you know, in a sense,  this is a note to self, you don't just stay in your room writing and naming yourself the

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