Abolish the Family!
Smith, Smin and Stone, Katie and Taylor, Josephine and Butt, Amy and Dillon, Tom (2023) Abolish the Family! Vector.
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We work, not for inclusion into the family, or a queered version of it, but for a queer mode of being together which retains what Lewis calls the “abolitionist freight” of the word ‘queer’, “signifying resistance to capitalism’s reproductive institutions: marriage, private property, patriarchy, the police, school” (19). This non-contingent, non-privatised way of living is what Abolish the Family offers us, as people and as SF scholars. We hope that those in the business of creating, shaping, reading and tearing apart the imagined worlds of SF texts will take Lewis’ challenge to think more critically about the family to heart. More than this, we hope that they will work to nurture the “latent utopian kernels” of family abolitionist possibility located in our present (82).
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