“【Description】In our final episode of Volume One, Jennifer Hamilton chats to author and scholar, Sophie Lewis, about her new book, ‘Abolish the Family!: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation' and how this provocative idea can help us move beyond the emotional and political trap that is laid for people by heteropessimism.”
“【Quot.】Liberation for gays, for women, will remain incomplete without ending the family form and the minoritization of children.”◇Balani, Sita, 2023, "The Family: In and Against", Salvage, January 28, 2023, (https://salvage.zone/the-family-in-and-against/).
“【Caption】Sophie Lewis on the Capitalist and Patriarchal Underpinnings of Traditional Family Structures”◇Lewis, Sophie, 2022, "The Case for Abolishing the Family", IAI TV, October 14, 2022, (https://iai.tv/articles/the-case-for-abolishing-the-family-auid-2267).
“【Caption】Do families do more harm than good?”◇[Podcast]"Choose Your Own Family Adventure", Novara Media, October 12, 2022, (https://novaramedia.com/2022/10/12/choose-your-own-family-adventure/).
“【Introduction】Are families, like prisons, obsolete? Even if we might baulk at the comparison, the question can be illuminating.|To choose one’s own family was long the dream of radicals. What if, instead of those we happen to be biologically related to, we could surround ourselves with care, freely chosen and freely given? After a thirty-year pause, the confinements of the pandemic have kicked off another round of questioning. Do we really want our most fundamental relationships to be those handed to us at birth?”◇Dawson, Brit, 2022, "It's Time to Abolish the Family", Huck, October 5, 2022, ( https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/its-time-to-abolish-the-family/).
“【Introduction】Sophie Lewis discusses her new book which critiques the family as a capitalist construct, and asks us to imagine a new world beyond it.”◇Kenway, Emily, 2022, "It's Now Time for Friends to Actually Be Considered Family", Refinery29, October 4, 2022, (https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/abolish-the-family-sophie-lewis-review).
“【Quot.】What would actually be better about Charlotte and Farouk in the eyes of the UK immigration system if they were ‘family’ instead of friends? According to writer Sophie Lewis in her exhilarating short new book, Abolish the Family: a manifesto for care and liberation, the answer should be nothing. For her, the family is a hellish place: “No one is likelier to rob, bully, blackmail, manipulate, or hit you, or inflict unwanted touch, than family.”◇Maglaque, Erin, 2022, "Red Love, for All", New Statesman, September 23, 2022, (https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/ideas-international-politics/2022/09/abolish-family).
“【Caption】Family is a terrible way to satisfy our desire for love and care, according to the writer and academic Sophie Lewis. The solution? Abolish it.”◇Isaacson, Johanna, 2022, "Defamiliarizing Family: Abolish the Family Review", Blind Field, August 24, 2022, (https://blindfieldjournal.com/2022/08/24/defamiliarizing-family-abolish-the-family-review/).
“【Quot.】While many fear this horizon of the unknown and unimaginable, Sophie Lewis bravely dares to approach it in all of her brilliant, groundbreaking writing, and her new book Abolish the Family again passionately and playfully brings us along for the wild ride. The book draws from the ideas and projects of wide-ranging thinkers to support Lewis’s case, but in the least stodgy style imaginable. Holding true to her utopian project, Lewis crafts “a manifesto for care and liberation”―the book’s subtitle―in wave after wave of exuberant and militant prose.”