By Johanna Isaacson In classic feminist films, the kitchen is a place of repetition whose Sisyphean tasks incrementally arouse dread… Read more Kitchens After Midnight: Gremlins
Category: The Family
Imagined, Beloved Communities: a review of M.E. O’Brien’s “Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care”
By Johanna Isaacson What do we want for our futures— communities built on freely chosen love and care or a… Read more Imagined, Beloved Communities: a review of M.E. O’Brien’s “Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care”
Bringing Abolition Home: Why Family Abolition Needs to be at the Heart of the Movement to Abolish Family Policing
By Katie Gibson “A romantic fervor drives…children to crime; they project themselves into the most magnificent, daring, and ultimately dangerous… Read more Bringing Abolition Home: Why Family Abolition Needs to be at the Heart of the Movement to Abolish Family Policing
“With your body we can supply an everlasting demand for submission”: Reproductive politics and Body Horror in Antibirth
By Johanna Isaacson With the visceral connection it makes between forced pregnancy and military-sanctioned torture, the 2016 psychedelic body horror… Read more “With your body we can supply an everlasting demand for submission”: Reproductive politics and Body Horror in Antibirth
Defamiliarizing Family: Abolish the Family Review
By Johanna Isaacson A decade ago, I sat in a large seminar classroom in which feminist luminary Kathi Weeks presented… Read more Defamiliarizing Family: Abolish the Family Review
Crossing the line: Parasite and the horror of bourgeois domesticity
By Alva Gotby Two families, alike yet from different worlds, are the focus of Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite (2019). The… Read more Crossing the line: Parasite and the horror of bourgeois domesticity
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