Atonement

“Full Surrogacy Now”: How Our Longings For Love & Community In This World Point To Something Bigger

In her work ‘Full Surrogacy Now’, Sophie Lewis argues forcefully for a “feminism against families”. She considers the nuclear family, or at least the Western concept of it, to be directly opposed to establishing caring communities. Therefore, the nuclear family must be abolished so that we can move forward from our individualism and caring only for our biological family members within a specific framework, to caring for people in our communities who have no blood ties to us. She uses the term “non-nuclear kinships” to describe her vision. (more…)