Sophie Lewis

“La familia es un escudo que los seres humanos han tomado, con razón, para sobrevivir a la guerra. Si nunca nos podemos permitir abandonar ese escudo, tal vez hayamos olvidado que la guerra no tiene por qué durar eternamente.”
― Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

“...I submit that kinship, at least right now, is always a reference to something that is imagined to be inerasable; to "nature." Perhaps one day it will be fit for purpose again, who knows? Perhaps because the concept of nature has itself been turned inside out. But right now, even when it is conceptualized as practice-based, kinship functions as a linguistic appeal to something non-contingent that can ground a relation. And I am asking: can we suspend that fantasy of something non-contingent? Can we let go of it?”
― Sophie Lewis, Die Familie abschaffen: Wie wir Care-Arbeit und Verwandtschaft neu erfinden