Sophie Lewis

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 29, 2023 at 00:04 UTC

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 13:03 UTC

h/t Amy LeBlanc at the Chosen Family Law Center for alerting me to the Kristof op ed. There is, indeed, so much more to be fought for than a settler-colonial class society in which care remains overwhelmingly privatized and every child has - only!! - two parents.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 13:02 UTC

As Nathan Robinson at Current Affairs says, "Instead of looking at single mothers in poverty and trying to eliminate single motherhood, why don’t we just eliminate poverty?" www.currentaffairs.org/2023/09/why-...

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 13:01 UTC

Duh, 2 parents are better for a child than 1, assuming they aren't (as is so often the case statistically speaking) abusive to her or to one another. You know what's better than 2 parents, though? 20 mother-ers, in a community freed from debt precarity & competition. The 2-parent family is a crisis!

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 13:00 UTC

But the problem with familism is not just the stigma. It's the fundamental prescription that life should be made privately, that social goods *should* be bestowed on people by their kin rather than by the commons, collectively. That class society and its inheritance system can never be undone.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 12:59 UTC

Many have pointed out the inevitable stigmatization of single-parent and, say, poly/non-monogamous households that follows from the kind of normative valorization of dyadic, mono, proprietary nuclear parenthood that Kristof, Kearney and others (Ross Douthat etc.) traffic in.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 12:58 UTC

This is, actually, outrageous. We should be appalled and enraged by anyone who tries to place the slightest iota of the blame for stress, poverty, and precarity onto individuals' and communities' distaste for, or supposed failure to conform to, the marital household model.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 12:57 UTC

Instead of taking seriously the idea that the private nuclear household is a core component of the machinery of racial, colonial, sexual and class exploitation in the US, pro-marriage liberals like Kristof choose to naturalize familism, mocking any left analysis that questions it.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 12:53 UTC

Apparently, disregard for marriage is obviously shameful. Nicholas Kristof can't believe that anyone would opt not to Make America Married Again, and instead take a different approach. He links mockingly to this call to "Dismantle Family Privilege and White Supremacy in Family Science" from the NCFR

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 12:51 UTC

According to Melissa Kearney, the economist whose book "The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married & Started Falling Behind" Kristof is extolling, “The data present some uncomfortable realities.” Liberals don’t want to talk about low-income Black people’s DISREGARD FOR MARRIAGE!

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 12:48 UTC

The most recent iteration of this message is Nick Kristof’s unedifying NYT op ed The One Privilege Liberals Ignore, in which he argues that working-class “family breakdown” is “part of the apparatus of inequality.” That's right guys: we're poor because we aren't married (or bc we don't stay married)

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 12:45 UTC

A typical conversation with someone like the anti-abortion legal scholar Erika Bachiochi (who was pivotal in helping kill Roe v Wade) on the Ezra Klein Show tends to simply take it as read that marriage is a desirable value, as do most NYTimes opinion columns for that matter.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 12:44 UTC

Make America Marry Again! Lately everywhere I look there's pro-marriage propaganda styling itself as somehow brave. In the UK, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (2022) advocates for marriage and against “easy divorce”—as does Feminism Against Progress (2023) by Mary Harrington.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 27, 2023 at 16:46 UTC

Here's a picture of me and two comrades beta-testing Defenders of the Wild a few months ago. So excited that the game is now up. I really recommend backing it on Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/out...

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 27, 2023 at 16:41 UTC

I just backed this beautiful board game, Defenders of the Wild, by the maker of the insurrection game "bloc by bloc" - and so should you! I got to beta test it and it's amazing

www.kickstarter.com/projects/out...

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 27, 2023 at 15:10 UTC

"If you aren't aware, reality TV is a scab genre, pointed explicitly at union writers. Reality TV came to the prominent attention of execs during the 1988 WGA strike, during which all production ceased…except for the show Cops. You can't make this shit up"
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 15:26 UTC

Mandu is likewise such a good name for your big silky boy

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 15:23 UTC

Classic edition

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 15:21 UTC

New addition

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