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**CAPITALISM/SOCIALISM/DEMOCRACY - What Is Family Abolition? A Discussion with Sophie Lewis**

*Andrew Mitchell Center for The Study of Democracy, December 2022*


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**What Goes Around Comes Around: Fleshy Toxicities Return Home as Kin**

*Bemis Center, Omaha, March 2022*

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**Mothering Against the World**

*RIBOCA, June 4, 2020*

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**Utopia Beyond Kinship, Too (& Utopia symposium)**

*November 11, 2021*

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**Disloyal Children of Shulamith Firestone: Updating Gestational Utopianism for the 21st Century**

*CAPPE philosophy conference, University of Brighton, September 17, 2021*

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**Utopia versus the Family**

*SOS_202 @ Design Museum, August 3, 2020*

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**The Kitchenless Gestational Workplace**

*Canadian Centre for Architecture, July 22, 2021*

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**“I think that will not be a problem”: on Shulamith Firestone**

*mumok Vienna, November 13, 2020*

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**Reproduction, Family, and the Body, with Sophie Lewis and Aleksandra Sidoruk, hosted by Carolina Maciel de França**

*School of Resistance, NTGent, December 10, 2020*

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**A conversation at Kelly Writer’s House on Full Surrogacy Now**

*January 23, 2020*

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**Feminism Against the Family**

*Cambridge University, Black and Minority Ethnic Students Campaign, February 8, 2021*

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**On Shulamith Firestone**

*Rabbles, February 5, 2021*

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**n+1 and Lux present: Liza Featherstone, Sophie Lewis, and Ariella Thornhill**

*May 3, 2021*

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**Mal Issue 5 Launch: Anti-Erotics: Sophie Lewis reads “Collective Turn-Off”**

*Mal Journal, August 28, 2020*

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**Alyssa Battistoni @ Beyond Survival, Eco-Feminist Imaginings in Precarious Times**

*lecture then dialogue with Sophie Lewis, Penn APC/GSWS, February 26, 2021*

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**APC/GSWS Presents: Kim TallBear @ Beyond Survival, Eco-Feminist Imaginings in Precarious Times**

*lecture then dialogue with Sophie Lewis and Marge Bruchac, February 25, 2021*

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**The Cyborg Diaries: Family Abolition, Reproductive Technology and the Practice of Insurgent Care, ALT_CPH_20 @ FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design**

*with Ida Bencke and Nazila Kivi, August 21, 2020*

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**Feminism Against Family @ FUC Strike University @ University of California**

*May 28, 2020*

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**Abolish the Family! @ Red May, with Kathi Weeks, Sophie Lewis, ME O’Brien and Sarah Jaffe, chaired by Will McKeithen**

*May 29, 2020*

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**Hope Against Hope with Out of the Woods @ Red May, with Kai Bosworth, Dave Bell and Sophie Lewis, in conversation with Alyssa Battistoni**

*May 21, 2020*

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**Abolish the Family With Sophie Lewis, @ The Dig**

*April 12, 2021*

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**AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 106: SOPHIE LEWIS or FAMILIES, QUARANTINES, AND WITCHES**

*April 14, 2020*

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**Sophie Lewis, Katie Stone and Caroline Edwards: roundtable. “Aliens, Vampires, Surrogates: Revolutionising the Gestational Workplace”**

*April 28, 2021*