Red Flags: I Know the Nuclear Family Is Flawed But What Else Can I Do?
Sophie K Rosa
Sophie K Rosa advises a single parent still hankering for their child’s father and wondering what it is they really need.
Tag: family
Opinion: I Just Had a Daughter. But Being a Centrist Dad Never Made Less Sense
Aaron Bastani
Starting a family has always been associated with becoming more conservative. Not anymore, writes Aaron Bastani.
Red Flags: My Friend Thinks I Want to Steal Her Baby
Sophie K Rosa
In the first instalment of Novara Media's new advice column, Red Flags, Sophie K Rosa advises the frustrated friend of a new mother.
Feature: I Went to a Queer Platonic Co-Parenting Meet-Up
Sophie K Rosa
More and more queer people are partnering up platonically in order to raise kids. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Feature: Did Cuba Just Abolish the Family?
Sophie K Rosa
Cuba's radical new code delinks family from biology and attaches it to care.
Opinion: It’s Time to Abolish the Family
Judy Thorne
Let's end the monopoly that romantic and biological relationships have over care, writes anthropologist Judy Thorne.
Opinion: Could ‘Cancelled Christmas’ Help Us Imagine a World Beyond the Nuclear Family?
Sophie K Rosa
As we process the collective pain of ‘cancelled Christmas’, some people are imagining forms of connection and care beyond the nuclear family, writes Sophie K Rosa, ones that might help sustain us in crises to come.
Opinion: ‘Family Values’ Without Class is a Dead End for Labour
Aaron Bastani
The family is often seen as the political territory of the right. But with child poverty skyrocketing and families forced into increasingly abysmal living conditions, it’s right that Starmer wishes to reclaim it. To do so, argues Aaron Bastani, he must move beyond platitudes to a message that puts class politics at its heart.
Opinion: Conservative ‘Common Sense’ Lets Men Like Dominic Cummings Do What They Want
Ameya Tripathi
We must stay alert to the Conservatives' concept of ‘common sense’ - a libertarian worldview imbued with whiteness and patriarchal values, that promotes individual freedom for some, at the expense of others, writes Ameya Tripathi.
Let’s Try Communism: 10 Responses to ‘Queerness and Precarity’
Jules Joanne Gleeson
Jules Joanne Gleeson responds to Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk's recent Long Read with some thoughts on the family, queer communism and identity within capitalism.