Feature: I Went to a Queer Platonic Co-Parenting Meet-Up
by Sophie K Rosa
More and more queer people are partnering up platonically in order to raise kids. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Tag: family
Feature: Did Cuba Just Abolish the Family?
by 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
by 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?
by 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
by 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
by 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’
by 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.