we have to figure out how to act like we are all each other’s makers—because, inevitably, we are

The thing my book will do that i think is genuinely different from the histories of Disney is argue that Walt's obsession with IP and technology is of a piece with his politics and his aesthetics: that IP management is a form of propertarian cultural domination in line with whiteness and patriarchy

stop throwing yourself wantonly into the moshpit everybody, my wife says it's the end of DBS (Dumb Bitch Summer) and the beginning of TOBLSPA (Taking Our Bodies' Limitations Seriously and Proactively Autumn)

If you support Shymaa today with $10 or more, send a receipt and an address to Movement Stickers at proton dot me and CAW will send a special double pack of stickers! Please support her as she is alone in the hospital, she is scared the doctors think she might lose her leg gofund.me/bec64b33

This thread was about Shymaa. It turned out she was shot by a quadcopter, and she may lose her leg. Im so so scared for her and her baby, I really need yall to support her if you can

While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.

working my way through ENEMY FEMINISMS by @reproutopia.bsky.social and can’t help but laugh that one of the shittiest “feminist” orgs ever was called Women Against Pornography (WAP)

Eat sh*t RFK

This is utterly ridiculous. Karen wrote multiple threads over the last few days condemning gun violence and political violence. She wrote one post about Kirk directly and that was only quoting him. She’s an opinion writer. She did her job.

It's too easy to hear the story of Cindy Bi suing her surrogate for murder & infer that what we need to get rid of is surrogacy (rather than the way parenthood is organized under capitalism). So many ppl sent me the Wired article that I ended up writing my response: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Babies as property: "proprietary parenthood is the script. The problem does not start with the individuals buying and eugenically curating pregnancies from working-class women, but with the “soft” eugenics, competitiveness & individualism that permeates our culture’s entire approach to baby-making"

[bombing half the planet] haw haw whatchagonnado about it, power flows from a gun [watching one nazi get shot] please… not Violence

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

A great article about reproduction and the raising of children under capitalism, teasing the theory behind Lewis’ famous Full Surrogacy Now (which I am shamefully yet to read) through the lens of the horrid story of Cindy Bi suing her surrogate for ‘murder’ after the latter had a miscarriage

Mothering under capitalism has been the most radicalising experience of my life & all I want for myself and my kids and all of us is “universal nonhierarchical holding and carrying of one another“

"The problem does not start with the individuals buying and eugenically curating pregnancies from working-class women, but with the “soft” eugenics, competitiveness, and individualism that permeates our culture’s entire approach to baby-making to begin with." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

‘Rather than defend and protect the norms of the genetic family against the predations of the market, we can and should advance a critique of private property radical enough to posit neonatal humans as people who are a collective responsibility’

Sophie Lewis's Full Surrogacy Now broke my brain (in a great way) and caused me to change how I think about families and surrogacy. Am super grateful that they wrote a response to the (horrifying) Wired piece about Cindy Bi and her campaign of terror against her surrogate.

Challenging the false idea that surrogacy is unusual/unnatural demands that we recognize the highly exploitative, systematically invisibilized surrogacies all around us that prop up every putatively autonomous household, not just those of the Cindy Bis of the world. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It's too easy to hear the story of Cindy Bi suing her surrogate for murder & infer that what we need to get rid of is surrogacy (rather than the way parenthood is organized under capitalism). So many ppl sent me the Wired article that I ended up writing my response: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Much like Musk’s breeding compound, surrogacy’s headline-grabbing excesses are ultimately symptoms of a much vaster economic institution that imagines procreation as a form of self-replication offering immortality, & treats all children as quasi-property: the family www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Join us next week for a free online two-day conference on global 'anti-gender' politics, hosted by the University of Brighton, featuring keynote @reproutopia.bsky.social! ❤️‍🔥 Starts at 09:30 GMT on Thursday 11 September. Further info ⤵️

Had not made the mental connection of this incident (I'm still reading!) to Lucy Letby's case, one of the most striking moral panics I've ever seen, until Sophie pointed it out. But they are deeply connected by the hatred of women and children that capitalist society enforces so hard.

In case of interest, I write about the political economy of gestational labor (i.e., the class relation undergirding evil cases like venture capitalist Cindy Bi's prosecution of her hired surrogate over stillbirth) in Full Surrogacy Now [https://www.versobooks.com/products/711-full-surrogacy-now] >

If you missed it, our new episode of @tendersubject.bsky.social is on Fruit Chan’s film Dumplings w/guests @scumbelievable.bsky.social & @reproutopia.bsky.social! We talk about the politics of food, abortion, class in Hong Kong & Birkin bags! No one says anything controversial! shorturl.at/JwC0b

The far Right has thoroughly inverted the meaning of antisemitism. It ostensibly no longer describes fascist antipathy toward "rootless cosmopolitanism" & "globalists" — as Hitler ranted on about in Mein Kampf. Now, it is supposed to refer to criticism of Hitler's ultra- and ethno-nationalism.

ICYMI: Looking for some Labor Day weekend reading? about Check out Alva Gotby’s interview with Sophie Lewis on the confluence of feminisms and reactionary politics, or enemy feminisms now at spectrejournal.com.

... and thanks to Husam Mahjoub, Jordan Daniels, @alvagotby.bsky.social , @reproutopia.bsky.social , and @suzetski.bsky.social for getting us through to the end of August. Links in the thread 👇🏽 🧵

New York Times journalists as well - go on, quit your jobs

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

"Deadly risks could stifle information"?! "Why not just say: Hamas-controlled health ministry expresses worry that everyone being dead might interfere with the free flow of facts" or something like that while you're at it. The New York Times should - and, I think will, ultimately - drown in shame

10 minute read or so, timely and unambiguous

🗣️ “we have to let go of the comforts of both self-castigation and defensiveness” @reproutopia.bsky.social in “Enemy Feminisms”

😍 Sophie Lewis in conversation with Alva Gotby😍 spectrejournal.com/feminism-is-...

Hey y'all! This week we have @alvagotby.bsky.social interviewing @reproutopia.bsky.social about Sophie's Enemy Feminisms ( @haymarketbooks.org ), the potential for liberatory feminism, and the necessity of reckoning with reactionary feminisms. spectrejournal.com/feminism-is-...

Someone should really write a book called "Enemy Socialisms" ala @reproutopia.bsky.social's "Enemy Feminisms"

I've found @reproutopia.bsky.social's writing really good for looking at how some forms of feminism have been fascist (including TERFs/GCs). To me it feels hard to address the problem until we face that it's both feminist and fascist. thebaffler.com/latest/femin...

Feminists Against Women by Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) - From Feminisms, a book that Dog Section Press (www.dogsection.org) will publish. Help them cover the printing costs, get the book & nice rewards: 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/feminisms - Illustrations by Cat Sims (@catsimsart.bsky.social)

ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified

for real though this book (abolish the family by sophie lewis) is doing me a massive service in giving language to new terms for framing and understanding my own mothering instinct and applying it to the world around me

EVERGREEN GODDAMN QUESTION

More and more find myself thinking about @reproutopia.bsky.social's conceptualization of enemy feminisms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcV3...

Re-Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social youtu.be/CcV35lcBWGEh...

'Care sluts are from the future! What they do makes sense. Just not here and now'.

This morning I discovered (via the work of Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social) Eva von Redecker's concept of "care sluts". Really made my day. anti-sightseeing.org/hommage-to-c...

"Sophie Lewis argues that feminism is capacious and fascist forms of feminism have long existed. And she calls attention to many international anti-fascist feminist formations that can inspire activists today." youtu.be/CcV35lcBWGE?...

Brianna Wu begging for eugenicists to eliminate transness from the human gene pool and blubbering that she's "accepted what she is" but wants a world where no child is ever trans again is among the more squalid and pitiful things I've seen her do

New on @tendersubject.bsky.social we are slurping and crunching our way through Fruit Chan’s film Dumplings with guests @scumbelievable.bsky.social and @reproutopia.bsky.social! We talk about the politics of food, abortion, class in Hong Kong & Birkin bags!  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Earlier this year I heard @reproutopia.bsky.social describe transphobia as a form of gender nationalism, a formulation that gets more illuminating by the day