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Woman's Hour
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The Art of Kin
I think people do feel very alone. Often you're in an apartment or house with this person, and it's just you and somebody who's not feeling well and is not going to get better. One is alone with that, and I think a human being in our species faces that sense of aloneness. In the book I talk about needing to reimagine family structures because as you said earlier, people are having fewer babies and people are further apart. And we need to learn the art of kinning, to create kin,. A kind of intentional creation of people with whom we can have kind of reciprocity and those bonds.
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