Episode 151: M.E. O'Brien
Gender Reveal
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The Limits of Choosing Family
I was curious if you could talk a little bit about your critique of the concepts of chosen family and like community as they exist under capitalism. Can you talk about why it is that chosen families and birth families can both end up sort of failing us in these ways? Yeah absolutely. So I have a chapter sort of broadly about things that can be done politically now in the present supporting people's efforts at forming non-traditional heterodox, unusual, non-normative, chosen, more supportive family. There's a long history of queer and trans people doing this there's a history particularly in the aid struggle and the kinds of care relations that people formed even beyond their intimate relationships.
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