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Powell's Presents: Madeline Lane-McKinley in Conversation With Abby Anderson
Event by: Powell's Books, Inc.
Location: Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard 3723, Portland
Talks & discussions, For children
About event
We live in a world that is profoundly against children — evident in the genocide in Palestine, the fascist targeting of trans children, and the blatant disregard for the lives of migrant children crossing borders and oceans. It is a world in which climate catastrophe has become the new normal, in which children’s futures are by no means assured.
What we need, feminist writer and scholar Madeline Lane-McKinley argues, is a politics of solidarity with children, one that sees children as comrades in our struggle for a better future. Blending personal and political reflection with cultural analysis, Lane-McKinley examines the history of childhood as a system of private property in capitalism, showing how the idea of the child has been weaponized in the service of white supremacy and empire. She disentangles motherhood from the act of caregiving, tracing the possibilities of revolutionary mothering. And she critiques the parents’ rights movement and imagines what education might look like outside schools, considering how we might center children as we challenge the strictures of the nuclear family.
Elegantly written and provocative, Solidarity with Children (Haymarket) is a book for anyone who cares about children and the struggle for a better world.
Lane-McKinley will be joined in conversation by Budding Roses organizer Abby Anderson.
Buy the book: https://www.powells.com/events/madeline-lane-mckinley-9798888904657
What we need, feminist writer and scholar Madeline Lane-McKinley argues, is a politics of solidarity with children, one that sees children as comrades in our struggle for a better future. Blending personal and political reflection with cultural analysis, Lane-McKinley examines the history of childhood as a system of private property in capitalism, showing how the idea of the child has been weaponized in the service of white supremacy and empire. She disentangles motherhood from the act of caregiving, tracing the possibilities of revolutionary mothering. And she critiques the parents’ rights movement and imagines what education might look like outside schools, considering how we might center children as we challenge the strictures of the nuclear family.
Elegantly written and provocative, Solidarity with Children (Haymarket) is a book for anyone who cares about children and the struggle for a better world.
Lane-McKinley will be joined in conversation by Budding Roses organizer Abby Anderson.
Buy the book: https://www.powells.com/events/madeline-lane-mckinley-9798888904657