Book Launch & Roundtable on Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care with author M. E. O’Brien.

In Family Abolition, author M.E. O’Brien uncovers the history of struggles to create radical alternatives to the private family. From early Marxists to Black and queer insurrectionists to today’s mass protest movements, O’Brien finds revolutionaries seeking better ways of loving, caring, and living. 

Join author M. E. O’Brien in conversation with Bay Area activists and scholars Wendy Trevino and Nick Mitchell.

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M.E. O’Brien writes on gender and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. She previously co-authored the novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072. 

Nick Mitchell studies, teaches, and writes about gender, race, capital, and labor. She works at UC Santa Cruz and is the author of the forthcoming book Disciplinary and Surplus: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Dawn of Neoliberalism.

Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives in San Francisco, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend, friend & two senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Brazilian no es una raza - a bilingual edition of the chapbook she published with Commune Editions - was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. Her first book-length collection of poems Cruel Work was published by Commune Editions in September 2018. 

(taken from here: https://www.thetinymag.com/wendy-trevino)