What does „Make kin, not babies” mean? Why is it relevant and why is it dangerous? Donna Haraway’s troublesome motto brings us a vision for multispecies kinship and justice, starting to speak about population from a feminist perspective. The video takes into account the critiques it has received from feminist marxists and others. Moreover, it tries to show how the concept was expanded by other feminist philosophers and thinkers, as well as how Haraway herself enmeshed it into her own work about living and dying and about staying with the trouble in the Chthulucene.
In these times of climate and ecological collapse, what must we change about our societies, to make place for life, for all beings? Our extractivist economic arrangements are a good start. But beyond that, might it be that our relationships, too, need a little re-thinking?
00:16 Part I - The Children of Compost
02:16 Part II - Making kin not population
04:53 Part III - Making kin and taking care
08:28 Part IV - Making kin beyond babies
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This video is second in a series: a ”Dictionary of thinkers and concepts” that we think with!
Everything is equally weird - On Graham Harman's philosophy - https://youtu.be/8l1kajxU9ho
Credits:
Written by M
Writing suggestions by Aron Nor
Recorded by M & Aron Nor
Illustrations made by Mina Mimosa
Video/Audio editing by Aron Nor
Hashtags to go by:
#MakeKinNotBabies from Donna Haraway
#AgainstPopulation and #RedistributionsNotReproductions from Michelle Murphy
#LandBodyDefense from Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) and Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN)
#FreeMovementNotCapital and #PlanUtopiasNotPeople from Simon Torracinta
#BlackLivesMatter from the movement co-founded by three black community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
References:
Benjamin, Ruha (2018) Black Afterlives Matter: Cultivating Kinfulness as Reproductive Justice. In Clarke, Andele & Haraway, Donna, ed. Making kin not population. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press
Haraway, Donna (2018) Making kin in the Chthulucene:Reproducing Multispecies Justice. in Clarke, Andele & Haraway, Donna, ed. Making kin not population. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press
Haraway, Donna (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chtulucene. North Carolina: Duke University Press
Haraway, Donna. (2015) Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin, Retrieved 2020 http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol6/6.7.pdf
Hamilton, Jennifer Mae (2019): The Future of Housework: The Similarities and Differences Between Making Kin and Making Babies, Australian Feminist Studies
Lewis, Sophie. (2017) Cthulu Plays no role for me, Retrieved 2020 https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/05/08/cthulhu-plays-no-role-for-me/
Michelle, Murphy (2018) Against Population, Towards Alterlife. in Clarke, Andele & Haraway, Donna, ed. Making kin not population. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press
Tallbear, Kim (2018) Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sex and Family. in Clarke, Andele & Haraway, Donna, ed. Making kin not population. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press
Torracinta, Simon. (2017) Make kin not borders, Retrieved 2020 https://thenewinquiry.com/make-kin-not-borders/
