This chapter examines future possibilities for queering parenthood. Mayne’s argument, predicated on the notion that society processes individuals through the family, is that parenthood forms the nucleus of this process; that ideological and institutional forces conscript our participation in the family; and that the American speculative novel Everything for Everyone (2022), by queer theorists and activists Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien, models valid options of liberation. Mayne contends that Everything for Everyone plots a future where individuals are freed from conscripted relations because care is socially collectivized instead of privatized by families. In his readings of this novel and the family, he provides a systems analysis of ways social relations work through parenthood and ways these relations could change. His work contributes to parenthood studies through his attention to literature that exposes the forces in our culture that make parenthood a necessity and by imagining a world that no longer requires it.

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Formations Against Family Conscription in Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • Michael Mayne

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This chapter examines future possibilities for queering parenthood. Mayne’s argument, predicated on the notion that society processes individuals through the family, is that parenthood forms the nucleus of this process; that ideological and institutional forces conscript our participation in the family; and that the American speculative novel Everything for Everyone (2022), by queer theorists and activists Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien, models valid options of liberation. Mayne contends that Everything for Everyone plots a future where individuals are freed from conscripted relations because care is socially collectivized instead of privatized by families. In his readings of this novel and the family, he provides a systems analysis of ways social relations work through parenthood and ways these relations could change. His work contributes to parenthood studies through his attention to literature that exposes the forces in our culture that make parenthood a necessity and by imagining a world that no longer requires it.