Rhiannon Lindgren, Philosophy, "Revolutionary Love and Reproductive Struggles: Feminist Politics of Care for the Queer Future."

Summary: As noted in her abstract, Lindgren’s project examines the failures of Care Ethics to articulate a notion of care as political praxis in marginalized communities. To address this gap, she proposes a concept of “reproductive struggle” to identify “the development of collective, conscious action which intervenes in the conditions under which caring labor is demanded and performed.” By examining “various contemporary abolitionist projects seeking to realize the potential of a sociality centered on community and care as opposed to discipline and violence,” her dissertation argues for “the necessity of transnational politics of care as fundamental to any revolutionary political project.”