Online Talk by Heide Lutosch – The Thirteenth Fairy: Caring for Children in a Liberated Society

The description of the event has been translated from the original German from the event’s website.

This online talk will take place in German.

You can find the Zoom link for the talk here.

Even people who advocate for a democratically planned economy as an alternative to capitalism become somewhat hesitant when confronted with the demand to consistently deprivatize care work, including childcare. On the one hand, this has to do with a widespread uncritical attitude toward the nuclear family, as well as a downplaying of the suffering it causes. On the other hand, historical attempts to collectivize childhood have in fact often wrongly ignored children’s basic needs, especially the fact that they must be able to form close, lasting, and reliable bonds—both physical and emotional—with their immediate caregivers. This lecture proposes a model of alternative parenting for a liberated society and argues for placing the realm of social reproduction at the center of the planning debate.

Heide Lutosch is a literary scholar and feminist activist. Her book Kinderhaben was published in spring 2023 by Matthes&Seitz Berlin. She works as a translator in Leipzig.

This is a joint event organized by Emanzipation und Frieden and teilbar e.V.