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Philly writer. FEMMEPHILIA (out now) @haymarketbooks. Previously: FULL SURROGACY NOW (2019); ABOLISH THE FAMILY (2022); ENEMY FEMINISMS (2025).

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UPDATED: At 5:30 pm in Philly, before the formal reading & conversation, there will be a rope demo! Come through if you want to see a performance by an experienced rigger.

After that, I'll read from my book, "The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals," Sophie and I will talk about it, and then open up to Q&A and book signing! You can get books on-site from @thewoodenshoebooks! Come through, tell your Philly friends, invite your crush!

Event deetz:
Sunday, 10/25
1023 Callowhill, Philly
5:30 pm Demo & Meet & Greet
6 pm Conversation

Masks required, ADA accessible venue. Wheelchair accessible entrance with ramp from far end of parking lot to door. Limited parking on-site, street parking available. Wheelchair accessible bathroom; we'll be on the first floor & elevators are in the building if for whatever reason they might be needed!Reach out to me at thekkumkattilmk@gmail.com for any access requests.

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What are you doing Sunday? Come hear my friend (fellow API writer and nurse) from Alaska come talk about their new book, The Sexuality of Healthcare, with Sophie Lewis.

Please wear a mask. Come curious.

1023 Callowhill. 5:30 meet and greet, 6pm conversation.

Space is ADA accessible with bathroom and ramp to entrance.

Wooden Shoe will have books for sale.

Flyer description: picture of authors MK Thekkumkattil and Sophie Lewis. Picture of book cover against a yellow background. Text: Reading and concersation MK Thekkumkattil with Sophie Lewis. Sunday 10/25. Philly 1023 Callowhill. 5:30 Demo and Meet and Greet. 6pm Conversation. ADA accessible. Masks required. Transportation: Limited parking on-site, street parking available. Close to SEPTA and Indego stops.

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Non fiction is one of my favourite genres! While I am still working through my equally ambitious fiction TBR, I thought I’d share the 10 (12, lol) NON FICTION books I hope to read before the end of the year. I think it’s doable - that’s about 4 non fiction books per month. I’m halfway through three of these and will be starting a fourth one soon! Excited!

Books mentioned:

The Right to Sex by @amia.srinivasan
Enemy Feminisms by @reproutopia
Down Girl: the Logic of Misogyny by @kate_manne
Caliban & the Witch by Silvia Federici
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Assata by Assata Shakur
How to Say Babylon by @safiyasinclair
Heavy by @kieselaymon
Everyone who is gone is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
The Shock Doctrine @naomiaklein
Stamped from the beginning by @ibramxk

@knopfca #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionnovember #feministliterature #feminislit

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Come fangirl @reproutopia with me on Saturday, November 14, at 3 p.m.

RSVP at https://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/technomisoginary

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NEW NOVEMBER COURSE! Nowhere—as the women’s liberation movement used to relentlessly point out—is more dangerous for a child than the family.

In the ’70s, a wave of feminist, child-liberationist consciousness-raising blew the lid off the everyday phenomena of incest sexual abuse and domestic violence.

This movement hoped to transform the power dynamics of the American family wholesale, such that family members could no longer perpetrate abuse with such impunity.

But despite their efforts, nothing changed fundamentally about the organization of the private nuclear household, whose central function within capitalism only expanded under neoliberalism.

Instead, a carceral family-surveillance matrix sprang up. It remains the case that 5 kids in the U.S. die every single day from abuse and neglect. And “child removal” remains in many cases a cure worse than the disease, with foster homes often perversely recreating the very abuses that were initially the cause for separating a child from kin.

With these miserable outcomes in mind, scholars and activists have begun to ask: What would it mean to abolish the American child welfare system? In what ways has “child welfare” come to mean what sociologist Dorothy Roberts calls “family policing”—i.e., the state’s disciplining of poor communities’ everyday lives via Child Protective Service investigations, mandated reporting, and termination of parental rights?

How has “child welfare” served to punish poverty and Blackness by defining both as morally culpable and unworthy of parenthood status? What does it look like to abolish family policing, and how does it intersect with complimentary calls to abolish the family itself?

“Family Policing: Welfare, Surveillance, and Abolition” with @reproutopia starts online Sunday, November 22nd.

For more information and to enroll, visit the “Current Courses” link in bio.

📷: Dick Sheldon - A Boy Sleeping at His Home on East 62nd Street

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Sooooo stoked for this reading and conversation with THEE Sophie Lewis in Philly! Event is at FACTS, 1023 Callowhill. Wooden Shoe will be selling my & Sophie’s books! Tell your Philly friends!!

Masks required, ADA accessible, reach out to me at thekkumkattilmk@gmail.com for any access requests.

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#bookrecs #feministbooks

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Nouveaux livres + nouveaux zines de @vivre_sans_police à la bibli! 🦋 Merci pour le service presse @precarite_inclusive 🩵

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Very excited about @totnespride this weekend, and proud to be part of a town that is so open and supportive of love, care and creativity in all its various forms.

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I can’t wait to come to Baltimore with my genius bestie Sophie Lewis @reproutopia to discuss On Un/Certainty. 10/21 legendary @redemmas… rsvp link in bio

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Read @reproutopia , give your money to @decrimnybackup , solidarity in pleasure! @kinkoutevents

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