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Step 2: Register for “Theories and Practices of Child Liberation” here.

"This is a genocide of children," said the sociologist Heba Gowayed about Gaza in 2024. And just as children in the West have long resisted settler-colonial, patriarchal, familial, cissexist, racial, and adult-supremacist domination - sometimes via explicitly Youth Liberationist platforms, sometimes not - Palestinian children today are not exclusively victims of annihilation.

As Mira Mattar contends, they are agents of anti-Zionist resistance, too; "the authors, carriers, and distributors of collective memory." In this workshop, we will explore scholarship on Palestinian children's theorization of their oppression as Palestinians and as children, drawing connections between their struggles and the buried histories of child liberationism in the West.

Sophie Lewis is an ex-academic independent scholar living in Philadelphia, working on a book called The Liberation of Children. She is also the author of Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms.

She teaches short courses on critical theory online for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and her articles appear everywhere from the London Review of Books to Harper's magazine. You can find all essays and speaking future events listed at http://lasophielle.org and support Sophie's free-lance writing, if you wish, at http://patreon.com/reproutopia.