Mothers Are on the Front Lines of the Nordic Care Crisis
In Sweden today, maternal activism is uniting around a politics of collective care, turning private burdens into claims about public obligation and democratic rights.
7 Article(s) by: Evelina Johansson Wilén
Evelina Johansson Wilén is an associate professor of gender studies at Örebro University in Sweden. She serves on the editorial board of the Marxist theoretical journal Röda Rummet and is the author of a forthcoming book on family abolition, to be published by La Fabrique in 2026.
To Give Birth or Not to Give Birth
Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness. But a healthy society would let people choose to have children or not without turning that choice into a moral adjudication.
Dating in the Age of the Algorithm
Dating apps have transformed intimacy into a marketplace of frustration. They fuel gender conflict while ruthlessly extracting value from our most intimate desires.
What Incels Learned From Feminism
Confusing marginality with insight leaves movements vulnerable to reactionary mimicry. A renewed engagement with Karl Marx’s structural account of exploitation can give feminism a path out of standpoint theory’s dead end.
Love Can Still Liberate
New research on love and intimacy shows that love remains one of the few forces capable of remaking us.
Families Aren’t the Problem — Insecurity Is
Some argue that the nuclear family is the principal obstacle to a freer, more loving society. In reality, it’s economic insecurity that traps people and universal care is what makes relationships voluntary and free.
The Limits of Family Abolition
Family abolitionists see the family as the beating heart of capitalist social reproduction. But this view of the family misunderstands both the structure of capitalist reproduction and the complexity of how people survive within it.