Labour’s Brexit Bind with Grace Blakeley, Maya Goodfellow, and Richard Seymour

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Brexit has so dominated UK politics that it has put the Labour Party in a profoundly difficult and perhaps untenable position of strategic ambiguity toward how to handle the never-ending matter of leaving the EU. Today, in part two of our five-part series on European politics, Dan discusses this all with Grace Blakeley, Maya Goodfellow, and Richard Seymour.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters at patreon.com and by Verso Books,
0:06.8	which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:13.2	One that you might like is Full Serragacy Now, Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis.
0:20.6	The surrogacy industry is worth over $1 billion a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible
0:27.7	conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all.
0:32.6	Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you?
0:37.1	Full surrogacy now brings a fresh and unique
0:39.9	perspective to the debate. Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as is,
0:46.9	Sophie Lewis argues we should be looking to radically transform it. Seregates should be put front and
0:53.0	center, and their rights toward the babies they
0:55.9	gestate should be expanded to acknowledge that surrogates are more than mere vessels. In doing so,
1:02.8	we break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share.
1:10.2	This might sound like a radical proposal, but expanding our
1:14.2	idea of who children belong to would be a good thing. Taking collective responsibility for children,
1:21.9	rather than only caring for the ones we share DNA with, would radically transform notions of kinship.
1:29.9	Adopting this expanded concept of surrogacy helps us see that it always, as the saying goes,
1:37.3	takes a village to raise a child.
1:40.0	Full surrogacy now.
1:42.1	Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis.
1:45.6	Out now from Verso Books.
1:56.0	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.
2:00.0	My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting
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