Living together, differently

Social Anthropologist Rachael Scicluna talks to me about her research around older lesbians’ experience of the kitchen space in London.  We talk about kinship and family done differently in a conscious way as well as historical and contemporary issues affecting choices around living configurations. Since Rachael also works in housing policy in Malta, we also reflect on current policies around co-living and non-nuclear households on this little island. We touch upon collective living out of financial or social constraints, creating safe space, home designs that don’t work for communal living, the effect of capitalism on household formats and paths to change. This conversation put many things in perspective for me, I hope it might do the same for you.