Sophie Lewis
@reproutopia.bsky.social
Philadelphia feminist writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"
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Is the Cis Literary World Okay? - Public Books
Contemporary trans literature is thriving in a highly freewheeling manner… How revealing, then, that David Brooks recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality.
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Davis & Byron exalt real friends above other concepts of love. Not a cult, nor the cult of the couple-form is what is most needed for flourishing; rather, what these novels call for is friend-love—beyond even the mutual mothering-imperative—without an onus to heal www.publicbooks.org/is-the-cis-l...
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“Not a cult, nor the cult of the couple-form is what is most needed for human flourishing; rather, what these novels call for is friend-love … without any onus to heal or repair.”
New at PB: @reproutopia.bsky.social reviews “Casanova 20” and “Herculine.”
New at PB: @reproutopia.bsky.social reviews “Casanova 20” and “Herculine.”
Is the Cis Literary World Okay? - Public Books
Contemporary trans literature is thriving in a highly freewheeling manner… How revealing, then, that David Brooks recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality.
www.publicbooks.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
“Not a cult, nor the cult of the couple-form is what is most needed for human flourishing; rather, what these novels call for is friend-love … without any onus to heal or repair.”
New at PB: @reproutopia.bsky.social reviews “Casanova 20” and “Herculine.”
New at PB: @reproutopia.bsky.social reviews “Casanova 20” and “Herculine.”
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🔥🔥🔥 “Is the cissexual literary world okay?” @reproutopia.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
🔥🔥🔥 “Is the cissexual literary world okay?” @reproutopia.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
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“How revealing, then, that a New York Times staffer recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality, because of its supposed progressivism … Given this lament, we must ask: Is the cissexual literary world okay?”
Is the Cis Literary World Okay? - Public Books
Contemporary trans literature is thriving in a highly freewheeling manner… How revealing, then, that David Brooks recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality.
www.publicbooks.org
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
“How revealing, then, that a New York Times staffer recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality, because of its supposed progressivism … Given this lament, we must ask: Is the cissexual literary world okay?”
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“For all its avowed cynicism, _Herculine_ holds for a love neither gender-defined nor gender-abolished—‘not because of my gender or out of my gender’—but rather a love delivered through the body, in friendship as much as in courtship, ‘so my body does not feel like loss.’”
Davis & Byron exalt real friends above other concepts of love. Not a cult, nor the cult of the couple-form is what is most needed for flourishing; rather, what these novels call for is friend-love—beyond even the mutual mothering-imperative—without an onus to heal www.publicbooks.org/is-the-cis-l...
Is the Cis Literary World Okay? - Public Books
Contemporary trans literature is thriving in a highly freewheeling manner… How revealing, then, that David Brooks recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality.
www.publicbooks.org
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
“For all its avowed cynicism, _Herculine_ holds for a love neither gender-defined nor gender-abolished—‘not because of my gender or out of my gender’—but rather a love delivered through the body, in friendship as much as in courtship, ‘so my body does not feel like loss.’”
Davis & Byron exalt real friends above other concepts of love. Not a cult, nor the cult of the couple-form is what is most needed for flourishing; rather, what these novels call for is friend-love—beyond even the mutual mothering-imperative—without an onus to heal www.publicbooks.org/is-the-cis-l...
Is the Cis Literary World Okay? - Public Books
Contemporary trans literature is thriving in a highly freewheeling manner… How revealing, then, that David Brooks recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality.
www.publicbooks.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Davis & Byron exalt real friends above other concepts of love. Not a cult, nor the cult of the couple-form is what is most needed for flourishing; rather, what these novels call for is friend-love—beyond even the mutual mothering-imperative—without an onus to heal www.publicbooks.org/is-the-cis-l...
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New at PB: Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) reviews Davey Davis‘s “Casanova 20” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) and Grace Byron’s “Herculine,” two novels that—however different—both “quietly exalt real friends above other conceptualizations of love.”
Is the Cis Literary World Okay? - Public Books
Contemporary trans literature is thriving in a highly freewheeling manner… How revealing, then, that David Brooks recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality.
www.publicbooks.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
New at PB: Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) reviews Davey Davis‘s “Casanova 20” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) and Grace Byron’s “Herculine,” two novels that—however different—both “quietly exalt real friends above other conceptualizations of love.”
I'm most grateful to Ben - and to Megan Cummins at @publicbooks.bsky.social - for publishing my thoughts on @daveydavis.bsky.social and @emotrophywife.bsky.social
Click if you like hot worlds, lesbians, gay ways of doing heterosexuality, ex-ex-gay road trips, or commune utopias & their opposites...
Click if you like hot worlds, lesbians, gay ways of doing heterosexuality, ex-ex-gay road trips, or commune utopias & their opposites...
David Brooks laments that literary fiction has been declining in quality, because of its supposed progressivism and "a general loss in confidence and audacity across Western culture." To this, @reproutopia.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social simply asks: "Is the cissexual literary world okay?"
February 10, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I'm most grateful to Ben - and to Megan Cummins at @publicbooks.bsky.social - for publishing my thoughts on @daveydavis.bsky.social and @emotrophywife.bsky.social
Click if you like hot worlds, lesbians, gay ways of doing heterosexuality, ex-ex-gay road trips, or commune utopias & their opposites...
Click if you like hot worlds, lesbians, gay ways of doing heterosexuality, ex-ex-gay road trips, or commune utopias & their opposites...
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David Brooks laments that literary fiction has been declining in quality, because of its supposed progressivism and "a general loss in confidence and audacity across Western culture." To this, @reproutopia.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social simply asks: "Is the cissexual literary world okay?"
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
David Brooks laments that literary fiction has been declining in quality, because of its supposed progressivism and "a general loss in confidence and audacity across Western culture." To this, @reproutopia.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social simply asks: "Is the cissexual literary world okay?"
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Thank you to whoever sent this! I think @reproutopia.bsky.social is brilliant.
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Thank you to whoever sent this! I think @reproutopia.bsky.social is brilliant.
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This bit is getting quoted in my diss somewhere
February 2, 2026 at 8:23 PM
This bit is getting quoted in my diss somewhere
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I liked reading this and will be thinking about it: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...
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January 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I liked reading this and will be thinking about it: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
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I have a new article up at SOCIAL RESEARCH: "Destroy the Family to Realize Its Promise: Abolition as Care Communization." Check it out:
doi.org/10.1353/sor....
doi.org/10.1353/sor....
January 26, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I have a new article up at SOCIAL RESEARCH: "Destroy the Family to Realize Its Promise: Abolition as Care Communization." Check it out:
doi.org/10.1353/sor....
doi.org/10.1353/sor....
I have a new article up at SOCIAL RESEARCH: "Destroy the Family to Realize Its Promise: Abolition as Care Communization." Check it out:
doi.org/10.1353/sor....
doi.org/10.1353/sor....
January 26, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I have a new article up at SOCIAL RESEARCH: "Destroy the Family to Realize Its Promise: Abolition as Care Communization." Check it out:
doi.org/10.1353/sor....
doi.org/10.1353/sor....
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Do me a favour and hear @reproutopia.bsky.social out! 🖤 doi.org/10.1353/sor....
January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Do me a favour and hear @reproutopia.bsky.social out! 🖤 doi.org/10.1353/sor....
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a call to healthcare workers from “Health Fascism and the Anti-State State” in December:
www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/...
www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/...
January 24, 2026 at 7:56 PM
a call to healthcare workers from “Health Fascism and the Anti-State State” in December:
www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/...
www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/...
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It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
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Sophie Lewis' Enemy Feminisms was one of my favorites this year for her chapter-by-chapter historical analysis of how feminism was used by aspiring female colonizers, fascists, and racists across the centuries. "Feminism" is not an inherent political good! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2489-e...
Enemy Feminisms
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December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Sophie Lewis' Enemy Feminisms was one of my favorites this year for her chapter-by-chapter historical analysis of how feminism was used by aspiring female colonizers, fascists, and racists across the centuries. "Feminism" is not an inherent political good! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2489-e...
“We are >2 years into a genocide waged by a settler state armed to the teeth by the world’s most cruel empire, itself a settler colony, currently turning that cruelty inward at an alarming rate against migrants, students, & any dissident or non-normative subject” (opening of Lara Sheehi's next book)
January 19, 2026 at 1:01 AM
“We are >2 years into a genocide waged by a settler state armed to the teeth by the world’s most cruel empire, itself a settler colony, currently turning that cruelty inward at an alarming rate against migrants, students, & any dissident or non-normative subject” (opening of Lara Sheehi's next book)
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◆Tortorici, Dayna, 2026, "Not All Women", n+1, 52 (Winter 2026), (www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...).
―❝【Lead】Feminism has always been divided❞
＊Sophie Lewis. Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation. Haymarket, 2025.
―❝【Lead】Feminism has always been divided❞
＊Sophie Lewis. Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation. Haymarket, 2025.
Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...
www.nplusonemag.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:09 AM
◆Tortorici, Dayna, 2026, "Not All Women", n+1, 52 (Winter 2026), (www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...).
―❝【Lead】Feminism has always been divided❞
＊Sophie Lewis. Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation. Haymarket, 2025.
―❝【Lead】Feminism has always been divided❞
＊Sophie Lewis. Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation. Haymarket, 2025.
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“Given the history of intrafeminist conflict, Lewis suggests, it’s time we gave up the comforting myth that feminism is always and everywhere a force for good.”
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...
www.nplusonemag.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
“Given the history of intrafeminist conflict, Lewis suggests, it’s time we gave up the comforting myth that feminism is always and everywhere a force for good.”
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
"What are the red flags of enemy feminism? For starters, fear: an emphasis on danger over pleasure; a preoccupation with purity; technophobia; congealed opinion; resistance to surprise or novelty; and the desire for strong borders.... But by far the most common feature of enemy feminism is racism."
I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
“Given the history of intrafeminist conflict, Lewis suggests, it’s time we gave up the comforting myth that feminism is always and everywhere a force for good.”
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
January 17, 2026 at 3:08 PM
"What are the red flags of enemy feminism? For starters, fear: an emphasis on danger over pleasure; a preoccupation with purity; technophobia; congealed opinion; resistance to surprise or novelty; and the desire for strong borders.... But by far the most common feature of enemy feminism is racism."
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Literally the dream review - not only does Dayna *get it*, she illuminates the stakes of what I was trying to do in ways I needed to have explained back to me / didn't totally grasp or know how to articulate. I'm so thrilled I could die
I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
“Given the history of intrafeminist conflict, Lewis suggests, it’s time we gave up the comforting myth that feminism is always and everywhere a force for good.”
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
January 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Literally the dream review - not only does Dayna *get it*, she illuminates the stakes of what I was trying to do in ways I needed to have explained back to me / didn't totally grasp or know how to articulate. I'm so thrilled I could die
Literally the dream review - not only does Dayna *get it*, she illuminates the stakes of what I was trying to do in ways I needed to have explained back to me / didn't totally grasp or know how to articulate. I'm so thrilled I could die
I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
“Given the history of intrafeminist conflict, Lewis suggests, it’s time we gave up the comforting myth that feminism is always and everywhere a force for good.”
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
January 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Literally the dream review - not only does Dayna *get it*, she illuminates the stakes of what I was trying to do in ways I needed to have explained back to me / didn't totally grasp or know how to articulate. I'm so thrilled I could die