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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THIS IS HELL podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Podcasts:
ORDINARY UNHAPPINESS podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/9...
LRB podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
DEATH PANEL podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/e...
SAD FRANCISCO podcasts.apple.com/ba/podcast/w...
THIS IS HELL podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
NEW BOOKS newbooksnetwork.com/enemy-femini...
ORDINARY UNHAPPINESS podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/9...
LRB podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
DEATH PANEL podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/e...
SAD FRANCISCO podcasts.apple.com/ba/podcast/w...
THIS IS HELL podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
NEW BOOKS newbooksnetwork.com/enemy-femini...
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Here are some (written) ENEMY FEMINISMS interviews
publicseminar.org/2025/04/some...
thebaffler.com/latest/femin...
www.patreon.com/posts/q-and-...
www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/s...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...
publicseminar.org/2025/04/some...
thebaffler.com/latest/femin...
www.patreon.com/posts/q-and-...
www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/s...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here are some (written) ENEMY FEMINISMS interviews
publicseminar.org/2025/04/some...
thebaffler.com/latest/femin...
www.patreon.com/posts/q-and-...
www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/s...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...
publicseminar.org/2025/04/some...
thebaffler.com/latest/femin...
www.patreon.com/posts/q-and-...
www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/s...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...
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This long and broad article links eco-fascism to anti-trans feminism and is very worth reading
The recognition of what I propose we call “enemy feminism” is also liberating, because it means we can skip the stage of “calling in” people who are plainly more interested in upholding a version of patriarchy that includes them in its upper ranks than destroying it.
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
TERF Island - Lux Magazine
There Have Always Been Enemies Inside the Feminist Camp
lux-magazine.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This long and broad article links eco-fascism to anti-trans feminism and is very worth reading
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An incredibly useful and (for me at least) pretty groundbreaking history of how the rancid ideology of organized transphobia worked its way into mainstream feminism. "Enemy feminism" is a great way of framing it. Many thanks to @reproutopia.bsky.social for this valuable intervention.
The recognition of what I propose we call “enemy feminism” is also liberating, because it means we can skip the stage of “calling in” people who are plainly more interested in upholding a version of patriarchy that includes them in its upper ranks than destroying it.
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
TERF Island - Lux Magazine
There Have Always Been Enemies Inside the Feminist Camp
lux-magazine.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
An incredibly useful and (for me at least) pretty groundbreaking history of how the rancid ideology of organized transphobia worked its way into mainstream feminism. "Enemy feminism" is a great way of framing it. Many thanks to @reproutopia.bsky.social for this valuable intervention.
Reposted by Sophie Lewis
The recognition of what I propose we call “enemy feminism” is also liberating, because it means we can skip the stage of “calling in” people who are plainly more interested in upholding a version of patriarchy that includes them in its upper ranks than destroying it.
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
TERF Island - Lux Magazine
There Have Always Been Enemies Inside the Feminist Camp
lux-magazine.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The recognition of what I propose we call “enemy feminism” is also liberating, because it means we can skip the stage of “calling in” people who are plainly more interested in upholding a version of patriarchy that includes them in its upper ranks than destroying it.
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
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www.instagram.com/reel/DSDigEa...
The New York Times occasionally mentions the genocide of the Palestinian people—in its Opinion section. Even then, one columnist’s acknowledgement is promptly followed by another’s denial making the live-streamed genocide a matter of debate, a matter of opinion.
The New York Times occasionally mentions the genocide of the Palestinian people—in its Opinion section. Even then, one columnist’s acknowledgement is promptly followed by another’s denial making the live-streamed genocide a matter of debate, a matter of opinion.
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
www.instagram.com/reel/DSDigEa...
The New York Times occasionally mentions the genocide of the Palestinian people—in its Opinion section. Even then, one columnist’s acknowledgement is promptly followed by another’s denial making the live-streamed genocide a matter of debate, a matter of opinion.
The New York Times occasionally mentions the genocide of the Palestinian people—in its Opinion section. Even then, one columnist’s acknowledgement is promptly followed by another’s denial making the live-streamed genocide a matter of debate, a matter of opinion.
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Reading "Enemy Feminisms" knocked something loose for me in a good way, much like reading "Abolish the Family" did for me a few years ago
Here is the video I recorded with @haymarketbooks.org about my revolutionary feminism, the significance of conceptualizing - not just "white" but - *enemy* feminisms, parsing utopian and anti-utopian politics, antifascism, hegemonic narratives, and counter-histories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcV3...
Sophie Lewis on Enemy Feminisms
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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December 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Reading "Enemy Feminisms" knocked something loose for me in a good way, much like reading "Abolish the Family" did for me a few years ago
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Incredible list of @reproutopia.bsky.social’s recent work and endorsements
Thread of 2025
December 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Incredible list of @reproutopia.bsky.social’s recent work and endorsements
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Regardless of your commitment to feminism, Marxism, reproductive justice, or family abolition, reading Lewis forces you to consider the social constructedness of the family. Both books are available on Verso:
- www.versobooks.com/products/711...
- www.versobooks.com/products/289...
- www.versobooks.com/products/711...
- www.versobooks.com/products/289...
Full Surrogacy Now
"Rooted in historical, site-based, narrative, and political accounts, Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for. This kind of gestation depends on re...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Regardless of your commitment to feminism, Marxism, reproductive justice, or family abolition, reading Lewis forces you to consider the social constructedness of the family. Both books are available on Verso:
- www.versobooks.com/products/711...
- www.versobooks.com/products/289...
- www.versobooks.com/products/711...
- www.versobooks.com/products/289...
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a collection of sophie lewis' writings from the year on feminism, communism, queerness, politics of the body and desire. if you're interested in present day discourses & directions on the intersections of these (whatever your opinion), lewis has been at the forefront of comprehensive scholarship:
Thread of 2025
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
a collection of sophie lewis' writings from the year on feminism, communism, queerness, politics of the body and desire. if you're interested in present day discourses & directions on the intersections of these (whatever your opinion), lewis has been at the forefront of comprehensive scholarship:
Forgot to mention - in my mammoth thread - that the audio of me, @reallandsend.bsky.social and @melissagiragrant.com at @socialismconference.org 2025 is here soundcloud.com/deathpanel/g... or here podcasts.apple.com/gr/podcast/g...
December 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Forgot to mention - in my mammoth thread - that the audio of me, @reallandsend.bsky.social and @melissagiragrant.com at @socialismconference.org 2025 is here soundcloud.com/deathpanel/g... or here podcasts.apple.com/gr/podcast/g...
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this dialogue from february between sophie lewis and emma heaney is worth posting again
www.pinko.online/on-the-cisne...
www.pinko.online/on-the-cisne...
ON THE CISNESS OF THE BOURGEOISIE
“Why is ‘cisness’ conceptually urgent?” Sophie Lewis asks Emma Heaney in this wide-ranging conversation on the occasion of the publication of Heaney’s edited collection, Feminism Against Cisness (Duke...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
this dialogue from february between sophie lewis and emma heaney is worth posting again
www.pinko.online/on-the-cisne...
www.pinko.online/on-the-cisne...
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This Watery Place by Emma Heaney is a striking political meditation on the sensory experience and politics of conception, pregnancy and neonatal care
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December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This Watery Place by Emma Heaney is a striking political meditation on the sensory experience and politics of conception, pregnancy and neonatal care
www.plutobooks.com/product/this...
www.plutobooks.com/product/this...
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My favorite podcast stint of the year! What a delightful conversation
Speaking of China and Hong Kong, I went on @tendersubject.bsky.social with @scumbelievable.bsky.social and @wormbuxx.bsky.social to discuss the sexual political economy, class politics, and embryo-munching in Fruit Chan's "Hong Kong Horror" movie "Dumpings": tendersubjectpod.podbean.com/e/dumplings/
038-Dumplings with Gretchen Felker-Martin & Sophie Lewis! | Tender Subject
This week, we are slurping and crunching our way through Fruit Chan’s film Dumplings with guests Gretchen Felker-Martin and Sophie Lewis! We talk about the politics of food, abortion, class in Hong Ko...
tendersubjectpod.podbean.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My favorite podcast stint of the year! What a delightful conversation
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This was a favorite episode of 2025, I LOVE when @tendersubject.bsky.social episodes “land the plane” so to speak, and together we come up with some new ideas for a subject and @reproutopia.bsky.social and @scumbelievable.bsky.social were so generous!
Speaking of China and Hong Kong, I went on @tendersubject.bsky.social with @scumbelievable.bsky.social and @wormbuxx.bsky.social to discuss the sexual political economy, class politics, and embryo-munching in Fruit Chan's "Hong Kong Horror" movie "Dumpings": tendersubjectpod.podbean.com/e/dumplings/
038-Dumplings with Gretchen Felker-Martin & Sophie Lewis! | Tender Subject
This week, we are slurping and crunching our way through Fruit Chan’s film Dumplings with guests Gretchen Felker-Martin and Sophie Lewis! We talk about the politics of food, abortion, class in Hong Ko...
tendersubjectpod.podbean.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This was a favorite episode of 2025, I LOVE when @tendersubject.bsky.social episodes “land the plane” so to speak, and together we come up with some new ideas for a subject and @reproutopia.bsky.social and @scumbelievable.bsky.social were so generous!
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But let me end this thread on the topic I began it with - the WAWOG contributors' boycott of the New York Times.
Alongside Lara Sheehi, author of the forthcoming FROM THE CLINIC TO THE STREETS, and @tracyrenee70.bsky.social, I went back on @deathpanel.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Alongside Lara Sheehi, author of the forthcoming FROM THE CLINIC TO THE STREETS, and @tracyrenee70.bsky.social, I went back on @deathpanel.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
No Opinion w/ Lara Sheehi & Sophie Lewis (11/06/25)
Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 11/06/2025 · 1h 40m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
But let me end this thread on the topic I began it with - the WAWOG contributors' boycott of the New York Times.
Alongside Lara Sheehi, author of the forthcoming FROM THE CLINIC TO THE STREETS, and @tracyrenee70.bsky.social, I went back on @deathpanel.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Alongside Lara Sheehi, author of the forthcoming FROM THE CLINIC TO THE STREETS, and @tracyrenee70.bsky.social, I went back on @deathpanel.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Who'd've thunk Graun'd cover me favorably? But the US (less-TERF) desk did thanks to @joolia.bsky.social: "[Trump 2.0] demonstrates the weaknesses of Harris’ brand of feminism, even as it precipitated crises in every aspect of life that demand a feminist response" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right
In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Who'd've thunk Graun'd cover me favorably? But the US (less-TERF) desk did thanks to @joolia.bsky.social: "[Trump 2.0] demonstrates the weaknesses of Harris’ brand of feminism, even as it precipitated crises in every aspect of life that demand a feminist response" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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The border guards of sex are the enemies of human liberation
For @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
For @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The UK’s Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court’s attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The border guards of sex are the enemies of human liberation
For @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
For @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...
By opposing the New York Times, ironically, @wawog.bsky.social are taking seriously the kind of line-drawing that was articulated by the paper’s then-executive ed Max Frankel not so long ago. In 2001, Frankel reflected openly on the NYT’s dire neglect of the Nazis...
By opposing the New York Times, ironically, @wawog.bsky.social are taking seriously the kind of line-drawing that was articulated by the paper’s then-executive ed Max Frankel not so long ago. In 2001, Frankel reflected openly on the NYT’s dire neglect of the Nazis...
No Opinion for Gaza: Why we are boycotting the New York Times
Sophie Lewis explains why she & 200+ former New York Times contributors are boycotting the outlet until it addresses its anti-Palestinian bias.
www.newarab.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...
By opposing the New York Times, ironically, @wawog.bsky.social are taking seriously the kind of line-drawing that was articulated by the paper’s then-executive ed Max Frankel not so long ago. In 2001, Frankel reflected openly on the NYT’s dire neglect of the Nazis...
By opposing the New York Times, ironically, @wawog.bsky.social are taking seriously the kind of line-drawing that was articulated by the paper’s then-executive ed Max Frankel not so long ago. In 2001, Frankel reflected openly on the NYT’s dire neglect of the Nazis...
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I loved this review and this novel
Browsing The Grenfell Enquirer, I spotted a comment from a community organizer that signs off with a quote from a bestselling book about a certain Palestinian political prisoner: “The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.” On @keirangoddard.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
lareviewofbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I loved this review and this novel
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Browsing The Grenfell Enquirer, I spotted a comment from a community organizer that signs off with a quote from a bestselling book about a certain Palestinian political prisoner: “The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.” On @keirangoddard.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
lareviewofbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Browsing The Grenfell Enquirer, I spotted a comment from a community organizer that signs off with a quote from a bestselling book about a certain Palestinian political prisoner: “The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.” On @keirangoddard.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...
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Wrote a whole ass book about how violently Disney controls their ip has absolutely nothing to do with protecting originality and everything to do with power and control and they just tweeted it out
Disney for generations: fuck with our IP and we will literally fucking ruin your life
Disney now: We gave $1 billion to Sam Altman so he could make a gooner Mickey Mouse that encourages kids to kill themselves, this is totally fine
Disney now: We gave $1 billion to Sam Altman so he could make a gooner Mickey Mouse that encourages kids to kill themselves, this is totally fine
December 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Wrote a whole ass book about how violently Disney controls their ip has absolutely nothing to do with protecting originality and everything to do with power and control and they just tweeted it out
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... why did the New School president last month turn down $4mill+ from trustees & donors to fund PhDs and stop the 'pause' if this is just about money? admin has made clear, they want to reshape The New School and kill its progressive, critical thought legacy
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
... why did the New School president last month turn down $4mill+ from trustees & donors to fund PhDs and stop the 'pause' if this is just about money? admin has made clear, they want to reshape The New School and kill its progressive, critical thought legacy