Sophie Lewis

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An essay I've written at @themassachusettsreview about @jordyrosenberg 's NIGHT NIGHT FAWN, commissioned by @bri_tt_rusert

New article in SOCIAL RESEARCH quarterly

We sat down with Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms, to talk about some of the most provocative ideas in contemporary feminist theory and her upcoming book Femmephilia. We talked about the communalization of care: what happens when we stop privatizing it into nuclear households and start treating it as something we owe each other collectively. The difference between femininity and femme — and why femme, far from being apolitical, is actually a refusal to let patriarchy own what it means to be feminine. The deal of motherhood under capitalism: the exhausting, largely invisible bargain that asks one or two people to bear near-total responsibility for a new human life, in exchange for a property relation dressed up as love. And the rights of children — what we actually owe them, and what it would mean to take their full humanity seriously. Femmephilia is out June 16th. Read the article. Link in bio. Full interview coming soon! #sophielewis #femmephilia #fullsurrogacynow #enemyfeminisms #feministtheory

You can now pre-order Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe by Sophie Lewis @reproutopia , published by @haymarketbooks in our bio!! 🐙🧜🏽‍♀️🤰🏻 From the author of Enemy Feminisms and Abolish the Family, an original diagnosis of femmephobia in our culture, and a vision of a life-giving femme feminism for all 🔥 To be femme is to embody a dispossessed femininity, to be freighted with freedom, to refuse to be made proper or institutionalized. To love it is to embrace love for women (be they butch or not) in the broadest sense. In Femmephilia, Sophie Lewis makes the case for the vital importance of politicized femme-ness: a feminism that is self-consciously artificial, extravagant in its erotic and political appetites, and staunchly anti-work, abolitionist, and utopian. Femme labors deserve our care, respect, and support, but instead face dismissal from masculinist antagonists and feminist allies alike. Where neoliberal women’s empowerment has failed to combat the eruption of right-wing, anti-trans, and anti-feminist attacks, Lewis argues that femmephilia can help us imagine a radical future. In essays on the high femme genius of Marilyn Monroe and trans yearning in the myth of Apollo and Daphne; on octopuses and girlbosses, reluctant heterosexuals, lesbian separatists, and anti-work cats; and on a mother on strike from maternity, Femmephilia offers a new logic of liberation for all feminized people. Link to pre-order in our bio 🔗🔗🔗 The book will be released on 16th June and we will ship orders after this date ✨ #thecommonpress #femmephilia #sophielewis

Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures talk is now up for viewing! Many thanks to Kathi Weeks and Sophie Lewis for sharing their time and insights. /AbolitionArchives (link in bio)

Wir haben eine neue Rubrik im Podcast: Mikrofeminismus! Leicht in den Alltag einzubringen, um das Patriarchat nach und nach zu stürzen! 🎉 Was machst du, machst du mit? In der aktuellen Podcastfolge erzählt Jet, dass sie nur Bücher von weiblichen Autorinnen liest! Und hier haut sie gleich ein paar Buchtipps mit raus. ☀️ Gern gekauft bei @shesaidbooks - wie du auch im Podcast hören kannst. Danke an @the_zuckergoscherl @ruth_herzberg @elinapenner @reproutopia und @haticemeryemben für die guten Lesestunden. 💘 Nicht vergessen uns zu folgen und ein ❤️ da zu lassen. Speicher den Beitrag um dir die Bücher später zu besorgen!

UPCOMING EVENT! Since at least the 1970s, a dominant strand of Western feminism has regarded femininity with suspicion, if not outright hostility. This “feminist machismo,” as BISR faculty @reproutopia argues in her new book Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe (@haymarketbooks ), is an obstacle to liberation: it prioritizes its own aversion to “girly things” over a critique of capitalism’s “capture, coercion, and control” of femininity. Femmephilia insists instead on the revolutionary and utopian promise of a politicized femme-ness distinct from normative, ostensibly ‘natural’ femininity. How can we mobilize the category of femme, Lewis asks, to demystify and universalize care labor, and to theorize disalienated forms of gender pleasure? John us Wednesday, June 10th, at BISR Central as Sophie Lewis sits down with fellow BISR faculty @p___s______________ and @red_crayons for a wide-ranging conversation about the power, pleasure, and exuberant history of femme-inism. Together, the three will ask: How does femme take us beyond femininity’s vexed relationship with race, gender, and sexual identity? How should we confront feminist machismo in a moment of antifeminist backlash? And what does it mean to read texts or interpret the world through a femmephilic lens? The event is free to attend with a suggested $8 donation. Copies of Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe will be available for purchase before and after the event. Beer, wine, seltzer, and snacks will be served. RSVP now via the “Events” link in bio.

Don’t miss @reproutopia at Socialism 2026 in Chicago this Labor Day weekend! For more information visit the link in our bio 🔗 Register by Friday, June 19th for the Early Bird Discount.

Obviamente es un libro muy interesante. Porque Sophie Lewis refiere específicamente: abolir la familia BLANCA. Porque el concepto de familia surge de la blanquitud. Esa es la familia que quiere abolir. No significa abolir las redes de cuidado, ni el apoyo, ni la contención. Sino la familia blanca como caldo de cultivo perfecto para múltiples violencias. Estadísticamente, dentro de las familias es donde más se cometen delitos y violencias. La autora incluye complejidades: lo que significa la familia para un territorio ocupado como Palestina, genealogías negras, familias cimarronas. Y eso es valioso. Pero el problema no es si Sophie Lewis incluye estas experiencias, sino CÓMO las integra. ¿Como fundamento de su pensamiento o como extensión de un marco que sigue siendo, en origen, europeo? No es solo inclusión, sino DESDE DÓNDE se piensa. Queda la pregunta de cómo se articula la división racial del cuidado. Porque no solo hay mujeres que cuidan y otras que pagan. Muchas mujeres cuidadoras están racializadas y sostienen simultáneamente los cuidados de otras familias y los propios. El problema no es solo la familia como institución, sino cómo el sistema redistribuye el cuidado a través de desigualdades de raza, clase y geografía. Y aunque Sophie Lewis incorpora aportaciones de mujeres negras, la estructura de su obra sigue privilegiando a pensadoras blancas como ejes teóricos centrales. Pone subcapítulos a Firestone y Kollontai. Pero en ningún momento dedica un subcapítulo a las autoras racializadas que menciona que han teorizado sobre familia. ¿Quién aparece como productora de teoría y quién como referencia secundaria? Las mujeres negras aportan marcos fundamentales sobre reproducción y familia, pero no siempre son situadas en el mismo nivel de centralidad epistemológica que autoras blancas. Incluso Sophie Lewis critica que Firestone tiene un proyecto racista y sumamente blanco. Pero de todos modos la incluye como subcapítulo. Cuéntenme porrr favor ustedes que opinan de esto ‼️ #sophielewis #abolirlafamilia #reelbook #reelssobrelibros #bookreviewers

March 2026

Big love to @reproutopia for this piece in @theintercept today, on a morning when we’re all feeling the heaviness of the verdict in the Prairieland case—and can’t stop thinking of Des and the other defendants, and what they must be feeling. “Thankfully, however, organized antifascism does exist. I proudly accept the notion that any of my writings have helped in any small way to stoke the desire to practice antifascism, courageously and practically, as those blocking and protesting the brutality of American stormtroopers are doing all over the world. If nothing else, I’m grateful that the FBI seized my book review and that prosecutors hauled it out in this ridiculous trial, because it gave me the opportunity to express my full solidarity with the Prairieland defendants.” You can read the entire article by going to the Intercept’s IG or website (consider donating to this essential media), or at /2026/03/13/movie-review-antifa-prairieland-trial/.