Sophie Lewis
@reproutopia.bsky.social
Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Almost a third of the way there!! Help me make my face somehow even hotter! chuffed.org/project/2025...
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I got a date for facial feminization surgery In October, which is very exciting! But October is coming fast, and as I'm currently unemployed, I didn't have nearly as much time to save for costs and re...
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Sexual violence also boomerangs back into settler society – as colonial fascisms are wont to do – taking on a banal ubiquity within/among Israeli communities. An estimated 230 sexual assaults take place per day in Israel – 10% above the OECD average – w. a shockingly low relative rate of indictment.
Sexual violence is not incidental to the colonial project. It is its grammar. The many official reports on sexually tortured Palestinians are not aberrations. They document a system – recorded and cross-corroborated by the very organizations Israel’s defenders routinely cite when it suits them.
Campus sexual assault is not an “institutional problem” merely in the sense that assault takes place at an institution. It is an “institutional problem” in the sense that the institution fosters the conditions for the problem, punishes the victims, and colludes with the perpetrators to cover it up.
I've been hearing that Cornell's culture of fraternity fueled rape is especially bad since I moved to the US in 2017. Last year, the figure was over 1 in 3 female students who had been raped. The victims are often punished more harshly than the perpetrators are. I hope every chapter of Chi Phi burns
In 2013, the Daily Princetonian revealed that in 2008, Princeton University had paid to conduct a survey of students about sexual assault - then buried the results when *one in six* female undergrads reported unwanted vaginal penetration within the past year. That’s just under 17%.
Survey quantifies sexual assault
More than 15 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at the University, according to an unpublished survey conducted in 2008 by seve...
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Red Emma's is hosting me and the inimitable Tash Lennard to talk about her holy anticipated new essay collection ✨✨
Natasha Lennard@natashalennard.bsky.social · 3w agoDo I know anyone in Baltimore? I'm not sure. But I'd love to meet you if you're there! Please join me and brilliant @reproutopia.bsky.social to discuss my book, On Un/Certainty ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) & more, at @redemmas.org 10/21! redemmas.org/events/natas...
Do I know anyone in Baltimore? I'm not sure. But I'd love to meet you if you're there! Please join me and brilliant @reproutopia.bsky.social to discuss my book, On Un/Certainty ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) & more, at @redemmas.org 10/21! redemmas.org/events/natas...
Natasha Lennard presents "On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times" in conversation w/Sophie Lewis
We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?
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This online short course is happening in November-December on the subject of anticapitalist feminism, "femme" vs. capitalist-patriarchal femininities, the politics of contemporary femmephobias and femmephilias, and the "lumpen theory" of the sex worker left thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Someone had to drop out of this short course on family abolition and family policing I'm teaching in November-December, so there's room for you if you want to join in: thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Family Policing: Welfare, Surveillance, and Abolition - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Nowhere—as the women’s liberation movement used to relentlessly point out—is more dangerous for a child than the family. In the ’70s, a wave of feminist, child-liberationist consciousness-raising blew...
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The good people at Salvage magazine have today published, on their website, my response to ‘The Anti-Politics of Family Abolition’ by Robyn Marasco. The audio of me reading the piece aloud is on my patreon.(www.patreon.com/posts/169728...). You can read the piece here: salvage.zone/on-robyn-mar...
On Robyn Marasco’s Anti-Abolitionism and the Abolition of Care - Salvage
This is a response to ‘The Anti-Politics of Family Abolition’ by Robyn Marasco, from Salvage #16: The Construction Site of Hell. ‘Abolition,’ writes A. J. Bohrer in Capitalism and Confinement, ‘names ...
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Really outstanding clarifications and responses to several recent attempts to sheepdog or defang family abolition from the left by @reproutopia.bsky.social in Salvage salvage.zone/on-robyn-mar...
On Robyn Marasco’s Anti-Abolitionism and the Abolition of Care - Salvage
This is a response to ‘The Anti-Politics of Family Abolition’ by Robyn Marasco, from Salvage #16: The Construction Site of Hell. ‘Abolition,’ writes A. J. Bohrer in Capitalism and Confinement, ‘names ...
salvage.zone
Transcript of the conversation between @keirangoddard.bsky.social and me at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk earlier this summer. Listen here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid... And/or read here: www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...
I was annoyed at the *discourse* and wrote some rapid fire notes on Steinem www.patreon.com/posts/168891...
Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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disturbed (albeit not terribly surprised) but not surprised to hear about a manhattan institute guy sharing a video of @reallandsend.bsky.social on x the everything app, and a ton of leftists apparently agreeing with his incredulous and ableist critique.
the frame of Health Fascism moves away from individual MAHA behaviors and towards how our health care and social welfare systems, such as they are/aren't, were fertile ground for a far right power grab. @deathpanel.bsky.social has been exploring this for a long time. the full panel chuds clipped:
Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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Unsurprisingly @reproutopia.bsky.social has written the best Gloria Steinem obit I have seen www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...
Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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She didn't need the help of the CIA or the deep state in taking over mainstream feminism, she had worked for a decade in the magazine trenches in various oddball capacities (my favorite: she was the third notable assistant to Harvey Kurtzman on Help! besides Gilliam and Crumb) and made conenctions
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Tyler@electriceden92.bsky.social · last mo.Steinem wasn't the head of feminist activism or a (deliberate) long term spook, she was a midcentury magazine editor. I cannot express how much that is the determining factor of her life and career, in the same way that it is for her closest comparison points like Wintour and Wenner and (yes) Hefner
"My favorite of the two, however, had nothing good to say about the American security state."... excellent, generous and critical note from our @reproutopia.bsky.social www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...
Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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@reproutopia.bsky.social on gloria s - lots of details i did not know, fair-minded assessment of her many contradictions
Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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to my knowledge, Gloria Steinem never went back on her opposition to sex workers' rights—such as when she urged Amnesty International to not support decriminalization, despite all the evidence that criminalization harms sex workers
Actors call on Amnesty to reject plans backing decriminalisation of sex trade
Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson and Lena Dunham among signatories of letter arguing that policy change would ‘legalise pimping’
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“When Ramparts broke the story in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, describing the CIA as “liberal, nonviolent and honorable” and stating she would do it again.” medium.com/collapsenews...
Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing…
Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class.
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Lori Marso explores the ideas behind Sophie Lewis’ "Femmephilia" and Eileen G’Sell’s "Lipstick": "To be femme is to embody a distinctly artificial, alluring, and potentially radical performance of 'womanhood.'" http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/femme-feminism-lori-marso-sophie-lewis-eileen-gsell
An essay about Ari Aster would come back to haunt Sophie Lewis in ways she couldn't have predicted. @kimkelly.bsky.social interviews Lewis about the movie review that was unexpectedly introduced as evidence in the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility case: filmmaker.substack.com/p/how-a-film...
How a Film Review Ended Up at the Center of a Domestic Terrorism Case
A conversation with feminist scholar Sophie Lewis about the Ari Aster essay that she didn’t expect to be taken out of context.
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Dolly and Curry in the same day? A heavy blow to all who exalt and revere the collective lumpenproletarian arts and labors that go into "looking this cheap," not to mention "giving yourself over to absolute pleasure." There's a better life, and you think about it, don'tchou. Rest in power, femmes.
