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**ANNOUNCEMENT**: [Full Surrogacy Now! Audiobook](/writing/full-surrogacy-now/)

I’m ***Sophie Lewis***, writer, speaker, teacher, and former academic.

I am working on a book about “enemy feminisms”: eugenic, bioconservative, capitalist and imperial feminisms, cis feminisms that rely on narratives of so-called white slavery, femonationalism, and trans-exclusionary feminism.

Right now, my first book: “Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family”, published by Verso Books in 2019, is available as an Audiobook, and you can find more about it here. [link to FSN page]

My pamphlet on family abolition, Beyond the Family: The Case for Abolition, is forthcoming from Verso in 2022.

I have a “Visiting Scholar” title at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, however, in real terms I am a freelancer who is entirely dependent on my patreon subscribers, speaking fees, and Brooklyn Institute course enrollees. Check out [my course offerings here](https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/people/sophie-lewis/).

Since 2013, I have lectured in thirty cities and written for dozens of magazines and journals, including The New York Times. I hope you enjoy my video and essay archives and consider supporting my work.

_Octopus images by [Rupa DasGupta](https://anoctopusaday.tumblr.com/about)_