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**ANNOUNCEMENT**: [Full Surrogacy Now! Audiobook](/writing/full-surrogacy-now/)
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I’m ***Sophie Lewis***, writer, speaker, teacher, and former academic.
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I’m ***Sophie Lewis***, writer, speaker, teacher, and recovering academic.
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I am represented by Ian Bonaparte, of Janklow & Nesbit, and you can contact him at [ibonaparte@janklow.com](mailto:ibonaparte@janklow.com)
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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.
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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]
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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](/writing/full-surrogacy-now/).
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My pamphlet on family abolition, Beyond the Family: The Case for Abolition, is forthcoming from Verso in 2022.
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My pamphlet on family abolition, _Beyond the Family: The Case for Abolition_, is forthcoming from Verso in 2022.
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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/).
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I have a “Visiting Scholar” title at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. However, I am supported by my [patreon][patreon] subscribers, speaking fees, and Brooklyn Institute course enrollees. Check out [my course offerings here](https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/people/sophie-lewis/).
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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.
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[patreon]: https://www.patreon.com/reproutopia
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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.
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_Octopus images by [Rupa DasGupta](https://anoctopusaday.tumblr.com/about)_
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I am a graduate of the University of Oxford (BA English Literature; MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Policy) and the New School for Social Research (MA Politics). I earned my PhD in human geography in 2016, at the University of Manchester.
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I am a writer and ex-European (I am British-German, raised in France), living in Philadelphia with my American wife and boyfriend and two cats. I am currently working on two book projects, but I also write ad-hoc commissioned essays for magazines including *Harpers*, *The Nation* and *The London Review of Books* on subjects ranging from Marilyn Monroe to medieval alewives. In 2019, my op-ed explaining "How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans" appeared in *The New York Times.* In my capacity as a faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, I teach online courses, open to all, on feminist history, trans feminism, *The Dialectic of Sex*, femonationalism and more. My first book, *Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family*, was first published by Verso Books in 2019 (the paperback and audiobook were released in August 2021). In the intervening period, I was profiled in publications ranging from *Vice* to *Die Zeit*, interviewed in *Bookforum* and *The Nation*, and invited to give keynotes at conferences hosted by universities like Brown, Brighton and Princeton. It is now frequently said that I "launched a global conversation about abolition of the nuclear family." At the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown in 2020, magazine editors who had dismissed my "family abolition" arguments as "too out there" suddenly wished to commission me to write critiques of the private nuclear household.
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From 2014 on, I published a number of academic publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Feminist Review, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies, Gender Place & Culture, Antipode, Feminism & Psychology, Science as Culture, Society & Space, Dialogues in Human Geography and Feminist Theory. If you like, you can check out my profiles at various academic listing hubs:
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Unexpectedly, I gained notoriety in late 2020 for different reasons---namely, octopuses. My tweeted thoughts on a Netflix documentary, *My Octopus Teacher* (which later won an Oscar), inflamed sensibilities to the extent that news articles even appeared in venues like *The Guardian* about the "scandal" of my interpretation. After the dust had settled, my essay reflecting on the saga appeared in *n+1*, where I laid out my views on erotophobia, multispecies love, cephalopod cognition and more. Magazines where my essays on topics both related and unrelated to \#octopusgate over the past five years include: *Mal*, *Mute*, *Commune*, *e-flux*, *Logic*, *Boston Review*, *Salvage Quarterly*, *The New Inquiry*, *Viewpoint*, *Dissent* and *The Baffler*. The final chapter of *Full Surrogacy Now*, "Amniotechnics," has been reprinted four times---including by a feminist iris-printing collective in the Netherlands, who spliced my text together with the 1970 manifesto Triple Jeopardy, by the Third World Women's Alliance. In Paris and Berlin, the "curatorial research-based entity" The World in Which We Occur / Matter in Flux used my phrase "electric brine" as the title of an anthology of liquid poems and essays, reproducing "Amniotechnics" alongside contributions by several other hydrofeminist poets and philosophers.
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* [Google Scholar profile](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ue1YVlgAAAAJ&hl=en)
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* [Humanities Commons page](http://hcommons.org/members/reproutopia/)
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I have increasingly (with the support of my patrons on [Patreon][patreon]) moved over to free-lance non-academic writing, leaving academia behind. You may know me as the person who wrote about the eroticism in “My Octopus Teacher.” You may have come across my articles about ‘family abolition’ and the limits of the private nuclear household in the context of Covid. I have appeared on many podcasts and radio shows, lectured all over the world, and collaborated with a number of artists inspired by my essay “Amniotechnics”.
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[patreon]: https://www.patreon.com/reproutopia
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My translation of Sabine Hark and Paula-Irene Villa’s account of feminist Islamophobia in Germany, The Future of Difference, is published by Verso Books (June 2020). My German-English translations for MIT Press include A Brief History of Feminism (Antje Schrupp) and Communism for Kids (Bini Adamczak).
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I am a member of the ecological writing collective Out of the Woods and editor at Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry.
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At present I occasionally organize or participate in symposia at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, where I hold a nominal title ("Visiting Scholar") at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies. I graduated from Oxford University with a BA in English Literature in 2010, and then stayed on to earn an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy. Between 2011 and 2013, I studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York, graduating with an MA in Politics. At that stage, I won a full scholarship from a Research Council in the United Kingdom to pursue a PhD at the University of Manchester, which I completed in 2017 with my thesis about gestationality: "Cyborg Labor." Until Covid-19 hit, I continued to present my research at conferences in the humanities and social sciences evert year. My peer-reviewed articles have appeared in *Feminist Theory*, *Signs*, *Gender Place & Culture*, *Dialogues in Human Geography*, *Frontiers*, *Feminist Review*, *Science as Culture* and *Society & Space*. A co-authored piece with Asa Seresin on the history of "fascist feminism"---notably the 1920s lesbian suffragettes who joined Fascist parties---is forthcoming in *Transgender Studies Quarterly* in 2022.
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<td><p>2021. <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/shulamith-firestone-dialectic-sex/">Shulamith Firestone Wanted to Abolish Nature</a>, <em>The Nation</em>, July 14.</p></p></td>
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<tr><td><p>2021. <a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-family-lottery"><strong>The Family Lottery</strong></a>, <em>Dissent Magazine</em>, Summer issue.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2021. <a href="https://nplusonemag.com/issue-39/reviews/my-octopus-girlfriend/"><strong>My Octopus Girlfriend</strong></a> (on erotophobia), <em>n+1 </em>magazine, Issue 39. </p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2021. <a href="https://brand-new-life.org/b-n-l/low-tech-grassroots-ectogenesis/"><strong>Low-Tech Grassroots Ectogenesis</strong></a>, <em>brand new life</em> magazine, February 2.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/utopia-no-lewis"><strong>Utopia, No</strong></a> (on <em>Entitled </em>by Kate Manne), <em>The Baffler</em>, November 19. </p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/journal/111/343916/with-women-grieving-in-capitalist-time/"><strong>With-Women: Grieving in Capitalist Time</strong></a>, <em>e-flux </em>journal #111, September. </p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://maljournal.com/5/sex-negative/sophie-lewis/collective-turn-off/"><strong>Collective Turn-Off</strong></a>, <em>Mal Journal</em>, Issue 5 (“Sex-Negative”), August 14.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://salvage.zone/in-print/mothering-against-the-world-momrades-against-motherhood/"><strong>Mothering Against the World: Momrades Against Motherhood</strong></a>, <em>Salvage Quarterly</em>, September 18. </p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://uchri.org/foundry/houses-into-homes/"><strong>Houses Into Homes</strong></a>, <em>UCHRI</em>, Foundry “Boiling Point” series.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/grief-circling"><strong>Grief-Circling</strong></a>, <em>Dissent</em> magazine (Summer issue). </p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/family-covid-care-marriage/"><strong>Covid-19 Is Straining the Concept of the Family. Let’s Break It</strong></a><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/family-covid-care-marriage/">,</a> <em>The Nation</em>, June 3.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/coronavirus-crisis-shows-its-time-abolish-family/"><strong>The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family</strong></a>, <em>openDemocracy</em>, March 24.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2020. <a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/hello-to-my-haters-tucker-carlsons-mob-and-me"><strong>Hello to my Haters</strong></a><strong>: Tucker Carlson’s Mob and Me, </strong><em>Dissent</em> magazine, Winter issue. </p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2019. <a href="http://www.thewhitereview.org/reviews/who-liberates-the-slaves/"><strong>Who Liberates the Slaves?</strong></a> (Review of <em>The Testaments </em>by Margaret Atwood.) <em>The White Review</em>, December 22. </p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2019. <a href="https://communemag.com/the-satanic-death-cult-is-real/"><strong>The Satanic Death-Cult is Real</strong></a> – on familial trauma. <em>Commune </em>magazine, Issue IV, August 28.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2019. <a href="https://logicmag.io/bodies/do-electric-sheep-dream-of-water-babies"><strong>Do Electric Sheep Drea-flim of Water Babies?</strong></a> - on ectogenic bio-bags; <em>Logic </em>magazine. Issue 8.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2019. ‘<a href="https://www.redpepper.org.uk/cyborg-sentiments/"><strong>Cyborg Sentiments</strong></a><a href="https://www.redpepper.org.uk/cyborg-sentiments/">’</a> – on xenofeminism. <em>Red Pepper </em>magazine. March 27.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2019. ‘<a href="https://thenewinquiry.com/for-one-another/"><strong>For One Another</strong></a><a href="https://thenewinquiry.com/for-one-another/">’</a>, <em>The New Inquiry</em>. January 23.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2018. ‘<a href="https://newsocialist.org.uk/labour-does-you-might-thinking-through-pregnancy-work-help-us-radicalise-politics-care/"><strong>Labor Does You</strong></a><a href="https://newsocialist.org.uk/labour-does-you-might-thinking-through-pregnancy-work-help-us-radicalise-politics-care/">’</a>: Might thinking through pregnancy as work help us radicalise the politics of care? <em>The New Socialist</em>. December 26.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2018. ‘<a href="http://bostonreview.net/forum/all-reproduction-assisted/sophie-lewis-mothering"><strong>All Reproduction is Assisted</strong></a>.’ <em>Boston Review </em>| <em>The Once and Future Feminist</em>, ed. Merve Emre.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2018. ‘<strong>Gestators of all Genders, Unite!</strong>’ – the Verso Books Blog. March 26.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2018. ‘<strong>Not a Workplace: Julie Bindel and the school of wrong abolitionism’</strong> – Verso Books Blog. May 24.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2017. “<a href="http://viewpointmag.com/2017/05/08/cthulhu-plays-no-role-for-me"><strong>Cthulhu Plays No Role For Me</strong></a>” (on the oeuvre of Donna Haraway) – <em>Viewpoint</em>magazine, May 8.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2017. ‘<a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/amniotechnics"><strong>Amniotechnics</strong></a>’ – on a watery politics of holding and letting go – <em>The New Inquiry</em>. January 25.</p></p></td></tr>
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<tr><td><p>2016. ‘<strong>SERF ‘n’ TERF: Notes on some Bad Materialisms</strong>’ – <em>Salvage Quarterly</em>, vol. 5. February 6.</p></p></td></tr>
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_"Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for."_ – Donna Haraway
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My first book, Full Surrogacy Now, was published in 2019 by Verso Books.
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My first book, _Full Surrogacy Now_, was published in 2019 by Verso Books.
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<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/full-surrogacy-now-sophie-lewis" width="500" height="60" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Or [download on Audible](https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Full-Surrogacy-Now-Audiobook/B09F8NX6YK).
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## Selected Praise for Full Surrogacy Now
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“Theoretical, devious, a mix of manifesto and memoir.”
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<br>– The New Yorker
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“Lewis is attempting to do for pregnancy what the Wages for Housework movement did in reconceptualizing the unpaid labor done by women in the home as work. And recognizing surrogacy as work and surrogates as workers is a necessary first step, for if surrogacy is work, then isn’t, by extension, every pregnancy?”
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<br>–Jezebel
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“A thrilling new intervention ... by placing reproductive labour at the centre of her vision in Full Surrogacy Now, Lewis confronts a central issue that continues to be sidelined in the male-dominated field of futurism.”
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<br>– New Humanist
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“Dazzling.”
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<br>–London Review of Books
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“It explores a multiplicity of feminisms and possible futures, through vibrant moments of genre-bending, speculation, and immanent critique … remarkable.”
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<br>–The LA Review of Books
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“The seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for … unique and bracing.”
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<br>– Donna Haraway, author of _Staying With The Trouble_ and _The Cyborg Manifesto_
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“Full Surrogacy Now is more than an intervention, it is a landmark text of visionary feminist thinking. Sophie Lewis tears down decades of essentialist and contradictory presumptions on labor, motherhood and ownership to offer us the possibility of new ways to live with and for each other. This book is as breathtaking as it is necessary.”
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<br>– Natasha Lennard, author of _Being Numerous_
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“Sophie Lewis and her expansive vision of feminism are desperately needed right now. She makes the work of undoing what ‘womanhood’ has come to mean look possible and irresistible.”
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<br>– Melissa Gira Grant, author of _Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work_
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“Sophie Lewis is at the top of a new generation of scholars and activists thinking the transformation of gestational labor within contemporary pharmacopornographic capitalism. Neither simply natural nor banally cultural, gestation appears as the unthought core of gender and sexual politics, and the key of a forthcoming womb revolution: trans-Marx meets mammal’s politics!”
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<br>– Paul B. Preciado, author of _Testo Junkie_
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