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            <p class="book-stats"><b>Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation</b></p>
            <p class="book-stats"><i>Coming soon!</i></p>
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            <p class="book-stats"><b>Full Surrogacy Now!</b></p>
            <p class="book-stats"><i>Published in May 2019</i></p>
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        <div class="thead">ESSAYS</div>
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            <p>2022. <a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-woman-is-a-woman-lewis"><strong>A Woman is a Woman?
                        Lillian Faderman's Selective Histories</strong></a>, <em>The Baffler</em>, November 18.</p>
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            <p>2022. <a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/14647001211059520"><strong>Mothering against motherhood: doula
                        work, xenohospitality and the idea of the momrade</strong></a>, <em>Feminist Theory</em>,
                January 10.</p>
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            <p>2021. <a href="https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n22/sophie-lewis/shebeen-queens"><strong>Shebeen
                        Queens</strong></a>, <em>LRB</em>, November 18.</p>
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            <p>2021. <a
                    href="https://bostonreview.net/arts-society-gender-sexuality/sophie-lewis-how-domestic-labor-robs-women-their-love"><strong>How
                        Domestic Labor Robs Women of Their Love</strong></a>, <em>Boston Review</em>, October 28.
            </p>
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            <p>2021. <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/shulamith-firestone-dialectic-sex/"><strong>Shulamith
                        Firestone Wanted to Abolish Nature</strong></a>, <em>The Nation</em>, July 14.</p>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <p>2020. <a
                    href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/grief-circling"><strong>Grief-Circling</strong></a>,
                <em>Dissent</em> magazine (Summer issue). </p>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <p>2019. <a href="https://logicmag.io/bodies/do-electric-sheep-dream-of-water-babies"><strong>Do
                        Electric Sheep Dream of Water Babies?</strong></a> - on ectogenic bio-bags; <em>Logic
                </em>magazine. Issue 8.</p>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <p>2018. ‘<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3654-gestators-of-all-genders-unite"><strong>Gestators
                        of all Genders, Unite!</strong></a>’ – the Verso Books Blog. March 26.</p>
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            <p>2018. ‘<a
                    href="https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3845-not-a-workplace-julie-bindel-and-the-school-of-wrong-abolitionism"><strong>Not
                        a Workplace: Julie Bindel and the school of wrong abolitionism’</strong></a> – Verso Books
                Blog. May 24.</p>
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            <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>
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            <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>
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            <p>2016. ‘<a href="https://salvage.zone/in-print/serf-n-terf-notes-on-some-bad-materialisms/"><strong>SERF
                        ‘n’ TERF: Notes on some Bad Materialisms</strong></a>’ – <em>Salvage Quarterly</em>, vol. 5.
                February 6.</p>
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        <div class="thead">COLLECTIVE WRITING</div>
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            <p><strong><a href="https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/hope-against-hopa">Hope Against Hope: Writings on
                        Ecological Crisis</a></strong>, as part of ecological writing collective <em><a
                        href="https://twitter.com/out_woods">Out of the Woods</a></em>.</p>
            <p><i>Published in June 2020</i></p>
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            <p><strong>End/And: Feminization in Unending Times</strong>, as part of feminist film criticism platform
                <em><a href="http://blindfieldjournal.com/">Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry</a></em></p>
            <p><i>Published in 2017</i></p>
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