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Sophie Lewis

@reproutopia.bsky.social

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Philadelphia feminist writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"

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Artie Vierkant

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a call to healthcare workers from “Health Fascism and the Anti-State State” in December:

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Transcript Death Panel episode “Health Fascism and the Anti-State State” (December 22 2025):

“Second: we fight by recruiting defectors from inside the house. This is a call to healthcare workers: betray your training when your training demands cruelty. If it means someone gets what they need to live—betray your bosses, your licensing board, your EMR, your scope of practice. Care is not your credential, it’s your calling, your skills, your knowledge, your access, your obligation to your community. And sometimes that obligation will mean disobedience.

If we are to build the world we need, we need you on our side, not on the side of your administrator. We need you willing to take risks, not just for your reputation, but for the material survival of those around you. The struggle is already here and you can either enforce the harm or interrupt it. We need insurgent care. And we needed it yesterday. If you have access pass it on. If you have knowledge, share it, weaponize it. If you have creativity, run with it.”

Transcript Death Panel episode “Health Fascism and the Anti-State State” (December 22 2025):

“This is where the real transformation begins. Not just in asking the system to care, but also in building the world we wished we lived in. A world where care is not determined by billing or zip code, or citizenship, or employment status, or formulary, or diagnosis codes. A world where no one is surplus. Where illness is not a source of shame or debt or punishment—but simply a part of life, and a part of being and feeling cared for.”

January 24, 2026 at 7:56 PM

Sophie Lewis

@reproutopia.bsky.social

Thank you. :) which chapters have been most 😵 for you so far? or: any facts or dynamics that stood out, made things click for you - if you feel like sharing?

January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM

Sophie Lewis

@reproutopia.bsky.social

Oh! My bad then sorry

January 19, 2026 at 4:24 PM

Sophie Lewis

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Well, no! Not according to the essay!

January 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM

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Dr. Adeene Denton

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Sophie Lewis' Enemy Feminisms was one of my favorites this year for her chapter-by-chapter historical analysis of how feminism was used by aspiring female colonizers, fascists, and racists across the centuries. "Feminism" is not an inherent political good! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2489-e...

Enemy Feminisms

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December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Sophie Lewis

@reproutopia.bsky.social

Of course, my pleasure. I have a lot on this in my first book, Full Surrogacy Now (a radical critique of the gestational labor industry from a family abolitionist standpoint) and also in an essay I wrote about Donna Haraway, if you feel like googling that

January 17, 2026 at 10:10 PM

Sophie Lewis

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Sure - but Qs of technofascism &, generally, capitalist tech, can and should be separated from 'tech', which is not to say technoutopianism or uncritical technophilia is ok; I am tempted to call the proper approach anti-anti-tech. Technophobia in feminism is closely entangled w femmephobia + TERFism

January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM

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Death Panel

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5/ Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social on the history of “fascist feminisms,” what this history can tell us about the current state of US politics, and her book Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

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Best of 2025: Enemy Feminisms w/ Sophie Lewis | The Death Panel

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January 6, 2026 at 8:23 PM

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Death Panel

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First up: @reallandsend.bsky.social and @vickyacab.bsky.social on the holes in the Trump administration’s grip on power and how the field is ripe for mass movements to challenge not just Trump administration policies like mass deportation, but federal power itself

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Best of 2025: Sick Sad World w/ Vicky Osterweil | The Death Panel

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December 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Inquest

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'Enemy Feminisms' by @reproutopia.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org was recommended in our Year in Books by Inquest editor @romaissaa.bsky.social who calls it "distinctive, poetic, and rupturing, slicing through conventional thinking to reveal uncomfortable truths."