Sophie Lewis

I was annoyed at the *discourse* and wrote some rapid fire notes on Steinem www.patreon.com/posts/168891...

"she takes us from ordinary calamities, a cut thumb or dead father or collapsed marriage, to the camps and the bomb" Brilliant, unsentimental, passionate, critical, urgent - by @kristingrogan.bsky.social on the "year of Sylvia Plath" and... the Epstein Files. www.bostonreview.net/articles/you...

Kicking off tonight’s British-accent heavy conversation on “On Un/Certainty” with @natashalennard.bsky.social and @reproutopia.bsky.social !!

I'm talking at @redemmas.org with Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social in 15 minutes!! Get yourself here, Baltimore ✨✨✨✨

If you are a big fan of a) Ludwig Wittgenstein's late writings and/or b) smashing fascism you are going to want to come hear @natashalennard.bsky.social talk about "On Un/Certainty" Wednesday evening with @reproutopia.bsky.social RSVP: redemmas.org/events/natas...

Someone posted this earlier, thanks, it really is that good. @reproutopia.bsky.social @ the LRB bookshop. We fight for joy. pca.st/episode/4529...

Here (it's worth a listen and often funny): pca.st/episode/4529...

I just heard @reproutopia.bsky.social, speaking of their own (probable?) ND experience, say that it's like: "I'm going to misunderstand on purpose… even though I also actually misunderstand" and I feel like someone's finally exposed the shameful secret I've been keeping all my life

Almost a third of the way there!! Help me make my face somehow even hotter! chuffed.org/project/2025...

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.

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

Look out Bmore!

Red Emma's is hosting me and the inimitable Tash Lennard to talk about her holy anticipated new essay collection ✨✨

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...

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...

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...

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/...

www.e-flux.com/notes/678354...

Tonight at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social ! www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/20260...

a gorgeously astute read on Gloria, by @reproutopia.bsky.social:

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:

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

From @reproutopia.bsky.social www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...

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

“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...

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...

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.

There's just so much in here... www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

«Autonomy is an effect of care, a quality that we generate through having quality care infrastructure. That’s what it means to be autonomous, to be so well held that you feel like you’re free to act.» <3 @reproutopia.bsky.social

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

Astonishing work. Excellent writing. Horrific findings.

This is brutal -- it took me a week to get through it -- but it's important.

One thing that's noteworthy here is how Palestinians have to be women targeted "by armed men" in order to fit into feminism. We know (and I talk about this in my recent piece for The Key) that IOF women / female prison guards are often responsible for the horrors done to Palestinians of all genders

new course up (on the relation between family policing abolition and family abolition), it's quickly selling out though, so act fast if you want to participate: thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

An utterly persuasive, if also utterly harrowing, account of how rape is Israeli eugenicist policy: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

essential reading www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

Y ya como ultima pieza: Esta escrita por Sophie Lewis. Una lectura que te deja hecha migas, peo me parece importante igual (CW fuertes) https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rape-sde-teiman-palestine-sophie-lewis