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

Ian Bonaparte, of Janklow & Nesbit, is my literary agent, and you can contact him at ibonaparte@janklow.com.

You can pre-order my forthcoming book Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe at bookshop.org.

My other, very different (!) love letter to feminism – a compendium of the feminisms we love to disavow – came out in 2025: Enemy Feminisms:TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation.

My first book, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, was published by Verso Books in 2019. My second short book on family abolition, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, was published in 2022 (also by Verso). Both are available as audiobooks.

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 a free-lancer supported by my patreon subscribers, speaking fees, and Brooklyn Institute course enrollees. Check out my course offerings here.

Octopus images by Rupa DasGupta