Sophie Lewis is a writer and independent scholar living in Philadelphia. She is a member of Writers Against the War on Gaza and teaches for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research as part of our Philadelphia branch. Dr. Lewis studied literature, followed by environmental policy, at Oxford University, as well as politics at the New School for Social Research, and human geography (in which she earned her PhD) at the University of Manchester. Sophie is the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (2019), Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (2022), Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (2025), and Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe (2026). You can support her writing on Patreon if you wish (@reproutopia), find her publication archives at her website (lasophielle.org), listen to her on innumerable podcasts (e.g. The Dig), and read her essays everywhere from the London Review of Books to Harper’s. Look out for her forthcoming book: The Liberation of Children (Penguin, 2027).