Beck Series: Writer Sophie Lewis

The Beck Series welcomes writer and scholar Sophie Lewis. Lewis is the author of “Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family” (2019), “Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation” (2022), and “Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation” (2025). Lewis’s essays appear in venues such as n+1, Boston Review, The Nation, The Baffler, Mal, e-flux, The New York Times, and London Review of Books; their academic articles appear in journals such as Signs, Paragraph, and Feminist Theory. Lewis is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Research on Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies, and they also teach courses on feminist, trans, and queer politics and philosophy at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.