Best of 2025: Enemy Feminisms w/ Sophie Lewis

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🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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As we prepare for what's coming in the new year, we’re releasing a Best of 2025 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. Each of these will also be posted in the public feed. We’ll be back early in the new year with new episodes. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Original description: Beatrice speaks with Sophie Lewis about the history of “fascist feminisms,” what this history can tell us about the current state of US politics, and the need to embrace more radical and liberatory forms of feminism. Find Sophie’s book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902493 Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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0:00.0	there is something about duality and antagonism in the history of these categories,
0:08.9	whichever way you want to slice it, that is, I think, worth drawing out.
0:13.4	Like, how could something like feminism or anything forged in the crucible of imperialism and colonialism and capitalist accumulation, not be molded by it, right? Right? I'm Welcome to the Deaf Panel.
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1:40.6	I'm Beatrice Alder Bolton, and I'm joined today by returning guest and dear friend of the panel, Sophie Lewis, to talk about their brand new book out this week from Haymarket called Enemy Feminisms, Turfs, Police Women and Girl Bosses Against Liberation.
1:54.8	Sophie is a writer and independent scholar who studies eugenic, bioconservative, and imperial feminisms. They are the author of the
2:02.2	book's full surrogacy now and abolish the family, a manifesto for care and liberation, both of which
2:07.5	are published by Verso and have been previously discussed on episodes of death panel. Dovi also teaches
2:13.4	online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and is a visiting
2:18.9	affiliate at the Center for Research on Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University
2:23.7	of Pennsylvania.
2:25.1	Sophie, welcome back to Death Panel.
2:26.7	I'm so glad we're getting a chance to talk about this book together today.
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