Enemy Feminisms w/ Sophie Lewis (Re-Air)

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Note: This episode was originally released February 20th and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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. Sophie’s new book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation is out this week from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminisms Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

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0:00.0	there is something about duality and antagonism in the history of these categories,
0:09.0	whichever way you want to slice it, that is, I think, worth drawing out.
0:13.5	Like, how could something like feminism or anything forged in the crucible of imperialism and colonialism and capitalist accumulation,
0:24.6	not be molded by it, right?
0:28.3	Right?
0:57.9	It's a lot of Welcome to the Deaf Panel.
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1:37.6	also follow us at Death Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Alder Bolton, and I'm joined today by returning
1:43.1	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.
1:54.9	Sophie is a writer and independent scholar who studies eugenic, bioconservative, and imperial feminisms.
2:01.4	They are the author of the books Full Surrogacy Now and Abolish the Family, a manifesto for
2:05.8	care and liberation, both of which are published by Verso and have been previously discussed
2:10.5	on episodes of Death Panel.
2:12.6	Dovi also teaches online courses on Utopian Theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social
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