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Campus sexual assault is not an “institutional problem” merely in the sense that assault takes place at an institution. It is an “institutional problem” in the sense that the institution fosters the conditions for the problem, punishes the victims, and colludes with the perpetrators to cover it up.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 12h

I've been hearing that Cornell's culture of fraternity fueled rape is especially bad since I moved to the US in 2017. Last year, the figure was over 1 in 3 female students who had been raped. The victims are often punished more harshly than the perpetrators are. I hope every chapter of Chi Phi burns

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 14h

In 2013, the Daily Princetonian revealed that in 2008, Princeton University had paid to conduct a survey of students about sexual assault - then buried the results when *one in six* female undergrads reported unwanted vaginal penetration within the past year. That’s just under 17%.

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Survey quantifies sexual assault

More than 15 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at the University, according to an unpublished survey conducted in 2008 by seve...

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Randall Cream @randallcream.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look out Bmore!

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Red Emma's is hosting me and the inimitable Tash Lennard to talk about her holy anticipated new essay collection ✨✨

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do I know anyone in Baltimore? I'm not sure. But I'd love to meet you if you're there! Please join me and brilliant @reproutopia.bsky.social to discuss my book, On Un/Certainty ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) & more, at @redemmas.org 10/21! redemmas.org/events/natas...

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Natasha Lennard presents "On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times" in conversation w/Sophie Lewis

We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This online short course is happening in November-December on the subject of anticapitalist feminism, "femme" vs. capitalist-patriarchal femininities, the politics of contemporary femmephobias and femmephilias, and the "lumpen theory" of the sex worker left thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The good people at Salvage magazine have today published, on their website, my response to ‘The Anti-Politics of Family Abolition’ by Robyn Marasco. The audio of me reading the piece aloud is on my patreon.(www.patreon.com/posts/169728...). You can read the piece here: salvage.zone/on-robyn-mar...

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On Robyn Marasco’s Anti-Abolitionism and the Abolition of Care - Salvage

This is a response to ‘The Anti-Politics of Family Abolition’ by Robyn Marasco, from Salvage #16: The Construction Site of Hell. ‘Abolition,’ writes A. J. Bohrer in Capitalism and Confinement, ‘names ...

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Transcript of the conversation between @keirangoddard.bsky.social and me at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk earlier this summer. Listen here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid... And/or read here: www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...

Keiran: And I think that there’s traces of that in all of the essays. And I know I’ve said this to you personally, but there’s something about the way you approach any topic, pretty much, it seems, where you assume in advance that there’s this kind of sort of promise of communism in it. You know, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re analyzing. It’s like: I can find it! You know? And I wondered how much of that is temperamental and how much of it is deliberately prefigurative? Or if it’s at all possible to unpick those two things.

Sophie: You just reminded me of the TikTok where the woman says, “I love soup. You mean to tell me you hid a little bit of food in a bunch of water? I’ll find it!!” I guess that is kind of me, isn’t it: with the desire for communism-in-everything.

It’s true, I can actually watch an episode of Love Island and be like, “Aha! the desire for communism.”

But I’m right, though.

Keiran: Yeah. No doubt.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tonight at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social ! www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/20260...

Teal and neon pink promo graphic for the Femmephilia event with Sophie and Red at Pilsen Books on September 9, 7pm

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

disturbed (albeit not terribly surprised) but not surprised to hear about a manhattan institute guy sharing a video of @reallandsend.bsky.social on x the everything app, and a ton of leftists apparently agreeing with his incredulous and ableist critique.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026

the frame of Health Fascism moves away from individual MAHA behaviors and towards how our health care and social welfare systems, such as they are/aren't, were fertile ground for a far right power grab. @deathpanel.bsky.social has been exploring this for a long time. the full panel chuds clipped:

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Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)

YouTube video by Haymarket Books

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

She didn't need the help of the CIA or the deep state in taking over mainstream feminism, she had worked for a decade in the magazine trenches in various oddball capacities (my favorite: she was the third notable assistant to Harvey Kurtzman on Help! besides Gilliam and Crumb) and made conenctions

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From @reproutopia.bsky.social www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...

She was one of the few members of the ’60s student movement to take government money for anticommunist purposes knowingly. But don’t get me wrong, it is laughable, and intensely misogynist, to infer that this somehow means that either women’s liberation or Steinem herself was a CIA op. Steinem’s well-documented affection and respect for her short-term employer reveals precisely zero large-scale conspiracies embedded in the project of liberal American feminism. Rather, it just helps illustrate something that is far more depressing, actually: Steinem didn’t need central-intelligence handlers in order to voluntarily create a socialism-tinged counterrevolutionary movement architecture. For decades, without covert funding or formal mission, she always projected just enough radical credibility to be effective in nudging social movements away from class war and anticolonialism and toward peaceful electoralisms. Again, her being a true-believing social-democratic “humanist” was precisely what made it consequential, i.e., pacifying and diluting of certain forms of women’s rage, when she chose to prop up American imperialism, support Israeli settler colonialism, and normalize capitalism. Contra the kooky and/or campist conspiracists on the internet right now, she wasn’t defusing radicalism on purpose or as part of some kind of plot or plan. (But isn’t that worse?)

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"My favorite of the two, however, had nothing good to say about the American security state."... excellent, generous and critical note from our @reproutopia.bsky.social www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...

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Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis

I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026

to my knowledge, Gloria Steinem never went back on her opposition to sex workers' rights—such as when she urged Amnesty International to not support decriminalization, despite all the evidence that criminalization harms sex workers

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Actors call on Amnesty to reject plans backing decriminalisation of sex trade

Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson and Lena Dunham among signatories of letter arguing that policy change would ‘legalise pimping’

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“When Ramparts broke the story in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, describing the CIA as “liberal, nonviolent and honorable” and stating she would do it again.” medium.com/collapsenews...

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Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing…

Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lori Marso explores the ideas behind Sophie Lewis’ "Femmephilia" and Eileen G’Sell’s "Lipstick": "To be femme is to embody a distinctly artificial, alluring, and potentially radical performance of 'womanhood.'" lareviewofbooks.org/article/femme-f…

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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 25/08/2026

An essay about Ari Aster would come back to haunt Sophie Lewis in ways she couldn't have predicted. @kimkelly.bsky.social interviews Lewis about the movie review that was unexpectedly introduced as evidence in the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility case: filmmaker.substack.com/p/how-a-film...

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How a Film Review Ended Up at the Center of a Domestic Terrorism Case

A conversation with feminist scholar Sophie Lewis about the Ari Aster essay that she didn’t expect to be taken out of context.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly and Curry in the same day? A heavy blow to all who exalt and revere the collective lumpenproletarian arts and labors that go into "looking this cheap," not to mention "giving yourself over to absolute pleasure." There's a better life, and you think about it, don'tchou. Rest in power, femmes.

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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

«Autonomy is an effect of care, a quality that we generate through having quality care infrastructure. That’s what it means to be autonomous, to be so well held that you feel like you’re free to act.» <3 @reproutopia.bsky.social

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

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Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 15/08/2026

Astonishing work. Excellent writing. Horrific findings.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One thing that's noteworthy here is how Palestinians have to be women targeted "by armed men" in order to fit into feminism. We know (and I talk about this in my recent piece for The Key) that IOF women / female prison guards are often responsible for the horrors done to Palestinians of all genders

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 12/08/2026

There was also this 2019 NYT op-ed from (I believe) @reproutopia.bsky.social which I thought laid out a few threads well when I first read it back then: www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/o...

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Opinion | How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans (Published 2019)

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This piece is shattering.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One must read the whole piece, but at a minimum, one must read this thread.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In a context where Palestinians have smuggled sperm out of prisons for the purpose of pursuing assisted reproduction in defiance of Israel, “reproductive organs are targeted with genocidal intent,” according to feminist Tara Al-Ami. Me for @palfest.bsky.social www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

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“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

crucial piece from always brilliant @reproutopia.bsky.social "Sexual violence, in other words, is not incidental to the colonial project. It is its grammar."

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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I hope you read this vital, powerful writing from @reproutopia.bsky.social in today's edition of The Key: "This is what it looks like when a society has settled the question of who counts as rapeable – which is to say, who counts as human." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

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“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 30/07/2026

important work. sophie lewis on the centrality of the rape of palestinians to the zionist settler-colonial project:

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Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Powerful essay by Sophie Lewis: 'The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in [Israel's] parliament.' www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

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“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/07/2026

"What could possibly make it surprising to a trained historian that armed settlers did what armed settlers have done everywhere in the world? ...The finding must be registered as an anomaly, because to register it as a pattern would be to concede what the pattern means."

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