Anti. 🐘Jan 27

Enemy Feminisms

TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis @ (author of Abolish the Family and Full Surrogacy Now)

Release date: 18 February 2025

"[In] a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need."

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminisms

Can't wait to read this timely book.

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Oh goodie.

The book Enemy Feminisms by @reproutopia is now available, https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminisms

Anyone for a spontanous #BookClub?

#TERFs #Feminism #SophieLewis

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“Women are horrible, quite often. Feminists, even, are part of the problem. That’s what this book is about, because I think we have no choice but to name enemy feminisms, if we are to build an abundant and livable world while calling that project feminism. We have to let go of the comforts of both self-castigation and defensiveness.”
~ Sophie Lewis - Enemy Feminisms
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"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."

https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/enemy-feminisms-w-sophie-lewis-022025

Enemy Feminisms w/ Sophie Lewis (02/20/25)

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 fo

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"a commitment to “impurity” in politics must walk hand in hand with the courage to draw lines and fight people if necessary. Even kin. Feminists who, like me, are committed anti-fascists—or anti-fascists who are also feminists, as they must be—need to know the difference between forgiving enemies & giving up the fight against them [...] It’s a question of learning to more confidently oppose people whom we understand: a cop is still my enemy when she’s my neighbor."
Sophie Lewis - Enemy Feminisms
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“While the vital importance of feminism to anti-fascism has been richly argued and studied, the role of feminism in fascism is a neglected counter-thesis that may help us better understand not only fascism in the present, but also ourselves, the inheritors of a liberal-democratic feminist legacy that fascistic women helped bequeath. Contrary to our expectations, there were clearly reasons why a cult of action against antifeminist politicians morphed into a cult of action against degenerates, >
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and reasons why “Votes for Women” became “Britain First” on many British feminists’ lips.”
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“Anti-fascists who were active in 2017 will remember, here, the similar case of white supremacist Lauren Southern complaining about sexism in her movement. I dare say the phenomenon of feminists in neo-Nazi movements suffering misogyny at their comrades’ hands is difficult to document without mirth and schadenfreude.”

~ Sophie Lewis - Enemy Feminisms

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"Despite it all, feminism lives. For this reason, I will always welcome moments of tetchy decolonial pessimism over high-literary boredom. An evergreen gesture exists whereby the badness of “The Movement” in the present is decried because the critic trains her tunnel vision only on the most reactionary elements. Feminist political thought, right now, is “deeply boring” and “unthrilling,” critics of this school propose. Feminism today is “uninspired,” “dull and unimaginative.” >
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And no doubt, “pussy hats are embarrassing,” just as they say—but if one looks only at the bourgeois mainstream, while simultaneously identifying with it, one will always find fodder for one’s consolatory stance of underwhelmed, distanced cynicism.”
~ Sophie Lewis - Enemy Feminisms
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But also:

“Feminism, in its best instances, is a burning prison: an insistence that life can be worth living and that every person’s pleasure matters. It is, too, the practices that make life livable, wresting care free from the market; freely distributing bread, roses, and hormones; desegregating the generations; bailing mamas out of detention; disempowering rapists in kin networks, churches, and social centers;

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and expropriating golf courses in order to open spaces of erotic (not necessarily sexual—but also sexual!) encounter. Feminism sometimes flashes an unlit pathway toward a world without whiteness or colonizers. In these moments, it’s an insurrection halting family policing, forced gestating, and every other reproductive injustice”
~ Sophie Lewis - Enemy Feminisms

What a brilliant and much needed book! Highly recommended. Thank you @reproutopia.

Hard one to follow. What should i read next, hmm.

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Sophie Lewis keynote at the 18. Feminist Theory Workshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CC8d-CFKU

18th Annual FTW - Sophie Lewis Keynote

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