Sophie Lewis (author)

Sophie Lewis (born 1988) is a German-British writer and independent scholar based in Philadelphia, mainly known for her anti-state communism, transfeminism, literary criticism, and cultural analysis, especially her critical-utopian theorization of full surrogacy, her idea that all reproduction is assisted as well as amniotechnics, and her advocacy for family abolition. Lewis's personal website describes her as a recovering academic.

In 2019, Lewis was commissioned to write an op-ed in The New York Times to explain How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans, where she proposed that the reason for the United Kingdom's trans-exclusionary radical feminism is its history of imperialism. She gained notoriety in September 2020 when she tweeted about the multispecies erotic dynamics in the Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher, a controversy she later referred to as octopusgate in a 2021 essay published in n+1 magazine: "My Octopus Girlfriend".

Lewis has published two books through Verso Books; Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism against the Family, published in May 2019, and Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, published in October 2022. Her third book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, was published by Haymarket Books in February 2025.