Book tickets
Join feminist theorist Sophie Lewis for a discussion celebrating the launch of Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe.
Exploring the liberatory possibilities of unapologetic femme feminism, Femmephilia moves through feminist icons, myth and folklore, queer readings of popular culture, and radical visions of care, kinship, and collective freedom. Blending political urgency with erotic and imaginative excess, Lewis offers a bold call for abolitionist, anti-work, and trans-inclusive futures.
Lewis will be joined in conversation by S. Lamble, community organizer and author of Unsafe: the Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash.
Exploring the liberatory possibilities of unapologetic femme feminism, Femmephilia moves through feminist icons, myth and folklore, queer readings of popular culture, and radical visions of care, kinship, and collective freedom. Blending political urgency with erotic and imaginative excess, Lewis offers a bold call for abolitionist, anti-work, and trans-inclusive futures.
Lewis will be joined in conversation by S. Lamble, community organizer and author of Unsafe: the Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash.
Bios
Sophie Lewis is a writer, utopian, feminist, and ex-academic scholar based in Philadelphia, hailing originally from the UK, France, and Germany. She is the author of Enemy Feminisms, Abolish the Family, and Full Surrogacy Now. Lewis’s essays and articles appear routinely in magazines such as n+1, Harper’s, The Drift, the LA Review of Books, Boston Review, and the London Review of Books; as well as on her Patreon newsletter, “ReproUtopia.” She teaches online courses on critical theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and is working on a book about the liberation of children.
Lamble is a community organizer and Professor of Criminology and Queer Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Their work explores questions of gender, sexuality, and justice with a focus on feminist and abolitionist alternatives to prisons, police, and punishment. They are based in London.
Book tickets
Tue, 23 Jun 2026
Cinema 1
06:45 pm
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Cinema 1
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Sophie Lewis by Thom Wall.
Lamble by Christa Holka.
