Distinguished Visitors Talk by Sophie Lewis, Writer and Independent Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Event canceled)

Monday, April 21, 2025

2:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

VCAM VCAM 001 Screening Room

04/21/2025 02:15 PM America/New_York Distinguished Visitors Talk by Sophie Lewis, Writer and Independent Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Event canceled) VCAM

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Niemi, Gina

gniemi@haverford.edu

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Faculty and Staff
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Distinguished Visitors Program Talk by Sophie Lewis, Writer, theorist, scholar

Talk on Monday, April 21, 2025 at 2:35pm (tea at 2:25pm) in VCAM 201

“Feminists Against Women? Enemies within Feminism"

Female anti-feminism and right-wing feminism are distinct phenomena, yet both exist in the West. In this lecture, Dr Sophie Lewis will offer a condensed 200-year overview of cissexist, colonialist, nativist, White-nationalist, whorephobic, capitalist, eugenicist, carceral, and (yes) even pro-forced birth forms of Western women’s rights activism. Taking them seriously as self-described feminisms, she proposes, is necessary for understanding how to defeat them. While feminist commitment is a sine qua non of any rigorous or principled antifascism, some articulations of women’s rights can be and have been fascisms. In this moment of heightened anti-trans mobilization, difficult conversations about the lines we must hold—even against our “kin”—are the only way to invigorate the feminist fightback we so urgently need.

This event is sponsored by Visual Studies in conjunction with the Distinguished Visitors Program