Sophie Lewis is a German British academic and self acclaimed communist writer known for her theoretical ideas of family abolition and the use of surrogacy on a societal scale. Her first book Full surrogacy now, Feminism against the family was published in 2019 by Verso Books, followed by Abolish the Family, a manifesto for care and liberation in 2022. Lewis teaches courses on feminist, trans and queer politics and philosophy, including family abolitionism at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York.