[2] Lewis's work is rooted in black feminist and anti-racist struggle, and a socialist, anti-imperialist politics.
[1] Her 2009 article "Birthing Racial Difference: conversations with my mother and others" uses autobiographical references and reflections on psychoanalysis and sociology to "explore how 'race' has operated as structuring principle in Britain since the end of the Second World War", and "mixed-race, mother-child relations".
[12][13] Lewis has held many roles within academic publishing, including: In 1998, Lewis assisted the legal team (led by solicitors Dieghton and Guedalla) representing Duwaynne Brooks (friend of Stephen Lawrence) in the MacPherson Inquiry into the Murder of Stephen Lawrence.
[3] Writing for the Guardian for a 2014 International Women's Day piece (which included feminist activists Robin Morgan, Charlotte Raven, Amrit Wilson, Selma James, and Nawal El Saadawi), Lewis reflected on "intersectionality" and "infighting" in feminism, writing: "The current debates about intersectionality recall, if not repeat, many of the battles fought between black and Asian feminists (along with their white anti-racist compañeras) and white feminists who felt the struggle was being diverted by the call to pay attention to the inseparability of misogyny, racism, homophobia and class.
While there remains much to do to expand an intersectional understanding of the conditions that determine what it means to be a woman and who may be included, without those earlier moments of infighting, feminism today would be all the poorer.