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Judith Levine

Judith Levine is the author of four books and countless articles exploring politics, policy, and public emotion, especially at the intersection of sex and justice. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and a small town in northeastern Vermont.

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Arts in Society, Law & Justice

A Parable and Parody of Restorative Justice

The Netflix series Dead to Me suggests that we might get closer to justice by forgiving each other and ourselves for the sometimes literally fatal flaw of being human.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Violence Cannot Remedy Violence

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment. To prevent both sexual and state-inflicted abuse, we must embrace restorative justice.

Judith Levine, Erica R. Meiners

Politics

Body Politics

What does solidarity look like when our bodies cannot come together, in public, to agitate for a better world?

Judith Levine

Arts in Society

Remy Charlip's Postmodernism for Kids

The artist exploded the idea of what a book can be. For him, it was not a thing, but an instrument—something to do something with.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

Pleasure and Danger

Linda Hirshman’s new book "Reckoning" poses a false dichotomy between two kinds of feminism: those fighting for sexual liberation and those fighting for equality. We don’t have to give up one for the sake of the other.

Judith Levine

Law & Justice

The “Active Shooter” Is the State

Moving from liberal gun reform to a truly radical movement will require us to make the connection between interpersonal violence and state violence.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?

#MeToo must go beyond the demand for punishment.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

#ThemToo

To fight sexual harassment in the workplace, we must return to the history of women in the labor movement.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

Is Stealthing a Sex Crime?

Prosecuting stealthing may not be the best way to end the practice.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

Not All Mothers

The female body is not, as Ariel Levy claims, the ultimate equalizer.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

Songs of White Innocence

Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?

Judith Levine

Arts in Society, Politics

The Bartleby Strategy

Our democracy may depend on government workers, and indeed all of us, saying "I would prefer not to."

Judith Levine

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