Judith Levine
Judith Levine is a journalist, commentator, and author of five books, most recently The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence, coauthored with Erica R. Meiners. She writes the Today in Fascism newsletter on Substack.
The First Lady’s New World
Melania is less about one woman than the disposability of them all in Trump 2.0.
Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism
As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.
The Abortion Plot
A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.
Father Knows Best
“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents’ rights” before the interests of children.
Hating Motherhood
Some feminists think we can improve motherhood. But what if abolishing it is the only way to alleviate its problems?
Abortion Is a Public Good
The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.
Violence Has No Gender
The penalties of gender and sexual violence are not equally distributed, but psyche violence is genderless.
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.
Violence Cannot Remedy Violence
Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment.
Body Politics
What does solidarity look like when our bodies cannot come together, in public, to agitate for a better world?
Pleasure and Danger
The dichotomy between two kinds of feminism—one fighting for sexual liberation and one fighting for equality—is false.
The “Active Shooter” Is the State
We must resist the militarization of our state, our communities, and our psyches and act as allies to those most harmed by violence.
#ThemToo
To fight sexual harassment in the workplace, we must learn from the history of women in the labor movement.
Songs of White Innocence
Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?
The Bartleby Strategy
Our democracy may depend on government workers, and indeed all of us, saying “I would prefer not to.”
