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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 on Substack at Today in Fascism.
As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.
Activists, not elites, are leading the way forward in a world without Roe.
A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.
“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.
The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.
The penalties of gender and sexual violence are not equally distributed, but psyche violence is genderless.
Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment.
What does solidarity look like when our bodies cannot come together, in public, to agitate for a better world?
For him, books were instruments—things to do something with.
The dichotomy between two kinds of feminism—one fighting for sexual liberation and one fighting for equality—is false.
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