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Kwaneta Harris @kwanetaharris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This month, Kwaneta recommends Imperfect Victims by @leighgoodmark.bsky.social and Corridors of Contagion by @victorialaw.bsky.social. Both of these are must-reads for anyone interested in abolition.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People with big platforms who profess to care about marginalized people should never, ever punch down. And when they do, we should notice and assess what they’ve produced accordingly.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Prison is sexual abuse. Prison is torture. Prison is death. Free them all.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 18/03/2026

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 06/03/2026

If the anti–domestic violence movement wants to embrace abolition feminism, why is it clinging to the use of carceral system to punish perpetrators? @leighgoodmark.bsky.social's “Intimate Partner Firearm Violence and Abolition Feminism” explores the tension between its rhetoric & practice. 1/2

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

As part of our continuing series of articles on how true crime harms criminalized survivors, Kim Hricko, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social and I published this piece on Snapped on The Culture We Deserve: theculturewedeserve.substack.com/p/the-true-h...

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The True Harms of True Crime: Snapped

by Leigh Goodmark, Kim Hricko, and Kwaneta Harris

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Kim Hricko, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social, and I recently published an article on how true crime media harms criminalized survivors. Here's another facet of that harm: true crime exposes incarcerated women to men seeking to sexually exploit them. @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/inc...

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Incarcerated Women Featured in True Crime Media Face Flood of Sexual Harassment

Incarcerated women are being made involuntary performers in a spectacle that attracts men who dehumanize them.

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026

Dorothea Lange. Kern County, California (1938)

black and white photo of an industrial air pump at a rest stop with a hand painted sign that reads "air. this is your country don't let the big men take it away from you"

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"The violence we experience inside is not a different or separate kind of violence. It is gender-based violence, and it's enabled by your silence. So let me ask again: Ain't I a woman? And if I am, then where are you?" My brilliant friend, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social:

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Ain't We Women, Too?

For many incarcerated women, the state is their abuser, but the gender-based violence we experience behind bars goes ignored.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I love these emails. Which character in Decriminalizing Domestic Violence do you think suggested real screen potential?

Picture of an email asking me to consider making my academic non-fiction book into a movie.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This five year old is still in jail

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

When I was asked to sign an amicus brief in U.S. v. Rahimi, I reflexively said yes--no one who uses violence should have a gun. Then I remembered that the criminal legal system would enforce the prohibition. #Abolitionfeminism means saying no to the criminal system. My latest @socres.org:

First page of Leigh Goodmark, Intimate Partner Firearm Violence and Abolition Feminism, in Social Research: An International Quarterly

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Client's application for a pardon of her federal conviction was denied (the judge felt so strongly that the client deserved mercy that he advocated against her deportation after her conviction). Apparently we didn't submit the one thing that the Administration requires before considering a pardon.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

One of the highlights of being associate dean for research at Maryland Carey Law is welcoming scholars from across the country (including @ahoagfordjour.bsky.social, @profshirleylin.bsky.social, and @susanmcmahon.bsky.social). Looking forward to this semester's Legal Theory Workshops!

Photographs of 2026 Legal Theory Workshop Speakers, including Brooklyn Hitchens, Sheldon Evans, Wojciech Sadurski, Alexis Hoag-Fordjour, Shirley Lin, Kathleen Engel, Susan McMahon, Daniel Harawa, Ned Foley, Erika George, and Aaron Mills.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If I were supreme ruler of all things lexical (a word I just looked up), I would outlaw the use of the word "unfortunately." I have spoken.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Preventing harm before it happens, providing safe and non-judgmental spaces in which people who are considering harm can get help without requiring them to be criminalized--this is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing, and House of Ruth is doing it in Maryland.

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A New Domestic Violence Hotline Aims to Stop People From Doing Harm

“Being able to talk someone off the ledge, I think it would prevent a lot of cases like mine,” one man said.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Today this is a baking account. Chunky Lola cookies (Flour Bakery recipe), chocolate peppermint brownie cookies, and eggnog snickerdoodles (@nytimes.com). Snow outside, cookies inside.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I’ve been doing this for more than 30 years, and if I ever stop being nervous before I walk into court, I’ll know it’s time to stop.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today's fun fact: if "blue" "progressive" Maryland was a country, we would incarcerate more women per capita than 153 countries, including Canada, China, Argentina, and Venezuela, and would be tied with the Russian Federation. #TheMoreYouKnow www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women...

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States of Women's Incarceration: The Global Context 2025

Women's incarceration in every region of the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

As a pragmatic abolitionist, I'll use any tool I can to get people out of prison. But laws decreasing sentences for/allowing for resentencing of criminalized survivors are not everything we need to prevent injustice. We need for survivors not to be prosecuted at all. Mine @truthout.org.

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New Pennsylvania Law Seeks to Aid Abuse Survivors Who Resist — But Is It Enough?

Laws to help “criminalized survivors” who fight back against their abusers often merely reduce their prison time.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

So far during the parade, my kids have booed the NYPD, asked why we continue to glorify the (whiteness of the) 50s, and talked about union busting during a Starbucks commercial. The kids are all right.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

One of my clients died yesterday. She was an absolutely lovely woman, full of faith and joy and light. She cared deeply about the people around her. She was a source of encouragement and support to the women she was incarcerated with. She was 51 years old and had spent 28 years in prison.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

To the guy spotted reading Imperfect Victims on the B train last week: I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. And I hope they liked the flowers. ❤️

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 05/11/2025

This is news to me, a Jew who doesn't feel like I have lost anything because of Zohran's victory. My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The ideas underlying socialism are hardly toxic. Inclusion, community, compassion, opportunity, effective governance are all fundamental, widely embraced. The term socialism itself has been cynically stigmatized. But with a little good sense, we can move past that and focus on values & results.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It’s been so long since there was good news that I forgot you could scroll and smile at the same time.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Getting COVID is terrible. Getting COVID in prison, as @victorialaw.bsky.social explores in her latest book, Corridors of Contagion, is still a potentially deadly nightmare. Read about it here: www.thenation.com/article/soci.... And get the book here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-c...

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We’ve Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons

Covid is spreading, but incarcerated people are being told vaccines aren’t necessary.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

So excited for Kim Hricko, whose essay is part of the "Inside the Prison Heat Crisis" series at The Jump Line. Read it here: thejumpline.substack.com/p/inside-the...

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Inside the Prison Heat Crisis

Dispatches from Florida, Maryland, and Washington

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The average salary for NYPD investigators is $100K. $100K x 450 investigators = $45 million/year. Imagine what we could do to decrease intimate partner violence with $45 million a year? But yeah, let's fund more cops instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/n...

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New N.Y.P.D. Unit to Focus on Domestic Violence as Cases Surge

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

That this administration is committed to "aggressively arresting and prosecuting every criminal who terrorizes our fellow citizens and their families" tells you everything you need to know about the effectiveness of criminalization as a response to IPV. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Trump Ties Domestic Violence Prevention To Border Security, Law Enforcement

President Donald Trump marked National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a proclamation linking family safety to border enforcement, law-and-order initiatives, and digital protection laws.

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I told Anna Sinfield that the first season of The Girlfriends made me yell at the radio. She interviewed me anyway. 🤷‍♀️ Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Girlfriends S3/Bonus Ep 3: Is Abolition the Answer?

Podcast Episode · The Girlfriends: Jailhouse Lawyer - Season 3 · S3, E11 Bonus · 42m

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My relationship to Judaism right now is...complicated. I didn't go to temple today. But I took the Yom Kippur Torah portion to heart: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen...to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke." I took my fast to court. And the world got a little more just.

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