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Women's Safety Movement Sparked by Sarah Everard's Murder Should Focus More on Cops and the Home
Discussions of "stranger danger" can obscure the structures of gendered power, including state and domestic violence.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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Socialist Legislators Want to Impeach Cuomo for Abuses of Power
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Indigenous Standing Rock Activist Imprisoned for Resisting Grand Jury
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Repealing the "Walking While Trans" Ban Is Part of the Struggle to Decriminalize Sex Work
Andrew Cuomo may not realize it, but the repeal recognizes that police interactions with marginalized people are sources of harm.
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Forget Biden’s Bust of Cesar Chavez: Hunts Point Strike Is the Bold Labor Action the Country Needs
Essential workers, ravaged by the pandemic as their bosses raked in millions, organized from the bottom up and won concessions.
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To See Police Priorities, Contrast Capitol Mob With J20 and Black Lives Matter Protests
Hundreds were arrested on single days during Trump’s inauguration and this summer’s uprising — and just 52 were at the Capitol.
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Far-Right Violence Is Going to Be a Threat With or Without Trump’s Calls to Action
The far right is focused on “Stop the Steal” nonsense, but violence driven by white supremacy won’t disappear even if Trump does.
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Amazon Workers Are Organizing a Global Struggle
Amazon is seeing record profits — but little trickles down to the ground-level workers who keep the online giant running.
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Beyond Breonna: Louisville Police Make the Case for Abolition
The idea of defunding the police is roiling Democratic Party politics — but it’s not about that. It’s about the horrors of policing.
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Oregon’s Decriminalization Vote Might Be Biggest Step Yet to Ending War on Drugs
Oregon voters’ drug decriminalization applies an anti-carceral logic to more than just weed.