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@leighgoodmark.bsky.social
Professor at Maryland Carey Law, director of Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence (UC Press). She/her/mom. leighgoodmark.com
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The criminal legal system is the primary response to gender-based violence in the US, but victims of violence who don’t conform to stereotypes about “perfect” victims are punished harshly by that system every day-come for the anger-inducing stories, stay for the abolition feminism.
Not surprising, but disappointing. Mayor Mamdani, call me--let's talk! nypost.com/2025/11/19/u...
Zohran Mamdani now says NYPD should respond to domestic violence incidents, backtracking on past controversial statements
“That has not been part of the proposal we have put forward over the course of the campaign,” said Mamdani on Wednesday when asked if his new Department of Community Safety (DCS) would …
nypost.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Not surprising, but disappointing. Mayor Mamdani, call me--let's talk! nypost.com/2025/11/19/u...
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.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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.
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. ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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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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.
My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.
Bari Weiss's website is being about as normal as I expected
www.thefp.com/p/mamdanis-r...
www.thefp.com/p/mamdanis-r...
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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.
My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.
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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.
The idea of socialism is toxic in American politics. But by picking his battles and showing the data, our new mayor can prove it works
Yes, Zohran Mamdani can govern as a sensible socialist
The idea of socialism is toxic in American politics. But by picking his battles and showing the data, our new mayor can prove it works
www.thetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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.
It’s been so long since there was good news that I forgot you could scroll and smile at the same time.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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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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
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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
Blue sky.
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Blue sky.
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...
We’ve Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons
Covid is spreading, but incarcerated people are being told vaccines aren’t necessary.
www.thenation.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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...
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...
Inside the Prison Heat Crisis
Dispatches from Florida, Maryland, and Washington
thejumpline.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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...
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...
New N.Y.P.D. Unit to Focus on Domestic Violence as Cases Surge
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
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...
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.
www.yahoo.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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...
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...
The Girlfriends S3/Bonus Ep 3: Is Abolition the Answer?
Podcast Episode · The Girlfriends: Jailhouse Lawyer - Season 3 · S3, E11 Bonus · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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...
Ending cash bail prevents criminalized survivors of gender-based violence from being held unnecessarily. Kudos to the anti-violence advocates in Illinois advocating for maintaining Illinois' bail reform law. 19thnews.org/2025/10/cash...
Trump says ending cash bail endangers women. Advocates say it protects them.
Recent reforms now require safety risk assessments when considering pretrial release from jail. These can benefit women on multiple levels, from those accused of crimes to survivors of gender-based vi...
19thnews.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ending cash bail prevents criminalized survivors of gender-based violence from being held unnecessarily. Kudos to the anti-violence advocates in Illinois advocating for maintaining Illinois' bail reform law. 19thnews.org/2025/10/cash...
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.
October 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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.
The Governor of Michigan seems to be aware of domestic violence and yet just denied clemency to multiple criminalized survivors of violence. Is that irony? Or is it just deeply enraging? www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news...
www.michigan.gov
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Governor of Michigan seems to be aware of domestic violence and yet just denied clemency to multiple criminalized survivors of violence. Is that irony? Or is it just deeply enraging? www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news...
Tell me again how police keep us safe from sexual violence. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...
Former California Police Officer Sentenced to Five Consecutive Life Sentences for Sexually Assaulting Four Women He Encountered While On Duty
J. DeShawn Torrence, 41, a former Sanger, California, police officer, was sentenced today to five consecutive life sentences for sexually assaulting four women whom he encountered during the course of...
www.justice.gov
September 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tell me again how police keep us safe from sexual violence. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...
I learned today that the reason that I do not read science fiction is because I am a science idiot. 🤷♀️
September 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I learned today that the reason that I do not read science fiction is because I am a science idiot. 🤷♀️
On brand-I’m spending my last hours before the Rapture at the Maryland Parole Commission
September 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
On brand-I’m spending my last hours before the Rapture at the Maryland Parole Commission
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This Thursday I’ll be in conversation w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social about her work on decriminalizing domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social’s domestic violence symposium.
If you’re a journalist interested in reporting on DV, & getting funding to do so from USC, register & attend! ⤵️
If you’re a journalist interested in reporting on DV, & getting funding to do so from USC, register & attend! ⤵️
Domestic Violence Symposium and Impact Reporting Fund
centerforhealthjournalism.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This Thursday I’ll be in conversation w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social about her work on decriminalizing domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social’s domestic violence symposium.
If you’re a journalist interested in reporting on DV, & getting funding to do so from USC, register & attend! ⤵️
If you’re a journalist interested in reporting on DV, & getting funding to do so from USC, register & attend! ⤵️
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Super excited to be moderating a panel w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social on the criminalization of domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social's Domestic Violence Symposium on 9/25.
The event is free & attendance is required if you want to apply for a USC grant to support reporting on DV in CA
The event is free & attendance is required if you want to apply for a USC grant to support reporting on DV in CA
Domestic Violence Symposium and Impact Reporting Fund
centerforhealthjournalism.org
September 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Super excited to be moderating a panel w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social on the criminalization of domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social's Domestic Violence Symposium on 9/25.
The event is free & attendance is required if you want to apply for a USC grant to support reporting on DV in CA
The event is free & attendance is required if you want to apply for a USC grant to support reporting on DV in CA
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Associate Dean @leighgoodmark.bsky.social featured in the @knowablemag.bsky.social article "Can a strategy shift reduce intimate partner violence?"
New research, innovative programs and emboldened advocates are challenging decades-old conventions about how to respond to domestic abuse.
✍️ Katherine Ellison
knowmag.org/4n1eJZj
✍️ Katherine Ellison
knowmag.org/4n1eJZj
Can a strategy shift reduce intimate partner violence?
New research, innovative programs and emboldened advocates are challenging decades-old conventions about how to respond to domestic abuse
knowmag.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Associate Dean @leighgoodmark.bsky.social featured in the @knowablemag.bsky.social article "Can a strategy shift reduce intimate partner violence?"
Bittersweet when someone who never should have been charged, let alone spent more than a decade in prison, is released. Though she should not have been in, Alexis Martin is out. #FreeThemAll www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Alexis Martin, prominent antitrafficking activist, released from prison
The case signals a shift in how victims of trafficking are treated when they commit crimes related to their abuse.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Bittersweet when someone who never should have been charged, let alone spent more than a decade in prison, is released. Though she should not have been in, Alexis Martin is out. #FreeThemAll www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Maryland Carey Law Professor @mgraber1.bsky.social in today's New York Times: “The Roberts court’s pro-Trump series of decisions creates reason for thinking that you might lose, even as every professor in your law school tells you the law is on your side.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Has Finally Found a President It Likes
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Maryland Carey Law Professor @mgraber1.bsky.social in today's New York Times: “The Roberts court’s pro-Trump series of decisions creates reason for thinking that you might lose, even as every professor in your law school tells you the law is on your side.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...
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