Patriarchal violence in New York politics and beyond will not come to an end with the removal of a small number of predatory perpetrators, however powerful.
theintercept.com
"As I noted when allegations of Cuomo’s sexual assault first went public, the end of Cuomo’s tenure should also entail a break from his legacy of governance: away from mass incarceration, sex work criminalization, privatization, and austerity, and toward housing rights; free health care; and economic, racial, and social justice."
"Camonghne Felix, a former Cuomo staffer who, in 2015, was the first Black woman to work as a speechwriter for the governor and was the only Black person on his press team, has previously spoken out about the gendered and racialized abuse — both verbal and structural — that she experienced in the administration, and directly from the governor. In response to the attorney general’s report, she wrote in The Cut, “This isn’t a moment. This is social evolution.”
" After Cuomo, it would be no win for feminism to simply elect a more congenial technocrat who treats their own co-workers with respect but still supports the continuance of oppressive systems of incarceration, policing, and impoverishment, in which sexual violence thrives."
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