Kate Manne

Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at https://t.co/U5FAzAnNv3. She/her

Articles

In Which I Pack My Bags

1 week ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

One last reminder: everyone is welcome here, and I completely understand if a paid subscription isn’t on the cards for you at the moment. But I can’t help but notice that far fewer people have invested in this space than regularly open these emails and (hopefully!) get something out of them. So, if you want to support my writing, please consider not putting it off any longer and becoming a paid subscriber today.
Is Ozempic Harm Reduction?

1 week ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

A little reminder: everyone is welcome here, and I completely understand if a paid subscription isn’t on the cards for you at the moment. But I can’t help but notice that far fewer people have invested in this space than regularly open these emails and (hopefully!) get something out of them. So, if you want to support my writing, please consider not putting it off any longer and becoming a paid subscriber today.
How Women Get Sent to the Dog House

1 week ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

Last month, 238 Venezuelans were abducted and deported to a prison in El Salvador, El Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT). The images of said prison should shock even the most jaded conscience: men lined up so tightly that they must kneel with their heads on the backs of their neighbor, their eyes lowered, their heads shaved during the intake process. They can then expect no sunlight, inadequate food and water, and housing in cells where 80 to 100 men are kept shoulder-to-shoulder.
When Does a Critique of White Women Become Misogyny?

2 weeks ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

Warning: All the spoilers ahead, except for last night’s finale—which I remain vague about in case you haven’t seen it yet. As always, please ‘like’ this post via the heart below and restack it on notes if you get something out of it. It’s the best way to help others find my work. Of course, the very best way to support my work is with a paid subscription. The White Lotushas long been one of my favorite shows on television.
Is Trump 2.0 Making Us Sick?

2 weeks ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

For the last three months, I haven’t been able to shake a recurring infection. I am currently on my fifth round of increasingly strong antibiotics. I got COVID, which made me unspeakably ill for a few days, and then rebound COVID, which wasn’t fun either. My low-grade chronic pelvic pain has ramped up considerably. This hasn’t been great, but it’s nothing compared to what my husband has been going through. (More on that later.) And we are hardly the only ones.
This Should Be a Front Page News Story

3 weeks ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

After Jane was taken by ICE, she found herself chained up for twelve hours on a prison bus. The chain was so tight around her chest that she began to panic; but the guards would not loosen it. “You’re fine,” they grunted in her direction. She had no water, no food, and most of all, no toilet. She was told by the guards to urinate or defecate on the floor. When some people did, unable to hold it any longer, the stench became unbearable.
"Adolescence" Has a Missing Victim Problem

3 weeks ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

Please ‘like’ this post via the heart below and restack it on notes if you get something out of it. This piece is free to read, so please also share it widely. Of course, the very best way to support my work is with a paid subscription. Content warning: misogynistic violence***Spoilers below***“Do you know what I don’t like about all this? Right, the perpetrator always gets the front line: A man raped a woman. We’ve followed Jamie’s brain around this entire case. Right? Katie isn’t important. Jamie is.
How I Destroyed my Work Station-And, Briefly, My Life

4 weeks ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

Please ‘like’ this post via the heart below and restack it on notes if you get something out of it. It’s the best way to help others find my work. Of course, the very best way to support my work is with a paid subscription. Ever since the election, I’ve had a certain manic energy. Some of it has been focused on my writing, but a lot of it, truth be told, has been poured into the hundred-odd year-old house that I call home in Ithaca.
Trump is America's Domestic Abuser

1 month ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne

Please ‘like’ this post via the heart below and restack it on notes if you get something out of it. It’s the best way to help others find my work. Of course, the very best way to support my work is with a paid subscription. Abductions. Threats. Arbitrary cruelty. It’s easy to feel that the news, under Trump 2.0, is overwhelming to the point of being incomprehensible. More than that, his targets do not always make sense to first-glance observation.
A Love Story

1 month ago | katemanne.substack.com | Kate Manne |Carmen Machado

Content warning: rape and sexual traumaAs I build this newsletter, one thing I’ve been wanting to do is run more extracts from books I love, want to support, and know my readers will be into. I’m pleased and proud to say that the first such extract is by Kate Hamilton, the extraordinary writer of Mad Wife: A Memoir, a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting portrait of her survival of marital rape, abuse, and gaslighting.