Doing It Better: Conflict Resolution after Abuse in Leftist Communities

Joe Biel
27 min readNov 22, 2017

In October it entered the public consciousness that Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax Films and co-chairman of The Weinstein Company, had spent decades exploiting a power imbalance to pressure sexual favors out of women and then paying settlements to silence criticisms. As the raging public became increasingly furious at his exploitation of his position to grant and receive favors, his board fired him from his production company, his wife left him, he was suspended from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and he was…

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Joe Biel

self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker formed by punk rock, joebiel.net