Weekend Hot Takes - The Ghislaine Maxwell Edition

This week, the national conversation once again spiraled around the so-called Epstein “client list.” The same question resurfaced: Where is it? Who’s on it? When will it be released? And just like every other time, the obsession with the list revealed more about the public’s craving for spectacle than their actual commitment to justice.

At SWOP Behind Bars, we spent the week unpacking what this really means—for survivors, for sex workers, and for anyone who’s ever dared to hold receipts on the powerful. From Trump calling his own base “stupid” for caring about trafficking, to the mythologizing of the black book, to the survivors no one believed for years—we followed the threads that mainstream media refuses to pull.

But this week, one name kept surfacing in a different light: Ghislaine Maxwell.

And like so many things in this case, the conversation got murkier, messier, and harder to ignore.