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Laurie Penny

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in London, The United Kingdom

September 28, 1986

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Laurie Penny is a journalist, an author, a feminist and a net denizen. She is Contributing Editor at New Statesman magazine, and writes and speaks on social justice, pop culture, gender issues and digital politics for The Guardian, The Independent, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Inquiry and many more. She is the author of Cybersexism, Penny Red and Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, as well as Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens, co-authored with Molly Crabapple. Her book, Unspeakable Things, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. In 2010, at the age of 23, she was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing. She is a frequent guest on national television and radio, has appeared on Question Time, Any Questions and New ...more

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Fifty Shades of Socialist Feminism

Seattle, 2015.

‘He’s ready to see you now,’ says the well-dressed receptionist. I find myself wondering what she gets paid. Some people seem to get off on the constant presence of servile flunkies, and I make a note to actually talk to some of them later in this story. Meanwhile, Christian Grey, superstar billionaire, is waiting for me in his office.

I have no idea why he has agreed to this intervi

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Laurie Penny’s books

Average rating: 3.92 · 18,829 ratings · 2,160 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution 4.02 avg rating — 3,018 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism 3.93 avg rating — 1,998 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults 3.96 avg rating — 1,516 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything Belongs to the Future 3.53 avg rating — 1,094 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback 3.86 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet 3.88 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Orisons May Be Recorded 3.62 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discordia by Laurie Penny, Molly Crabapple (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hundredth House Had No Walls 3.58 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent 3.88 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms’, when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

tags: feminism, nonfiction

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“Feminism has never just been about liberating women from men, but about freeing every human being from the straitjacket of gender oppression.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

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“One sure test of social privilege is how much anger you get to express without the threat of expulsion, arrest, or social exclusion,”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

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