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Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and activist*. She has written six books, including Bitch Doctrine (Bloomsbury 2017), Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury 2014) and Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016). Laurie has worked on The a Nevers (HBO) and Netflix’s ‘The Haunting’. She writes essays, columns, features and gonzo journalism about politics, social justice, pop culture, feminism, technology and mental health and she gets time, she also writes creepy political science fiction.
You can find more regular updates and support Laurie’s work on Patreon.
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Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and activist*. She has written six books, including Bitch Doctrine (Bloomsbury 2017), Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury 2014) and Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016). Laurie has worked on The a Nevers (HBO) and Netflix’s ‘The Haunting’. She writes essays, columns, features and gonzo journalism about politics, social justice, pop culture, feminism, technology and mental health and she gets time, she also writes creepy political science fiction.
You can find more regular updates and support Laurie’s work on Patreon.
She makes words for money, trouble and social change for lots and lots of places including The Guardian, Long Reads, Time Magazine, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Staresman, The New Inquiry, Tor.com and Medium. When she’s not on the road, Laurie is based between London and Los Angeles.
Laurie Penny was born on September 28, 1986 in Islington, North London, England. She is a writer, known for The Nevers (2020), Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop (2015) and Channel 4 News (1982).
[on being saved from a potential pedestrian accident by 'Ryan Gosling'] As a feminist, a writer, and a gentlewoman of fortune, I refuse to be cast in any sort of boring supporting female role - even though I have occasional trouble crossing the road, and even though I did swoon the teeniest, tiniest bit when I realized it was him.
[on issues leading to the "Me too" movement] Rebellions involve risk and defiance. It takes fantastic courage to name your abuser. Naming your abuser is an act of defiance. It means overcoming every lesson you've ever internalized about what happens to women who make trouble. And there are always consequences for that defiance. If you stand up to your rapist you risk being iced out of your industry, called a liar and a lunatic, and being shamed and humiliated in public and punished in private. That's how structures of oppression work - by excusing almost everyone involved from acknowledging what's happening. The reason that so many men can honestly claim not to have the scale and extent of sexual abuse is that women and children have protected them from that knowledge. That's what rape culture is. It's not just a system that allows rapists to get away with it. It's a system that allows them to feel okay about it afterward.
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