Author, journalist, narrative designer, screenwriter. Geek, gender goblin, feminist killjoy, force of culture. Writer for hire, weirdo for free. They/them.
London, England
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So.
I wrote a book about modern fascism as a backlash to LGBTQ rights and women’s liberation.
It breaks down why this happened, how we fight the new misogyny, and how we win.
You might find it useful.
amazon.com/Sexual-Revolution…
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Fodly remembering when @PennyRed claimed her grandmother won the George cross
Polanski said his family 'fled the Nazis'. But all four of his grandparents were born in Britain - long before the war trib.al/cEIekAl
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if Pink Peacock had ever received the level of scrutiny the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar had, Glasgow would still be a Chernobyl-style exclusion zone now
The lesbian bar stuff reminds me of when Glasgow got its first “Covid Safe Vegan Queer Yiddish Anarchist pay what you can” Bakery which had to close because they were hostile woke scolds to literally everyone
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I predict that it’s precisely what happened to *insert epic bisexual club night that ran in the Arches for two glorious years in the late 2010s*.
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Now, remember, agent - when you meet your contact, you will use the passphrase ‘I hear the queer vegan anarchist Yiddish pay-what-you-want cafe in Govanhill has closed down,’ and wait for the response ‘sorry what lol’
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Laurie Penny retweeted
PSA: Sex workers and sluts are not why men treat women poorly. Blaming women who are simply living our lives, not hurting you, for misogyny broadly out there in the world is, itself, misogynistic behavior.
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I would have been shot at an army checkpoint somewhere outside of town like the discourse equivalent of someone trying to conceal a zombie bite
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I’ve just spent a solid week at WW2 resistance training school and I might never be the same.
I don’t know if it’s the profound sense of moral purpose, the historical vertigo, or just the effect of fresh air and regular mealtimes.
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I’M 40 TODAY.
And if you would like to help me celebrate, I would love nothing better than if you’d subscribe to my Substack.
It means a lot to me.
And just for today, I’m doing a 40% sale for new subscribers:
lauriepenny.substack.com/p/b…
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I’M 40 TODAY AND VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
If you are over 40 and have sensible advice to offer I would be even MORE excited :D
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ⓇⒾⓈⒺ 🐓 𝐚𝐍𝓭 ⓈⒽⒾⓃⒺ 🌞 Laurie Penny @PennyRed
Author, journalist, narrative designer, screenwriter. Geek, gender goblin, feminist killjoy, force of culture. Writer for hire, weirdo for free. They/them.
#London, #England
lauriepenny.me
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Laurie Penny retweeted
'The Voynich manuscript is untranslatable! It's a mystery!'
'Actually it turns out to be about female sexual health.'
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'IT'S A MYSTERY.'
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Laurie Penny retweeted
Ngl I appreciate the strategy of hallucinating back at the AI interviewer
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‼️ @PennyRed on Britain’s failure to confront its imperial history in 2017:
“If you ask British people who voted for Brexit what their major fear is, their fear is that people will come to our country and take our things.”
After describing Britain’s own history of colonial conquest:
“It just doesn’t compute.”
Nearly ten years after the referendum, one of Brexit’s least examined ingredients remains Britain’s dysfunctional relationship with its own history.
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First Dolly, now Tim Curry. This is horrendous.
All we can do is keep the memory of these icons alive.
Who would we be otherwise? What kind of world would we be leaving for Keith Richards?
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Only one type of person has ever questioned my ADHD, and that’s adults who have spent their lives wrestling with very similar traits. They’ve worked very very hard to convince everyone that they’re normal. >
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I was a high-achieving child and kept my struggles secret. It was exhausting. I write about it here: annamarchphd.substack.com/p/…
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