Laurie Penny

Profile: Full name: Area of interest: Journals/Organisation: The Guardian | New Statesman | The Independent Email: laurie.penny@gmail.com Personal website: http://pennyred.blogspot.com Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/laurie-penny Blog: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny - 'Pop culture and radical politics with a feminist twist' Representation: Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/PennyRed

Biography: About: Journalist and feminist activist from London. She is a regular writer for New Statesman, contributor to The Guardian, and the author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism http://lauriepenny.wordpress.com/about Education: Brighton College; Oxford University Career: Current position/role: also writes/written for: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Latest work: Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism / Zero Books (29 April 2011) Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

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Articles: All journals Yes, Mr Gove, I enjoyed an expensive education, but I'm still not on your team - In the world of inherited wealth and privilege, money and class are more important than ideology - 12th May 2012 Gay marriage is one thing the Tories really don't get - For most Conservative policy-makers, gay rights are a matter of political expediency, not principle - 9th May 2012 How to go on strike when you haven't got a job - Whatever happens on 1 May, it is doubtful that capitalism will fall - 28th April 2012 Real men want to talk about sex - we need to start listening - The first thing boys learn is that there’s nothing worse than being ‘like a girl’. So men keep quiet - 21st April 2012 Can't we tell a prank from a terrorist plot? - Pointing and laughing at power is traditional in Britain, but lately is less acceptable - 9th April 2012 Tweet has Ryan fans in a spin - I appear to have been rescued from minor peril by an A-list celebrity. I assumed that this sort of thing happened regularly in New York, because every day here feels a bit like living on a film set - 5th April 2012 My New York date was going really well. Until... - Every café is lousy with writers waiting for love to blow in over a macchiato - 28th March 2012 America learns it cannot ignore race and class on the Million Hoodie March - Protest and privilege make uneasy bedfellows - 24th March 2012 That's enough politeness – women need to rise up in anger - The men who run the world have become too used to not being afraid. Let's make them afraid - 8th March 2012 Decoys in boardrooms and pulpits won't fool women - We’re supposed to be satisfied if a handful of women scrambles to the top - 11th February 2012 Anti-sex propaganda doesn't work - Some still believe that decent women are incapable of sexual agency - 20th January 2012 You can't bully people into non-jobs - There is nothing wrong with stacking shelves unless it's for £1.33 an hour - 13th January 2012 Sexism is the stock in trade of the tabloid press - Challenging sexism strikes at the core of the business model, and that is what feminists must be brave enough to do - 2nd January 2012 Exploding French breast implants – hilarious, right? Wrong - Now you've got the laughs out of your system, let's look at how deadly serious and deeply messed up this whole situation is - 22nd December 2011 People power isn't just a fad for a magazine cover - Waiting is no longer an option for those of us who can envisage a future beyond the year 2050 - 19th December 2011 How could Labour have been so cruel? - It's because of the previous government that cancer patients are suffering additional pain - 9th December 2011 A New York spider gave me an insight into US private healthcare - Occupy Wall Street is right – a rash of bites showed me how private healthcare keeps Americans cowed and compliant - 4th December 2011 A sensational subject without the sensation - How long does it take before you find out what a new friend has stashed in their pants? A year? A day? - 18th November 2011 I was almost arrested too – but Bloomberg's tactics can only galvanise protests - The only thing left behind from the camp was a large American flag. The NYPD have their superstitions - 15th November 2011 Occupy Wall Street: police violence reveals a corrupt system - Occupy Cif: Better-off Occupy Wall Street protesters are learning something about the relationship between citizen and state - 15th November 2011 A woman's opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet - For criticising neo-liberal economic policymaking, it was suggested I should be made to fellate a row of bankers - 4th November 2011 Debating the anti-capitalism protests - Laurie Penny says we are witnessing a brave challenge to greed and inequity. Joan Smith thinks that the protesters are self-congratulatory and will achieve nothing. So we set the pair to argue the matter out... - 30th October 2011 Brute threats are no remedy for despair - For the young and the poor there are few ways to claw back status from society - 25th October 2011 Keeping speech free is one way to rebuild our society - Are we allowed to post angry tweets about overthrowing the Government? To organise protests if there's a chance they might turn rowdy? - 18th August 2011 The power of the intern - The system is unfair and open to abuse, and gives posh young dogsbodies far too much influence - 9th April 2011

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