by Laurie Penny
Campbell, Joseph, here
celebrity feminism, here
Chait, Jonathan, here, here
Cheamly, Soraya, here
child poverty, here
child sexual exploitation, here
childcare, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Churchill, Winston, here
‘citizen therapists’, here
Clarey, Aaron, here, here
Clarkson, Jeremy, here
Clinton, Bill, here
Clinton, Hillary, here, here, here, here, here
Cohen, Leonard, here
Coleman, Daisy, here
Collins, Suzanne, here
Cologne attacks, here
Connery, Sean, here
Cooper, Parley J., here
Cosby, Bill, here
cosmetic surgery, here
Cox, Laverne, here
Craig, Daniel, here
Cross, Katherine, here
Cunningham, Josie, here
Cyrus, Miley, here, here
Daily Mail, here
Daly, Mary, here
Davison, Emily Wilding, here
Deen, James, here, here
Dove, here, here
Drexler, Peggy, here
Dunham, Lena, here, here, here, here
Dworkin, Andrea, here
Elgin, Suzette, Haden, here
emotional labour, here, here, here, here
Ensler, Eve, here
essentialism, here, here, here
gender essentialism, here
EU Referendum, here, here, here, here
Even the Score, here
Ex Machina, here, here
Fanon, Frantz, here
Farrow, Dylan, here, here
fascism, here, here, here
Fey, Tina, here
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, here
Fitzgerald, Zelda, here
forced labour, here
Fox, Fallon, here
freedom of speech, here
Frei, Matt, here
G20 conference, here
Galloway, George, here, here, here
gay marriage, here, here, here
gender dysphoria, here, here
Ghostbusters, all-female, here, here, here
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, here, here
Girlguiding, here
Girls, here, here, here
Goldman, Emma, here, here
Gove, Michael, here
Grace, Laura Jane, here
Gray, Alasdair, here
Great Recession, here
Greenwald, Glenn, here
Greer, Germaine, here, here, here, here
Guardian, here, here, here, here
Hale, Lord, here
Hamill, Mark, here
Handmaid’s Tale, The, here, here
Haraway, Donna, here, here
Harry Potter, here, here, here
Hertz, Noreena, here, here
Hills, Rachel, here
Hitler, Adolf, here, here, here, here
Hive Vagina, here, here
Hodges, Dan, here
Holtzclaw, Daniel, here
‘home production economy’, here
hooks, bell, here
Hoult, Nicholas, here
Huffington Post, here, here
human trafficking, here
Hunger Games, here
hypoactive sexual disorder (HSDD), here
identity politics, here, here, here
intersex people, here, here
ISIS, here, here
Jacobin, here
James, Kendra, here
James, Marlon, here
Jameson, Fredric, here, here
Jeffreys, Sheila, here
Jemisin, N. K., here
Jewell, Hannah, here
Jezebel, here
Jones, Leslie, here
Joseph, Jenny, here
Kelly, R., here
Kesha, here
Kim Jong Un, here
Klein, Ezra, here, here
Labour Party, here, here, here, here
Lancôme, here
Le Guin, Ursula, here
Lees, Paris, here
Lennard, Natasha, here
Letts, Emily, here, here
Lewinsky, Monica, here
Lewis, Paul, here
LGBT people, here, here, here, here, here, here
Lincoln, Abraham, here
London riots, here
London Underground, here
Lynch, David, here
Mack, Christy, here
Mad Max: Fury Road, here
Madden, George, here
Manning, Chelsea, here
Mason, Paul, here
Melville, Herman, here
Mendes, Sam, here
Menkedick, Sarah, here
Merkel, Angela, here
Metropolis, here, here
M.I.A., here
millennials, here, here, here, here
minimum wage, here
Minister for Women, here
Mitchell and Webb, here
Mock, Janet, here
Moore, Roger, here
Moore, Suzanne, here, here
More, Thomas, here
Morning Post, here
Muslims, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Mutasah, Tawanda, here
Nation, The, here, here
nerds, here
New Chauvinism, here
New Inquiry, The, here
New Republic, here
New Statesman, here, here, here
New York Times, here, here, here, here
normalisation, here, here, here, here
Obama, Barack, here
Observer, here
Occupy movement, here, here
OkCupid, here, here
Okwonga, Musa, here
O’Neil, Louise, here
Operation Yewtree, here, here
O’Reilly, Bill, here
Orwell, George, here
Osborne, George, here
Overton window, here
Oxford English Dictionary, here, here, here
Paris attacks, here
Park, Suey, here
Parker, Dorothy, here
Pittsburgh Dispatch, here
Planned Parenthood, here
Plato, here
Playboy, here
Poitras, Laura, here
political correctness, here
polyamory, here
precariat, here
Presley, Elvis, here
press freedom, here
public shaming, here
quotas, here, here
Ramos, Luisel, here
rape, here, here, here
and children’s tax credits, here
‘reproductive labour’, here
Revlon, here
Richardson, Terry, here
Rihanna, here
Robinson, Kim Stanley, here
Ronson, Jon, here, here
Roosevelt, Franklin D., here
Rose, Ruby, here
Roth, Veronica, here
Russia, here
safe spaces, here, here
Salon, here, here
Savage, Corey, here
Savile, Jimmy, here
science fiction, and feminist futures, here
seahorses, here, here
Second Amendment, here
Serano, Julia, here, here
Sex and the City, here
sex work, here
shaving, here, here, here, here, here
Silicon Valley Sexism, here
Silver, Nate, here, here
Slaghter, Anne-Marie, here, here
Smith, Cyril, here
smoking, here
Snickers, here
‘snowflakes’, here
Southern Baptist Convention, here
Southern Poverty Law Center, here
Spender, Dale, here
Star Models agency, here
Star Wars, h
ere, here
Steinem, Gloria, here, here
STEM subjects, here, here
Steubenville High School, here
Stoya, here
suffragettes, here, here
suicide, here, here, here
Sunkara, Bhaskar, here
Target retail chain, here
Telegraph, here, here
Tepper, Sheri S., here
Texas Board of Education, here
Time magazine, here, here, here
Tiptree, James Jr, here
Tombs prison, here
Traister, Rebecca, here, here, here
transgender/transsexual people, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
feminists and, here, here, here
trigger warnings, here
Trump, Donald, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and abortion, here, here
elected president, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
election campaign, here
‘Trumpism’, here
Tufecki, Zeynep, here
Turing, Alan, here
Tyson, Mike, here
US Centers for Disease Control, here
utopias, here
Valenti, Jessica, here
Valentine’s Day, here
Veet, here, here
Verne, Jules, here
Vogue, here
Wachowski, Lana, here
War Machine, here
Watson, Emma, here
weddings, here
Weeks, Kathi, here
Weigel, Moira, here, here
Welfare Reform and Work Bill, here
‘white knights’, here
white supremacists, here
white working class, here, here, here
Wilde, Oscar, here
Wold, Naomi, here
Women’s Beach Volleyball, here
Wong, Julia Carrie, here, here
work–life balance, here, here, here, here, here
World, here
Yuknavitch, Lidia, here
zika virus, here
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
LAURIE PENNY is a writer and journalist. She writes for Vice, the Guardian and many other publications, is a columnist and Contributing Editor at the New Statesman magazine and Editor-at-Large at cult New York literary project The New Inquiry. She was the youngest person to be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing on her blog ‘Penny Red’. She has reported on radical politics, protest, digital culture and feminism from around the world, working with activists from the Occupy movement and the European youth uprisings. She has 160,000 followers on Twitter and in 2012 won the British Media Awards’ ‘Twitter Public Personality of the Year’ prize. Laurie is a nerd, a nomad and an activist. She is thirty years old and lives in London.
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Unspeakable Things
‘This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.’
Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as ruthless in her dissection of modern feminism and class politics as she is in discussing her own experiences in journalism, activism and underground culture.
This is a book about poverty and prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, riots in the streets and lies on the television. The backlash is on against sexual freedom for men and women and social justice - and feminism needs to get braver.
Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no prisoners, a feminism that is about justice and equality, but also about freedom for all. It’s about the freedom to be who we are, to love who we choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out fiercely against those who would deny us those rights. It is a book that gives the silenced a voice - a voice that speaks of unspeakable things.
‘Unspeakable Things is essential for anybody who truly believes in equality and freedom’ Irvine Welsh
‘Unspeakable Things is an impressive, inspiring and, I suspect, important manifesto’ Melissa Harrison, Financial Times
‘A raw, bright, urgent voice ... Like Caitlin Moran, another compulsive and essentially self-taught writer, she went to places others didn’t and brought back things they had missed ... Dazzling’ Guardian
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