'I can't really think of another writer who so consistently and bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better' Caitlin Moran
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. 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. laurie-penny.com @PennyRed
Bitch Doctrine by Laurie Penny, one of the most accomplished and
acerbic of the new, young journalists emerging from the protest
movements of the 2010s, takes you to the front trench of the gender
war and keeps you there longer than anyone should really stay
*Paul Mason, Guardian*
Laurie Penny is a polemicist – and her book is a largely data-free
stream of consciousness – but she writes with verve and humour. It
is a blast, in all senses
*Financial Times*
Laurie Penny is the tits. Witty and brazen, a force for both
decency and revolution, she’s a swashbuckling rhetorician, a daring
reporter and an all-around fabulous broad. Bitch Doctrine provides
an invaluable case for truth-telling in an age of chaos and
lies
*Emily Nussbaum*
If you've followed Penny’s work, you'll know that the thing that
sets her apart from other enraged columnists is her empathy. She
understands exactly what her opponents are thinking, and why,
precisely, they are full of shit. This is a delight of a book.
Penny’s essays are righteous ones
*Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother*
The feminist writer Laurie Penny gives us short essays on
everything from the trials of being trolled to why exactly she
calls herself polyamorous and genderqueer ... Precise and rational
... Provocative
*Vogue*
A provocative rallying cry, she confronts social issues from love,
gender and violence, pitching them against a backdrop of Trump and
the rise of the right
*Red*
A dizzyingly clever, warm and witty compilation of essays covering
topics which range from the 2016 US presidential election, to
writing which explores the notion of gender: it looks at the nature
of relationships and examines the current culture we find ourselves
in … Passionate, interesting, thoughtful
*Cherwell*
A writer and polemicist, a bad-ass, contrary, angry, bisexual
troublemaker who is never happier than when she’s upsetting
someone, or preferably everyone … We need her
*The Times*
An insightful, provocative and bold commentator. She is always
relevant without slavishly following a supposedly 'topical' agenda
set by others. Most importantly, she never compromises her
compassion and humanity
*Irvine Welsh*
Sometimes enraging, sometimes enchanting, often both at once … 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
*Guardian*
Forget Sex and the City, Penny doesn’t give a damn about the
politics of waxing or how small your pants are. She’s more
interested in analysing the battles we face around gender under
late capitalism ... We are dealing with a new world order
*Observer*
Funny, angry, clear and true. Laurie Penny takes no prisoners –
she'd rather free 'em
*Joss Whedon*
Penny is one of the first feminist writers to grow up within, and
so instinctively understand, both the possibilities and the dangers
of this relatively new cyber world
*New Statesman*
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