Best for: I don’t know. Maybe new feminists looking for some decent writing? In a nutshell: Journalist Laurie Penny collects some of her greatest hits into one essay collection. Line that sticks with me: “It’s easy to criticize call-out culture, especially if the people calling you out are mean and less than merciful. It’s far harder to look into your own heart and ask if you can and should do better.” Why I chose it: I don’t know. I probably shouldn’t have, as there are […]
A timely and relevant essay collection
I’ve recently read two essays by Laurie Penny: “Most Women You Know Are Angry—And That’s All Right” and “On the Milo Bus with the Lost Boys of America’s New Right.” Both are engaging and provocative in their different approaches to an interlinked topic: the clash between right and left in the United States, as well as the way men and women see each other in Trump’s America. I heard that Penny’s new book, Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults, and I was intrigued enough to […]
Penny Red
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGWFwESrelw] I ended up following Laurie Penny (@pennyred) on Twitter at some point. She’s a UK-born-and-bred white journalist who writes about feminism, class, geek culture, and all that lies in between. She covered the Occupy movement, and many other uprisings stemming from young people recognizing that they are currently getting the shit end of the stick. If any of you are familiar with Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency, you might have come across the above video, as it was the second part of a […]