Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, columnist, journalist and screenwriter. Their seven books include Bitch Doctrine, Unspeakable Things and Everything Belongs to the Future. As a freelance journalist, they write about politics, social justice, pop culture, feminism, mental health and technology for places including the Guardian, Longreads, TIME, Buzzfeed, the New York Times, Vice, Salon, The Nation and the New Statesman. They were a 2014-15 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University. As a screenwriter, Laurie has worked on 'The Nevers' (HBO), 'The Haunting' (Netflix) and 'Carnival Row' (Amazon). Laurie Penny is based between London and Los Angeles.

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This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence.

It's a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is rising in response to both.

It's a story about a social change. And at the centre of that story is one simple idea: we are in the middle of a sexual revolution.

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

A writer and polemicist, a bad-ass, contrary, angry, bisexual troublemaker who is never happier than when they are upsetting someone, or preferably everyone . We need them