Laurie Penny

So. I wrote a book about modern fascism as a backlash to LGBTQ rights and women’s liberation. It breaks down why this happened, how we fight the new misogyny, and how we win.  You might find it useful.  amazon.com/Sexual-Revolut…

'Is he autistic or is he just an asshole?' - New essay out now. open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenn…

A transgender teenager won a German chess tournament, and now some numpties are calling for a ban on trans girls in women's chess. What does this have to do with fairness? Can anyone give me an answer that doesn't assume women and girls are less intelligent than men?

Neurosexism: autistic women, girls and non-binary people are not just ‘better at masking’. Our distress is misinterpreted and our symptoms dismissed, unless they are unavoidably obvious- and when they are that obvious, we are as likely to be punished as we are to be helped.

In the first scene of 28 Days Later, a helpless chimp is strapped to a table and forced to watch doomreels of ultraviolence until it loses its little monkey mind and eats @davisschneider. This is a universally relatable image. New essay up now: open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenn…

To all my distractable, neurodiverse chaos muppets out there: may you baffle the secret police who have to write reports on you by living your best ratbag life like Karl Marx did.

Yael van der Wouden has won the #womensprize for fiction- and uses her speech to come out as intersex, shout out to trans activists and acknowledge her queer and trans community. Amazing.

Yes, the most powerful men in the world are obviously deranged, utterly incompetent and chowing down on the mother of all messy public friend breakups Yes, we might all drown in the backwash of these howling mediocrities’ emotional incontinence. But somehow it’s still top drama.

I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us

Good for them.

Come on, Elon. Say you stole it. Spill it all. You know you want to. So much attention. You can do it.

Truth Social has crashed from the traffic surge and in so doing accidentally created a hauntingly poignant image.

Excuse me. I know for a fact that I can handle at least four high-agency men going at it at once. Especially with a break for snacks and water. I still object to liberal democracy being held hostage by a couple of screaming overpowered emotionally incontinent babymen.

Sir, I know you don’t have a word for ‘dignity’ in kekistan, but there’s no need to be quite this horny on main.

Why ‘woke’ is just a right-wing fetish. (Please stop recruiting me into your persecution fantasy, thank you). New Sunday essay: