Laurie Penny

Presents an examination of contemporary feminism in a neo-capitalist society and calls for a new, braver form of feminism motivated by justice, freedom, and equality for all.

Sex, Lies and Revolution

Unspeakable Things

“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

Essays for Dissenting Adults

Bitch Doctrine

Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day's food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures have we become? The same as we always were, but keener. In the ancient heart of Oxford University, the ultra-rich celebrate their vastly extended lifespans. But a few surprises are in store for them. From Nina and Alex, Margo and Fidget, scruffy anarchists sharing living space with an ever-shifting cast of crusty punks and lost kids. And also from the scientist who invented the longevity treatment in the first place. Everything Belongs to the Future is a bloody-minded tale of time, betrayal, desperation, and hope that could only have been told by the inimitable Laurie Penny. "The scariest, most enduring dystopias walk a fine line between parable and prediction. Penny erases that line. In this made-up story, the rich speciate from the poor; in our real world, working class lifespans are declining as the one percent live ever longer lives at ever-greater removes from the rest of us. This is no mere literary device. This is a pitiless allegory, calculated to enrage and terrify its readers." -- Cory Doctorow At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Everything Belongs to the Future

Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are alienated from their own personal and political potential. Under modern capitalism, women are both consumers and consumed: Meat Market offers strategies for resisting this gory cycle of consumption, exposing how the trade in female flesh extends into every part of women's political selfhood.

Female Flesh Under Capitalism

Meat Market

'The Internet was supposed to be for everyone... Millions found their voices in this brave new online world; it gave unheard masses the space to speak to each other without limits, across borders, both physical and social. It was supposed to liberate us from gender. But as more and more of our daily lives migrated on line, it seemed it did matter if you were a boy or a girl.' It's a tough time to be a woman on the internet. Over the past two generations, the political map of human relations has been redrawn by feminism and by changes in technology. Together they pose questions about the nature and organisation of society that are deeply challenging to those in power, and in both cases, the backlash is on. In this brave new world, old-style sexism is making itself felt in new and frightening ways. In Cybersexism, Laurie Penny goes to the dark heart of the matter and asks why threats of rape and violence are being used to try to silence female voices, analyses the structure of online misogyny, and makes a case for real freedom of speech – for everyone. Laurie Penny's forthcoming book, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, will be published in 2014.

Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

Cybersexism

Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback

Sexual Revolution

All prayers are answered, but sometimes the answer is no. And sometimes the answer is "let me talk to my manager and get back to you." From author Laurie Penny (Unspeakable) comes the Tor.Com Original novella, Your Orisons May Be Recorded. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.Com Original

Your Orisons May Be Recorded

Lidia Yuknavitch

Silvia Federici

Ariel Gore

Michelle Cruz Gonzales

With women's anger, empowerment, and the critical importance of intersectional feminism taking center stage in much of the dialogue happening in feminist spaces right now, an anthology like this has never been more important. The voices in this collection of essays and interviews offer perspectives and experiences that help women find common ground, unity, and allyship. Through personal essays and interviews about what it is like to live as a woman (cis + trans) in this modern world--with all of our love, anger, complexities, and desires for justice--All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body includes vulnerable, painful truths and bold inspiration. This anthology is for seasoned feminists and young feminists alike--anyone looking to find inspiration in radical activism, creativity, healing, and more. This book covers topics of social and economic justice, creativity, racism, transgender perspectives, sexuality, sex work, addiction and recovery, reproductive rights, assault, relationship dynamics, families, fitting and not fitting in, radical self-care, witchcraft, and more. If love and anger are two sides of the same coin, for women there are worlds to be explored with every flip of that coin. Readers will find a glimpse into those worlds in the pages of All of Me.

Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body

All of Me

Caighlan Smith

David Nickle

Aliette de Bodard

Tara Isabella Burton

N. K. Jemisin

Alix E. Harrow

Rebecca Campbell

Indrapramit Das

Nina Allan

Melissa Marr

Charlie Jane Anders

Alyssa Wong

Liu Cixin

Lavie Tidhar

Daniel Polansky

P. Djèlí Clark

Margaret Killjoy

Carrie Vaughn

Genevieve Valentine

Monica Byrne

Angela Slatter

Delia Sherman

Lettie Prell

Rajnar Vajra

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2016. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Nina Allan, Tara Isabella Burton, Monica Byrne, Rebecca Campbell, P. Djèlí Clark, Indrapramit Das, Alix E. Harrow, N. K. Jemisin, Margaret Killjoy, Cixin Liu, Melissa Marr, David Nickle, Laurie Penny, Daniel Polansky, Lettie Prell, Delia Sherman, Angela Slatter, Caighlan Smith, Lavie Tidhar, Rajnar Vajra, Genevieve Valentine, Carrie Vaughn, and Alyssa Wong. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.com Original

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016

Robin Furth

Mike Carey

Karrie Fransman

Lauren Beukes

Kieron Gillen

Cecil Castellucci

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Gail Simone

Gerard Way

Corinna Bechko

Chuck Brown

Alisa Kwitney

Hope Nicholson

Tee Franklin

Leah Moore

Tini Howard

Matt Wagner

Janet Harvey

Christina Rice

David Barnett

Che Grayson

Kristy Miller

Mags Visaggio

Paula Sevenbergen

Casey Gilly

Magurite Bennet

Dani Coleman

Lauren Moyer

Steven Seagle

Betsy Houlton

Thedy Correa

From astronauts and abolitionists to computer coders and crack journalists, these fearless women have paved the way for equal rights in science, politics and the arts. FEMME MAGNIFIQUE celebrates their achievements in a book that can live on in teenage bedrooms, corporate boardrooms and libraries around the world.Featuring over 100+ astounding writers & artists from around the world united by a deep love and appreciation for the comics medium and its peerless power of graphic storytelling.

A Salute to 50 Magnificent Women

Femme Magnifique

weibliche Körper im Kapitalismus

Fleischmarkt

Molly Crabapple

DISCORDIA is a story of courage and collapse in a country and a culture struggling to map out its future. A short ebook combining a 24,000-word essay with 36 detailed drawings, DISCORDIA is a feminist-art-gonzo-journalism project conceived at Occupy Wall Street and created in the summer of debt and doubt after the euphoric street protests of 2011-2012. In July 2012, artist Molly Crabapple and journalist Laurie Penny travelled to Greece. There, they drew and interviewed anarchists, autonomists, striking workers and ordinary people caught up in the Euro crisis. DISCORDIA is the result. In an impassioned climate where ‘objective’ journalism is impossible, Penny and Crabapple offer a snapshot of a nation in the grip of a very modern crisis where young and old see little reason to go on, the left is scattered and the far right is assuming greater power and influence. Along the way they drink far too much coffee, become hypnotised by street art, and somehow manage not to get arrested or mugged. DISCORDIA is an experiment in form, using the illustrated ebook format to its fullest extent to tell a story unique to the wordlength and digital platform involved. Crabapple's intricate, Victorian-inspired ink drawings lend a timeless quality to what is a conscious foray into a new kind of journalism - inspired by the New Journalism of the 1970s, in particular the art-journalism collaborations of Hunter Thompson and Ralph Steadman, but reworking that tradition for a 21st century world where young women must still fight at every turn to be taken seriously. DISCORDIA weaves together the personal and political, picking out those elements of the Greek crisis that are recognisable across the West to a generation struggling to articulate its purpose in a world of spiralling unemployment, democratic collapse and civil unrest. The solutions to the failure of modern neoliberal statecraft are very different to the 'tune in, turn on, drop out' ethos of the sixties: these days the drugs are worse and rock 'n' roll can't save us. The future is a question in search of an answer. Available only digitally, with a foreword by economic journalist and writer Paul Mason, this beautifully illustrated ebook is part-polemic, part-travelogue and part-paean to the birthplace of civilization brought to its knees. Part of the Brain Shot series, the pre-eminent source of short form digital non-fiction. 'This is the Next Big Thing in journalism: digital, visual, intelligent, heartfelt, post-political, female, alarming, and engaging. It's both an honest chronicle of one corner of the collapse of a civilization, and an inspiring demonstration of the kinds of thinking, craft, and collaboration that might yet get us through.' Douglas Rushkoff, author of LIFE INC.

Six Nights in Crisis Athens

Discordia

"The Hundreth House Had No Walls," a Tor.com Original short story from the award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker, and activist Laure Penny. The King was bored. For five hundred years he had been King of the country of Myth and Shadow, and he was a good king, if a slightly bewildered one. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Hundredth House Had No Walls

Meat market. Carne femminile sul banco del capitalismo

Annalee Newitz

Mary Robinette Kowal

Elizabeth Bear

John Chu

Seanan McGuire

E. Lily Yu

Kathleen Ann Goonan

Rivers Solomon

Carole Johnstone

Brenda Peynado

Rich Larson

S. L. Huang

JY Yang

Greg Egan

Christopher Rowe

Karin Tidbeck

Siobhan Carroll

Mimi Mondal

Erinn L. Kemper

KJ Kabza

Lis Mitchell

M. Evan MacGriogair

Silvia Park

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2019. Includes stories by: Elizabeth Bear Siobhan Carroll John Chu Greg Egan Kathleen Ann Goonan S. L. Huang Carole Johnstone KJ Kabza Erinn L. Kemper Mary Robinette Kowal Rich Larson M. Evan MacGriogir Seanan McGuire Lis Mitchell Mimi Mondal Annalee Newitz Silvia Park Laurie Penny Brenda Peynado Christopher Rowe Rivers Solomon Karin Tidbeck JY Yang E. Lily Yu At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2019 Edition

Eine sexuelle Revolution hat begonnen, und diesmal wird sie nicht aufzuhalten sein. Sie beginnt überall da, wo Frauen, queere, nonbinäre und trans Personen, vor allem jene, die nicht der weißen Mehrheitsgesellschaft angehören, aufstehen und nicht länger bereit sind, ihren Körper als jemandes anderen Besitz zu begreifen. Unsere Zeit der Krisen ist dank ihnen zugleich eine Zeit der produktiven Transformation, voller tiefgreifender und dauerhafter Veränderungen in unserem Verständnis von Gender, Sex und der Frage, wessen Körpern und wessen Worten Bedeutung beigemessen wird. Mitreißend und scharf schreibt Laurie Penny über Sex und Macht, Trauma und Widerstand. Über die Krise der Demokratie, die Krise weißer Männlichkeit und die Rückzugsgefechte derer, die Angst vor Machtverlust haben. Sie fordert eine Kultur des Consent, die weit über Sex hinausgeht: Auch in Arbeitsverhältnissen, in Systemen der politischen Repräsentation, im Miteinander müssen wir zu einer Logik des fortlaufend ausgehandelten Einvernehmens finden, um individuelle und kollektive Traumata zu heilen und zukünftige zu verhindern. »Brillant, kraftvoll, revolutionär.« Kate Manne

Rechter Backlash und feministische Zukunft

Sexuelle Revolution

Unsere Kultur ist besessen von der Kontrolle über den weiblichen Körper, sie quillt über von Darstellungen unwirklicher weiblicher Schönheit. Gleichzeitig weidet sich die Presse an magersüchtigen Starlets, schwangeren Unterschichts-Teenagern und feuchten Schoßgebeten. Laurie Penny, angry young woman und Star der englischen Bloggerszene, legt den Finger auf die Wunde: "Man erwartet von uns, dass wir selbstbewusst auftreten und sexuell allzeit verfügbar wirken, aber wir sollen uns schämen und werden geächtet, wenn wir Arroganz, Ehrgeiz oder erotisches Verlangen zeigen. Riot, don't diet"

Weibliche Körper im Kapitalismus - Nautilus Flugschrift

Carol Queen

Kitty Stryker

Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture—and one that is more than just reactionary. Left confined to intimate spaces, consent will atrophy as theory that is never put into practice. The multi-layered power disparities of today's world require a response sensitive to a wide range of lived experiences. In Ask, Kitty Stryker assembles a retinue of writers, journalists, and activists to examine how a cultural politic centered on consent can empower us outside the bedroom, whether it's at the doctor's office, interacting with law enforcement, or calling out financial abuse within radical communities. More than a collection of essays, Ask is a testimony and guide on the role that negated consent plays in our lives, examining how we can take those first steps to reclaim it from institutionalized power.

Building Consent Culture

Laurie Penny

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