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Laurie Penny
Penny in 2016
Penny in 2016
BornLaura Barnett
(1986-09-28) 28 September 1986 (age 38)
Westminster, London, England
OccupationJournalist, author
EducationBrighton College
Alma materWadham College, Oxford
Website
laurie-penny.com

Laurie Penny (born Laura Barnett; 28 September 1986) is a British journalist and author. Penny has written articles for several major publications including The Guardian, The New York Times and Salon, is a contributing editor at the New Statesman and is the author of several books on feminism. Penny has also written for American television shows including The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Nevers.[1][2]

Early life and education

Penny was born in London to two lawyers of Irish, Jewish, and Maltese descent[3] and grew up in Lewes[4] and Brighton[5]. Penny claims to have suffered from anorexia as a teenager and was hospitalised from the condition at age 17. Penny later made a recovery from the condition and wrote about the experience in the book Unspeakable Things.[6]

Penny attended the independent school Brighton College before studying English at Wadham College, Oxford.[7]

Career

Punditry

Penny's blog "Penny Red" was launched in 2007[8] and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for blogging in 2010.[9] Laurie Penny worked as a columnist at The Independent in 2012 [10] and then as a columnist and contributing editor for the New Statesman[11] and a regular contributor to The Guardian.[12]

In April 2011, Penny presented the Channel 4 Dispatches programme "Cashing in on Degrees"[13]. Penny has also appeared on Channel 4's satirical current affairs programme 10 O'Clock Live[14] and on BBC Two's Newsnight.[15]

In 2012, Tatler magazine described Laurie Penny as one of the top 100 "people who matter".[16] In October 2012, The Daily Telegraph ranked Penny as the 55th most influential left-winger in Britain, reporting that Penny is "without doubt the loudest and most controversial female voice on the radical left",[17] and the knowledge networking company Editorial Intelligence awarded Penny its "Twitter Public Personality" award.[18] In 2015 Penny was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.[19]

Several of Penny's articles have sparked controversy, including 2014 article for the New Statesman that argued that short hair on women was a "poltical statement"[20] and a 2015 article defending vandalism of the Monument to the Women of World War II.[21]

Publications

Penny is the author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (Zero Books, 2011) and Penny Red: Notes from a New Age of Dissent (Pluto Press, 2011).[22] In Meat Market, Penny criticises liberal feminism for embracing the consumer choice offered by capitalism as the path to female emancipation.[23] Penny Red was shortlisted for the first Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing in 2012 after the publication of Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens (Random House, 2012).

Penny's 2013 work Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet (Bloomsbury, 2013) contemplates online harassment and its motivations.[24] Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution was published in July 2014. Shortly afterwards, Penny stated they had been subjected to "a stream of vile sexist and anti-Semitic abuse" following the book's publication.[25] Everything Belongs to the Future (St. Martin's Press-3PL, 2016) followed in 2016.

Penny's seventh book, Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults, (Bloomsbury, 2017) was longlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize.[26]

Personal life

Penny came out as a genderqueer person in 2015.[27] In 2020, Penny stated a preference for the pronouns they/them.[28]

Awards

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Laurie Penny". IMDb. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  2. ^ Johnston, Rich (12 July 2019). "Talking to Laurie Penny About the Switch From British Politics to Hollywood". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Laurie Penny on the politics of the personal (From Herald Scotland)". The Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  4. ^ "So they burned Alex Salmond in my hometown". New Statesman. London. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  5. ^ https://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/laurie-penny. Retrieved 12 April 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Laurie Penny (30 June 2014). "Being a perfect girl can kill you". The Guardian. London. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jun/30/unspeakable-things-laurie-penny-book-extract" ignored (help)
  7. ^ https://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/laurie-penny. Retrieved 12 April 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ "We have achieved preambulation. Bring me a sweetie-bag of amphetamines and the head of Margaret Thatcher". Laurie Penny – via Penny Red blogspot. 23 September 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  9. ^ "Orwell Prize 2010 Longlists Announced". 24 March 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  10. ^ https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/laurie-penny-leaves-the-independent-after-nine-months-to-rejoin-new-statesman/. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ https://www.newstatesman.com/writers/laurie_penny. Retrieved 12 April 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ "Laurie Penny profile at The Guardian online". The Guardian. London. 7 August 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  13. ^ http://www.amicus.stir.ac.uk/2011/04/05/cashing-in-on-degrees-channel-4-dispatches/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1880421/characters/nm4401764. Retrieved 12 April 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1976839/characters/nm4401764. Retrieved 12 April 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LiteraryFestival/2017/Saturday-25-February/Events/05-The-Future-of-Humanity. Retrieved 12 April 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ^ "Top 100 most influential figures from the Left 2012". The Daily Telegraph. 3 October 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  18. ^ "The late Marie Colvin among seven Times and Sunday Times winners at Comment Awards". Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  19. ^ Nieman Fellowship Class of 2015, Harvard University, 30 April 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  20. ^ "Sorry Laurie Penny, but the patriarchy likes short hair | Coffee House". The Spectator. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  21. ^ "Laurie Penny defends war memorial vandalism at anti-Tory march | Coffee House". The Spectator. 9 May 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
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  23. ^ "Chocolate, Snuggles, and Straight Hair, review of Meat Market". Oxonian Review. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  24. ^ "Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions". The Conference / Media Evolution. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  25. ^ Unspeakable Things: Feminist author Laurie Penny subjected to 'vile sexist and anti-Semitic abuse' over her book, The Independent, 21 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  26. ^ Onwuemezi, Natasha (10 April 2018). "The Bookseller". The Bookseller. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)
  27. ^ Penny, Laurie (31 October 2015). "How To Be A Genderqueer Feminist". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  28. ^ Laurie Penny [@PennyRed] (9 August 2020). "TLDR my preferred pronouns are they/them. She/her is also fine, just less accurate. I'm not out to threaten anyone else's identity here, I've got no time for bullies, and if you're going to be a wanker about it I'd prefer you not address me at all" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  29. ^ "Laurie Penny". The Orwell Prize. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  30. ^ Flood, Alison (6 March 2012). "New prize for radical writing announces shortlist". Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  31. ^ "Laurie Penny shortlisted for the Red Women of the Year awards 2014". Blake Friedmann. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  32. ^ "Nieman announces named fellowships for the class of 2015". Nieman Reports. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  33. ^ "Berkman Center Announces 2015-2016 Community". Berkman Klein Center. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  34. ^ "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  35. ^ "Winners and Finalists Database". American Society of Magazine Editors. 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
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