I think by getting into the heart of the book, you are trying to position feminism as an antidote to fashisem and so this seems like a good moment to turn to our audience and try to feed in some of their questions. Do you think there are areas of life where women and nonsis white men should step up? There's an interesting question. I don't believe that, tha. O i'm tring to find a nice way of because it is a valid question. And whats the crisis is coming because men, and in particular, white sismen, are just refusing to meet us. Yet women are doing the most.
We are in an era of crisis, collapse, and reactionary tyrants, argues Laurie Penny, but we are also witnessing a transformation: a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and whose bodies matter. In her new book, Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback, Laurie offers an urgent analysis of this moment of sexual politics we are living through. Our host for the discussion is cultural historian and broadcaster Shahidha Bari.
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