"I think there should be more forgiveness for everyone," she says. "The sense that nothing bad that you have ever done will ever be forgiven or forgotten, is a new one for people in certain positions of power" She also discusses the 'mug justice' culture and how it has made her life harder.
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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