I love the phrase, a work of agitation. The reader i had in mind was the kind of yo, they always say, write the book you needed when you were a tenager. And it's meant to be a useful starting point for a lot of different debates that are going on about now. I remember back in the early arts, i didn't have a sense that there were people who thought the same way that i did about gender and power. That was my favourite emlest writing came from the mid seventies.
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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