We are living through a sexual revolution right now, she says. The drop in birthrates around the global north has come as a surprise to policy makers. There is a real sea changing in who is coerced into doing that and who is able to say 'no' She believes there will be no answer for male policy makers because it's part of their world view.
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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