No, I Will Not Debate You
Civility will never defeat fascism, no matter what The Economist thinks.
The Queer Art of Failing Better
Laurie Penny on Queer Eye: “It’s not about queerness at all. It’s actually about the disaster of heterosexuality—and what, if anything, can be salvaged from its ruins.”
The Great Stink
It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.
We’re Not Done Here
How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.
The Consent of the (Un)Governed
“The search for a more human understanding of power and consent is not simply stage-dressing for a bigger fight. It is the big fight. It’s all about the grabby old men, and it always has been.”
The Slow Confiscation of Everything
Climate apocalypse: a coming calamity that’s morally different from nuclear exchange in a way we haven’t yet dealt with.
Meltdown of the Phantom Snowflakes
“When I fight back, though, when I continue to write about injustice in the face of the bullying campaigns that are daily life for every female activist I have met, precisely when I feel strongest—that’s when I’m told I’m weak. A crybaby. Special snowflake. Whiner…
As politics turn darker, these slurs have become weaponized. Something bigger is going on.”
Fear of a Feminist Future
Laurie Penny—whose feminist dystopian novel Everything Belongs to the Future was released this week—considers the alt right’s fear of women heroes in futuristic literature and film, not to mention real life.
American Horror Story
“When I was a child, I always half-suspected that America wasn’t real.” Laurie Penny goes back stage at both conventions, and sees American myth-making in action.
Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless
How wellness and self-care turned into a sinister (and expensive) ideology.
