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I Designed My Own Squid Game. You'll Never Guess What Happened Next.
The real prize wasn't the lessons we learned about diffuse responsibility for the depravities of late-stage capitalism. It was the friends we killed…
Aug 5 • Laurie Penny
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Why do racist rioters get treated with so much respect?
I want my country back, too.
Aug 31 • Laurie Penny
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Is he autistic, or is he just an asshole?
Status is protection in a world that punishes difference.
Jul 21 • Laurie Penny
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In a time of monsters: do we have any ideas for surviving the zombie apocalypse that aren’t nightmare patriarchy?
Alex Garland is looking for redemption.
Jun 25 • Laurie Penny
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Why 'woke' is just a right-wing fetish.
Please stop recruiting us into your persecution fantasy. On kink, politics and Brexit, with some incidental detours into my misspent youth.
May 25 • Laurie Penny
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Abnormal People
An essay about autism and identity that was a very long time coming.
May 10 • Laurie Penny
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TERF Island: the embarassing truth about Britain's Trans Panic.
Condemning an entire category of people on the basis that one of them might commit a crime is the very essence of prejudice. And that prejudice plays…
Apr 26 • Laurie Penny
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XX- Risk.
What's more threatening - autonomous AI, or autonomous women?
Feb 9 • Laurie Penny
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