Laurie Penny ist die wichtigste Stimme des jungen Feminismus in Großbritannien und Deutschland. 1986 in London geboren, lebt sie derzeit in England und den USA. Sie plant, nach Berlin umzusiedeln. Sie hat Englische Literaturwissenschaft in Oxford studiert und schreibt für den New Statesman und für New Inquiry sowie auf Twitter.

Selected writings from a prominent voice of the new activist left. Reflections on being young, broke and angry in the 21st century.

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction I: This is Actually Happening Inside the Millbank Tower Riots; Talking About a Revolution; Inside the Whitehall Kettle; Protesting the Turner Prize; Inside the Parliament Square Kettle; A Right Royal Poke; No Sex, No Drugs and No Leaders; What Really Happened in Trafalgar Square; Lies in London II: Girl Trouble The Gulag of Desire; In Defence of Cunt; What Sun Readers Swallow With Their Cornflakes; The Sexy Way to Die; Vajazzled and Bemused; Burlesque Laid Bare; Me, the Patriarchy and my Big Red Pen; Galliano's Fashionable Beliefs; The Princess Craze is no Fairy Tale; Skinny Porn; Violence Against Women in Tahrir Square; Zionism, Chauvinism and the Nature of Rape; A Modesty Slip for Misogyny; Charlie Sheen's Problem with Women; The Shame is all Theirs III: Kingdom of Rains Undercover With the Young Conservatives; Buns, Bunting and Retro-Imperialism; This is England; Poppy Day is the Opium of the People; Michael Gove and the Imperialists; The Power of the Intern; Strictly Come Scrounging?; Poverty Pimps: Selling Out the Disabled; A Tale of Three Parties; Simon Hughes and the Cartel of British Politics; The Social Mobility Scam IV: Cultural Capital Facebook, Capitalism and Geek Entitlement; Girls, Tattoos and Men who Hate Women; Pickling Dissent; Julie Burchill's Imperialist Rant over Israel; Baby Boomers; Bah, Humbug; Interview with China Mieville; I Shall Wear Midnight; It's all Over for Sex-and-Shopping Feminism; Beyond Noughtie Girls V: Their Hallucinations, Our Desires Insurrection on Oxford Street; This is no Conspiracy; The Revolution Will Be Civilised; Revolts Don't Have to be Tweeted; Is that a Truncheon in Your Pocket?; One Man and His Tent; How the Disabled were Dehumanised; Hey, Dave: Our Society's Bigger Than Yours; In Defence of Squatting; Inside the Gaddafi House Details of Original Publication

Brings together the writings of one of the most popular and controversial figures on the UK new left. The author has a strong media profile, featuring regularly in the "New Statesman, Guardian" and on the BBC and Channel 4. She was involved in all the key protests of 2010/2011, including the anti-fees demos and the anti-cuts protests, often tweeting live from the scene of kettles and baton charges.