Laurie Penny

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Laurie Penny at the Leipzig Book Fair 2016
Laurie Penny (2013)

Laurie Penny (born September 28, 1986 in London ) is a British journalist , author , blogger and feminist . She writes for The Independent , The Guardian , The Times, and the New Statesman . She became internationally known with her book Meat Market. Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011), which appeared in German translation in 2012 under the title Fleischmarkt .

Life and issues

Laurie Penny grew up in Brighton . She attended Brighton College and studied English Literature at Wadham College of Oxford University . She graduated in 2007. Since then she has been running the weblog Penny Red , which was nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2011 . Penny's blog texts are collected in the volume Penny Red. Notes from the New Age of Dissent , published in 2011 . She sees herself as a socialist feminist; For them, left politics and feminism belong together.

Laurie Penny is a columnist and reporter for the British daily The Independent . She writes regularly for The Guardian , The Times, and New Statesman . Her topics are pop culture , politics and feminism.

In April 2014, Penny received a Nieman scholarship for the 2014–2015 academic year.

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In her book Meat Market (German title: Fleischmarkt ) published in 2011, Laurie Penny analyzed the strategies with which women's bodies were disempowered and controlled in late capitalism . You put the everyday sexism of mainstream open, from the media to sexist advertising, thinness and pornography. According to the reviewer Antonia Kurz in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the book is an “angry manifesto” that aims to create awareness among women of their own oppression, so that they can break out of it . Laurie Penny, who is herself an ex- anorect , is as pointed as it is precise, writes Sabine Rohlf in her review for the Frankfurter Rundschau . She is a young author who "has the nerve for clear words and can at least imagine a better world". Der Spiegel described the book as a “brilliant plea for a new feminism”. The time -Rezensentin Marie Schmidt concludes: On the utopian horizon of feminism represents the Laurie Penny, a lay society in which there were so many different gender identities as men. Laurie Penny therefore called for solidarity between "all those who suffer from gender attribution in today's world". Your book is a strong encouragement for a young, lively feminism.

In the foreword of a reader with texts by Pussy Riot and her letters from prison, Laurie Penny recalls the physicist and poet Irina Ratuschinskaja (born 1954), who was sentenced in 1983 to seven years in prison and five years in exile for “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”.

In 2014 Laurie Penny published her fifth book Unspeakable Things. Sex, Lies and Revolution (German title: "Ineffable Things. Sex, Lies and Revolution"), in which she criticizes what she thinks is dominating ideas of romantic love and partnership as well as the sexual oppression of women. She sees the capitalist system as the reason why feminism “has been treading on the spot for about a quarter of a century” and “has been twisted into a high-performance machine beyond recognition”. She thinks nothing of the feminist mainstream because he is only interested in the advancement opportunities (corporate boards) of middle-class women. The gender straitjacket also hits men in all their severity, but the imperative to perfectionism for appearance, diet and interaction patterns is much more restrictive for women. Particularly economically failed, heterosexual young men, of whom there are many, let their frustration out on the social groups over which capitalism still grants them power, namely women and gays ; in this way a “masculinity in crisis” is being sold where, according to Penny, it is really about a crisis of capitalism.

reception

Penny called Die Zeit the “most important young feminist at the moment ”. In the Guardian , then Orwell Prize juror Gaby Hinsliff wrote in her review of Penny's book Unspeakable Things (2014): “We shortlisted her because - then as now - she wrote like a dream: she had such a raw, bright, urgent voice and she was telling such different stories to everyone else. ”(German:“ We nominated her because - then as now - she wrote in a dream: she had such a rough, intelligent, haunting voice and told stories that were so different than everyone else's. ")

As part of the campaign #ausnahmslos against sexual violence and racism after the sexual assault of Cologne , and Penny was one of the first signatories, was approved by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation criticized among others overlooking Views pennies for a boycott of Israel that "raising awareness on the subject of anti-Semitism in the initiators of the campaign are not sufficiently available ”. Penny was criticized for her attitude and support for the BDS campaign in the left-wing weekly newspaper Jungle World . The feminist blogger Merle Stöver criticized the structural anti-Semitism that was expressed in Laurie Penny's position on Israel. In a "Letter to the German Left" Laurie Penny countered the criticism. Stöver then received private messages with threats of violence and public insults.

Awards

  • 2011: Longlist Orwell Prize for Penny Red. Notes from the New Age of Dissent
  • 2012: Shortlist Bread and Roses Award for Penny Red. Notes from the New Age of Dissent

Publications

Books

Book contributions

  • Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes, Susie Orbach (Eds.): Fifty Shades of Feminism . Virago, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-84408-945-1 , pp. 28 f .
  • Preface by Laurie Penny to: Pussy Riot a punk prayer for freedom: letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements . New York Feminist, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-55861-834-3 .
    • Preface by Laurie Penny to: A Punk Prayer for Freedom. Pussy Riot! Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-769-9 .

Magazine articles

  • Feminism: The Liberation of Men . In: Sheets for German and international politics . No. 6 , 2015, ISSN  0006-4416 , p. 81-90 .

Blogs

Web links

Commons : Laurie Penny  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laurie Penny: Shut up, little girl, don't you know grown-ups are talking? . In: pennyred.blogspot.com . Laurie Penny. November 16, 2009. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Laurie Penny: Laurie Penny: Yes, Mr Gove, I enjoyed an expensive education, but I'm still not on your team . In: The Independent , May 11, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2015. 
  3. ^ A b The Orwell Prize: Penny Red - The Orwell Prize. In: theorwellprize.co.uk. The Orwell Prize, 2011, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  4. ^ The Independent: Laurie Penny. In: The Independent. Accessed July 1, 2015 .
  5. ^ Zero Books: Laurie Penny. In: zero-books.net. Zero Books, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  6. ↑ The Guardian: Laurie Penny. In: The Guardian. Accessed July 1, 2015 .
  7. ^ New Statesman: Laurie Penny. In: New Statesman. Accessed July 1, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Editor: Nieman Foundation announces the 77th class of Nieman Fellows. In: nieman.harvard.edu. Harvard University, April 30, 2014, accessed July 3, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Sophie Jones: Reviewed: Laurie Penny, Meat Market. In: feministlibrary.co.uk. Feminist Library, January 22, 2012, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Antonia Kurz: Feminist Manifest "Fleischmark" by Laurie Penny. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 23, 2012, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Sabine Rohlf: Feminism: Get up instead of losing weight! April 20, 2012, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Christoph Twickel: Interview with British feminist Laurie Penny. In: Spiegel Online. December 17, 2012, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  13. ^ Marie Schmidt : Feminism: battlefield woman. In: Zeit Online. March 8, 2012, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Sonja Vogel: Pussy Riot Statements read out: Hit the neuralgic point. In: The daily newspaper. December 12, 2012, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Natascha Wey : Laurie Penny on feminism: women are not allowed to fuck around. In: The daily newspaper. December 23, 2014, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Liz Hoggard: Unspeakable Things review - Laurie Penny's dissection of modern feminism. In: The Guardian. July 13, 2014, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  17. ↑ a b Susan Vahabzadeh: The body as capital . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 74 , 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 12 .
  18. ↑ a b Susan Vahabzadeh: Laurie Penny and Feminism - The Body as Capital. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 29, 2015, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  19. ↑ a b Nadine Lange: Rebellinnen wie wir , in: Der Tagesspiegel , March 7, 2015, p. 27
  20. ↑ Laurie Penny: Live Wild and Free! In: zeit.de . March 15, 2015, accessed March 27, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Gaby Hinsliff: Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny - review. In: The Guardian. July 9, 2014, accessed July 1, 2015 .
  22. ↑ # without exception: anti-Semitism must not be overlooked ~ Amadeu Antonio Foundation. (No longer available online.) In: amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016 ; accessed on March 27, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de
  23. ↑ a b Feminist against Israel. In: jungle-world.com. March 17, 2016, accessed June 27, 2018 .
  24. ↑ We are the better ones. In: jungle-world.com. January 28, 2016, accessed March 27, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Maike Brülls: Provocateur instead of Chancellor. Die Tageszeitung , August 14, 2016, accessed on June 27, 2018 .
  26. ^ Alison Flood: New prize for radical writing announces shortlist. In: The Guardian. March 6, 2012, accessed July 1, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Penny, Laurie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author, journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH London