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Bitch Doctrine
Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults | Laurie Penny
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"An invaluable case for truth-telling in an age of chaos and lies." --Emily Nussbaum "[Penny] bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better." --Caitlin Moran Smart and provocative, witty and uncompromising, this collection of Laurie Penny's celebrated essays establishes her as one of the most important and vibrant political voices of our time. Bitch Doctrine takes an unflinching look at the definitive issues of our age, from the shock of Donald Trump's election and the victories of the far right to online harassment and the transgender rights movement. Penny is lyrical and passionate in her desire to confront injustice, and she's writing at the raw edge of a revolution-hungry zeitgeist, a time when it has never been more vital to actively question and fiercely dispute all forms of complacency, including social norms. This darkly comic, often biting yet empathic, revelatory collection will inform, challenge, and engage, and give readers hope and tools for change.
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BekaReid
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There are some great essays in this book.

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KathyWheeler
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Everything I find paints anger as bad. I‘m tired of that. Some anger is justified. I‘m angry right now because I was supposed to have my cataract surgery today. I didn‘t have it because I learned, after sitting there for 2 hours & finally asking about it, that I needed an EKG before surgery. Did anyone tell me this? No. Was an appointment made for me to have one? Also no. I wonder how long they would have let me sit there if I hadn‘t asked? 😡

KathyWheeler I will say I‘m proud of myself for not trying to be nice about it. I let them know, without cursing, how angry I was that, by not doing their job, they had wasted my time. It‘s infuriating! 5y
Megabooks That is horrible!! 😡😡😡 5y
KathyWheeler @Megabooks I was so angry that I went out and emotionally ate over it — something I haven‘t done in a very long time. Usually, I can bring myself to be pleasant about screw ups; I couldn‘t do it today — too angry. I am salaried and have a ton of sick time. What if I were an hourly worker who had no sick time? 😡 (edited) 5y
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TheEllieMo How bloody annoying!! 5y
KathyWheeler @TheEllieMo We don‘t use “bloody” in the US much; my mom, who was Canadian, did use it. It‘s perfect sometimes; I wish I‘d picked up its use from her.😊 5y
TheEllieMo @KathyWheeler other words did come to mind but I wouldn‘t want to use them in polite company 5y
KathyWheeler @TheEllieMo Other words came to my mind too; I was extremely proud of myself for not using them at the doctor‘s office; there was a time I would have done so, with less provocation. 5y
TheEllieMo @KathyWheeler well done for keeping your cool. I think people take more notice when complaints are delivered without cursing 5y
KathyWheeler @TheEllieMo I think you‘re right about that. 5y
wanderinglynn I‘m so sorry you had that experience. 💚 That was unacceptable of them to put you in that position. Very poor service on their part. And for the record, I don‘t think anger is bad. I don‘t believe any emotion is bad or negative. Emotions mean we feel, mean we‘re alive & human. And it‘s important to allow the emotion to be felt. Trying to suppress emotion is what‘s bad in my opinion. 5y
KathyWheeler @wanderinglynn I agree. When I was looking up anger to find a picture for this post, there was not one positive thing about anger. Everything was about how to suppress it, but to me, therein lies the problem. There are positive uses for good, healthy, and justified anger, but because of what we‘re taught about it, most of us feel bad about getting angry even when we have every right to do so. I‘m pleased I didn‘t try to pretend everything was ok. 5y
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TrishB
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#notreadytomakenice #lilithjuly
Seen a few feminist ones today 👍🏻

KarenUK Have you read this one? Looks really good! 👍😊 5y
TrishB @KarenUK it‘s a great read 👍🏻 5y
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Augustdana
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Finishing up how to be famous and as always planning on what‘s next. Happy first day of 2019 friends.

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Cinfhen
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#NoFemmeber #NonFictionNovember Still on my TBR and definitely a #blameItonLitsy as Penny herself says in her book: “There‘s no point being nice in a burning world”. #IllMakeYouSorry Her essays range from US politics, to essays on Barbie dolls, pop culture and LGBT+ issues. Sounds like a must read!!!

Cinfhen I‘m pretty sure I have @arlenefinnigan to thank for first putting this book on my radar 5y
TrishB It‘s a great read! 5y
Cinfhen I know you‘ve shown love for Laurie Penny before @TrishB 5y
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arlenefinnigan @Cinfhen I think it was @TrishB . Looking forward to reading this! 5y
Billypar The title is promising! I like the 'dissenting adults' 😀 5y
Megabooks That does sound good! #stacked 5y
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GivenLemons
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A collection of fantastic essays on issues pertaining to contemporary feminism. It‘s intensely personal at times and doesn‘t pull any punches. #feminism #nonfiction #essays

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TrishB
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#feministfriday #readingresolutions
A few from the feminist corner.

riversong153 💜💜💜👌🤓😍 6y
readordierachel Awesome! 6y
Mamashep Love that you have a whole corner of feminist reads! 6y
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Kalalalatja Love this! 6y
TrishB @riversong153 @ReadOrDieRachel @Mamashep @Kalalalatja I love keeping up to date, but I do get upset that we seem to be saying the same things we were saying when I was a teenager in the 80s 😔 6y
JennyM I‘m giving this a hell yeah...You have a whole corner 🙌🙌🙌 6y
TrishB @JennyM 👍🏻😁 6y
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Johoney
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Perfect Monday

Heideschrampf Still lying on my desk untouched... mpf.... 6y
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Johoney
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I took @Quasifesto 's advise. The book is amazing. Wish I could give a copy of it to every woman in the world.

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Hooked_on_books
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Pickpick

I. Loved. This. Book. Collected here are many essays tackling various aspects of feminism, from gender fluidity, rape culture, feminist history and more. I really relate to much of what Penny writes and find her thoughtful, intelligent, and straightforward. I good read for anyone with an open mind.

TrishB Enjoyed this one 👍🏻 6y
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Johoney
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What to read next? I cannot decide!

Quasifesto Laurie Penny! 6y
Centique Hi @Johoney 👋 you have some interesting posts! Have you thought about participating in a Litsy photo challenge? It‘s a great way to get more people seeing and reading your posts. If you follow @LitsyHappenings they repost all the challenges and readalongs and swaps and giveaways that people do on Litsy. Hope that‘s helpful! 😊 6y
Johoney @Centique Hi! Thank you for the warm words and the link! Sounds great and helpful indeed! 6y
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Hooked_on_books
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The last paragraph of Penny‘s essay written before, during and after the 2016 election. This is good stuff so far.

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TrishB
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#moderngirl #fiercefeb
Some of my books by today‘s modern girls.

Kalalalatja So many books I need to read! 6y
Christine11 This is a great collection! I really want to read Men Explain Things to Me ! 😊 6y
Cinfhen Great group of books 💪🏼 6y
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rockpools I still need to get to Nasty Women. Thanks for the reminder! 6y
batsy Fabulous stack of books I need to get to! 6y
tif This shelf is goals 6y
RohitSawant Fantastic shelf! 6y
readordierachel 😍😍😍 6y
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youneverarrived
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A great collection of essays. Very readable, honest and a real sense of how sexism and discrimination is prevalent in society. A point she seems to be driving home is that the ‘personal is political‘. It‘s divided into sections but a few of them obviously overlap. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Mentallofilth
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Pickpick

Excellent book of essays. Laurie Penny is an evocative writer with a quick wit and a strong talent for systemic thinking and introspection. While many of these essays cover fairly basic social justice, socialist, and feminist issues that some readers may already know, Penny‘s prose is strong enough to make almost every essay entertaining and enlightening.

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Hooked_on_books
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My #bookhaul from Powell‘s today! We went over after the Nutcracker (which I‘d never seen before) and apparently books along a certain theme appealed to me today. 😬 I also bought some gifts, which are not pictured. 🎁🎄

Cinfhen Powell's ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ 6y
Suet624 I love Powell‘s. 6y
catiewithac 💜🚺💪🏽 6y
CindyMyLifeIsLit My husband told me yesterday that he believed I would move to Portland just for Powell‘s. I replied that I have my priorities, which translates to, “Why, yes, yes I would!” 😁 6y
Hooked_on_books @CindyMyLifeIsLit Smart woman! I live about an hour and a half away from Powell‘s which is minimum safe distance for bankruptcy protection against book buying. 😂 6y
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Only a few pages into this book and I can already tell it's going to be excellent. All politics are "identity politics" and using that term to describe certain causes over others is dog whistling. ??

BookishFeminist @Notafraidofwords I'm excited to read that one too. It just came in for me at the library. 6y
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Thndrstd
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This book gathers many of Laurie Penny‘s recent articles that have appeared in various publications (the first one in it was written just after Trump won the presidency). Her passionate writing about feminism is hopeful without being unrealistic. She knows her opponents, understands their arguments, and breaks them down. A must-read for those interested in feminism and gender issues.

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arlenefinnigan
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BarbaraBB We all are 😉! @TrishB 6y
TrishB 👍👊 6y
Cinfhen Your In EXCELLENT company 6y
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TrishB
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#bitch #rocktober
@Cinfhen @BarbaraBB
Bitch - aka - women with an opinion 😔

BarbaraBB So let us be bitches 😀! 6y
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tif 🙌🏻🙌🏻 6y
ephemeralwaltz 🙌🙌🙌 6y
TrishB @BarbaraBB absolutely 😀 6y
Cinfhen Sad but true 6y
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TrishB
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Pickpick

A good read - very accessible up-to-date collection of essays from across the social justice spectrum.
Message - we can only make it better by sticking together, those rich, straight, white men don't want that so let's do it 😀👍

batsy 6y
Balibee146 Sounds great 6y
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TrishB
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Currently reading. #recommendedtoyou by @mrozzz #autumnreads @Tiffy_Reads @JoeStalksBeck
@Cinfhen - books I would have given my younger self. All the current social justice books that are about. The feminist books about at the time were too academic, middle class and educated- I wanted something more inclusive - which gladly exist now

Cinfhen Nice! I should give this one a try #stacked 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I think this is my answer too. 6y
TrishB @BarbaraTheBibliophage some of the recent books have been brilliant! 6y
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mrozzz Glad you picked this up!! I need to get to it myself 🙈 6y
GatheringBooks i know what you mean about the overly-cerebral nature of feminist writings of old - perhaps i will get to read them too someday, but they do have this difficulty in connecting to the audience they are trying to reach. 6y
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TrishB
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#bookhaul brought one other but it's for a Litsy thing so not on photo! The graphic novel is a present too - but not for Litsy person.
Had lovely morning finishing a book, a browse round the shops and a couple of books!
@mrozzz one of these is down to you 😀

LauraBeth Sounds like a good day! 😀 7y
TrishB @LauraBeth A much needed one. Have busy week after today 😀 7y
KarenUK I loved the Maggie O'Farrell 💕 7y
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mrozzz Yessss!!! 🙌🏻☺️ 7y
TrishB @KarenUK I'm quite new to her - but am enjoying them so far! 7y
minkyb Fun! 7y
TrishB @minkyb it was ❤ 7y
lynneamch ❤ all Maggie O'Farrell 😊 7y
TrishB @lynneamch I'm very late to the party with her but loving them so far! 7y
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mrozzz
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Saw this in every bookstore and museum and London but ran out of room in my suitcase! Sooo glad to have my own copy. 😁😁😁 #bookmail

Anyone else read this?

#autumnreads #femaleheroes

TrishB No - but I'm guessing I soon will be 😀 7y
mrozzz @TrishB yesssss!! 🙃 7y
TrishB It's on the next to buy list 😀 7y
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Thndrstd
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To write and speak and think about the world is to act on it. Everyone who does so brings their own issues to the table, their own passions, their own prejudices, their foibles and broken hearts.
Any writer who claims objectivity is lying to you or to themselves, or both.

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Liberty
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I put all the entries from the #SPACEJAM giveaway into the random name generator and @Yeah_I_Read won! Thanks to everyone who participated. 🎉📚😘

Cinfhen Congrats @Yeah_I_Read 🎉🎉🎉 7y
Julsmarshall Congratulations @Yeah_I_Read ! 7y
Bklover Woohoo! Congratulations to @Yeah_I_Read!!!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 (edited) 7y
CocoReads Congrats to @Yeah_I_Read ! 7y
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Liberty
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Once more for the evening crowd: NEW GIVEAWAY! Here's how to enter: make a NEW post about one of your bookshelves. Then tag me in the photo, and use the hashtag #SPACEJAM. Do this by 9pm EST, Wednesday, July 26, and I'll pick one random Litten and mail them all these books. (US only, sorry.) Good luck! 🎉

Cinfhen Eeeee, See What I Have Done is in the mix❣️🎉😃🙌🏻 7y
kidamy I'm sad it's US only, but good luck, everyone! 7y
Clwojick @Liberty does it count if I live in Canada, but can drive to the boarder to pick it up at an address in the states? 🙌🙀 7y
Liberty It just has to go to a US address. 7y
Clwojick Cheers! Good luck to everyone! 📚 7y
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Liberty
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My office is stuffed. The walls are closing in on me. ("Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level, will you?") You know what that means. GIVEAWAY! Here's how to enter: make a NEW post about one of your bookshelves. Then tag me in the photo, and use the hashtag #SPACEJAM. Do this by 9pm EST, Wednesday, July 26, and I'll pick one random Litten and mail them all these books. (US only, sorry.) Good luck! ?

Shaunesay I really liked The Bedlam Stacks! 7y
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Vikz
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#NetGalley #amreading. This could be one of my books of 2017