Marginalised bodies do marginalised work. Bodies that are garroted and controlled can be persuaded to do work that is underpaid and overlooked. Slave… - Laurie Penny

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Marginalised bodies do marginalised work. Bodies that are garroted and controlled can be persuaded to do work that is underpaid and overlooked. Slavemaking is a social science, and nowhere is that science more expertly demonstrated than in the continued ability of contemporary industrial culture to persuade women perform the vast majority of vital domestic and caring labour without expecting reward or payment.

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About Laurie Penny

Laurie Penny (born Laura Barnett; 28 September 1986) is an English columnist, author and feminist activist. Their first published work Meat Market is a Marxist-Feminist book discussing the nature of capitalism and patriarchy to the oppression of women.

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Alternative Names: Penny Red PennyRed Laura Barnett
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If we want to be free, the women of the 21st century need to stop playing the game. We need to end our wary efforts to believe that our bodies are acceptable and begin to know, with a clear and billiant certainty, that our persons are powerful.

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