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Write Like A Person #1 : Vogon Poetry

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/write-like-a-person-1-vogon-poetry

Published: January 2, 2026 12:14

You're going to start a fight with a complete stranger and you're going to lose.

How to Write Like A Person

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/how-to-write-like-a-person

Published: January 1, 2026 13:34

Announcing a new seminar for 2026.

Autistic people are not diseased. Stop trying to cure us.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/we-will-never-be-normal

Published: September 27, 2025 23:13

We will never be normal. Eat all the Tylenol you want.

Why do racist rioters get treated with so much respect?

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/why-do-racist-rioters-get-treated

Published: August 31, 2025 11:50

I want my country back, too.

I Designed My Own Squid Game. You'll Never Guess What Happened Next.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/i-designed-my-own-squid-game-and

Published: August 5, 2025 13:37

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 along the way.

Is he autistic, or is he just an asshole?

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/is-he-autistic-or-is-he-just-an-asshole

Published: July 21, 2025 17:32

Status is protection in a world that punishes difference.

In a time of monsters: do we have any ideas for surviving the zombie apocalypse that aren’t nightmare patriarchy?

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/in-a-time-of-monsters-do-we-have

Published: June 25, 2025 09:52

Alex Garland is looking for redemption.

Why 'woke' is just a right-wing fetish.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/why-woke-is-just-a-right-wing-fetish

Published: May 25, 2025 13:13

Please stop recruiting us into your persecution fantasy. On kink, politics and Brexit, with some incidental detours into my misspent youth.

Abnormal People

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/abnormal-people

Published: May 10, 2025 22:36

An essay about autism and identity that was a very long time coming.

TERF Island: the embarassing truth about Britain's Trans Panic.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/terf-island-the-embarassing-truth

Published: April 26, 2025 11:16

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 straight into the hands of the far right.

XX- Risk.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/xx-risk

Published: February 9, 2025 18:23

What's more threatening - autonomous AI, or autonomous women?

What is wrong with you people?

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/what-is-wrong-with-you-people

Published: January 24, 2025 22:58

Congratulations on owning the libs. Was it worth it?

No gods, no masters

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/no-gods-no-masters

Published: January 15, 2025 21:26

a personal note

The Ballistic Ignorance of Elon Musk

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-ballistic-ignorance-of-elon-musk

Published: January 11, 2025 14:46

We're in for another few years of stupid opinions about sexual violence from overpromoted failsons demanding we take them seriously. None of these men actually care about protecting women.

Happy 2025, Here's Something Mad That Happened.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/happy-2025-heres-something-mad-that

Published: January 2, 2025 17:59

A New Year's story about a cursed patio and the perils of poorly-chosen metaphor.

Guilty Pleasures

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/guilty-pleasures

Published: December 20, 2024 11:00

Luigi Mangione and the making of a folk hero

The Anti-Woke Culture Police Have Some Weird New Obsessions.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-anti-woke-culture-police-have

Published: November 25, 2024 17:18

Apparently we’re in a vibe shift.

On transphobia, memory and mourning.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/on-transphobia-memory-and-mourning

Published: November 21, 2024 11:38

Trans Day of Remembrance hit different this year.

The Room of Requirement

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-room-of-requirement

Published: February 27, 2024 22:02

My essay on fan culture, politics and the Potterverse for the British Library's Fantasy Exhibit.

Worldbuilding as a Political Weapon

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/worldbuilding-as-a-political-weapon

Published: December 22, 2023 16:55

The words we choose shape and reshape our reality. Of course pronouns matter.

It's been a year

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/its-been-a-year

Published: December 31, 2022 23:09

Wherever you are, here's what I'm wishing for you.