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Against Everyone with Conner Habib

AEWCH 64: LAURIE PENNY or CREATING AN ETHICS OF CONSENT

Against Everyone with Conner Habib

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.8679 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

I talk with feminist writer and icon Laurie Penny about why consent is not enough, her new show with Joss Whedon, and whether or not Freud was right about childhood abuse.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Abeeb.

0:02.5

A weekly podcast featuring my conversations with countercultural figures and presenting complex,

0:07.7

philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas in an engaging and accessible way.

0:12.7

Each week on the show, I ask the question of what it means to be human in our moment and envision

0:17.7

a better world with my guests.

0:19.1

And my guests are people that have some of the most radical, dangerous, and exciting projects of our time, artists, occultists, journalists,

0:26.1

activists, and more. This week, I'm joined by writer, feminist icon. It's just true. And

0:32.5

newly working screenwriter Lori Penny, Lori is the author of Unspeakable Things, Bitch Doctrine, and a whole bunch of other books, including just, I don't know, if it's thousands of articles, whatever.

0:45.9

It's a lot of articles about feminism, gender, sexuality, politics, economy, all that.

0:52.8

Lori and I spend most of this episode talking about consent

0:56.4

and what consent means and how we can do it better

0:59.6

and why we need to do it better,

1:01.8

why it's not just a monolithic conversation,

1:04.4

but requires a lot of cultural context,

1:07.1

requires a lot of historical understanding,

1:09.5

requires critiques of economic systems and structures of power.

1:13.6

We also talk about different feminists in history.

1:16.6

We talk a little bit about her show, The Nevers, which is upcoming with Joss Whedon, and so on.

1:22.6

There's a lot in this episode, and I'm really excited to share it with you.

1:26.6

Right now, I'm just going to put out

1:28.7

the plea that you support the Patreon for this show. It's not really a plea. It's just so much as it is

1:34.5

a statement that, you know, when we get content in a lot of ways, when we get podcasts that we like,

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