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Hello and welcome to Marshall Matters with me,

Winston Marshall at The Spectator.

Today I have the privilege of speaking with Mary Harrington.

Mary is a regular contributor here at The Spectator,

a columnist at Unheard,

and spearhead the face of the new reactionary feminist movement, a new type of feminism. And she is author of the book, Feminism Against Progress, that came out earlier this year,

2023, a book which goes into or describes a transhuman cyborg

democracy of meat-lego-nosticism, bio-libertarian, feminism in a post-human dystopia running on

limbic capitalism heading towards gestational communism. If that sounds very arcane, I hope we can dig into some of that

to people who haven't heard of those terms. And if we don't get into it, we will infuse you

so that you will go and get this book, and I know you will enjoy it as much as I did. But,

Mary, thank you for coming in and speaking with me. Thanks for having me.

So before we go into all of that, some of the things I described that, I wondered if you could

take me a little bit on your journey and being the face of a new type of feminism, which to me

seems almost like a conservative feminism, but we can speak about that if that triggers you.

But I learned in your book that you've been on quite a journey, seemingly through various ways of

feminism and postmodernism and even for a period assuing your feminine identity and identifying as

Sebastian. And to me, learning that seemed, given where you are now, quite surprising. And I wondered

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