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Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.
Laurie Penny
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Laurie Penny
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: September 28
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