Laura Bates is a Sunday Times Bestselling author, an activist and speaker. Laura founded the Everyday Sexism Project in 2012 and has gone on to write multiple best selling non-fiction books about gender equality. She has spoken in the United Nations, the Houses of Parliament, is regularly called on to provide evidence for parliamentary reports and has been awarded a British Empire Medal for her work on gender equality.

Laura also writes Young Adult fiction and today we are discussing her latest novel Sisters of Sword and Shadow and why she's so passionate about writing for young people, the incredible power of storytelling and why activism needs fiction as well as non-fiction.

Links

Sisters of Sword and Shadow - Laura Bates

Fix the System, Not the Women - Laura Bates

Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates

Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates

The Burning - Laura Bates

Glitch Charity - Promoting Online Safety for women and girls

Not Too Busy To Write on Substack

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