• About

Telling the Story – Penny Pepper – The Naked Punk

~ Writer, poet, performer, speaker, activist and cat lover. Staunchly socialist.

Telling the Story – Penny Pepper – The Naked Punk

Tag Archives: social justice

Penny Is The Naked Punk

30 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by Penny Pepper in A Disabled Woman, Activism, Disability Politics, Intuition, Love, Naked, Politics, Sex, Social justice, Woman Writer, writer, Writing By The Sea

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

author, compassion, disabled woman, diversity, East Sussex, England, feminism, feminist, inclusion, journalist, Naked, new stories, performer, poet, pride, privilege, punk, social justice, spoken word, storytelling, subvert, woman writer, women, writer

Why am I The Naked Punk?

Punk is my raw beginning. It saw my writing find a raging home in early fanzines. It fired a freedom in me to start accepting myself, that I was OK as a human being, as a woman, as a creative, who could challenge the categories imposed upon me. It is the energy that triggered my activism, and my passion for social justice and equality.

I’m Naked because I strive to be open in my writing, to show what needs to be shown.

Stories that strip away stereotype and expectation, stories that you’ve not heard before, because we’ve been barred from that privileged club for so long.

My stories subvert and maybe challenge, in the same way I provoke when I’ve posed naked – literally – for artists and photographers, and when I’ve performed burlesque. To draw an audience into a nakedness, to share the fun and the message: accept yourself, accept a new story.

Sometimes it’s good to know when I’m too naked. When the challenges we all face conspire to make us vulnerable and forgetful of protecting ourselves. I don’t want to be in this space. No one should, and we can find compassion for ourselves and each other to not let this happen. Naked is always a choice.

As The Naked Punk, I’ll always be on this bumpy journey.

I don’t have answers and it’s not easy – but through my work I’ll enjoy sharing punky naked questions along the way.

Book signing in Brighton, December 2017

Advertisements

Share this:

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • WhatsApp
  • Skype
  • Email

Like this:

Like Loading...

A Little Penny Blog: Poor Building, Poor Futures and Insomnimonster

27 Monday Jul 2015

Posted by Penny Pepper in A Disabled Woman, Activism, Disability Politics, Politics, Social justice, Woman Writer

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

activist, austerity, blog, Bullingdon club, Conservatives, cynicism, disability, disabled people, disabled woman, Insomnia, Maximus, Mslexia, poet, politics, poverty, sleep, social care, social justice, Tories, writer

I didn’t sleep till 3am. About. Why is it, I can fall asleep in the car in startling sunlight, but squirm in my too-hot bed in a wretched state past the witching hour? Counting cats, fussing my cat, doing a crossword, sitting up, laying down. Staring at my eyelids. Any ideas, my friends how to slay the Insomnimonster?

I did think, hey, I’ll start doing some little blogs. Stop all this fretting for the Big Idea. This is the big idea.

I’m in a state of flux. Oh lots going on, such as working for the marvellous Mslexia people with a blog, and around the near corner there is more. Meanwhile…

Look, I’m not apologising. I hate a government that pushes profit above people and makes poverty a crime. I’ve read history, I know the Victorians.

We’re reliving that era now. Is anyone looking into the even darker recesses of  Tory plans? Have any property barrens done deals with them Bullingdon Boys to build (cheap crap) places where the very poor can be parked yet? A working rehabilitation centre? Ahem. A Big Society All In It Together Work Hub? Drop-in Back To Work “Counsellors” on hand, all trained online by a Maximarse type programme, naturally, to incentivise you away from being damnable lazy plebs.

As for us Cripples of all types, I can see it now. Vast rebranded warehouses with us all in little truckle beds, cheap po-pots underneath, emptied by those press-ganged from the Job Employment Reassignment Korp…

Oh dear. More for another day. It’s still good to be alive. Honestly.

Share this:

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • WhatsApp
  • Skype
  • Email

Like this:

Like Loading...

Penny Pepper Writer and Poet of the Untold

Penny Pepper Writer and Poet of the Untold

Blogroll

  • WordPress.com
  • WordPress.org

Pages

  • About
Follow Telling the Story – Penny Pepper – The Naked Punk on WordPress.com
My Tweets

Pages

  • About

Social

Advertisements

Recent Posts

  • Assorted Thoughts of Penny & Leicester, The Naked Punk Approaches
  • Today I Wrote a Poem
  • The Naked Punk Shows Her Claws
  • Swifts and Trips
  • Penny Is The Naked Punk
  • Penny’s Pen is Ready to Poke
  • Sundry Thoughts: Rogue One – Crips and Twists.
  • You Should Know Better: a regular blog on stereotypes and disabled people
  • My Journals: Invasions and Legacies
  • Penny Thoughts: The World Gone Crazy.

Twitter Updates

  • Neither can I! Old associations with Newham going back to my punky days in the 80s 😜 twitter.com/renaissanceone… 2 days ago
  • @PipJGreen @KitdeWaal @PriyamvadaGopal @andisn16 @Amanda_Vickery @Dr_Black @DrFrancesRyan @Finn_Mackay… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
  • RT @PipJGreen: Above is by no means a complete list, there are so many so here are a few more: @KitdeWaal @PriyamvadaGopal @andisn16 @Amand… 2 days ago
  • Leicester, then @NewhamWordFest - do come and join me, The Naked Punk, for a night of POETRY. Yay! twitter.com/talknewvic/sta… 3 days ago
  • Excited to be coming to do this. Love Leicester ❤️ might even visit the disabled king 😘 and bring my poem about him… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
Follow @PenPep

Blog Stats

  • 14,439 hits

Recent Comments

Kev Towner on Penny’s Pen is Ready to P…
Kev Towner on A Little Penny Blog: Poor Buil…
Kev Towner on Down in the BBC Bunker: Me on…
Knitting Time: art a… on Down in the BBC Bunker: Me on…
wisegrannie on The Theory of Everything but N…
<

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 3,730 other followers

Penny at Soho Theatre

Abnormally Funny PeopleFebruary 20th, 2012
Doing a guest slot of witty words and charming cello with Jo Cox. Come and cheer us on!

Blogroll

  • WordPress.com
  • WordPress.org

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Cancel
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
%d bloggers like this: