Nina Power Quote

For the disproportionate fear that the statistically and historically minimal group of women who were both angry and had hairy legs have inculcated both in their detractors and in their wannabe-successors, we should salute them as often as possible

Nina Power

for the disproportionate fear that the statistically and historically minimal group of women who were both angry and had hairy legs have inculcated both in their detractors and in their wannabe-successors, we should salute them as often as possible

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About Nina Power

Nina Power is an English writer and philosopher. She is a senior editor of and columnist for the online magazine Compact. She has been noted for her anti-transgender views and links to the far right.
Power received a PhD in philosophy from Middlesex University on the topic of humanism and antihumanism in postwar French philosophy, and also has an MA and BA in philosophy from the University of Warwick. She was a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University, and has taught at Middlesex, Orpington College, London College of Communication, Morley College. Power also worked as a tutor in critical writing in art and design at the Royal College of Art, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the British Philosophical Association.
She served as both editor and translator (with Alberto Toscano) of Alain Badiou's On Beckett.
Some of the publications she regularly contributes to are The Telegraph and The Spectator. She previously regularly contributed to The Wire and The Guardian.
In 2015, she commissioned Bad Feelings by Arts Against Cuts, a collection of writing and 'set of materials for conflict and commonality' published by Book Works.
In May 2023, Power spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in London on the topic "After the Individual."