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SUMMARY:Manchester Literature Festival: Laura Bates
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DESCRIPTION:AI-powered technologies are revolutionising our lives and put
 ting women and girls in danger. In her urgent and gripping new book The 
 New Age of Sexism\, Laura Bates delves into our future and finds it want
 ing. From chatbots to sex robots\, from deep fakes to the metaverse\, La
 ura examines how existing forms of discrimination\, inequality and haras
 sment are being coded into the very foundations of our future world whil
 e a small group of obscenely rich white men prioritise their profits ove
 r our lives.\n\nA bestselling author\, journalist and ground-breaking ca
 mpaigner\, Laura is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. Her book
 s include Everyday Sexism\, Fix the System Not the Women\, Men Who Hate 
 Women\, Misogynation and Girl Up. She is also a contributor at Women Und
 er Siege\, a New-York based organisation working to combat the use of se
 xual violence as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide. \n\nPresente
 d by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with the Centre for N
 ew Writing and Creative Manchester. Hosted by Helen Mort\, award-winning
  poet\, novelist and creative writing lecturer. \n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Central Library\, St Peter's Square\, City Centre\, Manchester\,
  M2 5PD
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