Jill Filipovic

Jill Filipovic
Born c. 1983 (age 33–34)[1]
United States
Nationality American
Alma mater New York University Law (2008)[2]
Occupation Attorney, writer
Known for Blogging at Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, Feministe

Jill Nicole Filipovic (born August 3, 1983)[1] is an attorney and feminist. liberal / progressive author.[3] [4][5]

Education

Originally from the Seattle area, Filipovic earned a BA degree with dual majors in Journalism and Politics from New York University (NYU)[6] and a JD degree from the NYU School of Law in 2008.[2]

Work

She was hired by Cosmopolitan to write for the cosmopolitan.com blog in April 2014.[7] Prior to that she was a columnist for The Guardian[8] and, since 2005, a blogger at Feministe, one of the largest feminist blogs.[9][10][11] She has written articles for the New York Times,[12] Washington Post,[13] and Time magazine,[14] and been a commentator on CNN.[15] In 2017 her book The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness was published.

Opinions

Men's rights groups

Filipovic has been an outspoken critic of A Voice for Men.[16] Michelle Goldberg, writing in The Washington Post, said she had been "singled out by [men's rights groups]" for her criticism.[17] She was also cited in Hate Crimes in Cyberspace as a victim of hate crime for her feminism.[18] According to Kerryn Goldsworthy, she has been Googlebombed by her detractors.[19]

TSA and civil liberties

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener was fired after Filipovic used her blog to describe an incident in which a handwritten comment was left in her luggage. She later wrote "I would much prefer a look at why 'security' has been used to justify so many intrusions into our civil liberties".[20]

Beauty pageants

Filipovic has been noted for her writing about beauty pageants, saying "the norms that these contests promote are unfortunately not ... obsolete ... we pay lip service to women's rights, but focus more on how good women look in a bathing suit".[21]

Name change

Filipovic's opposition to name change for women who marry (published in The Guardian) was cited as recommended reading on the social construction of gender in Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literacy Theory to Adolescents.[22]

Rasmea Odeh

Filipovic questioned Palestinian activist and former Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member Rasmea Odeh's participation in progressive organizing. Filipovic stated that even if accounts of Odeh's torture and sexual assault were true, participation in terrorist acts was one of her "hard lines."[23]

Awards

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Filipovic 2013.
  2. 1 2 Annual conference: speakers, NYU Law Center for Reproductive Conference, 2014, archived from the original on July 15, 2015
  3. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/opinion/the-all-male-photo-op-isnt-a-gaffe-its-a-strategy.html?_r=0
  4. ↑ https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/10036-ny-jill-filipovic-3807946.html
  5. ↑ https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/760844359612952576?lang=en
  6. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/jill-filipovic
  7. ↑ Nicole Levy (April 25, 2014), Cosmopolitan.com hires Jill Filipovic, burnishes feminist cred, Capital New York
  8. ↑ "On Gender and Other Agendas", The Guardian, retrieved July 20, 2015
  9. ↑ Twitter, Feminism and Race: A Roundtable, NPR, August 26, 2013
  10. ↑ "About Jill", Feministe (blog), retrieved July 20, 2015
  11. ↑ Chittal, p. 356.
  12. ↑ Filipovic, Jill (September 10, 2015). "The Pope’s Unforgiving Message of Forgiveness on Abortion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  13. ↑ Filipovic, Jill (June 12, 2015). "How a new generation of activists is trying to make abortion normal". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  14. ↑ Filipovic, Jill. "Sex and the Single Boomer in Fear of Dying". TIME.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  15. ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/05/opinions/health-care-photo-white-men-filipovic/index.html
  16. ↑ Anna Merlan (October 24, 2014), "Men's Rights Idiots Impersonating Domestic Violence Prevention Group", Jezebel
  17. ↑ Michelle Goldberg (February 20, 2015), "Feminist writers are so besieged by online abuse that some have begun to retire", The Washington Post
  18. ↑ Citron 2014, pp. 111–112.
  19. ↑ Kerryn Goldsworthy (March 27, 2007), "Jill Filipovic and the Googlebomb", Pavlov's Cat (blog)
  20. ↑ TSA fires Newark Airport screener for personal note in luggage, Reuters, October 28, 2011
  21. ↑ Day 2015, p. 197.
  22. ↑ Appleman 2014, p. 85.
  23. ↑ https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/838849875546624000
  24. ↑ "Society of Professional Journalists | Sigma Delta Chi Awards". www.spj.org. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  25. ↑ "ELLE, The Nation, Esquire, Others, Among Planned Parenthood's 2015 Maggie Award Recipients :: Planned Parenthood". www.plannedparenthood.org. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  26. ↑ "Society of Professional Journalists | Sigma Delta Chi Awards". www.spj.org. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  27. ↑ "2014 Award Recipients and Photo Gallery". THE NEWSWOMEN'S CLUB OF NEW YORK. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
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