Jill Filipovic
| Jill Filipovic | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
c. 1983 (age 32–33)[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 |
| Website |
www |
Jill Filipovic (born c. 1983)[1] is a New York attorney and feminist author. She was hired by Cosmopolitan to write for the cosmopolitan.com blog in April 2014.[3] Prior to that she was a columnist for The Guardian[4] and, since 2005, a blogger at Feministe, one of the largest feminist blogs.[5][6][7] She has written articles for the New York Times,[8] Washington Post,[9] and Time.[10]
Opinions
Men's rights groups
Filipovic has been an outspoken critic of A Voice for Men.[11] Michelle Goldberg, writing in The Washington Post, said she had been "singled out by [men's rights groups]" for her criticism.[12] She was also cited in Hate Crimes in Cyberspace as a victim of hate crime for her feminism.[13] According to Kerryn Goldsworthy, she has been Googlebombed by her detractors.[14]
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".[15]
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".[16]
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.[17]
Awards
2015 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, best online column writing[18]
2015 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Maggie Award for Media Excellence for best TV and online reporting[19]
2014 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, best online column writing[20]
2014 Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award for opinion/ criticism[21]
Bibliography
- Filipovic, Jill (2008), "Offensive feminism: the conservative gender norms that perpetuate rape culture, and how feminists can fight back", in Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, Seal Press, ISBN 9780786727056
References
- 1 2 Filipovic 2013.
- ↑ Annual conference: speakers, NYU Law Center for Reproductive Conference, 2014
- ↑ Nicole Levy (April 25, 2014), Cosmopolitan.com hires Jill Filipovic, burnishes feminist cred, Capital New York
- ↑ "On Gender and Other Agendas", The Guardian, retrieved July 20, 2015
- ↑ Twitter, Feminism and Race: A Roundtable, NPR, August 26, 2013
- ↑ "About Jill", Feministe (blog), retrieved July 20, 2015
- ↑ Chittal, p. 356.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Filipovic, Jill. "Sex and the Single Boomer in Fear of Dying". TIME.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ↑ Anna Merlan (October 24, 2014), "Men's Rights Idiots Impersonating Domestic Violence Prevention Group", Jezebel
- ↑ Michelle Goldberg (February 20, 2015), "Feminist writers are so besieged by online abuse that some have begun to retire", The Washington Post
- ↑ Citron 2014, pp. 111–112.
- ↑ Kerryn Goldsworthy (March 27, 2007), "Jill Filipovic and the Googlebomb", Pavlov's Cat (blog)
- ↑ TSA fires Newark Airport screener for personal note in luggage, Reuters, October 28, 2011
- ↑ Day 2015, p. 197.
- ↑ Appleman 2014, p. 85.
- ↑ "Society of Professional Journalists | Sigma Delta Chi Awards". www.spj.org. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ↑ "ELLE, The Nation, Esquire, Others, Among Planned Parenthood's 2015 Maggie Award Recipients :: Planned Parenthood". www.plannedparenthood.org. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ↑ "Society of Professional Journalists | Sigma Delta Chi Awards". www.spj.org. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ↑ "2014 Award Recipients and Photo Gallery". THE NEWSWOMEN'S CLUB OF NEW YORK. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- Sources
- Day, Sara K. (2015), ""Maybe girls need an island": Desert islands and gender troubles in Libba Bray's Beauty Queens", in Brigitte le Juez, Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts, Koninklijke Brill, pp. 191–, ISBN 9789004298750
- Appleman, Deborah (2014), Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literacy Theory to Adolescents (third ed.), Teachers College Press, ISBN 9780807756232
- Citron, Danielle Keats (2014), Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, Harvard University Press, ISBN 9780674744653
- Chittal, Nisha, "American women", in Nick Barham, Jake Dockter, Mark Search, Matt Brown, Tiffani Bryant, Chelsea Bauch, American Dreamers, Sharp Stuff, pp. 352–359, ISBN 9780988603912
- Filipovic, Jill (2013), "The Grandchildren Speak: Every Life a Lesson", in Jerry Witkovsky, The Grandest Love, pp. 88–89