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'''Hadley Clare Freeman''' (born 15 May 1978)<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=12 May 2018 |title=I can't wait to turn 40. After four decades of getting things wrong, I know some stuff |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/12/turn-40-what-learned-hadley-freeman |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref><ref name="ccsfs" /> is an [[Americans in the United Kingdom|American British]] [[journalist]]. She writes for ''[[The Sunday Times]]'',<ref name="Press Gazette">{{cite news |first1=Maher |last1=Bron |title=Long-serving Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman leaves for Sunday Times |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/hadley-freeman-leaves-guardian-sunday-times/ |work=Press Gazette |date=2 November 2022 |access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref> having previously written for ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=4 July 2012 |title=Cricket and other baffling British habits |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/04/cricket-baffling-british-habits |work=The Guardian |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref>
'''Hadley Clare Freeman''' (born 15 May 1978)<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=12 May 2018 |title=I can't wait to turn 40. After four decades of getting things wrong, I know some stuff |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/12/turn-40-what-learned-hadley-freeman |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref><ref name="ccsfs" /> is an [[Americans in the United Kingdom|American British]] [[journalist]]. She writes for ''[[The Sunday Times]]'',<ref name="Press Gazette">{{cite news |first1=Maher |last1=Bron |title=Long-serving ''Guardian'' columnist Hadley Freeman leaves for ''Sunday Times''|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/hadley-freeman-leaves-guardian-sunday-times/ |work=[[Press Gazette]]|date=2 November 2022 |access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref> having previously written for ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=4 July 2012 |title=Cricket and other baffling British habits |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/04/cricket-baffling-british-habits |work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref>


In 2024 she won Broadsheet Columnist of the Year from [[The Press Awards]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sleator |first1=Laurence |author2=Alex Farber |title=Press Awards honour The Times and The Sunday Times |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/press-awards-honour-the-times-and-the-sunday-times-m0bldfbtp |access-date=19 April 2024 |work=[[The Times]] |date=19 April 2024}}</ref>
In 2024 she won Broadsheet Columnist of the Year from [[The Press Awards]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sleator |first1=Laurence |author2=Alex Farber |title=Press Awards honour The Times and The Sunday Times |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/press-awards-honour-the-times-and-the-sunday-times-m0bldfbtp |access-date=19 April 2024 |work=[[The Times]] |date=19 April 2024}}</ref>


== Early life ==
== Early life ==
Freeman was born in [[New York City]] to a Jewish family. Her father worked in finance.<ref>{{cite news |last=Groskop |first=Viv |author-link=Viv Groskop |title=Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies, by Hadley Freeman – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/19/be-awesome-modern-ladies-hadley-freeman-review |work=[[The Observer]] |date=19 May 2013 |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/06/sick-of-us-news|title=Sick of US news? Don't worry: there are lots of other things to discuss |work=The Guardian|date=6 November 2012 |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> The family moved to London when Freeman was 11.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gil |first1=Natalie |last2=Forster |first2=Katie |title=Interview: Hadley Freeman |url=http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2012/11/04/hadley-freeman-interview-7023 |work=[[The Tab]] |date=4 November 2012 |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> She has dual British and American citizenship.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/04/american-british-can-i-save-special-relationship|title=I'm American and British. Can I save the special relationship?|last=Freeman|first=Hadley|date=4 February 2017|access-date=9 March 2020|work=The Guardian}}</ref>
Freeman was born in [[New York City]] to a Jewish family. Her father worked in finance.<ref>{{cite news |last=Groskop |first=Viv |author-link=Viv Groskop |title=Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies, by Hadley Freeman – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/19/be-awesome-modern-ladies-hadley-freeman-review |work=[[The Observer]] |date=19 May 2013 |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/06/sick-of-us-news|title=Sick of US news? Don't worry: there are lots of other things to discuss|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=6 November 2012 |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> The family moved to London when Freeman was 11.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gil |first1=Natalie |last2=Forster |first2=Katie |title=Interview: Hadley Freeman |url=http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2012/11/04/hadley-freeman-interview-7023 |work=[[The Tab]] |date=4 November 2012 |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> She has dual British and American citizenship.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/04/american-british-can-i-save-special-relationship|title=I'm American and British. Can I save the special relationship?|last=Freeman|first=Hadley|date=4 February 2017|access-date=9 March 2020|work=The Guardian}}</ref>


Freeman suffered from [[anorexia]] and was treated in a psychiatric unit during six different periods between ages 13 and 17.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/25/wasnt-feminist-theory-cured-anorexia |title=It wasn't feminist theory that cured my anorexia – it was having something to eat for |work=The Guardian |date=25 November 2017 |access-date=22 December 2017}}</ref> After taking her [[A-level]] examinations while boarding at the [[Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies]],<ref name=ccsfs>{{cite web |title=Alumni Profiles |url=http://www.ccss.co.uk/alumni/alumni-profiles.htm |publisher=[[Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies]] |access-date=1 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101171724/http://www.ccss.co.uk/alumni/alumni-profiles.htm |archive-date=1 November 2014}}</ref> she read English literature at [[St Anne's College, Oxford]], and edited the student newspaper ''[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Levy Gale |first=Sadie |date=10 August 2013 |title=Interview: Hadley Freeman – How to be Awesome |url=http://cherwell.org/2013/08/09/interview-hadley-freeman-how-to-be-awesome/ |work=[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]] |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref>
Freeman suffered from [[anorexia]] and was treated in a psychiatric unit during six different periods between ages 13 and 17.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/25/wasnt-feminist-theory-cured-anorexia |title=It wasn't feminist theory that cured my anorexia – it was having something to eat for |work=The Guardian |date=25 November 2017 |access-date=22 December 2017}}</ref> After taking her [[A-level]] examinations while boarding at the [[Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies]],<ref name=ccsfs>{{cite web |title=Alumni Profiles |url=http://www.ccss.co.uk/alumni/alumni-profiles.htm |publisher=[[Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies]] |access-date=1 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101171724/http://www.ccss.co.uk/alumni/alumni-profiles.htm |archive-date=1 November 2014}}</ref> she read English literature at [[St Anne's College, Oxford]], and edited the student newspaper ''[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Levy Gale |first=Sadie |date=10 August 2013 |title=Interview: Hadley Freeman – How to be Awesome |url=http://cherwell.org/2013/08/09/interview-hadley-freeman-how-to-be-awesome/ |work=[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]] |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
After a year in Paris, Freeman worked on the fashion desk of ''[[The Guardian]]'' for eight years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/i-was-banned-from-a-slew-of-shows-and-never-brushed-my-hair-hadley-freemans-life-as-a-fashion-misfit-8609613.html|title=I was banned from a slew of shows and never brushed my hair: Hadley Freeman's life as a fashion misfit |work=[[Evening Standard]] |date=10 May 2013 |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> She joined ''The Guardian'' in 2000 and has worked for the newspaper as a staff writer and columnist and contributes to the UK version of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rcwlitagency.com/authors/freeman-hadley/|title=Hadley Freeman|work=RCW agency|access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> Following an article for ''The Guardian'' in July 2013 criticising [[Misogyny|misogynistic]] behaviour, Freeman received a bomb threat on [[Twitter]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Batty |first=David |date=1 August 2013 |title=Bomb threats made on Twitter to female journalists |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/31/bomb-threats-twitter-journalists |work=The Guardian |access-date=1 August 2013}}</ref>
After a year in Paris, Freeman worked on the fashion desk of ''[[The Guardian]]'' for eight years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/i-was-banned-from-a-slew-of-shows-and-never-brushed-my-hair-hadley-freemans-life-as-a-fashion-misfit-8609613.html|title=I was banned from a slew of shows and never brushed my hair: Hadley Freeman's life as a fashion misfit |work=[[Evening Standard]] |date=10 May 2013 |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> She joined ''The Guardian'' in 2000 and has worked for the newspaper as a staff writer and [[columnist]] and contributes to the UK version of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rcwlitagency.com/authors/freeman-hadley/|title=Hadley Freeman|work=RCW agency|access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> Following an article for ''The Guardian'' in July 2013 criticising [[Misogyny|misogynistic]] behaviour, Freeman received a bomb threat on [[Twitter]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Batty |first=David |date=1 August 2013 |title=Bomb threats made on Twitter to female journalists |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/31/bomb-threats-twitter-journalists |work=The Guardian |access-date=1 August 2013}}</ref>


Freeman's books include ''The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable'', in 2009<ref>{{cite book |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=5 February 2009 |title=The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56188/the-meaning-of-sunglasses/ |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=978-0-670-01867-3}}</ref> and ''Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies'' in 2013,<ref>{{cite book |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=25 April 2013 |title=Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies |url=https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780007485703/be-awesome/ |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]] |isbn=978-0-007-48570-3 |access-date=29 May 2018 |archive-date=29 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529204623/https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780007485703/be-awesome/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> which was described by Jennifer Lipman in ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]'' as "a detailed attack on how women are both portrayed and conditioned to act in public life".<ref>{{cite news |last=Lipman |first=Jennifer |date=30 May 2013 |title=Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies |url=http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/108056/be-awesome-modern-life-modern-ladies |work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> ''Life Moves Pretty Fast'' appeared in 2015.<ref name="LMPF">{{cite news |last=Ellen |first=Barbara |date=17 May 2015 |title=Life Moves Pretty Fast review – a funny, absorbing study of 80s Hollywood |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/17/life-moves-pretty-fast-hadley-freeman-funny-absorbing-80s |work=The Observer|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref>
Freeman's books include ''The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable'', in 2009<ref>{{cite book |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=5 February 2009 |title=The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56188/the-meaning-of-sunglasses/ |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=978-0-670-01867-3}}</ref> and ''Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies'' in 2013,<ref>{{cite book |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=25 April 2013 |title=Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies |url=https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780007485703/be-awesome/ |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Fourth Estate]] |isbn=978-0-007-48570-3 |access-date=29 May 2018 |archive-date=29 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529204623/https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780007485703/be-awesome/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> which was described by Jennifer Lipman in ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]'' as "a detailed attack on how women are both portrayed and conditioned to act in public life".<ref>{{cite news |last=Lipman |first=Jennifer |date=30 May 2013 |title=Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies |url=http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/108056/be-awesome-modern-life-modern-ladies |work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> ''Life Moves Pretty Fast'' appeared in 2015.<ref name="LMPF">{{cite news |last=Ellen |first=Barbara |date=17 May 2015 |title=Life Moves Pretty Fast review – a funny, absorbing study of 80s Hollywood |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/17/life-moves-pretty-fast-hadley-freeman-funny-absorbing-80s |work=[[The Observer]]|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref>


In March 2020, ''House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family'', was published.<ref>{{cite book |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=5 March 2020 |title=House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family |url=https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008322632/house-of-glass-the-story-and-secrets-of-a-twentieth-century-jewish-family/ |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=9780008322632 |access-date=2 March 2020 |archive-date=2 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302111439/https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008322632/house-of-glass-the-story-and-secrets-of-a-twentieth-century-jewish-family/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is an account of the lives of her grandmother Sala Glass and her three brothers Alex, Jacques, and Henri in Poland, France, and the United States during the course of the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hennigan|first=Adrian|url=https://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium.MAGAZINE-picasso-dior-auschwitz-and-an-ayatollah-uncovering-a-secret-jewish-family-history-1.8705909|title=Picasso, Dior, Auschwitz and an Ayatollah: Uncovering a Secret Jewish Family History|work=Haaretz|date=24 March 2020|access-date=24 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="DavidTJC">{{Cite news |last=David |first=Keren |url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/hadley-freeman-s-family-secrets-1.497326 |title=The family secrets found in a shoebox |date=27 February 2020 |work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] |access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref> Karen Heller wrote in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' of Freeman being "an exacting historian" who "tackles anti-Semitism, Jewish guilt and success".<ref>{{cite news|last=Heller|first=Karen|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/in-house-of-glass-hadley-freeman-unearths-the-world-war-ii-era-secrets-of-her-familys-past/2020/03/30/59d86c0c-6eb4-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html|title=In 'House of Glass,' Hadley Freeman unearth's the World War II-era secrets of her family's past|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=30 March 2020|access-date=31 March 2020|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In March 2020, ''House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family'', was published.<ref>{{cite book |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=5 March 2020 |title=House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family |url=https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008322632/house-of-glass-the-story-and-secrets-of-a-twentieth-century-jewish-family/ |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=9780008322632 |access-date=2 March 2020 |archive-date=2 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302111439/https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008322632/house-of-glass-the-story-and-secrets-of-a-twentieth-century-jewish-family/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is an account of the lives of her grandmother Sala Glass and her three brothers Alex, Jacques, and Henri in Poland, France, and the United States during the course of the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hennigan|first=Adrian|url=https://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium.MAGAZINE-picasso-dior-auschwitz-and-an-ayatollah-uncovering-a-secret-jewish-family-history-1.8705909|title=Picasso, Dior, Auschwitz and an Ayatollah: Uncovering a Secret Jewish Family History|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]|date=24 March 2020|access-date=24 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="DavidTJC">{{Cite news |last=David |first=Keren |url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/hadley-freeman-s-family-secrets-1.497326 |title=The family secrets found in a shoebox |date=27 February 2020 |work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] |access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref> Karen Heller wrote in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' of Freeman being "an exacting historian" who "tackles anti-Semitism, Jewish guilt and success".<ref>{{cite news|last=Heller|first=Karen|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/in-house-of-glass-hadley-freeman-unearths-the-world-war-ii-era-secrets-of-her-familys-past/2020/03/30/59d86c0c-6eb4-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html|title=In ''House of Glass'', Hadley Freeman unearth's the World War II-era secrets of her family's past|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=30 March 2020|access-date=31 March 2020|url-access=subscription}}</ref>


Freeman ended her ''Weekend Guardian'' column in September 2021 to concentrate on interviews for the newspaper.<ref>{{cite news|last=Freeman|first=Hadley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/18/opinion-writing-has-changed-a-lot-since-i-started-out-its-time-for-something-new|title=Opinion writing has changed a lot since I started out. It's time for something new|work=The Guardian|date=18 September 2021|access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> In November 2022, Freeman announced that she would be leaving ''[[The Guardian]]'' and would write for ''[[The Sunday Times]]''.<ref name="Press Gazette"/>
Freeman ended her ''Weekend Guardian'' column in September 2021 to concentrate on interviews for the newspaper.<ref>{{cite news|last=Freeman|first=Hadley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/18/opinion-writing-has-changed-a-lot-since-i-started-out-its-time-for-something-new|title=Opinion writing has changed a lot since I started out. It's time for something new|work=The Guardian|date=18 September 2021|access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> In November 2022, Freeman announced that she would be leaving ''[[The Guardian]]'' and would write for ''[[The Sunday Times]]''.<ref name="Press Gazette"/>


Her memoir ''[[Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia]]'', recounting her teenage experience of anorexia, was published by Fourth Estate in April 2023.<ref>{{cite news|last=Chandler|first=Mark|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/fourth-estate-buys-freemans-ground-breaking-memoir-1249077|title=Fourth Estate buys Freeman's 'ground-breaking' memoir|work=The Bookseller|date=17 March 2021|access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="Sturges">{{cite news |last1=Sturges |first1=Fiona |title=Good Girls by Hadley Freeman review – anorexia from within |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/05/good-girls-by-hadley-freeman-review-anorexia-from-within |access-date=14 April 2023 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=5 April 2023}}</ref>
Her memoir ''[[Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia]]'', recounting her teenage experience of anorexia, was published by Fourth Estate in April 2023.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Chandler|first=Mark|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/fourth-estate-buys-freemans-ground-breaking-memoir-1249077|title=Fourth Estate buys Freeman's 'ground-breaking' memoir|magazine=[[The Bookseller]]|date=17 March 2021|access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="Sturges">{{cite news |last1=Sturges |first1=Fiona |title=''Good Girls'' by Hadley Freeman review – anorexia from within |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/05/good-girls-by-hadley-freeman-review-anorexia-from-within |access-date=14 April 2023 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=5 April 2023}}</ref>


==Views==
==Views==
In June 2018, Freeman denounced the treatment of [[undocumented immigrant|undocumented]] child immigrants arriving in America, drawing parallels with her grandmother's experience of escaping from [[the Holocaust]]. Freeman described it as deliberate cruelty by the [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]], and a reflection of latent racism amongst its supporters.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=19 June 2018 |title=Donald Trump's child cruelty shocks us, but it shouldn't surprise us |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/19/donald-trump-child-cruelty-american-pedigree |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=19 June 2018}}</ref>
In June 2018, Freeman denounced the treatment of [[undocumented immigrant|undocumented]] child immigrants arriving in America, drawing parallels with her grandmother's experience of escaping from [[the Holocaust]]. Freeman described it as deliberate cruelty by the [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]], and a reflection of latent racism amongst its supporters.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=19 June 2018 |title=Donald Trump's child cruelty shocks us, but it shouldn't surprise us |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/19/donald-trump-child-cruelty-american-pedigree |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=19 June 2018}}</ref>


In November 2018, U.S. journalists from ''The Guardian'' published an opinion piece criticising a ''Guardian'' editorial about the [[Gender Recognition Act 2004|Gender Recognition Act]], claiming it was [[transphobia|transphobic]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk |title=Why we take issue with ''the Guardian''{{'}}s stance on trans rights in the UK |last1=Levin |first1=Sam |date=2 November 2018 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=19 December 2019 |last2=Chalabi |first2=Mona |language=en-GB |last3=Siddiqui |first3=Sabrina }}</ref> In tweets, Freeman defended the editorial.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/11/03/guardian-transphobic-editorial-concern/ |title=''Guardian'' US journalists denounce newspaper's "transphobic" editorial |date=3 November 2018 |work=[[PinkNews]] |last=Persio |first=Sofia Lotto |access-date=29 February 2020 }}</ref> She has since been cited as expressing views that some have considered transphobic, particularly in regards to trans people seeking healthcare, and trans people struggling with suicidal ideation.<ref>{{Cite news |work = [[Pink News]]|url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/10/hadley-freeman-suicidal-trans-youth/ |title=Journalist Hadley Freeman condemned for 'dangerous' comments about suicidal trans kids |last=Hansford |first=Amelia |date=10 January 2023|access-date = 7 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/attacking-trans-women-feminist/ |title=There's nothing feminist about attacking trans women |last=Valens |first=Ana |date=2 April 2018 |work=[[The Daily Dot]] |access-date=8 June 2021 |language=en-GB }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/889qe5/trans-rights-uk-debate-terfs |title=Inside the Great British TERF War |last=Ewens |first=Hannah |date=16 June 2020 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=8 June 2021 |language=en-GB }}</ref> In June 2021, Freeman used her regular opinion column in ''The Guardian'' to describe that she had "lost at least a dozen friends over this ... friends who have told me my beliefs are transphobic".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/26/people-have-told-me-i-am-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-but-i-still-want-to-be-their-friend |title=People have told me I'm on the wrong side of history, but I still want to be their friend |first=Hadley |last=Freeman |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 June 2021 |access-date=19 February 2022 }}</ref>
In November 2018, U.S. journalists from ''The Guardian'' published an opinion piece criticising a ''Guardian'' editorial about the [[Gender Recognition Act 2004|Gender Recognition Act]], claiming it was [[transphobia|transphobic]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk |title=Why we take issue with ''the Guardian''{{'}}s stance on trans rights in the UK |last1=Levin |first1=Sam |date=2 November 2018 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=19 December 2019 |last2=Chalabi |first2=Mona |language=en-GB |last3=Siddiqui |first3=Sabrina }}</ref> In tweets, Freeman defended the editorial.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/11/03/guardian-transphobic-editorial-concern/ |title=''Guardian'' US journalists denounce newspaper's "transphobic" editorial |date=3 November 2018 |work=[[PinkNews]] |last=Persio |first=Sofia Lotto |access-date=29 February 2020 }}</ref> She has since been cited as expressing views that some have considered transphobic, particularly in regards to trans people seeking healthcare, and trans people struggling with suicidal ideation.<ref>{{Cite news |work = [[PinkNews]]|url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/10/hadley-freeman-suicidal-trans-youth/ |title=Journalist Hadley Freeman condemned for 'dangerous' comments about suicidal trans kids |last=Hansford |first=Amelia |date=10 January 2023|access-date = 7 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/attacking-trans-women-feminist/ |title=There's nothing feminist about attacking trans women |last=Valens |first=Ana |date=2 April 2018 |work=[[The Daily Dot]] |access-date=8 June 2021 |language=en-GB }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/889qe5/trans-rights-uk-debate-terfs |title=Inside the Great British TERF War |last=Ewens |first=Hannah |date=16 June 2020 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=8 June 2021 |language=en-GB }}</ref> In June 2021, Freeman used her regular opinion column in ''The Guardian'' to describe that she had "lost at least a dozen friends over this ... friends who have told me my beliefs are transphobic".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/26/people-have-told-me-i-am-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-but-i-still-want-to-be-their-friend |title=People have told me I'm on the wrong side of history, but I still want to be their friend |first=Hadley |last=Freeman |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 June 2021 |access-date=19 February 2022 }}</ref>


In December 2022, Freeman said there was an "atmosphere of real fear" at the ''Guardian'' over its coverage of trans issues, not allowing her and others to write on gender issues and barring her from interviewing [[J. K. Rowling]] and [[Martina Navratilova]] who have known [[Gender critical feminism|gender critical]] views on transgender people. After 22 years of working for the ''Guardian'' she left the newspaper when she was refused permission to follow up on the controversy surrounding the charity [[Mermaids (charity)|Mermaids]], which supports transgender youth in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/05/hadley-freeman-atmosphere-fear-governs-guardian-trans-coverage/ |title=Hadley Freeman: 'Atmosphere of fear' governs Guardian trans coverage |first=Anita |last=Singh |date=5 December 2022 |access-date=5 May 2023|work=The Telegraph |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In December 2022, Freeman said there was an "atmosphere of real fear" at the ''Guardian'' over its coverage of trans issues, not allowing her and others to write on gender issues and barring her from interviewing [[J. K. Rowling]] and [[Martina Navratilova]] who have known [[Gender-critical feminism|gender-critical]] views on transgender people. After 22 years of working for ''The Guardian'' she left the newspaper when she was refused permission to follow up on the controversy surrounding the charity [[Mermaids (charity)|Mermaids]], which supports transgender youth in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/05/hadley-freeman-atmosphere-fear-governs-guardian-trans-coverage/ |title=Hadley Freeman: 'Atmosphere of fear' governs ''Guardian'' trans coverage |first=Anita |last=Singh |date=5 December 2022 |access-date=5 May 2023|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Her essay in the ''[[Jewish Quarterly]]'' from May 2024, ''Blindness: October 7 and the Left'', examines how the [[2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel]] has been hijacked by the progressive Left seeking to deny, dismiss and contort the atrocities as propaganda or inconsequential. She point to the hypocrisy of groups like LGBTQ+ activists who would be persecuted in Gaza. On the other hand, Freeman recognizes that many Jews have spoken out about the cruelty towards Palestinians, [[West Bank settlements]], and far-Right fundamentalism.<ref>{{multiref|{{cite magazine|author=Hadley Freeman|title=''Blindness: October 7 and the Left''|type=96 pages|magazine=[[Jewish Quarterly]]|number=256|date=May 2024|url=https://jewishquarterly.com/essay/2024/05/blindness|access-date=June 17, 2024|isbn=9781760644369|ref=none}}|{{cite web|author=Hadley Freeman|title=The blindness of the left wing over October 7|type=essay extract|date=May 16, 2024|url=https://thejewishindependent.com.au/the-blindness-of-the-left-over-october-7|access-date=June 17, 2024|website=The Jewish Independent|location=Australia|ref=none}}}}</ref>


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Hadley Freeman
Born
Hadley Clare Freeman

(1978-05-15) 15 May 1978 (age 46)
New York City, U.S.
EducationCambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies
Alma materSt Anne's College, Oxford
Employers
Known forJournalist, author
Children3
RelativesCatie Lazarus (cousin)[1]

Hadley Clare Freeman (born 15 May 1978)[2][3] is an American British journalist. She writes for The Sunday Times,[4] having previously written for The Guardian.[5]

In 2024 she won Broadsheet Columnist of the Year from The Press Awards.[6]

Early life

Freeman was born in New York City to a Jewish family. Her father worked in finance.[7][8] The family moved to London when Freeman was 11.[9] She has dual British and American citizenship.[10]

Freeman suffered from anorexia and was treated in a psychiatric unit during six different periods between ages 13 and 17.[11] After taking her A-level examinations while boarding at the Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies,[3] she read English literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, and edited the student newspaper Cherwell.[12]

Career

After a year in Paris, Freeman worked on the fashion desk of The Guardian for eight years.[13] She joined The Guardian in 2000 and has worked for the newspaper as a staff writer and columnist and contributes to the UK version of Vogue.[14] Following an article for The Guardian in July 2013 criticising misogynistic behaviour, Freeman received a bomb threat on Twitter.[15]

Freeman's books include The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable, in 2009[16] and Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies in 2013,[17] which was described by Jennifer Lipman in The Jewish Chronicle as "a detailed attack on how women are both portrayed and conditioned to act in public life".[18] Life Moves Pretty Fast appeared in 2015.[19]

In March 2020, House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family, was published.[20] It is an account of the lives of her grandmother Sala Glass and her three brothers Alex, Jacques, and Henri in Poland, France, and the United States during the course of the twentieth century.[21][22] Karen Heller wrote in The Washington Post of Freeman being "an exacting historian" who "tackles anti-Semitism, Jewish guilt and success".[23]

Freeman ended her Weekend Guardian column in September 2021 to concentrate on interviews for the newspaper.[24] In November 2022, Freeman announced that she would be leaving The Guardian and would write for The Sunday Times.[4]

Her memoir Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia, recounting her teenage experience of anorexia, was published by Fourth Estate in April 2023.[25][26]

Views

In June 2018, Freeman denounced the treatment of undocumented child immigrants arriving in America, drawing parallels with her grandmother's experience of escaping from the Holocaust. Freeman described it as deliberate cruelty by the Trump administration, and a reflection of latent racism amongst its supporters.[27]

In November 2018, U.S. journalists from The Guardian published an opinion piece criticising a Guardian editorial about the Gender Recognition Act, claiming it was transphobic.[28] In tweets, Freeman defended the editorial.[29] She has since been cited as expressing views that some have considered transphobic, particularly in regards to trans people seeking healthcare, and trans people struggling with suicidal ideation.[30][31][32] In June 2021, Freeman used her regular opinion column in The Guardian to describe that she had "lost at least a dozen friends over this ... friends who have told me my beliefs are transphobic".[33]

In December 2022, Freeman said there was an "atmosphere of real fear" at the Guardian over its coverage of trans issues, not allowing her and others to write on gender issues and barring her from interviewing J. K. Rowling and Martina Navratilova who have known gender-critical views on transgender people. After 22 years of working for The Guardian she left the newspaper when she was refused permission to follow up on the controversy surrounding the charity Mermaids, which supports transgender youth in the UK.[34]

Her essay in the Jewish Quarterly from May 2024, Blindness: October 7 and the Left, examines how the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel has been hijacked by the progressive Left seeking to deny, dismiss and contort the atrocities as propaganda or inconsequential. She point to the hypocrisy of groups like LGBTQ+ activists who would be persecuted in Gaza. On the other hand, Freeman recognizes that many Jews have spoken out about the cruelty towards Palestinians, West Bank settlements, and far-Right fundamentalism.[35]

Personal life

Freeman often discusses cinema, particularly from the 1980s, in her articles and occasionally in broadcasts. She has said that her favourite film is Ghostbusters[36] and that she has a collection of related books and articles.[37]

She has twin sons and a daughter.[22]

References

  1. ^ Hadley, Freeman (2 January 2021). "My naughty cousin Catie Lazarus was the funniest woman in any room – how I'll miss her". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  2. ^ Freeman, Hadley (12 May 2018). "I can't wait to turn 40. After four decades of getting things wrong, I know some stuff". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Alumni Profiles". Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  4. ^ a b Bron, Maher (2 November 2022). "Long-serving Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman leaves for Sunday Times". Press Gazette. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  5. ^ Freeman, Hadley (4 July 2012). "Cricket and other baffling British habits". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  6. ^ Sleator, Laurence; Alex Farber (19 April 2024). "Press Awards honour The Times and The Sunday Times". The Times. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  7. ^ Groskop, Viv (19 May 2013). "Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies, by Hadley Freeman – review". The Observer. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  8. ^ Freeman, Hadley (6 November 2012). "Sick of US news? Don't worry: there are lots of other things to discuss". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  9. ^ Gil, Natalie; Forster, Katie (4 November 2012). "Interview: Hadley Freeman". The Tab. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  10. ^ Freeman, Hadley (4 February 2017). "I'm American and British. Can I save the special relationship?". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  11. ^ Freeman, Hadley (25 November 2017). "It wasn't feminist theory that cured my anorexia – it was having something to eat for". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  12. ^ Levy Gale, Sadie (10 August 2013). "Interview: Hadley Freeman – How to be Awesome". Cherwell. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  13. ^ Freeman, Hadley (10 May 2013). "I was banned from a slew of shows and never brushed my hair: Hadley Freeman's life as a fashion misfit". Evening Standard. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  14. ^ "Hadley Freeman". RCW agency. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  15. ^ Batty, David (1 August 2013). "Bomb threats made on Twitter to female journalists". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  16. ^ Freeman, Hadley (5 February 2009). The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-670-01867-3.
  17. ^ Freeman, Hadley (25 April 2013). Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies. Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-0-007-48570-3. Archived from the original on 29 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  18. ^ Lipman, Jennifer (30 May 2013). "Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  19. ^ Ellen, Barbara (17 May 2015). "Life Moves Pretty Fast review – a funny, absorbing study of 80s Hollywood". The Observer. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  20. ^ Freeman, Hadley (5 March 2020). House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008322632. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  21. ^ Hennigan, Adrian (24 March 2020). "Picasso, Dior, Auschwitz and an Ayatollah: Uncovering a Secret Jewish Family History". Haaretz. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  22. ^ a b David, Keren (27 February 2020). "The family secrets found in a shoebox". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  23. ^ Heller, Karen (30 March 2020). "In House of Glass, Hadley Freeman unearth's the World War II-era secrets of her family's past". The Washington Post. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  24. ^ Freeman, Hadley (18 September 2021). "Opinion writing has changed a lot since I started out. It's time for something new". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  25. ^ Chandler, Mark (17 March 2021). "Fourth Estate buys Freeman's 'ground-breaking' memoir". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  26. ^ Sturges, Fiona (5 April 2023). "Good Girls by Hadley Freeman review – anorexia from within". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  27. ^ Freeman, Hadley (19 June 2018). "Donald Trump's child cruelty shocks us, but it shouldn't surprise us". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  28. ^ Levin, Sam; Chalabi, Mona; Siddiqui, Sabrina (2 November 2018). "Why we take issue with the Guardian's stance on trans rights in the UK". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  29. ^ Persio, Sofia Lotto (3 November 2018). "Guardian US journalists denounce newspaper's "transphobic" editorial". PinkNews. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  30. ^ Hansford, Amelia (10 January 2023). "Journalist Hadley Freeman condemned for 'dangerous' comments about suicidal trans kids". PinkNews. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  31. ^ Valens, Ana (2 April 2018). "There's nothing feminist about attacking trans women". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  32. ^ Ewens, Hannah (16 June 2020). "Inside the Great British TERF War". Vice. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  33. ^ Freeman, Hadley (26 June 2021). "People have told me I'm on the wrong side of history, but I still want to be their friend". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  34. ^ Singh, Anita (5 December 2022). "Hadley Freeman: 'Atmosphere of fear' governs Guardian trans coverage". The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
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  36. ^ Freeman, Hadley (27 October 2011). "My favourite film: Ghostbusters". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  37. ^ Freeman, Hadley (27 October 2011). "Why I owe it all to 1980s movies". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
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