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Jill Filipovic
Filipovic at Netroots Nation (Pittsburgh, 2009)
Born (1983-08-03) August 3, 1983 (age 41)
EducationNew York University (BA, JD)
Occupation(s)Writer, attorney
Known forBlogging at Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, Feministe
SpouseTy McCormick (m. 2018)
Websitejillfilipovic.com

Jill Nicole Filipovic (born August 3, 1983)[1] is an American author and attorney.[2][3][4]

Education

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Originally from the Seattle area, Filipovic attended Shorewood High School.[5] She earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and politics and a minor in gender and sexuality studies from New York University.[6] She earned a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law in 2008.[7]

Career

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Filipovic was a columnist for The Guardian.[8] Since 2005, she has been a blogger at Feministe, one of the largest feminist blogs.[9][10][11] In April 2014, Cosmopolitan hired her to write for its blog.[12]

She has written opinions and reviews for The New York Times,[13] The Washington Post,[14] Time,[15] and CNN.[16] She has written two books: The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness (2017) and OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind (2020).[17]

Men's rights groups

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Filipovic has been an outspoken critic of the website A Voice for Men.[18] Michelle Goldberg wrote in The Washington Post, said she had been "singled out by" men's rights groups for her criticism.[19] She was featured in the 2014 book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace due to the harassment she faced for her feminist blog.[20] According to Kerryn Goldsworthy, she has been googlebombed by her detractors.[21]

TSA and civil liberties

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A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener was fired after Filipovic blogged about an incident in which a handwritten comment was left in her luggage.[22] She later wrote, "I would much prefer a look at why 'security' has been used to justify so many intrusions into our civil liberties."[23]

Beauty pageants

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Filipovic has written of beauty pageants that "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."[24]

Name changes

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Filipovic has argued that women should not change their names when they marry. A 2013 column for The Guardian, "Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs", was cited as recommended reading on the social construction of gender in Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literacy Theory to Adolescents by Deborah Appleman (2014).[25][26] Filipovic married Ty Lohrer McCormick in 2018, and kept her surname.[27][28]

Domestic violence and asylum

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Filipovic has criticized Jeff Sessions' directive to refuse grants of asylum to women fleeing domestic violence. She emphasized that women who suffer domestic violence in places where the government refuses to protect them are being persecuted. She stated: "Sessions, because of his deep antipathy toward immigrants and his misogynistic worldview that domestic violence is a private family matter, has undercut this promise of safe harbor – and taken a law meant for protection and turned it into a cudgel of sexist cruelty."[29]

She has also written about how the prohibition of abortion in Honduras drives women who are victims of sexual violence to migrate from the country.[30]

Personal life

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Filipovic is of Serbian and German descent through her father's side of the family.[31][32] She married journalist Ty McCormick in 2018.[27][28]

Awards

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Bibliography

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  • Filipovic, Jill (2008), "Offensive feminism: the conservative gender norms that perpetuate rape culture, and how feminists can fight back", in Jaclyn Friedman; Jessica Valenti (eds.), Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, Seal Press, ISBN 9780786727056
  • Filipovic, Jill (2017), The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, Nation Books, ISBN 978-1568585475
  • Filipovic, Jill (2020), OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-1982153762

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Filipovic 2013.
  2. ^ Filipovic, Jill (March 27, 2017). "Opinion | The All-Male Photo Op Isn't a Gaffe. It's a Strategy. - The New York Times". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 10, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  3. ^ "Lawyer Jill Filipovic - New York, NY Attorney". Avvo. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  4. ^ Jill Filipovic. "Jill Filipovic on Twitter: "It's my birthday and my boyfriend just came home with my favorite flowers and three bags of cat litter because #TrueLove."". Twitter.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  5. ^ "Seattle students new to New York get a lesson in terror - and in a city's bravery | The Seattle Times". archive.seattletimes.com. Archived from the original on September 18, 2023. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  6. ^ "Jill Filipovic | HuffPost". Huffingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  7. ^ Annual conference: speakers, NYU Law Center for Reproductive Conference, 2014, archived from the original on July 15, 2015
  8. ^ "On Gender and Other Agendas", The Guardian, archived from the original on September 10, 2015, retrieved July 20, 2015
  9. ^ Twitter, Feminism and Race: A Roundtable, NPR, August 26, 2013, archived from the original on September 13, 2018, retrieved April 4, 2018
  10. ^ "About Jill", Feministe (blog), archived from the original on August 9, 2015, retrieved July 20, 2015
  11. ^ Chittal, p. 356.
  12. ^ Nicole Levy (April 25, 2014), Cosmopolitan.com hires Jill Filipovic, burnishes feminist cred, Capital New York, archived from the original on July 5, 2015, retrieved July 20, 2015
  13. ^ Filipovic, Jill (September 10, 2015). "The Pope's Unforgiving Message of Forgiveness on Abortion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on November 5, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  14. ^ Filipovic, Jill (June 12, 2015). "How a new generation of activists is trying to make abortion normal". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on December 17, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  15. ^ Filipovic, Jill. "Sex and the Single Boomer in Fear of Dying". Time. Archived from the original on February 14, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  16. ^ By Jill FilipovicUpdated 9:21 AM ET, Sat May 6, 2017 (May 6, 2017). "The white guys are back in charge (opinion)". CNN. Archived from the original on May 7, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Filipovic, Jill (August 11, 2020). OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-9821-5376-2. Archived from the original on October 17, 2023. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  18. ^ Anna Merlan (October 24, 2014), "Men's Rights Idiots Impersonating Domestic Violence Prevention Group", Jezebel, archived from the original on January 12, 2015, retrieved July 20, 2015
  19. ^ Michelle Goldberg (February 20, 2015), "Feminist writers are so besieged by online abuse that some have begun to retire", The Washington Post, archived from the original on August 5, 2017, retrieved September 1, 2017
  20. ^ Citron 2014, pp. 111–112.
  21. ^ Kerryn Goldsworthy (March 27, 2007), "Jill Filipovic and the Googlebomb", Pavlov's Cat (blog), archived from the original on July 23, 2015, retrieved July 21, 2015
  22. ^ Jill F (October 24, 2011). "Your tax dollars at work". Feministe. Archived from the original on November 1, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  23. ^ TSA fires Newark Airport screener for personal note in luggage, Reuters, October 28, 2011, archived from the original on October 19, 2023, retrieved July 1, 2017
  24. ^ Day 2015, p. 197.
  25. ^ "Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs | Jill Filipovic | Opinion". The Guardian. March 7, 2013. Archived from the original on August 17, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  26. ^ Appleman 2014, p. 85.
  27. ^ a b "Jill Filipovic, Ty McCormick - The New York Times". The New York Times. February 4, 2018. Archived from the original on July 6, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  28. ^ a b "Why I Changed My Mind About Marriage". Cosmopolitan.com. February 13, 2018. Archived from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  29. ^ Filipovic, Jill (June 21, 2018). "Why Trump thinks domestic violence victims don't deserve asylum". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 14, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  30. ^ Filipovic, Jill (June 7, 2019). "'I Can No Longer Continue to Live Here'". POLITICO Magazine. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2022.
  31. ^ "Interview with Jill Filipovic, Writer and Editor of the Website "Feministe"". Drinking Diaries. September 25, 2013. Archived from the original on October 6, 2013.
  32. ^ Filipovic, Jill (August 14, 2019). "Cuccinelli's Statue of Liberty poem: Give me your rich, entitled masses". CNN. Archived from the original on June 2, 2022. Retrieved June 2, 2022.
  33. ^ "Society of Professional Journalists | Sigma Delta Chi Awards". www.spj.org. Archived from the original on March 26, 2019. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  34. ^ "ELLE, The Nation, Esquire, Others, Among Planned Parenthood's 2015 Maggie Award Recipients :: Planned Parenthood". www.plannedparenthood.org. Archived from the original on August 14, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  35. ^ "Society of Professional Journalists | Sigma Delta Chi Awards". www.spj.org. Archived from the original on June 27, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  36. ^ "2014 Award Recipients and Photo Gallery". THE NEWSWOMEN'S CLUB OF NEW YORK. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
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