Jill Nicole Filipovic (born August 3, 1983) is an American author and attorney.

Education

Originally from the

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area, Filipovic attended Shorewood High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in

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and

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and a minor in gender and sexuality studies from

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. She earned a

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from the

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in 2008.

Career

Filipovic is a columnist for ''

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''. Since 2005, she has been a blogger at ''Feministe'', one of the largest feminist blogs. In April 2014, ''

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'' hired her to write for its blog. She has written opinions and reviews for ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and

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. 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).

Men's rights groups

Filipovic has been an outspoken critic of the website A Voice for Men. Michelle Goldberg, writing in ''

'', said she had been "singled out by" men's rights groups for her criticism. She was featured in the 2014 book ''Hate Crimes in Cyberspace'' due to the harassment she faced for her feminist blog. According to Kerryn Goldsworthy, she has been

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ed by her detractors.

TSA and civil liberties

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(TSA) screener was fired after Filipovic blogged about 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."

Beauty pageants

Filipovic has written of

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s 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."

Name changes

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 The social construction of gender is a theory in the humanities and social sciences about the manifestation of cultural origins, mechanisms, and corollaries of gender perception and expression in the context of interpersonal and group social inter ...

in ''Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literacy Theory to Adolescents'' by Deborah Appleman (2014). Filipovic married Ty Lohrer McCormick in 2018, and kept her surname.

Domestic violence and asylum

Filipovic has criticized Jeff Sessions' directive to refuse grants of asylum to women fleeing

domestic violence Domestic violence is violence that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes r ...

. 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." 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.

Personal life

Filipovic is of Serbian and German descent through her father's side of the family. She married journalist Ty McCormick in 2018.

Awards

*2015

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, best online column writing *2015 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Maggie Award for Media Excellence for best TV and online reporting *2014

, best online column writing *2014 Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award for opinion/ criticism

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Filipovic, Jill 1983 births Living people American feminist writers American women bloggers American bloggers American people of Serbian descent American people of German descent Cosmopolitan (magazine) people New York University School of Law alumni Writers from New York City Writers from Seattle 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American writers Shorewood High School (Washington) alumni The Guardian journalists