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

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

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

. She then earned a

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from the

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in 2008.

Career

Filipovic was hired by ''

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'' to write for the cosmopolitan.com blog in April 2014. Prior to that, she was a columnist for ''

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'', and, since 2005, a blogger at ''Feministe'', one of the largest feminist blogs. She has written articles and essays for ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and CNN, and has authored 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

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, writing in ''

'', said she had been "singled out by en's rights groups for her criticism. She was also cited in ''Hate Crimes in Cyberspace'' as a victim of

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for her feminism. According to Kerryn Goldsworthy, she has been googlebombed 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 about

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s, 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."

Name changes

Filipovic's opposition to

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for women who marry, published in ''The Guardian'' in 2013 as "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). Filipovic married Ty Lohrer McCormick in 2018, and kept her last name upon marriage.

Domestic violence and asylum

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

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. 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 complete prohibition of

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drives women who are victims of sexual violence to migrate from the country.

Personal life

Filipovic is of

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and German descent through her father's side of the family. She married Ty Lohrer McCormick in 2018.

Awards

*2015

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, best online column writing *2015

Planned Parenthood Federation of America The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally. It is a tax-exempt corporation under Internal Reven ...

Maggie Award for Media Excellence for best TV and online reporting *2014

, best online column writing *2014

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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 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