Samhita Mukhopadhyay (born May 3, 1978) is an American writer and former executive editor of ''

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''. She writes about feminism, culture, race, politics, and dating. She is the author of ''Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life'' and the co-editor of the anthology, ''Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America''.

Career

Mukhopadhyay started blogging in 2005. In 2008, Mukhopadhyay contributed an essay on the sexualization of black women to Jaclyn Friedman and

Jessica Valenti Jessica Valenti (; born November 1, 1978) is an American feminist writer. She was the co-founder of the blog Feministing, which she wrote for from 2004 to 2011. Valenti is the author of five books: ''Full Frontal Feminism'' (2007), ''He's a Stud, ...

's anthology ''Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Empowerment''. Mukhopadhyay earned a master's degree in Women and Gender Studies in 2009 from

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, where her thesis was entitled "The Politics of the Feminist Blogosphere." Mukhopadhyay is the former Executive Editor of the blog Feministing.com and former Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at millennial media platform Mic. In February 2018, Mukhopadhyay was named executive editor at ''Teen Vogue'', following Elaine Welteroth's departure from

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. In 2022, after stepping down from ''Teen Vogue'', Mukhopadhyay was named a MacDowell Fellow.

Books

In 2011, Mukhopadhyay published her first book, ''Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life,'' a feminist intervention to mainstream dating books. In 2017, Mukhopadhyay co-edited an anthology with

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entitled ''Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America''. Mukhopadhyay wrote the introduction to the collection of essays, in which prominent feminists discussed the impact of Donald Trump's election on hard-fought wins for gender, race, sexuality, class and ethnicity.

Bibliography

*''Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life'' (

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, 2011) *''Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America'', ed. with Kate Harding (

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, 2017)

References

External links

Official site
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Nasty Women
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