Jessica Valenti
Jessica Valenti
Jessica Valentiis an American blogger and feminist writer, founder of the Feministing blog in 2004. She is the author or co-author of six books on women's issues: Full Frontal Feminism, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rapewith Jaclyn Friedman, He's a Stud, She's a Slut, The Purity Myth, Why Have Kids, and Sex Object: A Memoir...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 November 1978
CountryUnited States of America
aware constantly prison public terrifying women
There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all times that you're a potential victim. What's more terrifying is that it's not necessarily preventative.
played sure
As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.
casual feminism informal talking
I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
thinking people feminist
I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.
feminist feminism rhetoric
I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.
fighting rights feminist
If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
political feminism definitions
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
thinking people feminist
Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.
new-york college thinking
For a lot of women who don't go to college, or for a lot of women who aren't in New York or D.C. or someplace where there's like a large feminist organization they can get involved in, they may be doing feminist work, right, like locally or with a grassroots organization or in their own lives, but if they don't have that support system and if they don't have that availability to feminist language, I think we're missing out on something.
men two differences
There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's biological differences between all of us. My concern is, why are we so concerned about it?
sex media differences
The studies about differences between the sexes that you see kind of get propped up in the media are more often than not denigrating women in some way, saying that women really don't have any spatial understanding, and that's why they can't park.
thinking feminism blogging
I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.
stress night blogging
Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.
giving-up people trying
People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.