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
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.
feminist feminism rhetoric
I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.
political feminism definitions
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
thinking feminism blogging
I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.
powerful people feminism
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
people feminist feminism
What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are - you know, anti-feminists - they're the same people who say that feminism is ruining the family, yet when it behooves them to, they'll say Sara Palin's a feminist - when all of a sudden it works in their favor.
thinking feminism world
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.
feminism groups way
It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.
mean thinking feminism
I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.
thinking feminism way
I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.
writing thinking feminism
If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible, disgusting comments ever. And sometimes the comments are pornographic, and sometimes the comments are really harassing. So I think that it's kind of a difficult place for women to write sometimes.
feminist feminism genius
The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.
thinking people feminism
I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.
people trying feminism
Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?