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Feminista Jones


Michelle Taylor (known by the online pseudonym Feminista Jones) is a social worker and writer in New York City. She is a contributor to Black Twitter and a blogger about Black feminism.

In 2013, Taylor was selected as a United Nations Foundation Fellow for her social media influence. In 2014, she launched a global anti-street harassment campaign (#YouOKSis) and a National Moment of Silence protesting police brutality (#NMOS14), both of which received international media attention. For this work, she was awarded the 2014 "Black Weblog Award" for Outstanding Online Activism.

In 2014, she was honored as one of the Top 100 Black Social Influencers by The Root. Taylor was a featured speaker [1] at the Philadelphia Woman's March that took place on January 21, 2017.

In 2015, Taylor co-founded and served as General Director of the Women’s Freedom Conference, the first all-digital conference completely organized by and featuring only Women of Color. For her work, she was named one of SheKnows/BlogHer’s 2015 “Voices of the Year”. In 2015, "Feminista Jones" wrote several articles for the Washington Post, Salon, TIME.com, and TheEbony.com. Taylor has been regularly featured on Huffingpost Live, has appeared on the Dr. Oz Show and the Exhale Show, and her work has been featured on C-SPAN and MSNBC.


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