Hanne Blank

Hanne Blank
Hanne Blank, by Hanne Blank
Born	(1969-02-25) February 25, 1969 (age 48) Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	historian, writer, editor, public speaker, activist
Nationality	United States of America
Period	contemporary
Genre	speculative fiction (short stories), non-fiction & fiction (books)
Subject	history of science, history of medicine, virginity, sexuality
Website
www.hanneblank.com

Hanne Blank (February 25, 1969) Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S., Hanne Blank is a historian, writer, editor and public speaker. She has also edited and written erotica but is retired from that genre. Blank believes in civil rights in general and fat rights in particular. She says: "For me, as a progressive feminist, opposing the whole range of physical-body-based prejudices and stigmas is all of a piece. Fatness and fat rights happen to be two of my personal issues, so it's a topic I can speak to from the inside. But fat politics are not separate from my overall politics of inclusion and human value."

Hanne Blank grew up in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area, became a classically trained musician and then a formally educated historian. As an independent scholar, her most recent post was as the 2004-2005 Scholar of the Institute For Teaching and Research on Women at Towson University, Maryland.

Ms. Blank is a former co-editor of Scarletletters.com (online "publisher of sex-positive, original, visionary creative and artistic work of all kinds") and Scarleteen.com with Heather Corinna. She is a former associate editor of Sojourner: The Women's Forum, and has also written sex columns for The Boston Phoenix and Good Vibes Magazine.

As an instructor (prior to becoming a full-time writer/editor), she taught at the university level at Brandeis University, Tufts University and Whitworth College. As a musician, she was a Fellow of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and was the 1991 recipient of the George Whitefield Chadwick medal for work as a proponent of contemporary art music.