Jessica Valenti
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Jessica Valenti in 2014
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| Born |
November 1, 1978 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Master's in Women's and Gender Studies |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Founder of Feministing |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew Golis (m. 2009) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | jessicavalenti.com |
Jessica Valenti (born November 1, 1978) is 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 (2007),Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (2008) with Jaclyn Friedman,He's a Stud, She's a Slut (2008),The Purity Myth (2009),Why Have Kids (2012), and Sex Object: A Memoir (2016).
Her work has appeared in Ms.,The Nation,The Washington Post,TPMCafe,Alternet and The Guardian. In 2011, The Guardian, where Valenti works as a daily columnist, named her as one of their "top 100 women" for her work to bring the feminist movement online.
Valenti was raised in Long Island City, Queens in an Italian American family. Her father was a Buddhist. Valenti graduated from Stuyvesant High School. She received her master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. On October 3, 2009, she married Andrew Golis, the deputy publisher of Talking Points Memo.
Valenti founded Feministing in 2004, while she was working at the National Organization for Women's legal defense fund (now Legal Momentum) Homa Khaleeli writes in The Guardian's top 100 women that the site shifted the feminist movement online, triggering the creation of blogs and discussion groups, creating a heyday for feminism just as its death was being announced, as Khaleeli puts it. She writes that Valenti "felt the full force of being a pioneer," her involvement with the site attracting online abuse, even threats of rape and death.
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