Masha Gessen
| Masha Gessen | |
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Gessen in 2015
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| Born |
13 January 1967 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russian Federation) |
| Residence | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | Russian, American |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, activist |
| Spouse(s) | Darya Oreshkina |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Keith Gessen (brother) |
Maria Alexandrovna "Masha" Gessen (Russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Ге́ссен; IPA: [maˈrʲijə ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvnəˈɡʲesʲɪn]; born 13 January 1967), is a Russian and American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Gessen, a lesbian, helped found the Pink Triangle Campaign and has written extensively on LGBT rights. Described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist," she has said that for many years she was "probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country."
Gessen writes primarily in English but also in her native Russian, and in addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, she has been a prolific contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report.
Gessen is the Russian translator of the TV show The Americans.
Gessen was born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Moscow to Alexander and Yelena Gessen. In 1981, when Gessen was a teenager, she and her family moved to the United States. As an adult in 1991, she moved to Moscow, where she worked as a journalist. Gessen holds both Russian and US citizenship. Her brothers are Keith Gessen, Daniel Gessen and Philip Gessen.
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