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Jaclyn Friedman is an American feminist writer and activist from Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the co-editor (with Jessica Valenti) of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, the writer of What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide To Sex and Safety, a campus speaker on issues of healthy sexuality and anti-rape activism, and the founder and executive director of Women, Action & The Media.

Jaclyn Friedman
BornNovember, 1971 (age 41)
EducationMaster's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Alma materWesleyan University, Emerson College
Occupation(s)executive director, Women, Action & the Media (WAM!)
Known forediting Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape

Background

Friedman graduated from Wesleyan University in 1993, and earned an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in 2004. She lives in the Boston area.[1]

Women, Action & the Media

Friedman is the founder and Executive Director of Women, Action and the Media (WAM!), a North American nonprofit focusing on gender justice and media issues.[2] WAM!’s accomplishments include the successful campaigns to pressure Facebook to enforce its terms of service against incitements to violence against women[3] and to pressure Clear Channel to rescind its decision not to run advertisements for South Wind Women's Center, a women’s health clinic in Wichita.[4] WAM! also runs chapters in Boston, New York, Chicago, LA, DC, Ottawa and Vancouver.[5]

Other Activism

Friedman regularly speaks at college campuses on the subjects of sexuality, sexualization, rape culture, and creating a healthy sexual culture around enthusiastic consent. She also hosts a weekly podcast "Fucking While Feminist."[6] In 2010 Friedman was selected as a delegate on the Nobel Women’s Initiative's peace delegation to Israel and Palestine.[7] A documentary, Partners for Peace, has been made about the delegation, and Friedman is featured in the film.[8]

Writing

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, an anthology co-edited by Friedman and Jessica Valenti, was published in January 2009.[9] It was selected as one of Publishers Weekly Best 100 Books of 2009,[10] and is number 11 on Ms. Magazine’s list of Most Influential Feminist Books of All Time.[11]

In 2011, inspired by the questions that young women asked her while she was on book tour for Yes Means Yes,[12] Friedman's published her second book, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety.[13] What You Really Really Want was a finalist for Foreword's Book of the Year award in Women's Issues.[14] Salon.com called it "a sex guide for today's girls," and said of Friedman that she “is the sex educator of many parents’ nightmares. She’s also just the teacher young women need.”[15]

Friedman's writings have been published widely, including in The Guardian,[16] The American Prospect,[17] The Washington Post,[18][19] The Nation[20] and Salon.[21]

Media

Friedman has appeared as a guest on The Melissa Harris-Perry Show,[22] as well as the BBC,[23] Q with Jian Ghomeshi,[24] CNN,[25] Huffington Post Live,[26] and Democracy Now.[27]

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/blogs/thenextgreatgeneration/2011/10/jaclyn_friedman_releases_the_h.html
  2. ^ http://www.womenactionmedia.org/why-wam/staff/
  3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/opinion/misogynist-speech-on-facebook.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=3&
  4. ^ http://www.womenactionmedia.org/facebookaction/open-letter-to-facebook/
  5. ^ http://www.womenactionmedia.org/
  6. ^ http://www.jaclynfriedman.com/archives/category/podcast
  7. ^ http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/our-blogs/2010-delegation-to-israel-and-palestine/?ref=289&ref=289
  8. ^ http://www.partnersforpeacefilm.com/about-the-film/
  9. ^ http://www.sealpress.com/book.php?isbn=9781580052573
  10. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/26073-best-books-of-2009.html
  11. ^ http://msmagazine.com/blog/2011/10/10/ms-readers-100-best-non-fiction-books-of-all-time-the-top-10-and-the-complete-list/
  12. ^ http://digboston.com/boston-lulz/2011/10/defend-yourself-jaclyn-friedman/
  13. ^ http://www.sealpress.com/book.php?isbn=9781580053440
  14. ^ https://botya.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2011/womens-issues/
  15. ^ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/30/a_sex_guide_for_todays_girls/
  16. ^ http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jaclyn-friedman
  17. ^ http://prospect.org/authors/jaclyn-friedman
  18. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031201792.html
  19. ^ http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-09-20/opinions/36803406_1_female-fans-fat-girls-tucker-max
  20. ^ http://www.thenation.com/authors/jaclyn-friedman#
  21. ^ http://www.salon.com/writer/jaclyn_friedman/
  22. ^ http://mhpshow.msnbc.com/_news/2012/07/14/12738230-good-look-porn-feminism-and-foucault?lite
  23. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wldw0
  24. ^ http://castroller.com/podcasts/CbcRadioQ/2742140
  25. ^ http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/04/23/pkg.costello.bad.girls.cnn
  26. ^ http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/take-down/519b97c802a760509a000069
  27. ^ http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/20/naomi_wolf_vs_jaclyn_friedman_a

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