Education
Friedman graduated from Wesleyan University, and earned an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Emerson College in 2004.
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Jaclyn Friedman is an American feminist writer and activist from Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the co-editor 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.
Career
She lives in the Boston area. WAM! also runs chapters in Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, District of Columbia, Ottawa and Vancouver. 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." In 2010 Friedman was selected as a delegate on the Nobel Women's Initiative"s peace delegation to Israel and Palestine.
A documentary, Partners for Peace, has been made about the delegation, and Friedman is featured in the film. In 2012, Friedman came under fire for her piece, Unsolicited Advice Foreign Blue Ivy Carter, which was heavily criticized by African-American women for alleged racist overtones.
Friedman subsequently issued a public apology on her blog, and donated the fee she received for the piece to SisterSong, an activist group that primarily deals with women of color. Friedman has appeared as a guest on The Melissa Harris-Perry Show, as well as the British Broadcasting Corporation, Q with Jian Ghomeshi, Cable News Network, Huffington Post Live, and Democracy Now.
Achievements
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Friedman is the founder and Executive Director of Women, Action and the (WAM!), a North American non-profit focusing on gender justice and media issues. WAM!’s accomplishments include the successful campaigns to pressure Facebook to enforce its terms of service against incitements to violence against women 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.
