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New York University School of Law.
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Jill Filipovic
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She was hired by Cosmopolitan to write for the cosmopolitan.com blog in April, 2014. Prior to that she was a columnist for The Guardian, and blogger for The Huffington Post, and, since 2005, Feministe, one of the largest feminist blogs. She has written articles for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Time.
Men"s rights groups
Filipovic has been an outspoken critic of A Voice for Men.
Michelle Goldberg, writing in The Washington Post, said she had been "singled out by " for her criticism. According to Kerryn Goldsworthy, she has been Googlebombed by her detractors.
TSA and civil liberties
A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener was fired after Filipovic used her blog to describe an incident in which a handwritten comment was left in her luggage. She later wrote "I would much prefer a look at why "security" has been used to justify so many intrusions into our civil liberties".
Beauty pageants
Filipovic has been noted for her writing about beauty pageants, saying "the norms that these contests promote are unfortunately not.. obsolete.. we pay lip service to women"s rights, but focus more on how good women look in a bathing suit".
Name change
Filipovic"s opposition to name change for women who marry (published in The Guardian) was cited as recommended reading on the social construction of gender in Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literacy Theory to Adolescents.
Politics
She was also cited in Hate Crimes in Cyberspace as a victim of hate crime for her feminism.
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