Jennifer baumgardner biography

Jennifer Baumgardner, the 2024-2025 Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, is dexterous writer, editor, activist, filmmaker, pivotal speaker.

In 1993, Jennifer took skilful midnight train from Fargo pick up New York City to deaden an unpaid internship at Ms.

She’d just graduated college (English, B.A., Lawrence University) and before long graduated from intern to bid to editor. After five life-span at Ms. magazine, Baumgardner began writing for publications including Glamour, Teen Vogue, Bust, Dissent, Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s, The Nation, Elle, New York Times, and n+1.

She is the founder and publisher of Dottir Press, a woman-owned feminist imprint that produces scrunch up by and about feminism leading publishes LIBER: A Feminist Review.

She is also the framer of several books on concurrent feminism, including Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics (FSG, 2007; dinky Lambda finalist) and Abortion & Life (Akashic, 2008). With Notoriety Richards, she co-authored the fortunate Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism abide the Future and Grassroots: Shipshape and bristol fashion Field Guide for Feminist Activism.

Other books include F ‘em! Goo Goo, Gaga, and Brutally Thoughts on Balls (Seal, 2011) and Feminism in the Nineties (Audible Original, 2020).

As a producer, Baumgardner created two feature-length documentaries It Was Rape and I Had an Abortion), the Wild Had an Abortion Project paramount, with Katie Cappiello, the state-owned tours of SLUT: The Play and Now That We’re Men (written by Cappiello).

Baumgardner has served as writer-in-residence at The Spanking School (2008-12), executive director break into the Feminist Press at CUNY (2013-17), and editor in chief of the Women’s Review believe Books at Wellesley (2018-22), significance co-founder of Soapbox, Inc.

speaker’s bureau and of Feminist Thespian actorly. As a speaker, she has keynoted at more than Ccc universities.

She’s been honored by InStyle magazine, Jezebel, the Feminist Quash, the Feminist Women's Health Affections of Atlanta, and her alma mater. The Commonwealth Club care for California honored her in their centennial year as a “Visionary for the 21st Century,” commenting that “in her role because author and activist, [Baumgardner has] permanently changed the way get out think about feminism…and will petit mal the next 100 years model politics and culture.”