Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Samhita Mukhopadhyay (born May 3, 1978)[1] is an American writer and the executive editor of Teen Vogue. She writes about feminism, culture, race, politics, and dating. She is the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life and the co-editor of the anthology, Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America.

Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Born (1978-05-03) May 3, 1978
Alma materSan Francisco State University (MA)
OccupationWriter, editor
Years active2005–present
EmployerTeen Vogue
Notable work
Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life (2011)
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America (ed., 2017)
Websitesamhitamukhopadhyay.com

Career

Mukhopadhyay started blogging in 2005.[2]

In 2008, Mukhopadhyay contributed an essay on the sexualization of black women to Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti's anthologyYes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Empowerment.[3]

Mukhopadhyay earned a master's degree in Women and Gender Studies in 2009 from San Francisco State University, where her thesis was entitled "The Politics of the Feminist Blogosphere."[4]

Mukhopadhyay is the former Executive Editor of the blog Feministing.com[5] and former Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at millennial media platform Mic.[6]

In February 2018, Mukhopadhyay was named executive editor at Teen Vogue, following Elaine Welteroth's departure from Condé Nast.[6]

Books

In 2011, Mukhopadhyay published her first book, Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life,[7] a feminist intervention to mainstream dating books.[7][8][2][5][9][10]

In 2017, Mukhopadhyay co-edited an anthology with Kate Harding entitled Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America. Mukhopadhyay wrote the introduction to the collection of essays, in which prominent feminists discussed the impact of Donald Trump's election on hard-fought wins for gender, race, sexuality, class and ethnicity.[11][12][13][14][15][16]

Bibliography
  • Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life (Seal, 2011)
  • Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America, ed. with Kate Harding (Picador, 2017)

References
  1. Mukhopadhyay, Samhita (2 May 2017). "On the eve of my 39th birthday I'm sitting on my couch with an ice pack on my leg from a dance class/twerking incident. I slay". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  2. Banerjee, Neelanjana (November 10, 2011). "The Rumpus Interview with Samhita Mukhopadhyay". The Rumpus. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  3. "Yes Means Yes". Publishers Weekly.
  4. "San Francisco State University MA Culminating Projects". San Francisco State University. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  5. McCarthy, Allison (2011-10-21). "Dating While Feminist: An Interview with Samhita Mukhopadhyay". Ms. Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  6. Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (February 5, 2018). "Teen Vogue Taps Samhita Mukhopadhyay as Executive Editor". Women's Wear Daily. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  7. Clark-Flory, Tracy (October 1, 2011). "She's just not that into dating". Salon. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  8. Bielski, Zosia (September 29, 2011). "Why feminists have better sex". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  9. de la Paz, Noelle (2011-11-17). "It's Not Feminism That's Ruining Romance: A Fresh Spin on Dating". Colorlines. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  10. "Nonfiction Book Review: Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life by Samhita Mukhopadhyay. Seal, $17 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-58005-332-7". Publishers Weekly. August 15, 2011. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  11. Levitt, Aimee (October 11, 2017). "Nasty Women attempts to sum up what it's like to be a feminist in Trump's America". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  12. Stevens, Heidi (October 6, 2017). "Spend a little (or a lot) of time with these 'Nasty Women'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  13. Burda, Joan M. "A book review by Joan M. Burda: Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  14. Enjeti, Anjali (October 3, 2017). "'Nasty Women' Essay Collection Chucks Pantsuits for a More Inclusive Outfit". Rewire. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  15. "NASTY WOMEN Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America". Kirkus Reviews. August 6, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  16. Charles, Anne (2018-01-04). "'Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's..." Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
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