Rose George

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Rose George
Rose George on The Big Necessity.jpg
Rose George (2010)
Born1969
England
OccupationAuthor & public speaker
Education Somerville College, Oxford (BA),
University of Pennsylvania (MA)
Notable worksLife Removed (2004),
The Big Necessity (2008),
Deep Sea & Foreign Going/Ninety Percent of Everything (2013),
Nine Pints (2018)
Website
www.rosegeorge.com

Rose George is a British journalist and author. She has explored topics such as refugees, sanitation and human waste, and human blood in her books. [1]

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Education

In 1992, George earned a First-Class Honours BA in Modern Languages from Somerville College, Oxford, followed by an MA in international politics in 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania, as a Thouron Scholar and Fulbright Fellow. [2]

Career

In 1994, she embarked on her writing career as an intern at The Nation magazine in New York City. Subsequently, she assumed the roles of senior editor and writer at COLORS magazine, a bilingual publication published by the Benetton clothing company. It focused on "local cultures with global reach," which was distributed in eighty countries. The magazine was initially based in Rome, later relocating to Paris and then Venice. [3]

In 1999, she moved to London to freelance. She has contributed her writing to publications including the Independent on Sunday , Arena , Financial Times , Daily Telegraph , Details , Bad Idea , [4] and UnHerd. [5] She also served as a war correspondent in Kosovo for Condé Nast Traveler magazine and notably attended Saddam Hussein's birthday party [3] on two occasions. George wore a burqa, which she called a "hideous concept", provided by her translator. [6]

Until 2010, she held the position of senior editor at large for Tank, a London-based quarterly magazine covering fashion, art, reportage, and culture.

She has written four non-fiction books:

Political views

Gender critical opinions

George has been vocally critical of aspects of the transgender community. In September 2023, she signed an open letter from the organization Sex Matters urging UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to "lead the fightback" against what the organization characterized as attacks on gender critical individuals. [10]

George ended a Substack post criticizing UK politicians Matt Hancock and Suella Braverman by writing:

And I wonder whether the current gender fluid trans nonsense and its accompanying violence and lack of debate is because being trans is something to cling to, and when you hold tight to something, you get violent in its defence. I’m not talking here about the men who have co-opted trans rights into the women-silencing misogyny that has captured so many institutions. They will get their reckoning, one day. I mean instead the young girls and young women, mostly, who cling to the new cult because it is accessible and makes a certain sense, and they are led willingly by adults who should know better into surgery and hormones that can wreck lives. [11]

George has characterized transgender women's access to public bathrooms as "letting intact men into women’s toilets", adding, "Yes, not all men. But yes, some men. Those some men who will take any chink in security to exploit it, to be a predator. George is against unisex public toilets. [12] She said of transgender women as potential threats,

  • Not all trans people are predators.
  • Hardly any trans people are predators.
  • But a predator can get a long way with his predation by pretending to be a trans woman. No better place to commit a crime than at sea; no better way to abuse women and girls probably with impunity than to be a man who notices how useful it is to pretend to be a woman. See, prisoners, often in for sexual assault, suddenly finding that they are women after all and being put in women’s prisons. Men in women’s refuges. Don’t get me started on men in women’s sports. [13]

Books

Personal life

George has lived in Leeds since 2011. [15] She is a fell runner [16] and has written about suffering from severe endometriosis in a review of a book about a different topic. [17]

COVID-19 controversies

On May 1, 2022, the Guardian published an article by George about experiencing long COVID-19. [18] Some online readers took issue with the line, "My long Covid is suspected by my GP, since I never actually tested positive ..." George defended herself on Twitter by engaging with critics directly. [19] [20] [21] [22] On November 8, 2023, George posted another account of her experience with COVID. She wrote that she believes she had COVID-19 despite having taken a test that produced a negative result. [23]

AirBnB controversy

George rents out a French house that was once a Vichy cafe and Gestapo spy station [24] on AirBnB. [25] In April 2023, after a renter secured a refund because the home lacked electricity, George detailed the incident publicly, referring to the renter as "a liar who had no evidence" and claiming "Air BNB does not protect hosts who behave in good faith." [26] [27] [28]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Krantz, Matt (22 February 2019). "Five Books Bill Gates Says You Should Read This Summer". Investor's Business Daily.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. 1 2 "All American Speaker's Bureau" . Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Roberts, Jack; Stacey, Daniel (22 May 2008). Bad Idea Anthology: The Best of Modern Storytelling. Anova Books. ISBN   9781906032302.
  5. ↑ George, Rose (18 August 2022). "If Joanne Harris won't defend women, I won't support her". UnHerd. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  6. ↑ George, Rose (31 January 2023). "I have no fear nor shrinking". Rose George: some rambling. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 Sandhu, Sukhdev (13 September 2013). "Deep Sea and Foreign Going by Rose George – review". The Guardian.
  8. 1 2 3 Garner, Dwight (16 October 2013). "Life on Ships That Make World Go Round". The New York Times.
  9. ↑ Goss, Terry (14 August 2013). "Shipping: The 'Invisible Industry' That Clothes And Feeds You". NPR.
  10. ↑ "Prime Minister, will you stand up to violence against women?". Sex Matters. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  11. ↑ George, Rose (21 March 2023). "This is a Hancock triumph". Rose George: some rambling. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  12. ↑ George, Rose (21 March 2018). "Why women face longer toilet queues – and how we can achieve 'potty parity'". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  13. ↑ George, Rose (18 January 2023). "Able Seacat". Rose George: some rambling. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  14. ↑ "Ninety Percent of Everything". RoseGeorge.com. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  15. ↑ George, Rose (3 November 2023). "The Goat". Substack. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  16. ↑ George, Rose (10 April 2020). "Running Alone Together". The New York Times Review.
  17. ↑ George, Rose (9 June 2023). "Women Aren't Just Small Men". The Atlantic.
  18. ↑ George, Rose (1 May 2022). "I was a marathon runner with killer biceps – long Covid has stopped me in my tracks". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  19. ↑ George, Rose (2 May 2022). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  20. ↑ George, Rose (2 May 2022). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  21. ↑ "Tweet". Twitter. 3 May 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  22. ↑ George, Rose (3 May 2022). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  23. ↑ George, Rose (8 November 2023). "My angry arms". Substack. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  24. ↑ George, Rose (5 April 2023). "Gestapo ghosts". Substack. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  25. ↑ George, Rose. "Rent my house" . Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  26. ↑ George, Rose (5 April 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  27. ↑ George, Rose (5 April 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  28. ↑ George, Rose (5 April 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 20 January 2024.

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