Samhita Mukhopadhyay

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Samhita Mukhopadhyay
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Born (1978-05-03) May 3, 1978 (age 46)
Education San Francisco State University (MA)
Occupation(s)Writer, editor
Years active2005–present
Employer Teen Vogue
Notable workOutdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life (2011)
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America (ed., 2017)
Website samhitamukhopadhyay.com

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 She is the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life and the co-editor of the anthology, Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America.

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Career

The child of immigrants from India, Mukhopadhyay was raised in New York City. [2]

She started blogging in 2005. [3]

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. [4]

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." [5]

Mukhopadhyay is the former Executive Editor of the blog Feministing.com [6] and former Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at millennial media platform Mic. [7]

In February 2018, Mukhopadhyay was named executive editor at Teen Vogue, following Elaine Welteroth's departure from Condé Nast. [7]

In 2022, after stepping down from Teen Vogue, Mukhopadhyay was named a MacDowell Fellow. [8]

Books

In 2011, Mukhopadhyay published her first book, Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life, [9] a feminist intervention to mainstream dating books. [3] [6] [9] [10] [11] [12]

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. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

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