Samhita Mukhopadhyay
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Samhita Mukhopadhyay | |
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| Born | May 3, 1978 |
| Education | San Francisco State University (MA) |
| Occupations | Writer, editor |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Employer | Teen Vogue |
| Notable work | Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life (2011) Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America (ed., 2017) |
| Website | samhitamukhopadhyay |
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 She is the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life and the co-editor of the anthology, Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America.
Books
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 anthology Yes 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]
In 2011, Mukhopadhyay published her first book, Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life,[9] a feminist intervention to mainstream dating books.[3][6][9][10][11][12]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]
