Laura Bates
Laura Carolyn Bates (born August 27, 1986 in Oxford ) is a British journalist and women's rights activist.
Life
Laura Bates' father is a doctor, her mother works as a French teacher. She grew up in Hackney and Taunton .
Bates studied English at St John's College , Cambridge. After graduating in 2007, she worked for Susan Quilliam , who was editing a revised version of The Joy of Sex at the time . Bates worked as an actress in several films.
Bates created the website Everyday Sexism in April 2012 and published a book about it in 2014. By 2014, 60,000 sexual assaults were documented on the website. Both attracted a great deal of attention from the British public. In 2015, Bates received the British Empire Medal (BEM) for her service . In 2018 she was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Fonts
- Everyday Sexism . Simon & Schuster, London 2014, ISBN 1471131572
- Girl up . Simon & Schuster, London 2016, ISBN 9781471149504
- Article (selection)
- The Everyday Sexism Project: a year of shouting back , in: The Guardian, April 16, 2013
- Project Guardian: making public transport safer for women , in: The Guardian, October 1, 2013
- Where are all the women, Wikipedia? , in: The Guardian, September 9, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Laura Bates in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Laura Bates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- #everydaySexism , on Twitter
- Laura Bates , articles at: The Guardian
- Laura Bates , articles at: The Independent
- Decca Aitkenhead : Laura Bates Interview: Two Years Ago, I Didn't Know What Feminism Meant , in: The Guardian, January 24, 2014
- Elena Cresci: Everyday Sexism: Live Q&A with Laura Bates , in: The Guardian, April 1, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannah Betts: Rape threats, groping and perverts - Everyday Sexism: why Laura Bates is shouting back , Interview, The Telegraph, April 12, 2014
- ↑ Lucy Kellaway : Lucy Kellaway interviews Everyday Sexism Project founder Laura Bates , Interview, in: Financial Times, August 1, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bates, Laura |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bates, Laura Carolyn (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist and suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxford |