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wrote: "Consistently well-written and soundly reasoned, these essays persuasively cast the tendency to doubt women as one of America’s greatest social ills. This illuminating call to action deserves a wide readership."
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In 2019, Friedman was arrested as part of Never Again Action, a group of Jews and allies protesting ICE and the government's treatment of immigrants. In an interview with the
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called it "a sex guide for today's girls," and said of Friedman that she "is the sex educator of many parents' nightmares. She’s also just the teacher young women need".
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In 2010 Friedman was selected as a delegate on the Nobel Women's Initiative's peace delegation to Israel and Palestine. A documentary,
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Friedman is the founder and former executive director of Women, Action & the Media (WAM!), a North American non-profit focusing on
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to rescind its decision not to run advertisements for South Wind Women's Center, a women's health clinic in
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In 2011, inspired by the questions that young women asked her while she was on book tour for
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Friedman regularly speaks at college campuses on the subjects of sexuality, sexualization,
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as "a potent, convincing manifesto" and the text "lively, emboldening and nonjudgmental".
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and media issues. WAM!'s accomplishments included the successful campaigns to pressure
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What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety
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What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide To Sex and Safety
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In 2020, Friedman and co-editor Jessica Valenti published a second anthology,
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Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All
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Unscrewed:Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All
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Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All
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Friedman is the 2019-2020 Activist in Residence at Suffolk University.
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Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape
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against Assange as representing “model cases of sexual negotiation.”
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magazine's list of Most Influential Feminist Books of All Time.
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Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape
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Friedman's writings have been published widely, including in
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Friedman has appeared as an expert on many shows, including
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Executive Director, Women, Action & the Media (WAM!)
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to enforce its terms of service against incitements to
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in 2004. She was sexually assaulted on campus while an
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Valenti, Jessica; Friedman, Jaclyn (5 February 2019).
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Believe Me: How Trusting Women and Change the World
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Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World
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Wesleyan University
Emerson College
jaclynfriedman.com
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Jessica Valenti
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape
Wesleyan University
Emerson College
undergraduate student
bisexual
gender justice
Facebook
violence against women
Clear Channel
Wichita
New York City
Chicago
Los Angeles
Washington, D.C.
Ottawa
Vancouver
rape culture
Jewish Women's Archive
Reform Jewish
NFTY
Naomi Wolf
Democracy Now!
WikiLeaks
Julian Assange

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