Lindy West
Lindy West was born in United States of America, United States on March 9th, 1982 and is the Non-Fiction Author. At the age of 42, Lindy West biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
West began working as the film editor for Seattle's alternative weekly newspaper, The Stranger, in 2009. She moved to Los Angeles in 2011 but continued to write for The Stranger until September 2012.
She worked as a staff writer for Jezebel, where she wrote about bigotry, misogyny, and fat shame. The Daily Telegraph, GQ, the New York Daily News, Vulture.com, Cracked.com, MSNBC, and The Guardian have all published West's work. Dayna Tortorici wrote in The New York Times that condemning West's often-comedic approach to serious issues.
West received the Women's Media Center Social Media Award in 2013, which was presented by Jane Fonda in New York City. "I hear a lot these days about the lazy, goalless millennials" – about how all we want to do is sit around twerking our iPods and Tweedling our Kardashians, West said. Where are all the young feminists and feminists and activists?' They're on the internet, dude.
West co-founded Shout Your Abortion, a social media platform for people who express their abortion experiences online without "sadness, shame, or regret" for the purpose of "destigmatization, normalization, and putting an end to shame on September 19, 2015. Following the Planned Parenthood (2015 undercover videos controversy), the social media campaign was launched in reaction to the US House of Representatives' attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.
West received The Stranger's Genius Award in Literature in 2016 for her book Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman.
After having written two op-ed columns for the Times in 2016, West became a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times on July 1, 2017. She writes a weekly column on feminism and popular culture.
Shrill, the television series adaptation of West's memoir starring Aidy Bryant, premiered on Hulu on March 15, 2019. West is the show's executive producer and writer.
The Witches Are Coming is West's second essay collection, The Witches Are Coming, was released by Hachette Book Group on November 5, 2019.
West's book Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema, published in October 2020 by Hachette Books.