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    KATE HARDING

    Feminist Storyteller

    "[Harding] is ambitious, taking on topics that others avoid, in life and in writing, and then fluidly providing us with not answers but beautiful explications of an unending question."

     

    -Jo Ann Beard

    ABOUT
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    Kate Harding is the author of Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture, a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and one of LitHub's "new feminist classics." With Samhita Mukhopadhyay, she is co-editor of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America and co-host of the 12-episode podcast “Feminasty.” Previously, she collaborated with Anna Holmes and Amanda Hess on the feminist humor encyclopedia The Book of Jezebel and with Marianne Kirby on Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere. She was the founding editor of Shapely Prose (2007-2010) and has published creative and critical work in Sonora Review, Dalhousie Review, Indiana Review, Electric Literature, The Millions, Room, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, among others.

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    Kate has been Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell College; Assistant Director of the Women's

     

    Resource Center at Cornell University; a sought-after college speaker on body image and sexual violence; a small press editor; and a community creative writing teacher. A graduate of University of Toronto and the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, she succesfully defended her dissertation in Creative Nonfiction at Bath Spa University in May 2019. Her next book, VICTIM COMPLEX: ON SNOWFLAKES, WITCH HUNTS, AND THE CULT OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, will be published by St. Martin's Press.

    BOOKS
     
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    TEACHING
     

    Writing the Hermit Crab Essay (online), StoryStudio Chicago, 2018

    Live Lit: The Personal Is Political, Cornell College, 2017

    Starting the Personal Essay, The Loft, 2016

    Writing Grief in Lyric and Narrative (team taught with poet Paula Cisewski), The Loft, 2015

    The Contemporary Personal Essay, StoryStudio Chicago, 2012

    Creative Non-fiction Workshop, StoryStudio Chicago, 2012

    Starting the Story, StoryStudio Chicago, 2011

    Blogging for Business and Pleasure StoryStudio Chicago, 2010

    Developing a Mind for Dialogue, Northwestern Summer Writers' Workshop, 2011

    The Writer’s Online Presence, Northwestern Summer Writers' Workshop, 2010

    The Writer in Cyberspace, Northwestern Summer Writers' Workshop, 2009

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    SPEAKING
     

    2019

    StoryStudio Writers Festival

    Celebration: Women Write the World

     

    2018

    UntitledTown Book and Author Festival

    Slippery Rock University 

    University of New Hampshire

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    2017

    Miami Book Fair

    Texas Book Festival

    UntitledTown Book and Author Festival

    Cornell University

    University of New Mexico

    Alma College

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    2016

    Tulane University

    Wake Forest University

    Purdue University

    Manchester University

    Cornell University

    Luther College

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    If you're interested in booking Kate for a speaking engagement, please contact Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau. 

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    WRITING
     

    Electric Literature: A Master Class in Women's Rage

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    Electric Literature: Forget ‘Handmaid’s Tale’: ‘Red Clocks’ is the Reproductive Dystopia We Need To Read Right Now

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    Huffington Post: Stop Asking Powerful Women to Fix Bad Men 

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    NBC News: The Intergenerational Feminist Divide Over #MeToo is Both Painful and Necessary​

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    The Guardian: What Does the U.S. Election Result Say About Misogyny?

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    Mic: 101 Reasons Why White Women Might Have Voted for Donald Trump

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    U.S. News: A Reason to Thank Trump

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    Minneapolis Star-Tribune: So Misunderstood

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    The Guardian archive

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    Dame archive

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    Alternet archive

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    Refinery 29 archive

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    Cosmopolitan archive

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    Salon archive

    MEDIA
     
    VIDEO
    PRINT
    AUDIO

    C-Span

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    Politics and Prose

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    Hearst TV, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien

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    CTV, The Social

    Seattle Times

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    Chicago Reader

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    Los Angeles Times

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    Brit + Co

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    Bitch

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    Rolling Stone

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    Hazlitt

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    Chicago Magazine

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    Minneapolis Star-Tribune

    Feminasty podcast,

    hosted by Kate Harding and Samhita Mukhopadhyay

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    Boston Athenæum

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    WLRN, "Topical Currents" 

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    PRX

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    CBC Radio, Day 6 with Brent Bambury

    PRAISE
     

    "It may seem counterintuitive to describe a 259-page book about rape as funny, uplifting, enlightening, gender-inclusive, and sex-positive. But those who have followed Kate Harding over her decade-long career — first as the founder of her own blog, Shapely Prose, then through her work at Jezebel and Salon.com’s Broadsheet — know her for her fierce wit and her ability to dive into complex social issues and emerge with simple, sane, humane truths."

     

    -Amy Benfer, Barnes and Noble Review

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    "There are good books, well-worn and dog-eared, that you pass around among your friends with a single-line review: 'You have to read this.' And then there are important books. Books that capture a cultural moment. Books that have the power to change attitudes and influence thinking. Kate Harding's Asking For It is both kinds of book."

     

    -Winnipeg Free Press

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    "Accented by snark, punctuated by profanity, and sprinkled with pop culture and literary references, Harding’s writing is accessible in addition to being weighty and informative." 

     

    -Rewire.News

    Paste Magazine, 20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017

    Finalist, Minnesota Book Award

    ALA Feminist Task Force's Amelia Bloomer List

    40 New Feminist Classics

    Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2015

     
    CONTACT

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