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 Amanda Marcotte at the 2024 Democratic National Convention | |
| Born | Amanda Marie Marcotte (1977-09-02)September 2, 1977 (age 48) El Paso, Texas, US |
| Occupation | Author,blogger |
| Education | St. Edward's University (BA) |
| Subject | Feminism, politics |
| Partner | Marc Faletti[1] |
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Amanda Marie Marcotte[2] (born September 2, 1977) is an Americanblogger andjournalist who writes onfeminism and politics from aliberal perspective.[3] She has written for several online publications, includingSlate,The Guardian, andSalon, where she is currently senior politics writer.[4]
Born inEl Paso, Texas, Marcotte (rhymes withfar-caught, according to her)[5] was raised in the small town ofAlpine, Texas.[6] She has written that her parents divorced when she was nine years old.[7] She graduatedsumma cum laude fromSt. Edward's University inAustin, Texas, with anBA degree inEnglish literature.[6] Around 2004, she began writing for the liberal blogPandagon, then later forSlate andThe Guardian.[8][9]
In 2004, Marcotte won a Koufax Award fromWashington Monthly for herMouse Words blog.[10]
Time magazine has called Marcotte "an outspoken voice of theleft", writing, "there is a welcomewonkishness to Marcotte, who, unlike some star bloggers, is not afraid toparse policy with her readers".Time also called her blogging "provocative and profanity-laced".[11]
In early 2007, Marcotte made several controversial statements on her blog, including criticism of the men falsely accused in theDuke lacrosse case, using vulgar language to refer to Catholic doctrine on theVirgin birth of Jesus, and describing the Catholic Church's opposition to birth control as motivated by a desire to force women to "bear more tithing Catholics".[12][13][14]
On January 30, 2007,John Edwards's 2008 presidential campaign hired Marcotte as its blogmaster, saying that while Edwards was "personally offended" by some of Marcotte's remarks about the Catholic Church, her job as their blogmaster was secure.[15][16] Following criticism, Marcotte announced her resignation from the Edwards campaign. In an article forSalon a few days later, she said her resignation was a result of being targeted by the "right-wing smear machine".[17][15]
Marcotte has given presentations atSkepticon,SXSW, Women in Secularism 2, and SkepchickCon. She was formerly on thespeakers' bureau of theSecular Student Alliance.[18][19][20]
Marcotte is the author ofIt's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments (2008),Get Opinionated (2010), andTroll Nation: How the Right Became Trump-worshipping Monsters Set on Rat-f*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself (2018).[21] The illustrations ofIt's a Jungle Out There, featuring a blonde woman in a tropical forest battling various mobs of brown-skinned people, were widely criticized as racist, and Marcotte and publisherSeal Press issued an apology; Seal Press also stated any future print runs of the book would have different illustrations. Previously, in 2007, a possible cover for the book with a "King Kong-like ape-ravishing-white-woman image" had been dropped.[22]
As of 2021, Marcotte writes full-time forSalon;[4] her stories are often republished and syndicated through partner sites includingPandagon successorRaw Story,[23] and atAlternet.[24]
Marcotte moved to Philadelphia in 2018.[25]
In 2019, she wrote that she had "been apescatarian for 16 or 17 years".[26]
Her 2010 bookGet Opinionated indicated her partner's name is Marc Faletti;[1] in 2024, she said that he "owns a record store called Latchkey in Philadelphia", and that they have three cats.[27][28]
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{{cite web}}:|archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)A bit of a tempest is brewing over the strident and profanity-laced writings of John Edwards' official campaign 'blogmaster,' Amanda Marcotte.
The right-wing blogosphere has gotten its scalps .... [Marcotte and McEwan] had come under fire from right-wing bloggers for statements they had previously made on their respective blogs.
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League and the right-wing blogosphere aligned for an all-out assault on Amanda. If it had just been the right-wing bloggers gunning for Amanda, the problem would have been short-lived. ... What Bob didn't seem to realize is that the right-wing blogosphere was going to try to get Edwards' bloggers fired no matter what.
Salon reported that the women had come under intense scrutiny from right-wing bloggers for statements they had previously made on their respective blogs.
On the Internet, outrage erupted. ... But that did not quell the Internet storm as Marcotte continued to write in her no-holds-barred style.
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