Laura Bates Explained

Laura Bates
Birth Date:1986 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Oxford, England
Subject:Feminism
Awards:British Empire Medal

Laura Carolyn Bates (born 27 August 1986) is an English feminist writer. She founded the Everyday Sexism Project website in April 2012. Her first book, Everyday Sexism, was published in 2014.

Biography

Bates' parents are Diane Elizabeth Bates, a French language teacher, and Adrian Keith Bates, a physician.[1] She grew up in the London Borough of Hackney and Taunton, and has an older sister and a younger brother. Her parents divorced when Bates was in her twenties.[2] She attended King's College, Taunton. She read English literature at St John's College, Cambridge, and graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007. Bates remained in Cambridge for two-and-a-half years as a researcher for the psychologist Susan Quilliam, who was working on an updated edition of The Joy of Sex.[2]

Bates then worked as an actress and a nanny, a period during which she has said she experienced sexism at auditions and found the young girls she was caring for were already preoccupied with their body image.[3] [4]

Everyday Sexism Project

The Everyday Sexism Project website was founded in 2012. Around the third anniversary of the website, in April 2015, Everyday Sexism had reached 100,000 entries.[5] Bates has said that she has faced abuse online. After her publication of Men Who Hate Women in 2020, Bates said she received deepfake pornography images of herself performing sexual acts on the sender.[6]

Bates' first book Everyday Sexism, based on the project, was published by the London subsidiary of Simon & Schuster in 2014.[7]

Career

After Everyday Sexism, Bates published several more books about sexism. Bates is a contributor to The Guardian,[8] The Independent[9] and other publications. She is a contributor to the New York–based Women Under Siege Project.[10]

Honours and awards

Personal life

Bates married Nick Taylor in 2014.[16]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bates, Laura Carolyn, (born 27 Aug. 1986), Founder, Everyday Sexism Project, 2012. 2021-08-28. Who's who & who was who. 2014. en. 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281470. 978-0-19-954088-4.
  2. News: Bates. Hannah. Rape Threats, Groping and Perverts – Everyday Sexism: Why Laura Bates Is Shouting Back. The Daily Telegraph. 12 April 2014. 26 January 2016.
  3. News: Hines. Sophie. Laura Bates Wins Ultimate New Feminist 2013. 20 August 2014. 5 December 2013.
  4. Web site: BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Top Ten Revealed: 9. Laura Bates, Campaigner. BBC . 28 July 2014.
  5. News: Sanghani. Radhika. A Day in the Life of the Everyday Sexism Hashtag. The Daily Telegraph. 16 April 2015. 26 January 2016.
  6. News: Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: 'It's men telling a powerful woman to get back in her box' . Saner . Emine . . 31 January 2024 . 31 January 2024.
  7. Book: Bates, Laura. Everyday Sexism. Simon & Schuster. London. 2014. 9781471131578.
  8. Web site: Laura Bates - contributor page . . 19 November 2022.
  9. Web site: Laura Bates - contributor page . . 19 November 2022.
  10. Web site: Laura Bates - contributor page . . 19 November 2022.
  11. News: 2014-10-26 . Who are the 100 Women 2014? . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-12-17.
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  13. News: Bates. Laura. Queen's Birthday Honours List: Knights Outnumber Dames Five to One. The Guardian. 12 June 2015.
  14. Web site: Royal Society of Literature Admits 40 New Fellows to Address Historical Biases. Flood. Alison. 28 June 2018. the Guardian. en. 3 July 2018.
  15. Web site: Everyday Sexism activist and founder of Raspberry Pi elected as Honorary Fellows of St John's . St John's College, University of Cambridge . 9 May 2020 . 19 November 2022.
  16. News: Bates. Laura. How to Have a Feminist Wedding. The Guardian. 28 June 2014.

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