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Clementine Ford (writer)

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Writer, feminist

Alma mater
  
University of Adelaide

Nationality
  
Australian

Clementine Ford (writer)

Clementine Ford (born 1981) is an Australian feminist writer, broadcaster and public speaker. She has a regular column in Daily Life.

Life and career

As a teenager in Adelaide, Ford struggled with an eating disorder. Whilst studying at the University of Adelaide, Ford took a gender studies course, which she described as a personal catalyst for her decision to become a women's rights activist. During her time at the university she also worked as an editor and contributor for the student newspaper On Dit.

In 2007, Ford's mother died. It was also the year that Ford began writing a column for the Sunday Mail. In 2009, Ford wrote a column for the Sunday Mail about the two abortions she had gotten, which she wrote had been an easy decision.

Ford moved from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2011. In 2012, she was cooking on weekends at an inner-city cafe.

In 2014, she wrote of her outrage towards comments made by Cory Bernardi that labelled pro-choice advocates "pro-death" soldiers of the "death industry". Later that year, she wrote an opinion piece against a Victorian bill that would change the state's abortion laws, arguing that if politicians really cared about the lives of women and girls, they would advocate for improved access to birth control, including terminations.

On White Ribbon Day in 2015, Ford made public some of the sexist and abusive messages that she had received online. Meriton Group, the employer of a man who had labeled Ford with a derogatory term, investigated Ford's complaint and the man was dismissed from his job. Three Adelaide High School boys were suspended from their school for the lewd comments they wrote about Ford.

In March 2016, Ford was banned from Facebook for 30 days for using a swear word against a troll on her page. Ford accused Facebook of having a double standard, as the social networking site meanwhile declined to take action against a user who had posted an image making a joke of domestic violence.

Ford announced the birth of her son in August 2016. In September 2016, Allen & Unwin published Ford's first book, Fight Like a Girl.

In October 2016, Ford commented on the controversy about a man accused of harassing women on public transport in Melbourne. Anonymous sources claimed that the man was autistic, however this was disputed by Ford. Ford's claim was specifically that the man was not on "the spectrum", leading to speculation that the man had a different form of disability.

References

Clementine Ford (writer) Wikipedia