Jill Filipovic

Filipovic has criticized Jeff Sessions’s directive to refuse grants of asylum to women fleeing domestic violence. She emphasised that women who suffer domestic violence in places where the government refuses to protect them are being persecuted. She stated that "Sessions, because of his deep antipathy toward immigrants and his misogynistic worldview that domestic violence is a private family matter, has undercut this promise of safe harbor – and taken a law meant for protection and turned it into a cudgel of sexist cruelty."

Filipovic is of Serbian descent through her father's side of the family. She married Ty Lohrer McCormick in 2018.

She was hired by Cosmopolitan to write for the cosmopolitan.com blog in April 2014. Prior to that she was a columnist for The Guardian and, since 2005, a blogger at Feministe, one of the largest feminist blogs. She has written articles for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Time magazine, and been a commentator on CNN. In 2017 her book The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness was published.

Filipovic's opposition to name change for women who marry, published in The Guardian in 2013 as "Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs", was cited as recommended reading on the social construction of gender in Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literacy Theory to Adolescents by Deborah Appleman (2014). Filipovic married Ty Lohrer McCormick in 2018, and kept her last name upon marriage.

Originally from the Seattle area, Filipovic earned a BA degree with dual majors in Journalism and Politics from New York University (NYU) and a JD degree from the NYU School of Law in 2008.

Jill Nicole Filipovic (born August 3, 1983) is an American feminist, lawyer and author.