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Lindy West (born March 9, 1982) is an American writer, comedian and activist. She is the author of the essay collection Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. The topics she writes about include feminism, popular culture, and the fat acceptance movement.
Lindy West is the co-host of the comedy podcast Text Me Back and the author of the e-mail newsletter Butt News, widely agreed to be the best and most important e-mail newsletter of all time.
22 Mac 2024 · Author Lindy West has been battling fat stigma for more than a decade. Here’s why she hates the word obese and why she wants you to be compassionate.
The comedian says he doesn’t care whom he offends. But he appears to be obsessed with the topic. By Lindy West. We Got Rid of Some Bad Men. Now Let’s Get Rid of Bad Movies. We deserve films ...
16 Mei 2016 · Lindy West on Getting Vulnerable in Her New Memoir. Several years ago, in the aftermath of the now-infamous Daniel Tosh rape joke ruckus, the then-Jezebel writer and lifelong comedy obsessive...
5 Nov 2019 · In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt?
5 Nov 2019 · The writer and feminist extraordinaire Lindy West has never been one to shy away from conflict. Whether it’s confronting online trolls or debating comedians about whether rape jokes belong in the...
14 Mac 2019 · Author Lindy West talks about how she went from a blogger at a local Seattle newspaper, to writing for Hulu’s Shrill, a TV show based on her life.
14 Mac 2019 · Lindy West did not set out to make an after school special. The new Hulu show Shrill, based on her 2016 memoir about being feminist and body positive, is not "all about the message," she says.
11 Nov 2019 · To write her new book, Lindy West went where few women have dared to go before—deep, deep in to Adam Sandler's oeuvre. The 37-year-old author watched Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison,...
