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Nona Willis Aronowitz
Willis Aronowitz in c. 2012
Born1984 (age 39–40)
United States
Occupations
  • Author
  • editor
MovementFeminism
Spouse
Aaron Cassara
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(m. 2009, divorced)​
[1][better source needed]
Parents

Nona Willis Aronowitz (born 1984) is a New York-based writer and editor, whose work focuses on "women, sex, politics, and the economy".[2][3] She was the sex and love advice columnist for Teen Vogue from 2019 to 2023. She is the author of Bad Sex, a 2022 memoir published by Plume-Penguin Random House, and served as an award-winning editor of collections of her mother's works. Aronowitz has worked for NBC, NPR, and other news venues, and her writings have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, The Guardian, and other venues.[2][3]

Early life and education

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Aronowitz was born in 1984,[citation needed] and is the daughter of the late Ellen Willis, a journalist, writer on feminist and cultural issues, and NYU faculty member, and the late Stanley Aronowitz, a blue-collar organizer, writer, and CUNY faculty member.[4][5][6]

She graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in American studies in 2006.[7][3]

Career

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Aronowitz has been a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute,[when?] worked as an education and poverty reporter at NBC News Digital,[when?] worked as an associate editor at GOOD magazine,[when?] and has written for various publications.[clarification needed][8]

Writing and editing corpus

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In 2009 Nona and Emma Bee Bernstein's book Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, about their drive across America talking with women about feminism and being women, was published.[9][10]

In 2013, Aronowitz cofounded[clarification needed] Tomorrow, a one-shot magazine about "creative destruction".[3][11][12]

Aronowitz edited a collection of her mother’s work entitled The Essential Ellen Willis, which appeared in 2014.[13] She also edited Out of the Vinyl Deeps (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), the first collection of Ellen Willis's music reviews and essays.[14]

Aronowitz created and edited "The Slice", a features section at Talking Points Memo which began in 2015.[15][16]

As of 2017, Aronowitz was the features editor for Splinter (previously Fusion) and writing the weekly newsletter "Fucking Through the Apocalypse".[17][15][18][19]

In 2019, Aronowitz began writing a sex and relationships column for Teen Vogue.[20]

Aronowitz is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.[21][22]

In October 2019, it was announced that Aronowitz had signed a book deal with Plume for a book called Bad Sex, “a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism” that examines why, “despite the ubiquity of both sex and feminism, true sexual freedom remains elusive.” [23][24]

Awards and recognition

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The one-shot magazine, Tomorrow, cofounded by Aronowitz,[clarification needed] was nominated for an Utne Media Award for general excellence.[25][26][3]

Aronowitz's collection of her mother's work, The Essential Ellen Willis, won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.[27]

Further reading

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  • "Willis, Ellen. Papers of Ellen Willis, 1941-2011". Retrieved September 23, 2019. Collected papers of her mother, Ellen Willis, at Harvard.

References

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  1. ^ Aronowitz, Nona Willis (August 9, 2022). "Why I Stayed in a Marriage That Was Making Me Miserable" (book excerpt). Time. Retrieved December 24, 2022.[better source needed] This source is an excerpt from the title subjects's 2022 memoir, BAD SEX: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution published by Plume-Penguin Publishing Group.
  2. ^ a b Loughran, Sean (August 10, 2022). "In Conversation With Nona Willis Aronowitz [introductory biosketch]". AvocadoDiaries.com. Retrieved August 13, 2022. Nona Willis Aronowitz is our guest on AD's In Conversation With today. She's an award-winning editor, writer, and author based in New York. In addition to her biweekly sex and love advice column for Teen Vogue, Nona's work has been published by a number of other outlets including The New York Times, The Cut, ELLE, VICE, and Playboy.
  3. ^ a b c d e WMC Staff (August 13, 2022). "Nona Willis Aronowitz". Retrieved August 13, 2022. Nona Willis Aronowitz is an author, reporter, and editor who writes about women, sex, politics, and the economy. She's the features editor for Splinter, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Playboy, and Rookie, among many others. In the past, she's worked for Talking Points Memo, NBC, NPR, Good Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. She writes a regular newsletter called F*cking Through the Apocalypse. / With Emma Bee Bernstein, she is the co-author of the book Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, a roadtrip book of essays and photography about the state of young feminism across the United States. She's also the editor of an award-winning anthology of her mother Ellen Willis's rock criticism, called Out of the Vinyl Deeps, as well as a more comprehensive collection of her work, The Essential Ellen Willis, which won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism.
  4. ^ Fox, Margalit (November 10, 2006). "Ellen Willis, 64, Journalist and Feminist, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  5. ^ Roberts, Sam (August 21, 2021). "Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  6. ^ "Willis, Ellen. Papers of Ellen Willis, 1941-2011". Retrieved September 23, 2019.
  7. ^ lukeguy-walker (November 2012). "wesleyan alum". Wesleying. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  8. ^ "Selected Clips — Nona Willis Aronowitz". Theothernwa.com. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  9. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism by Nona Willis Aronowitz". Publishersweekly.com. October 5, 2009. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  10. ^ "Friday Book Review: Girldrive by Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein". Pitch.com. February 5, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  11. ^ "Ann Friedman". Missouri School of Journalism. July 24, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  12. ^ "Welcome". Tomorrow Magazine. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  13. ^ "National Book Critics Circle: awards". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  14. ^ McDonnell, Evelyn (June 10, 2011). "Ellen Willis's Pioneering Rock Criticism". The New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  15. ^ a b "Nona Willis Aronowitz '06 Offers Advice on Breaking into Journalism in the Internet Age". The Wesleyan Argus. April 25, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  16. ^ "Introducing The Slice!". Talkingpointsmemo.com. January 14, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  17. ^ "About Splinter". Splinter. January 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  18. ^ "About — Nona Willis Aronowitz". Theothernwa.com. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  19. ^ "fucking the pain away". Tinyletter.com. February 2, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  20. ^ "Nona Willis Aronowitz archive". Teen Vogue. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
  21. ^ "The Women".
  22. ^ "The Film — She's Beautiful When She's Angry". Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  23. ^ "Nona Willis Aronowitz sells new book to Plume; Abrams creates new LGBTQ-focused imprint". www.bookforum.com.
  24. ^ Bennett, Jessica (August 9, 2022). "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 'Bad Sex' but Were Afraid to Ask". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  25. ^ "Ann Friedman". Missouri School of Journalism. July 24, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  26. ^ "Welcome". Tomorrow Magazine. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  27. ^ "National Book Critics Circle: awards". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
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