Kate Harding
Feminist writer and editor
Kate Harding is a feminist writer who wrote Asking for It, a book on rape culture and how to counter it.
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Born 1975 in Canada
About Kate Harding
Kate Harding is a writer and columnist whose work has dealt with fat acceptance and with violence against women. She founded the blog Shapely Prose, which she edited from 2007 to 2010. She wrote Asking for It, co-wrote Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere with Marianne Kirby, and co-edited the anthology Nasty Women with Samhita Mukhopadhyay. Harding and Mukhopadhyay also host the podcast Feminasty. Harding has contributed to The Book of Jezebel, and her articles have appeared in outlets such as Salon, Jezebel, The Guardian and the L.A. Times. She studied at the University of Toronto and Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has been working on a creative writing PhD at Bath Spa University.