Jude Ellison Sady Doyle (formerly known by the pen name Sady Doyle; born June 11, 1982[1][2]) is an American feminist author.[3][4]

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Born (1982-06-11) June 11, 1982 (age 42)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materThe New School
OccupationAuthor
Years active2008–present

Profile

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In 2005, Doyle graduated from Eugene Lang College.[5]

He founded the blog Tiger Beatdown (a punning reference to Tiger Beat) in 2008. It concluded in 2013.[6][7][8] His 2010 critique of Liz Lemon on Tiger Beatdown was oft-cited.[9] Alyssa Rosenberg, writing for ThinkProgress in 2011, criticized Doyle's critique in Tiger Beatdown that year of the sexual violence in Game of Thrones.[10]

Doyle is a feminist author;[11][12][13][14] his[a] first book, titled Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why (2016),[15][16][7] dealt with the ways in which society, and especially the media, have built up (and spotlighted) and then torn down women who defied social norms throughout history,[6][17][18] particularly by classifying them as "crazy" and "trainwrecks".[17] His second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, about patriarchy, monsters, and the horror of being female, was released in August 2019, and deals with the roles women are often pushed into by society, and the ways women are seen as monsters.[19][20][21][22]

He contributed "The Pathology of Donald Trump" to the 2017 anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America, edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding, and the piece “Nowhere Left to Go: Misogyny and Belief on the Left“ to the 2020 anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World, edited by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman, as well as contributing to Rookie - Yearbook One (2012), Rookie - Yearbook Two (2014), and The Book of Jezebel: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things (2013).[23][24][25] Doyle also edited and wrote the introduction for Marilyn Monroe: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020).[1][26]

He was a staff writer for In These Times and Rookie,[27][7][5] and has also written for other outlets including The Guardian,[28][6] Elle,[29][30] The Atlantic, and NBCNews.com.[6][8][31][32]

Doyle has written extensively about sexual assault and the misogynistic abuse that many women face online,[33][34] which Doyle has also endured.[35][8][36]

In 2020, he published the teenage horror comedy Apocalypse 1999 Or The Devil in Jenny Long, offering it as a free download via the book's website.[37][non-primary source needed]

He wrote the comic MAW, which was a five-issue horror series, the last issue of which came out in January 2022. The comic was released by BOOM! Studios.[38][39]

His piece “The Healed Body”, about In My Skin, is part of the anthology It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, published on October 4, 2022.[40][41]

He also worked on the libretto for the musical Queen of Hearts, about Martin Bashir’s interview with Diana, Princess of Wales; the musical premiered October 20, 2022.[42]

He wrote the horror story comic series The Neighbors, released by BOOM! Studios in 2023.[43]

He was one of the writers for the comic Hello Darkness #1, released by BOOM! Studios in July 2024.[44] His story for that comic was called "Contagious".[45]

Social media activities

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In 2010, Doyle started the #MooreandMe campaign against Michael Moore's rejection of rape allegations made about Julian Assange.[46][47]

In 2011, Doyle started the hashtag #mencallmethings as a way to further discussion of sexist abuse received by women writers on the Internet.[48] The same year, Doyle received the first Women's Media Center Social Media Award.[5][49]

In 2013, Kurt Metzger feuded with Doyle and Lindy West via Facebook and Twitter during a defense of rape humor.[50][51][52][53]

Personal life

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Doyle is bisexual,[54][55] non-binary,[56] and transgender, and uses he/him and they/them pronouns.[57] He wrote that in April 2022 he had top surgery.[58]

He stated that he was sexually assaulted,[59] and that his father was abusive and almost killed him, his mother, and his brother.[60][61] Doyle also mentioned having post-traumatic stress disorder.[62]

Doyle has a husband and a daughter.[63] He wrote, about having his daughter, "the hospital used a dirty tool on me, and I got an infection and a high fever...the baby’s heart rate was spiking, so they cut her out of me."[64] He also has a brother, who he stated has schizophrenia.[61]

Doyle wrote that in July 2024 his father died.[65]

Notes

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  1. ^ Doyle uses he/him and they/them pronouns. This article uses he for consistency.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Bio". Jude Ellison Sady Doyle.
  2. ^ "#DearJohn: On Rape Culture and a Culture of Reproductive Violence". Tiger Beatdown. February 4, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  3. ^ Crockett, Emily (August 22, 2016). "9 prominent feminists on what Hillary Clinton's historic candidacy really means". Vox.
  4. ^ Crockett, Emily (August 22, 2016). "Why some feminists are conflicted about Hillary Clinton's historic candidacy". Vox. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "Sady Doyle". In These Times. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d Mukhopadhyay, Samhita; Harding, Kate (2017). Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America. Picador. ISBN 978-1250155511.
  7. ^ a b c Tillet, Salamishah (September 20, 2016). "What We Can Learn From Women Who Break the Rules (Published 2016)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  8. ^ a b c Culp, Jennifer (2014). I Have Been Sexually Abused. Now What?. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 18. ISBN 978-1477779767.
  9. ^ Sex and Sexuality (2019, ISBN 1642821543, edited by The New York Times Editorial Staff, published by New York Times Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group), pages 185-189
  10. ^ Alyssa Rosenberg, Feminist Media Criticism, George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire, And That Sady Doyle Piece, August 29, 2011, ThinkProgress
  11. ^ Mary Quattlebaum (April 26, 2017). "What does feminism mean now? Wise words from Mindy Kaling, Roxane Gay and others". The Washington Post.
  12. ^ Dave Itzkoff (August 18, 2016). "A Writer for 'Inside Amy Schumer' Becomes a Thorn for the Star". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Romano, Aja (August 22, 2016). "9 prominent feminists on what Hillary Clinton's historic candidacy really means". Vox. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  14. ^ "When Women Signify Too Much". The New Yorker. October 5, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  15. ^ Sady Doyle (2016). Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear ... and why. Melville House. ISBN 978-1-61219-563-6.
  16. ^ Ron Charles (August 15, 2017). "Monica Lewinsky, reimagined". The Washington Post.
  17. ^ a b Elizabeth Kiefer (September 28, 2016). "What do we really mean when we call a woman a 'trainwreck'?". Evening Standard.
  18. ^ "Review: Trainwreck". Kirkus Reviews. July 19, 2016. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  19. ^ "Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle: 9781612197920 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  20. ^ Megan Volpert (November 14, 2019). "Sady Doyle Is a Witch. So What Are You Afraid Of?". PopMatters.
  21. ^ Jenny Rogers (September 26, 2019). "What do old tales of exorcism and murder say about how men see women now? Not much". The Washington Post.
  22. ^ "Reviews: Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers". Kirkus Reviews. August 13, 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  23. ^ Doyle, Sady (September 20, 2016). Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear ... and why - Sady Doyle - Google Books. Melville House. ISBN 9781612195636. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  24. ^ Samhita Mukhopadhyay; Kate Harding, eds. (October 3, 2017). Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America. Picador. pp. 136–. ISBN 978-1-250-15550-4.
  25. ^ Jessica Valenti; Jaclyn Friedman (January 28, 2020). Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Basic Books. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-1-58005-878-0.
  26. ^ Melville MELVILLE HOUSE; Sady Doyle (October 6, 2020). Marilyn Monroe: the Last Interview: And Other Conversations. Melville House Publishing. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-1-61219-877-4.
  27. ^ "CANCELED – Sady Doyle – Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why – The Wild Detectives". Thewilddetectives.com. May 6, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  28. ^ "Sady Doyle". The Guardian profile page.
  29. ^ James Hohmann (September 20, 2018). "The Daily 202: Trump's FBI attacks laid groundwork for GOP to reject probe of Kavanaugh sexual assault allegation". The Washington Post.
  30. ^ "The big — and less obvious — problem with Casey Affleck winning an Oscar". The New York Times. February 28, 2017. Archived from the original on March 29, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  31. ^ Felsenthal, Julia (September 22, 2016). "Trainwreck Unpacks the Culture of Gawking at Female Celebrity Meltdowns". Vogue. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  32. ^ Megan Garber (September 29, 2016). "From Britney to Trump: How Pop Culture Tells Women to Shut Up". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  33. ^ Emma Alice Jane (2018). Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History. ISBN 978-1473927148.)
  34. ^ Emma Alice Jane (2014). "'Back to the kitchen, cunt': speaking the unspeakable about online misogyny". Continuum. 28 (4): 558–570. doi:10.1080/10304312.2014.924479. hdl:1959.4/unsworks_81563. S2CID 144492709.
  35. ^ Noah Berlatsky (2015). Bullying. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. p. 131. ISBN 978-0737776720.
  36. ^ Michele White (2019). Producing Masculinity: The Internet, Gender, and Sexuality. Routledge. ISBN 978-0429619854.)
  37. ^ "About". Apocalypse 1999.
  38. ^ Staff, Beat (March 31, 2022). "Syndicated Comics".
  39. ^ "MAW #5 First Look". January 11, 2022.
  40. ^ It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. (2022). United States: Feminist Press at CUNY.
  41. ^ "The Healed Body - The Conversationalist". October 4, 2022. Archived from the original on October 4, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  42. ^ "Queen of Hearts (UA) – Jannik Giger, Leo Hofmann, Benjamin van Bebber, Sarah Maria Sun, Jude Ellison Sady Doyle". www.garedunord.ch.
  43. ^ King, Samantha (December 20, 2022). "The Neighbors Taps the Terrors of Queer Parenthood in New Horror Series". ScreenRant.
  44. ^ Quaintance, Zack (July 23, 2024). "Top Comics to Buy for July 24, 2024: What's old is new again".
  45. ^ "You are being redirected..." comicon.com.
  46. ^ Sherwood, Jessica Holden (December 20, 2010). "Sady Doyle Takes On Michael Moore". Ms. Magazine. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  47. ^ "#MooreandMe: On Progressives, Rape Apologism, and the Little Guy". Tiger Beatdown. December 15, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  48. ^ Gibson, Megan (November 8, 2011). "#Mencallmethings: Twitter Trend Highlights Sexist Abuse Online". TIME. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  49. ^ "Women's Media Awards 2011". Women's Media Center. November 29, 2011. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  50. ^ Jung, E. Alex; Brill, Karen (August 17, 2016). "'Amy Schumer 'Couldn't Be More Against' Writer Kurt Metzger's Comments on Rape". Vulture. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  51. ^ Bonazzo, John (August 17, 2016). "'Amy Schumer's Writer Harasses Women Online—But She Blocks Fans Who Bring It Up'". Observer. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  52. ^ Watson, Rebecca (November 9, 2011). "'Kurt Metzger Totally PWNED Me!". Skepchick. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  53. ^ Romano, Aja (July 2, 2013). "'The disturbing online trail of Comedy Central writer Kurt Metzger". The Daily Dot. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  54. ^ @Lisa47313061 (July 6, 2021). "(If you don't mind my asking - you're bisexual yourself, right? Someone in the group is sure to ask.)" (Tweet). Archived from the original on July 6, 2021 – via Twitter.
  55. ^ Doyle, Jude [@byJudeDoyle] (July 6, 2021). "Yep, sure am" (Tweet). Archived from the original on April 28, 2022 – via Twitter.
  56. ^ "Bio". Jude Ellison S. Doyle.
  57. ^ "Jude Doyle". Twitter.
  58. ^ "THE NEIGHBORS #3 out 5.24.23 on Twitter: "It is Trans Day of Visibility today, but, more importantly, it is only five days until the one-year anniversary of my top surgery. WILL I feel hot enough to whip them out on the internet? The anticipation alone" / Twitter". March 31, 2023. Archived from the original on May 25, 2023.
  59. ^ Doyle, Jude Ellison S. (March 30, 2021). "'Kid 90' and the Pull of the Last Great American Decade". Medium.
  60. ^ "Thread by @sadydoyle: If you don't mind, I'm going to revisit this to talk about a few things -- the very bizarre insistence on humanizing with and empathizing an…". threadreaderapp.com.
  61. ^ a b "Full Moon Mixtape: Sagittarius". Jude Doyle. June 10, 2022.
  62. ^ @sadydoyle (April 23, 2021). "It feels like Phase One of the pandemic was everyone figuring out their genders and Phase Two is everyone getting their diagnoses. Mine's PTSD, baby, no surprises here" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  63. ^ Doyle, Sady (2019). Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers. Melville House Publishing. p. 287. ISBN 978-1-61219-792-0.
  64. ^ "They Are Here: The Neighbors #5". Jude Doyle. July 26, 2023.
  65. ^ "@judedoyle.bsky.social on Bluesky". August 27, 2024.
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