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			'''Clementine Ford''' is an ]n ] writer, columnist, broadcaster and public speaker on women's rights and other social and political issues.
	'''Clementine Ford''' is an Australian ] writer, columnist, broadcaster and public speaker.<ref name="Year2007">{{cite news\|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/the-year-that-made-me:-clementine-ford,-2007/8099454\|title=The year that made me: Clementine Ford, 2007\|date=15 January 2017\|access-date=16 January 2017\|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation\|website=Radio National}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/australia-books-blog/2016/sep/28/clementine-ford-theres-something-really-toxic-with-the-way-men-bond-in-australia\|title=Clementine Ford: 'There's something really toxic with the way men bond in Australia'\|last=Delaney\|first=Brigid\|date=28 September 2016\|access-date=16 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231050557/https://www.theguardian.com/world/australia-books-blog/2016/sep/28/clementine-ford-theres-something-really-toxic-with-the-way-men-bond-in-australia\|archive-date=31 December 2016\|url-status=live\|website=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-27/clementine-ford-fight-like-a-girl/7880234\|title=Clem Ford: Why you should fight like a girl\|date=27 September 2016\|language=en-AU\|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation\|access-date=16 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161212043537/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-27/clementine-ford-fight-like-a-girl/7880234\|archive-date=12 December 2016\|url-status=live\|first1=Julia\|last1=Baird\|first2=Clementine\|last2=Ford}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/clementine-ford/35806\|title=Clementine Ford\|date=30 September 2010\|website=ABC News\|language=en-AU\|access-date=27 September 2016}}</ref> Throughout her career, Ford has received substantial media attention for social media comments concerning women's rights and other social and political issues.

	==~~Background~~==		==Personal life==
	Ford spent much of her childhood growing up in the Middle East, specifically in ] on the eastern border of the ].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book\|last=Ford\|first=Clementine\|title=Fight Like a Girl\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|year=2016\|location=Melbourne\|pages=26}}</ref> At the age of 12, her family relocated to England.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ford - Q + A\|url=https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/clementine-ford/10643230\|url-status=live\|website=ABC\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212040439/https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/clementine-ford/10643230 \|archive-date=12 December 2021 }}</ref> Ford spent the remainder of her teenage years growing up in ], South Australia. As a teenager, she struggled with body image, body dysmorphia and an eating disorder.<ref name=":4">{{citation\|last=Ford\|first=Clementine\|title='The lifetime struggle to accept my body'\|date=20 December 2011\|url=http://www.mamamia.com.au/body-hate-and-body-image-clementine-ford-shares-her-own-story/\|website=Mamamia\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225060711/http://www.mamamia.com.au/body-hate-and-body-image-clementine-ford-shares-her-own-story/\|access-date=17 January 2017\|archive-date=25 December 2016\|url-status=live}}</ref>		Ford spent much of her childhood growing up in the Middle East, specifically in ] on the eastern border of the ].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book\|last=Ford\|first=Clementine\|title=Fight Like a Girl\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|year=2016\|location=Melbourne\|pages=26}}</ref> At the age of 12, her family relocated to England.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ford - Q + A\|url=https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/clementine-ford/10643230\|url-status=live\|website=ABC\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212040439/https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/clementine-ford/10643230 \|archive-date=12 December 2021 }}</ref> Ford spent the remainder of her teenage years growing up in ], South Australia. As a teenager, she struggled with body image, body dysmorphia and an eating disorder.<ref name=":4">{{citation\|last=Ford\|first=Clementine\|title='The lifetime struggle to accept my body'\|date=20 December 2011\|url=http://www.mamamia.com.au/body-hate-and-body-image-clementine-ford-shares-her-own-story/\|website=Mamamia\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225060711/http://www.mamamia.com.au/body-hate-and-body-image-clementine-ford-shares-her-own-story/\|access-date=17 January 2017\|archive-date=25 December 2016\|url-status=live}}</ref>

	Ford studied at the ], where she took a gender studies course; she describes this as a personal catalyst for her decision to become a women's rights activist.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://rightnow.org.au/interview-3/interview-with-clementine-ford/\|title=Interview with Clementine Ford\|website=Right Now\|access-date=16 January 2017\|url-status=live\|archive-date=16 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116122918/http://rightnow.org.au/interview-3/interview-with-clementine-ford/\|first1=Erin\|last1=Handley\|first2=Clementine\|last2=Ford\|date=11 October 2012 }}</ref> During her time at the university she also worked as an editor and contributor for the student newspaper '']''.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://sheilas.org.au/2014/03/a-bonza-clementine/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308125550/http://sheilas.org.au/2014/03/a-bonza-clementine/\|archive-date=8 March 2017\|date=20 March 2014\|website=Sheilas\|publisher=Victorian Women's Trust\|title=A Bonza Clementine\|first1=Sarah\|last1=Capper\|first2=Clementine\|last2=Ford\|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://indaily.com.au/news/2015/01/22/dit-editors-begin-anti-leftist-crusade/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116123751/http://indaily.com.au/news/2015/01/22/dit-editors-begin-anti-leftist-crusade/\|website=In Daily\|archive-date=16 January 2017\|title=On Dit's Young Libs begin anti-leftist crusade\|first=Tom\|last=Richardson\|date=22 January 2015\|access-date=16 January 2017\|url-status=live}}</ref>		Ford studied at the ], where she took a gender studies course; she describes this as a personal catalyst for her decision to become a women's rights activist.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://rightnow.org.au/interview-3/interview-with-clementine-ford/\|title=Interview with Clementine Ford\|website=Right Now\|access-date=16 January 2017\|url-status=live\|archive-date=16 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116122918/http://rightnow.org.au/interview-3/interview-with-clementine-ford/\|first1=Erin\|last1=Handley\|first2=Clementine\|last2=Ford\|date=11 October 2012 }}</ref> During her time at the university she also worked as an editor and contributor for the student newspaper '']''.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://sheilas.org.au/2014/03/a-bonza-clementine/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308125550/http://sheilas.org.au/2014/03/a-bonza-clementine/\|archive-date=8 March 2017\|date=20 March 2014\|website=Sheilas\|publisher=Victorian Women's Trust\|title=A Bonza Clementine\|first1=Sarah\|last1=Capper\|first2=Clementine\|last2=Ford\|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://indaily.com.au/news/2015/01/22/dit-editors-begin-anti-leftist-crusade/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116123751/http://indaily.com.au/news/2015/01/22/dit-editors-begin-anti-leftist-crusade/\|website=In Daily\|archive-date=16 January 2017\|title=On Dit's Young Libs begin anti-leftist crusade\|first=Tom\|last=Richardson\|date=22 January 2015\|access-date=16 January 2017\|url-status=live}}</ref>

	Ford moved from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2011.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Ross\|first=Annabel\|date=21 May 2012\|title=My Melbourne: Clementine Ford\|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald\|publisher=Fairfax Media\|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/about-town/my-melbourne-clementine-ford-20120517-1yt5e.html\|url-status=live\|access-date=16 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116121916/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/about-town/my-melbourne-clementine-ford-20120517-1yt5e.html\|archive-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> She announced the birth of her son in August 2016.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Curtis\|first=Rachel\|date=30 August 2016\|title=Clementine Ford announces surprise three-week-old baby\|website=Mamamia\|url=http://www.mamamia.com.au/clementine-ford-welcomes-baby/\|url-status=live\|access-date=16 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831000440/http://www.mamamia.com.au/clementine-ford-welcomes-baby/\|archive-date=31 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last=Elliot\|first=Ellen-Maree\|date=6 October 2016\|title=It continues to divide, but the issue of breastfeeding in public is a no-brainer for author Clementine Ford\|newspaper=The Courier Mail\|publisher=News Corp\|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/it-continues-to-divide-but-the-issue-of-breastfeeding-in-public-is-a-nobrainer-for-author-clementine-ford/news-story/c445d0de6291cd3c63e3fb0ee82be83e\|access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref>		Ford moved from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2011.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Ross\|first=Annabel\|date=21 May 2012\|title=My Melbourne: Clementine Ford\|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald\|publisher=Fairfax Media\|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/about-town/my-melbourne-clementine-ford-20120517-1yt5e.html\|url-status=live\|access-date=16 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116121916/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/about-town/my-melbourne-clementine-ford-20120517-1yt5e.html\|archive-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> She announced the birth of her son in August 2016.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Curtis\|first=Rachel\|date=30 August 2016\|title=Clementine Ford announces surprise three-week-old baby\|website=Mamamia\|url=http://www.mamamia.com.au/clementine-ford-welcomes-baby/\|url-status=live\|access-date=16 January 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831000440/http://www.mamamia.com.au/clementine-ford-welcomes-baby/\|archive-date=31 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last=Elliot\|first=Ellen-Maree\|date=6 October 2016\|title=It continues to divide, but the issue of breastfeeding in public is a no-brainer for author Clementine Ford\|newspaper=The Courier Mail\|publisher=News Corp\|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/it-continues-to-divide-but-the-issue-of-breastfeeding-in-public-is-a-nobrainer-for-author-clementine-ford/news-story/c445d0de6291cd3c63e3fb0ee82be83e\|access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> Ford has stated that raising her son with little assistance from her partner put pressure on the relationship, which she left.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Saunders \|first=Anna \|date=2021-10-30 \|title="I Became A Mother. And Then I Left My Partner" \|url=https://primer.com.au/clementine-ford-separation/ \|access-date=2024-06-10 \|website=primer \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	==~~Writing career~~==		==Career==
			Ford is known as a journalist, author and feminist activist. In 2018, ] lecturer Michelle Smith considered Ford to be "Australia's most prominent contemporary feminist".<ref name="Conversation_Ford_reveals_fragility_BWBB">{{cite Q\|Q127061091\|url-status=live}}</ref>
⚫	Ford's writing career includes her contributions as a columnist. Ford wrote a regular column for ''Daily Life''<ref name=":1" /> for seven years.<ref name="abc-quit" /> In 2007, Ford began writing a column for Adelaide's '']'' and also began writing for ''The Drum''.<ref ~~name~~=~~Year2007~~/><ref ~~name~~=":2" /> Topics Ford wrote about included ~~distigmatising~~ abortion; she described having an abortion herself as an easy decision that she feels no shame for.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.news.com.au/news/my-no-guilt-no-shame-abortions/news-story/f38b7169c4c24ff8dcd075b2f776d9f3\|first=Clementine\|last=Ford\|date=15 October 2009\|title=Clementine Ford reveals her two no guilt, no shame abortions\|website=News.com.au\|publisher=News Corp\|access-date=16 January 2017\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129122205/http://www.news.com.au/news/my-no-guilt-no-shame-abortions/news-story/f38b7169c4c24ff8dcd075b2f776d9f3\|archive-date=29 January 2017}}</ref> In 2014, she wrote of her outrage towards comments made by ] which labelled ] advocates "pro-death" soldiers of the "death industry".<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/prochoice-doesnt-equal-prodeath-20140106-30cym.html\|website=Daily Life\|publisher=Fairfax Media\|date=7 January 2014\|title='Pro-choice' doesn't equal 'pro-death'\|first=Clementine\|last=Ford\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408070232/http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/prochoice-doesnt-equal-prodeath-20140106-30cym.html\|archive-date=8 April 2015\|url-status=live\|access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref> Later that year, she wrote an opinion piece against a Victorian bill that would change the state's abortion laws, arguing that if politicians really cared about the lives of women and girls that they would advocate for improved access to birth control, including terminations.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-09/ford-hands-off-our-hard-fought-abortion-rights/5440994\|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation\|title=Hands off our hard-fought abortion rights\|first=Clementine\|last=Ford\|date=9 May 2014\|archive-date=10 May 2014\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510121546/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-09/ford-hands-off-our-hard-fought-abortion-rights/5440994\|website=The Drum}}</ref>

		⚫	Ford's writing career includes her contributions as a columnist. Ford wrote a regular column for ''Daily Life''<ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/feminist-writer-clementine-ford-is-highlighting-facebooks-hypocritical-community-guidelines-a6958696.html\|title=This woman is highlighting Facebook's ridiculous double standards\|website=] \|date=29 March 2016\|language=en-GB\|access-date=27 September 2016}}</ref> for seven years.<ref name="abc-quit" /> In 2007, Ford began writing a column for Adelaide's '']'' and also began writing for ''The Drum''.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/the-year-that-made-me:-clementine-ford,-2007/8099454 \|title=The year that made me: Clementine Ford, 2007 \|date=15 January 2017 \|access-date=16 January 2017 \|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation \|website=Radio National}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/australia-books-blog/2016/sep/28/clementine-ford-theres-something-really-toxic-with-the-way-men-bond-in-australia \|title=Clementine Ford: 'There's something really toxic with the way men bond in Australia' \|last=Delaney \|first=Brigid \|date=28 September 2016 \|access-date=16 January 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231050557/https://www.theguardian.com/world/australia-books-blog/2016/sep/28/clementine-ford-theres-something-really-toxic-with-the-way-men-bond-in-australia \|archive-date=31 December 2016 \|url-status=live \|website=The Guardian}}</ref> Topics Ford wrote about included destigmatising abortion; she described having an abortion herself as an easy decision that she feels no shame for.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.news.com.au/news/my-no-guilt-no-shame-abortions/news-story/f38b7169c4c24ff8dcd075b2f776d9f3 \|first=Clementine \|last=Ford \|date=15 October 2009 \|title=Clementine Ford reveals her two no guilt, no shame abortions \|website=News.com.au \|publisher=News Corp \|access-date=16 January 2017 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129122205/http://www.news.com.au/news/my-no-guilt-no-shame-abortions/news-story/f38b7169c4c24ff8dcd075b2f776d9f3 \|archive-date=29 January 2017}}</ref> In 2014, she wrote of her outrage towards comments made by ] which labelled ] advocates "pro-death" soldiers of the "death industry".<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/prochoice-doesnt-equal-prodeath-20140106-30cym.html\|website=Daily Life\|publisher=Fairfax Media\|date=7 January 2014\|title='Pro-choice' doesn't equal 'pro-death'\|first=Clementine\|last=Ford\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408070232/http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/prochoice-doesnt-equal-prodeath-20140106-30cym.html\|archive-date=8 April 2015\|url-status=live\|access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref> Later that year, she wrote an opinion piece against a Victorian bill that would change the state's abortion laws, arguing that if politicians really cared about the lives of women and girls that they would advocate for improved access to birth control, including terminations.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-09/ford-hands-off-our-hard-fought-abortion-rights/5440994\|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation\|title=Hands off our hard-fought abortion rights\|first=Clementine\|last=Ford\|date=9 May 2014\|archive-date=10 May 2014\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510121546/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-09/ford-hands-off-our-hard-fought-abortion-rights/5440994\|website=The Drum}}</ref>
	In September 2016, ] published Ford's first book, ''Fight Like a Girl''.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/current-affairs-politics/Fight-Like-A-Girl-Clementine-Ford-9781760292362\|title=Fight Like A Girl - Clementine Ford - 9781760292362 - Allen & Unwin - Australia\|website=www.allenandunwin.com\|access-date=27 September 2016}}</ref> Her second book, ''Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity'', was published in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://theconversation.com/clementine-ford-reveals-the-fragility-behind-toxic-masculinity-in-boys-will-be-boys-103760\|title=Clementine Ford reveals the fragility behind 'toxic masculinity' in Boys Will Be Boys\|last=Smith\|first=Michelle\|date=26 September 2018\|website=The Conversation\|language=en\|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref>

	Ford resigned from her role as a columnist with '']'' and '']'' ~~in January 2019~~, alleging that in September 2018 she had been disciplined over a tweet ~~she~~ calling then prime minister, ], "a fucking disgrace" ~~following~~ negative comments of ~~his~~ ~~concerning~~ ~~transgender~~ ~~education~~ of ~~teachers~~, and that she had been told it was the paper's new policy to refrain from "disrespect the office of the PM". Fairfax Media responded that their social media policy, which covered contributors, prohibited the use of "abusive language"<ref name=abc-quit>"", 31 January 2019, ''ABC''. Retrieved 31 January 2019.</ref>		In January 2019, Ford resigned from her role as a columnist with '']'' and '']'', alleging that in September 2018 she had been disciplined over a tweet calling then prime minister ] "a fucking disgrace" for his negative comments concerning teacher training on identifying and supporting potentially transgender students, and that she had been told it was the paper's new policy to refrain from "disrespect the office of the PM". Fairfax Media responded that their social media policy, which covered contributors, prohibited the use of "abusive language".<ref name="abc-quit">"", 31 January 2019, ''ABC''. Retrieved 31 January 2019.</ref>

			In September 2016, ] published Ford's first book, '']''.<ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Baird \|first1=Julia \|last2=Ford \|first2=Clementine \|date=27 September 2016 \|title=Clem Ford: Why you should fight like a girl \|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-27/clementine-ford-fight-like-a-girl/7880234 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161212043537/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-27/clementine-ford-fight-like-a-girl/7880234 \|archive-date=12 December 2016 \|access-date=16 January 2017 \|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation \|language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Fight Like A Girl - Clementine Ford - 9781760292362 - Allen & Unwin - Australia \|url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/current-affairs-politics/Fight-Like-A-Girl-Clementine-Ford-9781760292362 \|access-date=27 September 2016 \|website=www.allenandunwin.com}}</ref> Her second book, '']'', was published in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Smith \|first=Michelle \|date=26 September 2018 \|title=Clementine Ford reveals the fragility behind 'toxic masculinity' in Boys Will Be Boys \|url=http://theconversation.com/clementine-ford-reveals-the-fragility-behind-toxic-masculinity-in-boys-will-be-boys-103760 \|access-date=2019-02-16 \|website=The Conversation \|language=en}}</ref>
⚫	In February 2020, Ford began a podcast called ''Big Sister Hotline'' in which she talks about current feminist issues and questions with guests such as ]~~, Salma El-Werdany, Gemma Carey, Aileen Quinn~~ and ].<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2020-03-10\|title=Clementine Ford's Big Sister Hotline\|url=https://www.greataustralianpods.com~~/2020/03~~/big-sister-hotline-season-1~~.html~~\|access-date=~~2021-01-15~~\|website=Great Australian Pods – Podcast Directory\|language=en-AU}}</ref>

		⚫	In February 2020, Ford began a podcast called ''Big Sister Hotline'' in which she talks about current feminist issues and questions with guests such as ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2020-03-10\|title=Clementine Ford's Big Sister Hotline\|url=https://www.greataustralianpods.com/big-sister-hotline-season-1/\|access-date=7 July 2024\|website=Great Australian Pods – Podcast Directory\|language=en-AU}}</ref>
	==Controversies==

			In 2024, Ford participated in the doxing of members of a WhatsApp group of Jewish Australians, which she defended as a response to efforts some members of the group made to silence voices advocating for the Palestinian national cause, including Ford herself.<ref name="smh080224">{{cite news \|last1=le Grand \|first1=Chip \|title=Hundreds of Jewish creatives have names, details published online following Whatsapp leak \|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/hundreds-of-jewish-creatives-have-names-details-taken-in-leak-published-online-20240208-p5f3if.html \|work=] \|date=8 February 2024 \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240307092802/https://www.smh.com.au/national/hundreds-of-jewish-creatives-have-names-details-taken-in-leak-published-online-20240208-p5f3if.html\|archive-date=2024-03-07\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=crikey>{{cite news \|last1=Keane \|first1=Bernard \|title=My transparency is your doxxing: Hypocrisy and power on display from Labor and the media \|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/02/13/doxxing-laws-whatsapp-group-israel-palestine-albanese-dreyfus/ \|work=] \|date=13 February 2024}}</ref>
	On ] in 2015, Ford made public some of the sexist and abusive messages that she had received online.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/man-shamed-for-trolling-clementine-ford-apologises-for-online-attack-20150625-ghxz24.html\|title=Man shamed for trolling Clementine Ford apologises for online attack\|last=Caggiano\|first=Anthony\|date=25 June 2015\|language=en-AU\|access-date=27 September 2016}}</ref> Meriton Group, the employer of a man who had labelled Ford with a derogatory term, investigated Ford's complaint and the man was dismissed from his job.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/hotel-worker-michael-nolan-sacked-over-facebook-post-to-clementine-ford-20151130-glc1y4.html\|date=1 December 2015\|access-date=16 January 2017\|first=Megan\|last=Levy\|title=Hotel worker Michael Nolan sacked over Facebook post to Clementine Ford\|archive-date=1 December 2015\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201065709/http://www.smh.com.au/national/hotel-worker-michael-nolan-sacked-over-facebook-post-to-clementine-ford-20151130-glc1y4.html}}</ref> Three ] boys were suspended from their school for lewd comments they wrote about Ford.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/enough-is-enough-clementine-ford-to-lodge-police-complaint-over-trolling-20150626-ghyr8w.html\|access-date=16 January 2017\|title='Enough is enough': Clementine Ford to lodge police complaint over trolling\|first=Jessica\|last=Wright\|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald\|publisher=Fairfax Media\|date=26 June 2015}}</ref>

			== Publications ==
	In March 2016, Ford was banned from ] for 30 days for using ] toward another user who had ] her on her Facebook page. Ford accused Facebook of having a double standard, as the social networking site meanwhile declined to take action against a user who had posted a graphic ] making light of ].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/feminist-writer-clementine-ford-is-highlighting-facebooks-hypocritical-community-guidelines-a6958696.html\|title=This woman is highlighting Facebook's ridiculous double standards\|website=] \|date=29 March 2016\|language=en-GB\|access-date=27 September 2016}}</ref>

		⚫	*{{cite book\|last=Ford\|first=Clementine\|title=]\|place=Crows Nest\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|date=2016\|isbn=9781760292362}}
	In 2018, a ] event featuring Ford was cancelled following a petition calling for her removal, after she had made several Twitter comments including the phrase "all men must die".<ref name=abc-quit /> Ford states those tweets were sarcastic and are only taken seriously by those opposing her, using an example of a tweet saying Ford would not be happy until she had all men fired, to which she responded she would not be happy until all men were "fired ... into the sun". According to Ford, despite the "clear jest", many men publicly accused her tweet of advocating for their mass murder.<ref>{{cite book\|author=Ford\|first=Clementine\|title=Fight Like a Girl\|place=Crows Nest\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|date=2016\|isbn=9781760292362}}</ref>
		⚫	*{{cite book\|last=Ford\|title=]\|place=Crows Nest\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|date=2018\|isbn= 9781760632335\|first=Clementine}}

	In May 2020, Ford was criticised for her tweet stating that ] was not "killing men fast enough", which has since been deleted.<ref name="covid" /><ref name="covid2">{{cite web\|url=https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/clementine-ford-apologises-after-tweeting-coronavirus-isnt-killing-men-fast-enough/news-story/f87086f85ce4adda0bed7249efdbe7ae\|title=Clementine Ford apologises after tweeting 'coronavirus isn't killing men fast enough'\|date=May 25, 2020\|access-date=May 25, 2020\|work=News.com.au}}</ref> A Melbourne City Council arts grant that had been awarded to Ford was afterwards said to be "under review" as a result of her comments. Lord Mayor ] stated that Ford's statement was "deliberately divisive and incredibly unhelpful when we are trying to keep our community together" during the ].<ref name="covid">{{cite news \|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/council-grant-under-review-following-clementine-fords-offensive-tweet/news-story/bed147a8207b2d01150b71c912bb79f5\|title=Council grant under review following Clementine Ford's 'offensive' tweet\|date=May 24, 2020\|access-date=May 24, 2020\|last=Hore\|first=Monique\|work=Herald Sun}}</ref><ref name="covid2" /> While initially defending her tweet, Ford later responded on Twitter by stating that although she still stood "100% behind fury at men exploiting women's unpaid labour", she had "reconsidered flippancy in discussing it" and was "a big enough person to admit when misjudged something".<ref name="covid" />

	In 2022, Ford posted a Facebook video in a response to a man's proposal to his then-girlfriend at her graduation from ], stating he had "taken a moment from her he can never take back", labeling it "entrapment" and telling her not to marry him. LaTrobe University later described allowing the proposal an "error in judgement".<ref>{{Cite web \|date=22 December 2022 \|title=Boyfriend blasted for ‘stealing’ girlfriend’s moment in public wedding proposal \|url=https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/boyfriend-for-blasted-for-stealing-girlfriends-moment-in-public-wedding-proposal/news-story/35408c34e3765332c1c67d5c7fb4901d \|url-status=live \|website=News.com.au}}</ref> The bride-to-be later responded, saying she " appreciate being spoken for" and asking Ford to remove the video.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=23 December 2022 \|title=‘Take it down’: Graduate hits back after proposal outrage \|url=https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/take-it-down-graduate-hits-back-after-proposal-outrage/news-story/a03f67aaf103744d2cf8fb9c152cf1dd \|url-status=live \|website=News.com.au}}</ref>

	In 2024, Ford was criticised by ] community leaders for her involvement in the ] of a group of ].<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Greyman-Kennard \|first1=Danielle \|title=‘Jew List’ published by Australian pro-Palestinian activists forces families into hiding \|url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-786099 \|work=The Jerusalem Post \|date=9 February 2024}}</ref><ref name="smh080224">{{cite news \|last1=le Grand \|first1=Chip \|title=Hundreds of Jewish creatives have names, details published online following Whatsapp leak \|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/hundreds-of-jewish-creatives-have-names-details-taken-in-leak-published-online-20240208-p5f3if.html \|work=Sydney Morning Herald \|date=8 February 2024}}</ref><ref>. The Australian.</ref> The doxxing involved the public sharing of names, images, and social media accounts of hundreds of Jewish people working within academia and creative industries. The data was leaked from a WhatsApp group which the administrator said
	"was formed in October last year to support and advocate for Jewish people who felt alienated or isolated from their professional peers because of the war".<ref>{{cite news \|last1=le Grand \|first1=Chip \|title=Hundreds of Jewish creatives have names, details published online following Whatsapp leak \|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/hundreds-of-jewish-creatives-have-names-details-taken-in-leak-published-online-20240208-p5f3if.html \|work=Sydney Morning Herald \|date=8 February 2024}}</ref> As the group grew significantly, a minority began discussing campaigns against pro-Palestinian figures, including Ford.<ref name=crikey>{{cite news \|last1=Keane \|first1=Bernard \|title=My transparency is your doxxing: Hypocrisy and power on display from Labor and the media \|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/02/13/doxxing-laws-whatsapp-group-israel-palestine-albanese-dreyfus/ \|work=Crikey \|date=13 February 2024}}</ref> Ford said the group was "working to silence voices calling for Palestinian liberation” and that "people whose livelihoods and professional reputations are mendaciously – and successfully – targeted in secret by others invested in silencing their criticism of a genocide are entitled to defend themselves".<ref name="smh080224"/> According to MP ], members of the leaked group and their families had faced ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-jews-alarmed-after-publicized-list-of-zionists-fuels-harassment/ \|title=Australian Jews alarmed after list of ‘Zionists’ publicized, fueling harassment \|publisher=] \|accessdate=2024-02-13}}</ref> Reportedly, one affected family had been forced into hiding.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/09/josh-burns-jewish-whatsapp-group-channel-publication-israel-palestine-clementine-ford\|title=Publication of Jewish creatives WhatsApp group led to death threats, MP says\|publisher=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-jews-alarmed-after-publicized-list-of-zionists-fuels-harassment/ \|title=Australian Jews alarmed after list of ‘Zionists’ publicized, fueling harassment \|publisher=] \|accessdate=2024-02-13}}</ref>

	== Bibliography ==

	=== Nonfiction ===
⚫	*{{cite book\|last=Ford\|first=Clementine\|title=Fight Like a Girl\|place=Crows Nest\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|date=2016\|isbn=9781760292362}}
⚫	*{{cite book\|last=Ford\|title=Boys Will Be Boys\|place=Crows Nest\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|date=2018\|isbn= 9781760632335\|first=Clementine}}
	*{{cite book\|last=Ford\|title=How We Love: Notes on a Life\|place=Crows Nest\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|date=2021\|isbn= 9781760877187\|first=Clementine}}		*{{cite book\|last=Ford\|title=How We Love: Notes on a Life\|place=Crows Nest\|publisher=Allen & Unwin\|date=2021\|isbn= 9781760877187\|first=Clementine}}
	*{{Cite book \|last=Ford \|first=Clementine \|title=I Don't \|publisher=Allen & Unwin \|year=2023 \|isbn=9781761069666 \|location=Crows Nest}}		*{{Cite book \|last=Ford \|first=Clementine \|title=I Don't \|publisher=Allen & Unwin \|year=2023 \|isbn=9781761069666 \|location=Crows Nest}}

	=== Contributed chapter ===
	* "There's Nothing Funny About Misogyny", pp. 189–197, in: ''Destroying the Joint'', edited by ], Read How You Want (2015, {{ISBN\|9781459687295}}).

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Australian feminist writer

This article is about the feminist writer. For the actress, see Clementine Ford.

Clementine Ford
Ford at a book signing in Christchurch, New Zealand, September 2017
Occupation	Writer, feminist
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	University of Adelaide
Children	1

Clementine Ford is an Australian feminist writer, columnist, broadcaster and public speaker on women's rights and other social and political issues.

Personal life

Ford spent much of her childhood growing up in the Middle East, specifically in Oman on the eastern border of the United Arab Emirates. At the age of 12, her family relocated to England. Ford spent the remainder of her teenage years growing up in Adelaide, South Australia. As a teenager, she struggled with body image, body dysmorphia and an eating disorder.

Ford studied at the University of Adelaide, where she took a gender studies course; she describes this as a personal catalyst for her decision to become a women's rights activist. During her time at the university she also worked as an editor and contributor for the student newspaper On Dit.

Ford moved from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2011. She announced the birth of her son in August 2016. Ford has stated that raising her son with little assistance from her partner put pressure on the relationship, which she left.

Career

Ford is known as a journalist, author and feminist activist. In 2018, Monash University lecturer Michelle Smith considered Ford to be "Australia's most prominent contemporary feminist".

Ford's writing career includes her contributions as a columnist. Ford wrote a regular column for Daily Life for seven years. In 2007, Ford began writing a column for Adelaide's Sunday Mail and also began writing for The Drum. Topics Ford wrote about included destigmatising abortion; she described having an abortion herself as an easy decision that she feels no shame for. In 2014, she wrote of her outrage towards comments made by Cory Bernardi which labelled pro-choice advocates "pro-death" soldiers of the "death industry". Later that year, she wrote an opinion piece against a Victorian bill that would change the state's abortion laws, arguing that if politicians really cared about the lives of women and girls that they would advocate for improved access to birth control, including terminations.

In January 2019, Ford resigned from her role as a columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, alleging that in September 2018 she had been disciplined over a tweet calling then prime minister Scott Morrison "a fucking disgrace" for his negative comments concerning teacher training on identifying and supporting potentially transgender students, and that she had been told it was the paper's new policy to refrain from "disrespect the office of the PM". Fairfax Media responded that their social media policy, which covered contributors, prohibited the use of "abusive language".

In September 2016, Allen & Unwin published Ford's first book, Fight Like a Girl. Her second book, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity, was published in 2018.

In February 2020, Ford began a podcast called Big Sister Hotline in which she talks about current feminist issues and questions with guests such as Florence Given and Yasmin Abdel-Magied.

In 2024, Ford participated in the doxing of members of a WhatsApp group of Jewish Australians, which she defended as a response to efforts some members of the group made to silence voices advocating for the Palestinian national cause, including Ford herself.

Publications

Ford, Clementine (2016). Fight Like a Girl. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781760292362.
Ford, Clementine (2018). Boys Will Be Boys. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781760632335.
Ford, Clementine (2021). How We Love: Notes on a Life. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781760877187.
Ford, Clementine (2023). I Don't. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781761069666.

References

^ Ford, Clementine (2016). Fight Like a Girl. Melbourne: Allen & Unwin. p. 26.
"Ford - Q + A". ABC. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021.
Ford, Clementine (20 December 2011), "'The lifetime struggle to accept my body'", Mamamia, archived from the original on 25 December 2016, retrieved 17 January 2017
Handley, Erin; Ford, Clementine (11 October 2012), "Interview with Clementine Ford", Right Now, archived from the original on 16 January 2017, retrieved 16 January 2017
Capper, Sarah; Ford, Clementine (20 March 2014), "A Bonza Clementine", Sheilas, Victorian Women's Trust, archived from the original on 8 March 2017, retrieved 19 December 2016
Richardson, Tom (22 January 2015), "On Dit's Young Libs begin anti-leftist crusade", In Daily, archived from the original on 16 January 2017, retrieved 16 January 2017
Ross, Annabel (21 May 2012). "My Melbourne: Clementine Ford". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
Curtis, Rachel (30 August 2016). "Clementine Ford announces surprise three-week-old baby". Mamamia. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
Elliot, Ellen-Maree (6 October 2016). "It continues to divide, but the issue of breastfeeding in public is a no-brainer for author Clementine Ford". The Courier Mail. News Corp. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
Saunders, Anna (30 October 2021). ""I Became A Mother. And Then I Left My Partner"". primer. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
Michelle Smith (26 September 2018). "Clementine Ford reveals the fragility behind 'toxic masculinity' in Boys Will Be Boys". The Conversation. Wikidata Q127061091. Archived from the original on 30 June 2024.
"This woman is highlighting Facebook's ridiculous double standards". Independent.co.uk. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
^ "Clementine Ford quits Nine newspaper column, saying she was almost fired over tweet about Prime Minister", 31 January 2019, ABC. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
"The year that made me: Clementine Ford, 2007". Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 15 January 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
Delaney, Brigid (28 September 2016). "Clementine Ford: 'There's something really toxic with the way men bond in Australia'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 31 December 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
Ford, Clementine (15 October 2009). "Clementine Ford reveals her two no guilt, no shame abortions". News.com.au. News Corp. Archived from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
Ford, Clementine (7 January 2014). "'Pro-choice' doesn't equal 'pro-death'". Daily Life. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 8 April 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
Ford, Clementine (9 May 2014). "Hands off our hard-fought abortion rights". The Drum. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 10 May 2014.
Baird, Julia; Ford, Clementine (27 September 2016). "Clem Ford: Why you should fight like a girl". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 12 December 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
"Fight Like A Girl - Clementine Ford - 9781760292362 - Allen & Unwin - Australia". www.allenandunwin.com. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
Smith, Michelle (26 September 2018). "Clementine Ford reveals the fragility behind 'toxic masculinity' in Boys Will Be Boys". The Conversation. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
"Clementine Ford's Big Sister Hotline". Great Australian Pods – Podcast Directory. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
le Grand, Chip (8 February 2024). "Hundreds of Jewish creatives have names, details published online following Whatsapp leak". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 7 March 2024.
Keane, Bernard (13 February 2024). "My transparency is your doxxing: Hypocrisy and power on display from Labor and the media". Crikey.

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