Suzanne Moore

Moore is the daughter of an American father and a working-class British mother, who split up during her childhood.[1] She grew up in Ipswich and attended Northgate Grammar School for Girls.[1][2]

After various jobs in Britain and overseas, including waitressing, shop work and door-to-door sales, Moore embarked on a psychology degree at Middlesex Polytechnic, but soon switched to cultural studies. She began a PhD and journalism career simultaneously after graduation, but ceased work on her doctorate after 18 months.[1]

During her career Moore has written for Marxism Today,[3] The Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, The Independent, The Guardian, and the New Statesman. In The Guardian in 1995, Moore falsely stated that Germaine Greer had undergone a hysterectomy at 25. Greer responded by criticising Moore's hair, cleavage and footwear.[4]

Moore was the winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2019.[5]

In March 2020, following the publication of an opinion piece written by Moore, titled "Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced" in The Guardian,[6] the paper received a letter, with over 200 signatories, which rejected Moore's alleged implication that "advocating for trans rights poses a threat to cisgender women". The letter was signed by politicians such as Siân Berry, Christine Jardine, Nadia Whittome and Zarah Sultana, writers and journalists including Ash Sarkar and Reni Eddo-Lodge. The newspaper published the letter alongside others received in response to the article, both supportive and critical.[7]

In September 2020, The Telegraph wrote that Moore "had to have police protection some years back as a result of voicing an unpopular opinion and she has been deluged with abuse, rape and death threats online, even threats to rape her children."[8]

On 16 November 2020, Moore announced she had left The Guardian.[9][10] It had been her primary place of employment since the 1990s.[11][12] In UnHerd, she later wrote that when she had attempted to write "about female experience belonging to people with female bodies... it is always subbed out" by editorial. Moore added that she had never fitted in at The Guardian, saying: "The personal becomes political at the moment you never feel clean enough. I was always somehow inappropriate [there]."[12]

Moore stood as an independent candidate for the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington in the 2010 UK general election due to her disillusionment with the main political parties.[1] She finished sixth with 0.6% of the vote, losing to Diane Abbott and forfeiting her deposit.[13]

Moore has lived in the Hackney area since the early 1990s, and is a single mother. She has three daughters from various relationships.[1]

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