Quick Facts
Biography
Feminista Jones is a mental health social worker, activist, and feminist writer from New York City, as well as a large contributor to Black Twitter and a prolific blogger about black feminist issues. She is an award-winning blogger and author of the popular novel, Push The Button.
Jones describes herself "as a post-modern sex-positive, Black feminist woman, which basically means that I’m multi-faceted, at least in my expression of myself and my embodiment of feminism. I exist in a new era of critical thinking and self-identification. I promote the positive aspects of sex, sexuality, and sexual liberation."
Activism
In 2015, Feminista Jones co-founded and served as General Director of the Women’s Freedom Conference, the first all-digital conference completely organized by and featuring only Women of Color. For her work, she was named one of SheKnows/BlogHer’s 2015 “Voices of the Year”.
In 2013, Jones was selected as a United Nations Foundation Fellow for her dynamic social media influence. In 2014, she launched a global anti-street harassment campaign (#YouOKSis) and a National Moment of Silence protesting police brutality (#NMOS14), both of which received international media attention. For this work, she was awarded the 2014 Black Weblog Award for Outstanding Online Activism.
Writing
Feminista Jones has written articles for the Washington Post, Salon, TIME.com, and TheEbony.com. Jones had a regular column at Ebony magazine called TALK LIKE SEX. She currently (2016) has a regular column at BlogHer in which she discusses Love and sex, politics, and popular culture.
Jones is the author of the 2015 erotic novel Push The Button, a healthy, sex-positive response to what Jones saw as an abusive relationship in 50 Shades of Grey.
Appearances
Jones has been regularly featured on Huffingpost Live, has appeared on the Dr. Oz Show and the Exhale Show, and her work has been featured on C-SPAN and MSNBC.
She has presented at various conferences at universities and, in 2014, she was honored as one of the Top 100 Black Social Influencers by The Root.