Rose George

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Rose George
Rose George (2010)
Rose George (2010)
Born1969
England
OccupationAuthor & public speaker
EducationSomerville College, Oxford (BA),
University of Pennsylvania (MA)
Notable worksLife Removed (2004),
The Big Necessity (2008),
Deep Sea & Foreign Going/Ninety Percent of Everything (2013),
Nine Pints (2018)
Website
www.rosegeorge.com

Rose George is a British journalist and author. She has explored topics such as refugees, sanitation and human waste, and human blood in her books.[1]

Education

In 1992, George earned a First-Class Honours BA in Modern Languages from Somerville College, Oxford, followed by an MA in international politics in 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania, as a Thouron Scholar and Fulbright Fellow.[2]

Career

In 1994, she embarked on her writing career as an intern at The Nation magazine in New York City. Subsequently, she assumed the roles of senior editor and writer at COLORS magazine, a bilingual publication published by the Benetton clothing company. It focused on "local cultures with global reach," which was distributed in eighty countries. The magazine was initially based in Rome, later relocating to Paris and then Venice.[3] In 1999, she moved to London to freelance. She has contributed her writing to publications including the Independent on Sunday, Arena, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Details, Bad Idea,[4] and UnHerd.[5] She also served as a war correspondent in Kosovo for Condé Nast Traveler magazine and notably attended Saddam Hussein's birthday party[3] on two occasions. George wore a burqa, which she called a "hideous concept", provided by her translator.[6] Until 2010, she held the position of senior editor at large for Tank, a London-based quarterly magazine covering fashion, art, reportage, and culture. She has written four non-fiction books:

  • A Life Removed (Penguin 2004), which explores the daily reality of refugees and displaced people in and from Liberia.[7]
  • The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters (Metropolitan/Portobello 2008),[7] which was described as the one of "best nonfiction books of the new millennium" by the New York Times.[8]
  • Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate, which was released in August 2013. The UK title is Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry the Brings you 90% of Everything; it was also released August 2013.[8] George lived for five weeks aboard a shipping container ship to research her book on the shipping industry,[9][7] and a week patrolling for pirates on a Portuguese navy frigate.[8]
  • Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood (Metropolitan Books, 2018).[1] Her book Nine Pints was chosen by Bill Gates as one of his "Five Books... Should Read This Summer" in 2019.[1]

Political views

Gender critical opinions

  • Not all trans people are predators.
  • Hardly any trans people are predators.
  • But a predator can get a long way with his predation by pretending to be a trans woman. No better place to commit a crime than at sea; no better way to abuse women and girls probably with impunity than to be a man who notices how useful it is to pretend to be a woman. See, prisoners, often in for sexual assault, suddenly finding that they are women after all and being put in women’s prisons. Men in women’s refuges. Don’t get me started on men in women’s sports.[10]

Attacks on individuals and organizations

In December 2023, George retweeted a BBC post featuring trans Green Party candidate Melissa Poulton with the comment, "This is a man being a man in a mannish way".[11]

Religious beliefs

George's father, a vicar, died when she was 5 years old. George wrote of her father:

I have a box of his sermons that I keep meaning to read, and I’ve been thinking about him this week not just because of the anniversary of his death, or the fact that he so objected to the Americanization of Mothering Sunday into Mother’s Day that he wrote a sermon about it, but because I have been thinking about codes, and morality, and having an anchor in your life. I don’t believe in God, but I can see that God is a heck of an anchor.[12]

Other views

The Church of England paid for George to attend boarding school as a child. George has characterized the other education options available to her as "awful".[13] She has rejected the assertion that her attendance at boarding school and later at Oxford are examples of societal privilege.[14][15] George has called the concept of cultural appropriation "pish and tosh".[16]

Books

  • A Life Removed (Penguin Books, 2004); ISBN 978-0141019055
  • The Big Necessity (Metropolitan/Portobello, 2008); ISBN 9780805090833
  • Deep Sea and Foreign Going (Portobello, 2013); ISBN 9781846272998, published in the US as Ninety Percent of Everything (Metropolitan Books, 2013); ISBN 9780805092639[17]
  • Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood (Metropolitan Books, 2018); ISBN 9781627796378

Personal life

George has lived in Leeds since 2011.[18] She is a fell runner[19] and has written about suffering from severe endometriosis in a review of a book about a different topic.[20]

COVID-19 controversies

On May 1, 2022, the Guardian published an article by George about experiencing long COVID-19.[21] Some online readers took issue with the line, "My long Covid is suspected by my GP, since I never actually tested positive ..." George defended herself on Twitter by engaging with critics directly.[22][23][24][25] On November 8, 2023, George posted another account of her experience with COVID. She wrote that she believes she had COVID-19 despite having taken a test that produced a negative result.[26]

AirBnB controversy

George rents out a French house that was once a Vichy cafe and Gestapo spy station[27] on AirBnB.[28] In April 2023, after a renter secured a refund because the home lacked electricity, George detailed the incident publicly, referring to the renter as "a liar who had no evidence" and claiming "Air BNB does not protect hosts who behave in good faith."[29][30][31]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Krantz, Matt (22 February 2019). "Five Books Bill Gates Says You Should Read This Summer". Investor's Business Daily.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "All American Speaker's Bureau". Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Roberts, Jack; Stacey, Daniel (22 May 2008). Bad Idea Anthology: The Best of Modern Storytelling. Anova Books. ISBN 9781906032302.
  5. ↑ George, Rose (18 August 2022). "If Joanne Harris won't defend women, I won't support her". UnHerd. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  6. ↑ George, Rose (31 January 2023). "I have no fear nor shrinking". Rose George: some rambling. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sandhu, Sukhdev (13 September 2013). "Deep Sea and Foreign Going by Rose George – review". The Guardian.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Garner, Dwight (16 October 2013). "Life on Ships That Make World Go Round". The New York Times.
  9. ↑ Goss, Terry (14 August 2013). "Shipping: The 'Invisible Industry' That Clothes And Feeds You". NPR.
  10. ↑ George, Rose (18 January 2023). "Able Seacat". Rose George: some rambling. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  11. ↑ George, Rose (10 December 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  12. ↑ George, Rose (21 March 2023). "This is a Hancock triumph". Substack. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  13. ↑ George, Rose (17 November 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  14. ↑ George, Rose (17 November 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  15. ↑ George, Rose (17 November 2023). "Tweet". Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  16. ↑ George, Rose (5 January 2024). "Fancy that". Substack. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  17. ↑ "Ninety Percent of Everything". RoseGeorge.com. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  18. ↑ George, Rose (3 November 2023). "The Goat". Substack. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  19. ↑ George, Rose (10 April 2020). "Running Alone Together". The New York Times Review.
  20. ↑ George, Rose (9 June 2023). "Women Aren't Just Small Men". The Atlantic.
  21. ↑ George, Rose (1 May 2022). "I was a marathon runner with killer biceps – long Covid has stopped me in my tracks". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  22. ↑ George, Rose (2 May 2022). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  23. ↑ George, Rose (2 May 2022). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  24. ↑ "Tweet". Twitter. 3 May 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  25. ↑ George, Rose (3 May 2022). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  26. ↑ George, Rose (8 November 2023). "My angry arms". Substack. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  27. ↑ George, Rose (5 April 2023). "Gestapo ghosts". Substack. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  28. ↑ George, Rose. "Rent my house". Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  29. ↑ George, Rose (5 April 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  30. ↑ George, Rose (5 April 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  31. ↑ George, Rose (5 April 2023). "Tweet". Twitter. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 20 January 2024.

Sources

  • Rose, George. THE BIG NECESSITY. 1st edition. New York, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008.
  • George, Rose."... And Sewage, Too", nytimes.com. 28 April 2010.

External links

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