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Hannah Jewell

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Hannah Jewell is the Pop Culture Host on the video team at The Washington Post, formerly a senior staff writer at BuzzFeed UK, where she became known for her humor writing about gender and her satire of UK and US politics, and for presenting BuzzFeed's live 2016 election night show.

She was born in London, but her parents whisked her away to California when she was a baby, and so she grew up frolicking on beaches and through redwood forests. She earned a degree from UC Berkeley in Middle Eastern Studies, taking a year out to study and work in Beirut. She had a great time in Lebanon but now is unfortunately banned from that country. She then returned to the UK in 2013 for an MPhil in International Relations and Politics at Cambridge, which w ...more

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Hannah Jewell’s books

Average rating: 3.72 · 1,981 ratings · 334 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	100 Nasty Women of History 3.72 avg rating — 1,955 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Need Snowflakes: In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Hannah Jewell (?)

“It just goes to show, girls, that with enough good pals, a
bit of organization, and a naked grandmother or two, you can do anything.”
― Hannah Jewell, 100 Nasty Women of History

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“After university, Annie [Smith Peck] was once again warned against the dangers of ~a lady~ moving around the country to different teaching jobs, let alone to Europe to carry on her studies, which she very much wanted to do. Her mother warned her what it might look like for a young woman to travel alone to Europe like a giant slut, but Annie replied: 'I have lived long enough to have got beyond trying to make all my actions satisfactory to my numerous friends and acquaintances.' Whack that over a sunset and put it on Instagram, friends.”
― Hannah Jewell, She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It

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“The Chinese government was so sick of her shit that they offered her and
all her pirates amnesty if she would just stop fucking them all up for a
second. (She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It)”
― Hannah Jewell

tags: and-massively-crushed-it, sparked-revolutions

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