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Masha Gessen
Маша Гессен
Gessen in 2015
Born (1967-01-13) 13 January 1967 (age 57)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russian Federation)
NationalityRussian
Citizenship
  • Russia
  • United States
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • author
  • activist
Spouses
Svetlana Generalova
(m. 2004, divorced)
  • Darya Oreshkina
Children3
RelativesKeith Gessen (brother)

Masha Gessen (Russian: Мари́я "Маша" Алекса́ндровна Ге́ссен; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator,[1][2] and activist who has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.[3]

Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns.[4][5] Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights.[6] Described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist",[7] Gessen has said that for many years they were "probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country".[8] They now live in New York with their wife and children.[9]

Gessen writes primarily in English but also in their native Russian. In addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, they have been a prolific contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report. Since 2017, they have been a staff writer for The New Yorker.

  1. ^ "Masha Gessen". Contemporary Authors Online. 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  2. ^ Thomas, June (21 April 2016). "The Art of the Perfect Subtitle". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  3. ^ Gessen, Masha (10 November 2016). "Autocracy: Rules for Survival". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  4. ^ Gessen, Masha [@mashagessen] (23 June 2020). "I avoided the topic of pronouns for a while" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 August 2020 – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "Маша Гессен: о Трампе, тестостероне и терроре". Youtube. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  6. ^ Gessen, Masha (9 October 2019). "The Supreme Court Considers L.G.B.T. Rights, but Can't Stop Talking About Bathrooms". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  7. ^ UNC. "Masha Gessen: "The Rise of Radical 'Family Values' in Russia". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  8. ^ Hayes, Chris. "Russian Journalist Gives a Snapshot of Gay Life in Russia Masha Gessen w Chris Hayes". MSNBC. Retrieved 15 May 2014.[dead YouTube link]
  9. ^ "Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia". The New Yorker. 17 March 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

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