jessica hoffmann



jessica hoffmann
jess@jessicahoffmann.com	WRITER Essays and Reportage On Prisons, Borders, Safety, and Privilege: An Open Letter to White Feminists Make/shift, Issue 3, Spring/Summer 2008 (re-published at AlterNet) Flash Point ColorLines, March/April 2008 Why So High? Police Shootings in Phoenix ColorLines, November/December 2007 (re-published at AlterNet) LAPD Gentrifies Skid Row ColorLines, September/October 2007 (re-published at AlterNet) This Is Not a Travel Essay Kitchen Sink 16, Summer 2007 Gay Mom’s Happy as She Goes It Alone Single Mother, May/June 2007 Skid Row Homeless Displaced but Still Homeless The NewStandard, 4/13/07 Two-Wheelin’ in Tinseltown: On Cars, Class, the Planet, the System, and Riding a Bike in L.A. Kitchen Sink 15, Winter 2006 LAX Hotel Workers Hungry for Living Wage The NewStandard, 12/12/06 Making Space for Movement, DIY-Lady Style We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, Seal Press, 2006 L.A. Cops Crack Down on Skid Row as Gentrification Looms The NewStandard, 10/17/06 Better Than Books: Or, How I Learned to Stop Fronting and Love the Magazine Kitchen Sink 14, Summer 2006 South Central Farmers Lose Latest Court Fight The NewStandard, 7/27/06 Protestors Resist Sheriffs, Developers in Fight to Save L.A. Farm The NewStandard, 6/16/06 Indie Auteurs, Depressed Middle-Aged Murrays, and the Girl Kitchen Sink 13, Spring 2006 Immigrants Demonstrate Power through Strike, Boycott, Protests The NewStandard, 5/02/06 L.A. Urban Farmers Fight for Community Garden The NewStandard, 4/05/06 History of the South Central Farm The NewStandard, 4/05/06 14 Acres: Conversations Across Chasms in South Central Los Angeles Clamor, Spring 2006 The Author Eats: A Food Diary LOUDmouth, Spring 2006 Various Articles woa.tv: The Women of Action Network, Fall 2005 to Winter 2006 Everybody Cut: Transgressive Leaps on the Big Screen Kitchen Sink 12, Fall 2005 Writersblock Colony: On Cabin Fever in Paradise Kitchen Sink 12, Fall 2005 These People Live Here: On Gentrification LOUDmouth, Summer 2005 Watching Alone Kitchen Sink 11, Summer 2005 (Reprinted in The Quiet Feather 9, UK) Here’s Why: In Defense of Rules of Democratic Engagement Salty, Spring 2005 Fashionable Neighborhoods: Displacing the Other in Style on L.A.’s Eastside LOUDmouth, Spring 2005 Ladies, Is This Freedom? On Egg-Freezing Desire Los Angeles, 4/11/05 Neil LaBute, I Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You Kitchen Sink 10, Spring 2005 Representing the Truth in Lying Times: Political Documentaries and the Politics of Non-Fiction Forms Kitchen Sink 9, Winter 2005 Um, Tina Fey, I Don’t Mean to Be Mean: Satirizing Girls on Film Kitchen Sink 8, Fall 2004 Shark Steak and a Side of Memory Loss? Desire Los Angeles, 11/08/04 Thank Goodness for Radical Queers Bitch, Issue 26, Summer 2004 Iron Jawed Angels: Radical Activists Past, Present, and on HBO Desire Los Angeles, 8/16/04 Work, Family, and the Law Desire Los Angeles, 8/09/04 Voting and the Electorally Estranged Single Gal Desire Los Angeles, 7/19/04 Insuring Reproductive Freedom: Covering Contraception Desire Los Angeles, 6/28/04 Conjuring the Ghosts of Fondas Past Clamor, May/June 2004 Thinking Class, Class-ing Thought Kitchen Sink 6, Winter 2004 (reprinted in LOUDmouth, Winter 2005) What Women Want: Some Valentine’s Day Thoughts on Shopping, Love, and Critical Thinking Nervy Girl, February 2004 Schwarzenegger’s Budget Proposal Belies Campaign Promise to Be a “Champion for Women” Desire Los Angeles, 2/02/04 Men Are for MACH3, Women Are Children Nervy Girl, January 2004 Victoria’s (Dirty Little) Secret Nervy Girl, December 2003 Try Me! Bobble My Head! Nervy Girl, November 2003 Winner of the Nervy Girl Column Contest Accessing Reproductive Freedom: Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception Desire Los Angeles, Summer 2003 Bush’s Anti-Abortion Campaign: Thinking Globally About Freedom of Choice Desire Los Angeles, Spring 2003 The Big Business of Prisons LOUDmouth, Fall 2003 Together, Apart Making Connections: Mother-Daughter Travel Tales, Seal Press, 2003 You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Pacifist Bitch, Issue 20, April 2003 (reprinted in LOUDmouth, Summer 2003) Blog The Bilerico Project Interviews Look for It Everywhere: An E-Symposium on Feminist Art Make/shift, Issue 2, Fall 2007 No One’s Gonna Do It for Us: A Roundtable on Journalism, Activism, and the Left with Jessica Azulay, Sonali Kolhatkar, and Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore LOUDmouth, Spring 2007 Who’s That Wavin’ That Flag? A Roundtable On the Signs, Symbols, and Strategies of the Immigrants’ Rights Movement Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Seal Press, 2006 Sometimes It Flies: Talking with Amber Hollibaugh LOUDmouth, Fall 2006 Making Change, Covering Homelessness in Los Angeles: Rick Mantley The NewStandard, 10/15/06 White Supremacy in Media: An Interview with Tim Wise The NewStandard, 8/13/06 The Fringes, They’re Sparklin’: Mattilda on Survival . . . and Revolt LOUDmouth, Fall 2004 Is This Democracy? Karen Bass on Community Activism, State Government, and a Big Ol’ Representation Problem in Sacramento LOUDmouth, Summer 2004 Sex, Power, and Paint: An Interview with Artist Abelina Galustian LOUDmouth, Spring 2004 Book, Film, and Magazine Reviews Review of Homotopia andTruths and Transformations M ake/shift, Issue 2, Fall 2007 Review of View from a Grain of Sand by Meena Nanji M ake/shift, Issue 1, Spring 2007 Review of By Invitation Only by Rebecca Snedeker Make/shift, Issue 1, Spring 2007 Review of Out of the Closets and Into the Libraries: A Collection of Radical Queer Moments by the Bang(a)rang Collective Make/shift, Issue 1, Spring 2007 Review of Edens Lost and Found by Harry Wiland and Dale Bell Social Policy, Spring 2007 Review of Meena, Volume 1 Clamor, Summer 2006 Review of Politics by Adam Thirlwell Rain Taxi Review of Books, Winter 2003 Review of Martylove by Gary Waterman Rain Taxi Review of Books, Fall 2002 Review of Hotel World by Ali Smith Rain Taxi Review of Books, Spring 2002 Fiction Behind the Wheel Elimae, October 2005 The Woman Who Raised Me, My Mother Watchword 8, Fall 2005 The Numbers, Fine pindeldyboz.com, 7/19/04 Armando: A Biography in 926 Words Other Voices (Canada), Volume 13, December 2000 Winner of the Other Voices Millennium Prize for Fiction Poetry Day 49 The 365 Project, 2003 Post (A Present) Inhabiting the Body, Moon Journal Press, 2002 Copywriting Print and Web materials for organizations working in transit, healthcare, technology, and other sectors. Samples and client list available upon request.	EDITOR Freelance Copy Editor and Proofreader Books (Fiction and Non-Fiction), Magazines, Web Sites, and Other Materials 1998 to Present Magazine Editor Make/shift Coeditor/Copublisher Fall 2005 to Present Clamor Editor, People Section Summer 2005 to Fall 2006 LOUDmouth Contributing Editor, Spring 2005 to Present Editor in Chief, Summer 2004 to Spring 2005