Suzanne Moore
{{Short description|English journalist (born 1958)}}
{{For|other people with similar names|Sue Moore (disambiguation){{!}}Sue Moore|Susan Moore (disambiguation){{!}}Susan Moore}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Suzanne Moore
| image = Suzanne Moore on Novara Media.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Moore in 2017
| birth_name = Suzanne Lynn Moore
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|7|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Ipswich, Suffolk, England
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| education = Northgate Grammar School for Girls
| alma_mater = Middlesex Polytechnic
| occupation = Journalist
| years_active = 1980–present
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| awards = Orwell Prize (2019)
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| children = 3
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Suzanne Lynn Moore (born 17 July 1958){{cite news |last=Cochrane |first=Kira |author-link=Kira Cochrane |date=30 April 2010 |title=Suzanne Moore: 'Vote for me, I'm flawed' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/30/suzanne-moore-independent-candidate |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=11 March 2020}} is an English journalist.{{IMDb name|id=2504327|name=Suzanne Moore}}
Early life and education
Moore is the daughter of an American father and a working-class British mother, who split up during her childhood. As a child, she was told that her mother had been adopted in infancy when her adoptive parents found her in a Salvation Army orphanage following their only son's death. Moore said: "The older I get, the more I see that the story I was told cannot possibly be true, and that my mother was probably not a tiny baby at all when she was adopted."{{Cite web|last=Moore|first=Suzanne|date=2020-12-10|title=The photo that shaped me: Suzanne Moore on her grandmother's baby|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/photography/2020/12/photo-shaped-me-suzanne-moore-her-grandmother-s-baby|access-date=2021-11-14|website=New Statesman|language=en-US}} She grew up in Ipswich and attended Northgate Grammar School for Girls.{{cite news |last=Parker |first=Pat |date=20 September 2011 |title=Rebelling against Suffolk |url= https://www.suffolkmag.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/rebelling-against-suffolk-1-1647046 |newspaper=East Anglian Daily Times |location= Ipswich |accessdate=11 March 2020}} Moore ran away from home at 16 and moved out aged 17{{Cite web|date=2019-12-23|title=My life had grown distant from my mother's – but she tended my baby while I read Marx|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/23/my-life-had-grown-distant-from-my-mothers-but-she-tended-my-baby-while-i-read-marx|access-date=2021-06-21|website=the Guardian|language=en}} to live in a bedsit.{{Cite web|date=2010-04-30|title=Suzanne Moore: 'Vote for me, I'm flawed'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/30/suzanne-moore-independent-candidate|access-date=2021-06-21|website=the Guardian|language=en}}
After various jobs in Britain and overseas, including waitressing, shop work and door-to-door sales, Moore embarked on a psychology degree at Middlesex Polytechnic, but soon switched to cultural studies. She began a PhD and journalism career simultaneously after graduation, but ceased work on her doctorate after 18 months.
Career
Moore has written for Marxism Today,{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Suzanne |date=23 July 2015 |title=When I worked at Marxism Today, my desire to earn a living proved to be somewhat déclassé |url= https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/when-i-worked-marxism-today-my-desire-earn-living-proved-be-somewhat-d-class |newspaper=New Statesman |location= London |access-date=24 July 2015}} The Mail on Sunday, the Daily Mail, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph and the New Statesman. In The Guardian in 1995, Moore falsely stated that Germaine Greer had undergone a hysterectomy at 25. Greer responded by criticising Moore's hair, cleavage and footwear.{{cite news |last=Thackray |first=Rachelle |date=21 February 1999 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/germaine-smacks-her-sisters-1072156.html |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/germaine-smacks-her-sisters-1072156.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Germaine smacks her sisters |newspaper=The Independent |location= London |access-date=11 March 2020}} Moore was the winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2019.{{cite web |url= https://www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/suzanne-moore-3/ |title=2019 Journalism Prize Winner: Suzanne Moore |publisher= Orwell Foundation |location= London |access-date=26 November 2020}}
In March 2020, following the publication of an opinion piece written by Moore, titled "Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced" in The Guardian,{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Suzanne |date=2 March 2020 |title=Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced |url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced |newspaper=The Guardian |location= London |access-date=10 March 2020}} the paper received a letter, with over 200 signatories, which rejected Moore's implication that "advocating for trans rights poses a threat to cisgender women". The letter was signed by politicians such as Siân Berry, Christine Jardine, Nadia Whittome and Zarah Sultana, and writers and journalists including Ash Sarkar and Reni Eddo-Lodge. The newspaper published the letter alongside others received in response to the article, both supportive and critical.{{cite news |date=4 March 2020 |title=Differing perspectives on transgender rights |newspaper=The Guardian |url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/04/differing-perspectives-on-transgender-rights |accessdate=10 March 2020}}
In September of the same year,The Telegraph wrote that Moore "had to have police protection some years back as a result of voicing an unpopular opinion and she has been deluged with abuse, rape and death threats online, even threats to rape her children." On 16 November 2020, Moore announced she had left The Guardian.{{cite tweet|last=Moore|first=Suzanne|user=suzanne_moore|number=1328376117900750851|date=16 November 2020|title=I have left The Guardian. I will very much miss SOME of the people there. For now thats all I can say.|access-date=16 November 2020}} It had been her primary place of employment since the 1990s. In UnHerd, she later wrote that when she had attempted to write "about female experience belonging to people with female bodies... it is always subbed out" by editorial. Moore added that she had never fit in at The Guardian, saying: "The personal becomes political at the moment you never feel clean enough. I was always somehow inappropriate [there]."
=Politics=
Moore opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and wrote several articles criticising the Iraq War. Moore stood as an independent candidate for the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington in the 2010 UK general election due to her disillusionment with the main political parties. She finished sixth with 0.6% of the vote, losing to the Labour incumbent Diane Abbott and forfeiting her deposit.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/b92.stm |title=Election 2010: Hackney North & Stoke Newington |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=24 September 2015}}
Personal life
Moore has lived in Hackney, London, since the early 1990s. She is a single mother, with three daughters from various relationships.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/15/how-to-be-a-good-mother|website=theguardian.com|publisher=The Guardian|first=Suzanne|last=Moore|year=2013|quote=“Everything is a phase. Even the long one from 10 to 16 called adolescence or the Seventh Circle of Hell”|title=How to be a good mother}}
Moore is a republican.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/25/prince-andrew-bad-apple-abolish-monarchy-republic|title=Let’s get off our knees and abolish the monarchy|first=Suzanne|last=Moore|date=25 November 2019|via=The Guardian}}
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{{cite news|last=Massie|first=Alex|date=2020-11-16|title=Suzanne Moore's departure is a sad day for the Guardian|work=The Spectator|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/suzanne-moore-s-departure-is-a-sad-day-for-the-guardian|url-status=dead|url-access=registration|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201116203404/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/suzanne-moore-s-departure-is-a-sad-day-for-the-guardian|archive-date=2020-11-16}}
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