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Selected Podcasts and Radio
Sex and culture critic Ella Dawson highlights the importance of ‘found family’ in her fiction debut, WNPR — Where We Live, 6/17/2924
Women’s Voices Making Change: Ella Dawson, A Fresh Story, 12/17/2023
Infected: Putting Misinformation About Herpes To Bed, WUNC — Embodied Podcast, 4/14/2021
It Wasn’t Just Britney Spears’ Song That Was ‘Toxic’, WUNC — Embodied Radio Show, 3/5/2021
Herpes Activist Ella Dawson, Gender Dysphoria and Adulthood, Just Between Us, 11/20/2019
Smashing The Herpes Stigma with Ella Dawson, Savage Lovecast, 6/7/2016
Selected Speaking Events
LGBTQ+ Voices in Contemporary Rom Com with Jennifer Dugan & Ella Dawson @ Saratoga Book Festival, 10/5/2024
Ella Dawson in conversation with Carlos Maza @ The Strand, 6/4/2024
Out Loud Pride Benefit @ Seven Angels Theater in Waterbury, CT, 6/12/2023
Getting Sloppy With Safe Slut, 11/5/21
“How To Have an Online Career: A Talk With Ella Dawson” @ West Chester University, 4/18/2021
“How to Create Your Social Media Strategy” Workshop @ Caveat NYC 2/23/2020
“The Social Media Revolution” Guest Lecturer @ Wesleyan University, 11/8/2018 and 3/28/2019
“Humanities After Wesleyan: A Talk With Ella Dawson” @ Wesleyan University, 3/30/2017
Best Women’s Erotica Volume II Reading @ Bluestockings Bookstore, 2/11/2017
“STIs Aren’t a Consequence. They’re Inevitable” @ TEDxConnecticutCollege, 4/16/2016
“She Got Herpes, But Herpes Didn’t Get Her” Mini-documentary with StyleLikeU, 9/8/2015
“Living with Herpes” on MTV’s Girl Code Live, 9/29/2015
Selected Press
In “LIFE RUINER,” Ella Dawson ’14 Recounts Abusive Relationship at Wesleyan, The Wesleyan Argus, 2/11/2021
Why ‘Cat Person,’ a New Yorker short story, is essential reading for this #MeToo moment, Washington Post, 12/12/2017
What We’re Reading: Crimes of misogyny, ‘Cat People’ and more, New York Times, 12/12/2017
Bad Sex In Fiction: What Is It About “Cat Person”? The Economist, 12/4/2017
Ella Dawson’s TEDx Talk Proves Genital Herpes Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of, Huffington Post, 9/14/2016
Hillary Clinton just slammed the stigma surrounding sexually transmitted infections, Washington Post, 9/7/2016
Woman Tells The World About STI to Battle Stigma, The Independent, 9/12/2015
Here’s What This 23-Year-Old Learned From Talking About Her Herpes, BuzzFeed, 9/11/2015
Meet the woman who tells everyone, ‘I have genital herpes’, Washington Post, 4/16/2015
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