Michelle Taylor (known by the online pseudonym Feminista Jones) is an American social worker and writer ^[1] She is a contributor to Black Twitter and a blogger about Black feminism. Jones describes in Salon, "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community...and are providing adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes." ^[2]

In 2013, Taylor was selected as a United Nations Foundation Fellow for her social media influence. In 2014, she launched a global anti-street harassment campaign (#YouOKSis) and a National Moment of Silence protesting police brutality (#NMOS14), both of which received international media attention^[3][4]. #NMOS14, also known as National Moment of Silence, was used to get people on Twitter to join in on vigils after the death of Michael Brown ^[1]. Taylor's goal is to get people to realize that black lives matter and her tweet, "Even if you don't experience something, it doesn't mean it didn't happen" is used to shed a light on all of the police violence that is ignored. ^[1] Taylor is a supporter of the Black Lives Matter organization and believes it is necessary for individuals to recognize the hardships that people of color are faced with. A recent survey found that 65 percent of women in the U.S have experienced street harassment--that is a startling figure-mainly because street harassment is rarely discussed as a policy issue. Jones has been working to reduce that number by tweeting about her own experience intervening in an incident of street harassment in New York. Another user, @BlackGirlDanger suggested turning the phrase she had used to check in with the woman--"You OK, sis"--into a hashtag campaign designed to raise awareness and encourage people to ask victims of harassment if they are okay or if they need help. Hundreds of people began using the hashtag as a means to report street harassment.^[5] For this work, she was awarded the 2014 "Black Weblog Award" for Outstanding Online Activism^[6].

In 2014, she was honored as one of the Top 100 Black Social Influencers by The Root. Taylor was a featured speaker [1] at the Philadelphia Woman's March that took place on January 21, 2017. Her main message while speaking at the Philadelphia Woman's March was to talk about the difference between allies and co-conspirators. She voices, "I am not interested in White allies, what I really want are co-conspirators." The definition of ally-ship is to mutually benefit and support. Black people are not obligated to provide support to white people who are dominant. Jones continues, "they are not working together on a mutual goal. My goal is to live. White people don't have that same goal." Jones wants more participation in rallies and civil action and by all means does not want white people to be excluded. What she needs is for people to come and work alongside her in the trenches and be there to say, "I support you, and not only do I support you but I am here with you rolling up my sleeves and asking, what do I need to do?" ^[7]

In 2015, Taylor co-founded and served as General Director of the Women’s Freedom Conference, the first all-digital conference completely organized by and featuring only Women of Color. For her work, she was named one of SheKnows/BlogHer’s 2015 "Voices of the Year". In 2015, "Feminista Jones" wrote several articles for the Washington Post, Salon, TIME.com, and TheEbony.com^[8][9]. Taylor has been regularly featured on Huffingpost Live, has appeared on the Dr. Oz Show and the Exhale Show, and her work has been featured on C-SPAN (2014)^[8] and MSNBC.^{[year needed]}

She is from New York City.

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I have looked through all the references and links within the articles to gather more information about Feminista Jones and her contributions to Black Twitter and Black feminism. I added details about her #YouOKSis campaign on Twitter and the #NMOS14, National Moment of Silence for Michael Brown. Also, I added details about her activism during the Philadelphia Woman's March and her view of allies and co-conspirators.

I still have to add some citations and I work on the formatting because I'm not sure if it is in the correct format.

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Everything in the article is related to the topic and describes different types of gender violence. There was nothing that distracted me however the article was only a brief paragraph and I would have liked to read more about the topic and read examples related to the topic. The article was neutral in regards that it talked about several types of gender violence. It began by mentioned that gender violence is often associated with violence against women, but continued with an explanation that gender violence is also seen against boys, men, gays, transgenders, and LGBT. I thought the topic was underrepresented in general because of the lack of information provided. The citations are reliable and the sources relate directly to the information provided in the article. Each fact is referenced appropriately and two links were provided that took me to two different articles related to gender violence. Also, under the subtile "examples" there were key words that took me to additional wikipedia pages that discussed gender violence in further detail. There was no active talk page for the article which was disappointing because I would have liked to read multiple people's point of view on this subject matter. Also, since I am new to using the talk page I would have liked to see how people navigate and what sort of ideas they speak about on the talk page. The information was posted in 2018 so it is up to date.