She was hired by Cosmopolitan to write for the cosmopolitan.com blog in April 2014. Prior to that she was a columnist for The Guardian and, since 2005, a blogger at Feministe, one of the largest feminist blogs. She has written articles for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Time magazine, and been a commentator on CNN. In 2017 her book The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness was published.
Opinions
Men's rights groups
Filipovic has been an outspoken critic of A Voice for Men. Michelle Goldberg, writing in The Washington Post, said she had been "singled out by " for her criticism. She was also cited in Hate Crimes in Cyberspace as a victim of hate crimes for her feminism. According to Kerryn Goldsworthy, she has been googlebombed by her detractors.
A Transportation Security Administration screener was fired after Filipovic blogged about an incident in which a handwritten comment was left in her luggage. She later wrote "I would much prefer a look at why 'security' has been used to justify so many intrusions into our civil liberties".
Beauty pageants
Filipovic has been noted for her writing about beauty pageants, saying "the norms that these contests promote are unfortunately not... obsolete... we pay lip service to women's rights, but focus more on how good women look in a bathing suit".
Name change
Filipovic's opposition to name change for women who marry, published in The Guardian in 2013 as "Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs", was cited as recommended reading on the social construction of gender in Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literacy Theory to Adolescents by Deborah Appleman. Filipovic married Ty Lohrer McCormick in 2018, and kept her last name upon marriage.
Rasmea Odeh
Filipovic questioned Palestinian activist and former Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member Rasmea Odeh's claims of having been tortured and raped as a means of coercing a confession to terrorist acts. Furthermore she said participation in terrorist acts, like those Odeh confessed to, was one of her "hard lines."
Domestic violence and asylum
Filipovic has criticized Jeff Sessions’s directive to refuse grants of asylum to women fleeing domestic violence. She emphasised that women who suffer domestic violence in places where the government refuses to protect them are being persecuted. She stated that "Sessions, because of his deep antipathy toward immigrants and his misogynistic worldview that domestic violence is a private family matter, has undercut this promise of safe harbor – and taken a law meant for protection and turned it into a cudgel of sexist cruelty."
Personal
Filipovic is of Serbian descent through her father's side of the family. She married Ty Lohrer McCormick in 2018.
