Amy Alkon
Amy Alkon | |
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 Amy Alkon at DeepGlamour fashion celebration, 2009 | |
| Born | Amy Alkon March 8, 1964 Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States |
| Pen name | The Advice Goddess |
| Occupation | Advice columnist |
| Notable works | I See Rude People Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck |
Amy Alkon (born March 8, 1964[intimate relationships. Her columns were based largely on evolutionary psychology. Her last column was published on March 31, 2022.[1]
Life and career
Amy Alkon grew up in
weak atheist.[2] Alkon credits her isolation as the catalyst that cultivated her early fondness for reading.[3]
Alkon moved to
McGraw Hill in November 2009.[citation needed
]
Before billing herself as the "advice goddess," Alkon wrote Ask Amy Alkon, an advice column published solely in the New York Daily News.
In 2004, the
Biography Channel
featured Alkon in a series of one-minute shorts called "The Advice Minute With Amy Alkon." There were 11 in total and during these segments, which ran between the Biography Channel's regular programs, Alkon dispensed advice on the streets of New York, just as she had done with her cohorts years earlier.
In 2011, Alkon was threatened with a
First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza.[6]
In a second incident, in November 2012, Alkon complained that a TSA agent "ran her hands, most disgustingly, all over my body, grazing my labia and touching my breasts and inside my turtleneck on my bare skin."[7]
Campaigns
Issues she has written and spoken of are unruly
Further reading
- Alkon, Amy (2018). Unf*ckology. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9781250080868.
- Alkon, Amy (2014). Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9781250030719.
- Alkon, Amy (2009). I See Rude People: One Woman's Battle to Beat Some Manners into Impolite Society. McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 978-0-07-160021-7.
- Alkon, Amy; Johnson, Caroline; Minnick, Marlowe (1996). Free Advice: The Advice Ladies on Love, Dating, Sex and Relationships. Dell Publishing
References
- ^ Alkon, Amy (April 13, 2022). "RIP, Amy Alkon's science-based syndicated advice column: 1995 to March 31, 2022". The Source Weekly. Bend, Oregon. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ "Advice Goddess Blog".
- ^ "The Goddess speaks!".
- ^ "Advice Goddess Blog".
- ^ Hill, Kashmir (September 6, 2011). "Female Blogger Threatened With Defamation Suit For Writing About TSA 'Rape'". Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
- ^ "TSA Agent Threatens Woman With Defamation, Demands $500k For Calling Intrusive Search 'Rape' - Techdirt". 6 September 2011.
- ^ "Advice Goddess Blog".
- Detroit Metro Times.
- Dallas Morning News.
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