Biography
Bella Rapoport, which is a radical feminist, an open representative of LGBT, a journalist, a public figure and a Jew, with his loud statements about the rights of women and the bodypositive attracted the attention of not only Russian, but also of Western solid glossy publications.Childhood and youth
Rapoport Bella Evgenievna was born on May 29, 1980 in Leningrad, the USSR, in the Jewish family. Her father was a military. Together with the parents, the girl lived on the fishery peninsula. According to the memories of Rapoport, her childhood was gloomy because of frequent movements from one military town to another, as well as insults on the basis of nationality. Bella was curious and versatile developed from the young years - she loved to read, sing, draw and play the piano.
At the beginning of the zero, the girl graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, after which the student was a student of the local European University, studying at the Department of Anthropology. In order to go there, she studied specialized literature, for example, a book of a scientist from Norway Thomas Erikhen "What is anthropology?". In addition, the Rapoport worked as a laboratory at the Department of Gender Research and Copywriter.
At 30, Bella moved to live to his young man in Jerusalem. As a woman told in one of the interviews, he didn't even like her, but because of the pressure of society and his relatives, Rapoport considered himself obliged to marry. Returning from Israel to his native St. Petersburg after 2 years, she decided that he would try to try his hand in journalism. Despite the absence of relevant education, work experience and extensive portfolio, Bella contacted the chief editor of the local publication in the Liftail genre and asked to help her with work.
Career and social activities
Initially, the Rapoport was not confident a hundred percent in his skills, despite the fact that she really liked to write. At first, the girl wrote out articles on different topics - about movies, fashion, art on be-in.ru and art1. Over time, Bella began to reflect on the feminism and the rights of women, began to publish posts on social networks on these isotocial topics.The audience of the journalist quickly gave feedback - it began to actively repress and read. The writing gift of the girl did not adopt the attention and printed publications - at first she had an article in the "snob", which was read 100 thousand people, then in colta.ru. Next, the Rapoport began writing columns to order in "Ribe" and Metro. She also published in the "New Gazeta", "poster Daily", Wonderzine and Sobaka.ru (the article "How marriage and relationship" is changing "with Andrei Kurparatov).
Further, the representative of the "left" Tusovka offered Belle to create a personal blog in Snob. The first post was called "Why I Feminist", who wore an educational character and offered not to deny his gender and consider all the situation on the prism of equality. In the following text, the woman reflected on the right to sex. The article received a great response of readers.
In the spring of 2015, the Internet edition of "Medusa" in the article on how to stop being a sexist in Russia, used the incorrect word "chicks", which was extremely angry with a feminist. On March 24 of the same year, she published a response angry work "Ordinary sexism" on colta.ru, which was viewed by more than 300 thousand readers.
The speaker on the merges in federal publications caused fierce disputes and attracted the attention of the public to Bella's activities. The audience reacted both positively and negatively, the article had an influence on the minds of the masses - "Medusa" began to write about the rights of women and feminism, and the female half of the population began to thank Rapoport for courage in choosing the topic.
The journalist supports such ideas like a bodypositive (unconditional love for himself and her body), polyamoria (romantic relationships at once with several persons), intersceptional feminism, the Scandinavian model of prostitution control, reset the list of professions prohibited for female and the use of feminis (new words in words in female kind).
Bella Rapoport received fame and as a lecturer at the events "Women's Solidarity Week" in Ukraine, "and-art. F-feminism. Actual Dictionary." In addition, it was one of the organizers of the feminist column on May 1, 2016 in St. Petersburg and the participant of the charitable stage of the play of W. Monster "Monologues of Vagina".
In 2017, the feminist took part in the conference in France, organized by the activists of the Femmes Solidaires movement. There she had told about the position of the female half of the population in Russia. Activism Bells is covered by Western media: BBC, OpenDemocracy, Swedish, Danish and Finnish publications.
In addition to journalistic activities, in the creative biography of Rapoport, part-time work and conduct of educational blogs in social networks "Instagram", "Telegram", Facebook, in which she lay out provocative photos.
Personal life
One of the most famous feminists of Russia, though openly talks about relations and sex, but the details of his personal life prefers not to light. Starting his public activities, Bella Derzko declared his orientation - it is an open lesbian. Despite this, at the 30th age, the activist met with a resident of Israel and even moved to him for 2 years. She has no children. This is not known who is her girlfriend now.
Bella Rapoport now
On March 19, 2019, the scandal broke out - feminist and LGBT activist Bella Rapoport placed in his blog in "Instagram" correspondence with the brand of organic cosmetics Lush, in which representatives of the brand refused to cooperate. A woman outraged the company's response, and she raised the real Internet riot.
Watched on this battle users of social networks were divided into two groups: someone supported the point of view of a blogger that a cosmetic brand answered roughly, but most of them still considered the act of rapport extortion and brand. However, public persons, such as Tina Kandelaki and Ksenia Sobchak, were supported by Bella.