Scarlett Curtis

Scarlett Curtis is a 25-year-old English writer, activist, and journalist. She has published two Sunday Times bestselling books and is the co-founder of the activist collective, The Pink Protest. In 2018, Scarlett curated the bestseller and National Book Award winner; Feminists Don’t Wear Pink & other lies, a collection of essays by 52 women on what feminism means to them, published by Penguin. Scarlett’s second book, It’s Not Okay to Feel Blue & other lies, was published by Penguin in October 2019. 

To date, the books have sold over 200,000 copies and been published in 12 different countries. In 2017 Scarlett co-founded The Pink Protest, a feminist activist collective committed to helping young people take action. To date, they have been a part of campaigns that have changed two laws; a bill to help end period poverty and a bill to get FGM into the Children’s Act. Prior to founding The Pink Protest, Scarlett worked for a year at Global Citizen and spent 18 months as social media director of the UN’s campaign, ‘The Global Goals.’

Scarlett is contributing editor at The Sunday Times Style and has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, Vogue, and many other magazines and newspapers. From 2017 - 2018 Scarlett wrote a weekly column for The Sunday Times Style newspaper titled The Generation Z Hit List. In November 2019, Scarlett Curtis was awarded the Changemaker Award for young activists, presented by Equality Now and Gucci’s Chime for Change. Scarlett is a UN Women UK advocate and sits on the advisory board for Gucci’s Chime for Change. 

In 2020 Scarlett was one of the judges for the Women's Prize for Fiction and is now a member of the board of the Women's Prize Trust. Scarlett's limited series podcast Feminists Don't Wear Pink featured guests including Keira Knightley, Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, HelenFielding, Angela Yee & more. It currently has over 1 Million listens in just 25 episodes. She is also the co-host of Excess of Everything, a podcast about excessive consumption of media and reality TV. Scarlett is a certified astrologer, a Gemini, and she is still not sure whether or not she believes in it.