The child of immigrants from India, Mukhopadhyay was raised in New York City. She started blogging in 2005. In 2008, Mukhopadhyay contributed an essay on the sexualization of black women to
Jaclyn Friedman and
Jessica Valenti's anthology
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Empowerment. Mukhopadhyay earned a master's degree in Women and Gender Studies in 2009 from
San Francisco State University, where her thesis was entitled "The Politics of the Feminist Blogosphere." Mukhopadhyay is the former Executive Editor of the blog
Feministing.com and former Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at millennial media platform
Mic. In 2022, after stepping down from
Teen Vogue, Mukhopadhyay was named a
MacDowell Fellow.
Books In 2011, Mukhopadhyay published her first book,
Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life, a feminist intervention to mainstream dating books. In 2017, Mukhopadhyay co-edited an anthology with
Kate Harding entitled ''Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America''. Mukhopadhyay wrote the introduction to the collection of essays, in which prominent feminists discussed the impact of Donald Trump's election on hard-fought wins for gender, race, sexuality, class and ethnicity. == Bibliography ==