[5] She earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and politics and a minor in gender and sexuality studies from New York University.

[21] A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener was fired after Filipovic blogged about an incident in which a handwritten comment was left in her luggage.

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 (2014).

[27][28] Filipovic has criticized Jeff Sessions' directive to refuse grants of asylum to women fleeing domestic violence.

She stated: "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.