She was educated at the private Wakefield Girls' High School via an assisted place, a scholarship scheme introduced by the Conservatives and continued by Tony Blair.

Hodgson then undertook a National Council for the Training of Journalists diploma in magazine journalism at Harlow College in Essex.

[3][4] Following internships at the BBC, New Statesman, and the Erotic Review, Hodgson worked in legal journalism at The Law Society, before moving to Standpoint magazine as production editor and contributing writer.

Hodgson has written about sexuality and society from a psychological and investigative perspective, covering everything from the science of BDSM,[6] to dating apps that run criminal record checks.

[7] She openly criticised a Tory MP who once euphemistically invited her to "tea",[8] before telling her he couldn't take her to the Buckingham Palace Garden Party because of her sex-positive journalism.

was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015, and she was a guest in an episode of Late Night Woman's Hour alongside Caitlin Moran in 2016.

Her radio documentary, 'Being Bisexual',[10] was broadcast in July 2017 on the BBC World Service, for which she was short-listed for the DIVA Journalist of the Year 2018 award.

[24] Hodgson got engaged to bar chain owner Ferdie Ahmed in January 2019[25][26] and married him at Marylebone Town Hall on 4 November 2020.