Kate Harding (born c. 1975)^[1] is an American feminist and fat-acceptance writer. She was founding editor of the Shapely Prose blog, author of Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It, co-author of Lessons From the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, and co-editor of anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America.

Harding attended the University of Toronto for college, majoring in English, then earned an MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[2]

Harding was founding editor of a blog called Shapely Prose, which she edited from 2007 to 2010.^[2]

Hard is co-author, with Marianne Kirby, of the 2009 book Lessons From the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body (Penguin/Perigee).^[3][4]

In 2015, Harding published Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It.^[5][6][7] In Slate, Amanda Marcotte described Harding's approach in the book as "working as a cultural critic, focusing on the cultural response to and understanding of sexual assault more than the crimes themselves".^[8] In the Los Angeles Times, Rebecca Carroll called the book "a smart, impassioned and well-researched agenda for a strictly no-nonsense understanding of rape culture."^[9]

In 2017, Harding co-edited an anthology with Samhita Mukhopadhyay, entitled Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America.^{[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}

Harding is married and lives in Chicago.^[1]

• Official site
• Shapely Prose blog