Scarlett Curtis

• Name — Scarlett Curtis • Birth Name — Scarlett Kate Freud Curtis • Born — 21 June 1995 • Birthplace — London, England • Occupation — Writer • Citizenship — United Kingdom • Notable Works — Feminists Don't Wear Pink & Other Lies • Parents — * Richard Curtis (father) • Emma Freud (mother) • Relatives — Freud family • Awards — Young Adult Book of the Year 2018 National Book Award • Website — scarlettcurtis.com

Curtis was born on 21 June 1995 in London. She is the daughter of screenwriter Richard Curtis and broadcaster Emma Freud, and she is also a great-great-granddaughter of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. In 2003, she made a brief cameo in her father's film Love Actually, playing Lobster Number 2 in the school nativity concert. She began her career as a blogger and has written for The Guardian, Elle magazine, The Times and The Telegraph. Curtis was the Sunday Times Style 'Gen-Z' columnist from 2016 to 2018.

In 2017, Curtis founded feminist activist collective The Pink Protest. The Pink Protest and Amika George organised the #FreePeriods campaign to fight period poverty. They have also campaigned with anti-female genital mutilation activist Nimco Ali and The Five Foundation to successfully include female genital mutilation in the Children Act (1989). Appearing on Good Morning Britain in 2018 together with fiction author Adele Parks, Curtis suggested that Disney films and fairy tales should be rewritten, saying that they represent an "unrealistic expectation" of life and that Aladdin was racist. Parks disagreed with Curtis on the show, saying that she "wouldn’t want our history rewritten." Curtis, writing in the BBC about whether feminism is done, answers that in order for that to happen, the future needs to be female, with boys in skirts, and girls in spaceships, and that activists are "dreaming up and writing [this] into reality every day".

She was recognised as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2019.