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A former New York Teaching Fellow, her writing has been featured in Reductress, Rolling Stone, Mic, Someecards, and more.

Nayomi Reghay

Swipe This! My friend ghosted me. How do I move on?

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based journalist reporting on immigration and mental health, and will sometimes write about memes and dinosaurs too. Her work also appears in Reuters, NPR, and NBC among other publications. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School, and her work has been nominated for SAJA awards.

Samira Sadeque

Cosmetics show anti-theft marks with the Target logo only only dark skinned products next to light skin products that don't have the device

Viral photo shows Target anti-theft stickers only on darker shades of makeup

Noorulain Khawaja is a multimedia politics and global affairs reporter based in New York City. She graduated from Columbia&#8217;s mid-career international affairs reporting program. Previously, she worked with Al Jazeera English in Washington, D.C., and Doha, Qatar, before moving to Nairobi, Kenya, to work as a freelance journalist.

Noorulain Khawaja

man in dress shirt raising his hands to the sky

The state of white privilege in 2019

Screenshots show white man screaming the N-word, walking away, and then being dragged on the ground to apologize for being a racist

Popeyes chicken sandwich: Man made to apologize after screaming N-word

Screenshots show two women in KKK hoods and blood drop cross; one woman is seen taking off her hood in the second photo

‘Take it off!’: Crowd forces women to remove KKK costumes

Nahila Bonfiglio reports on geek culture and gaming. Her work has also appeared on KUT&#8217;s Texas Standard (Austin), KPAC-FM (San Antonio), and the Daily Texan.

Nahila Bonfiglio

Kidz Bop Karen goes off, inspires meme

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College students facing backlash for dressing up as various homeless individuals

Libby Cohen is a third-year University of Texas student originally from New Jersey. She has written for ORANGE Magazine, the Daily Texan, and most recently interned for 1010 WINS in NYC. She&#8217;s now back in Austin writing for the Texas Standard and the Daily Dot.

Libby Cohen

Culture

Florida principal fired after saying he couldn’t confirm Holocaust happened

Charli XCX fan criticized for asking her to sign their douche

Sierra Juarez is a freelance journalist and fact-checker based in Mexico. She most enjoys writing about human rights and politics and working in audience engagement. Her work has appeared in the Texas Tribune, the Austin American–Statesman, and the San Antonio Current.

Sierra Juarez

Major Pokémon Go character confirmed to be nonbinary

In this Facebook group, South Asians are being told they’re ‘not Asian’

Facebook page helps solve 15-year-old cold case

Window decorations show caricatures of children made out of brown paper seen in nooses

Artist resigns after depicting children in nooses for Halloween decorations

Tiffanie Drayton is a geek culture and lifestyle reporter whose work covers everything from gender and race to anime and Xbox. Her work has appeared in Complex, Salon, Marie Claire, and elsewhere.