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Ana Valens is a reporter specializing in online queer communities, marginalized identities, and adult content creation. Her work has appeared at Vice, Vox, Truthout, Bitch Media, Kill Screen, Rolling Stone, and the Toast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and spends her free time developing queer adult games.

Ana Valens

Searches for International Men's Day remain particularly high on IWD.

Google searches for International Men’s Day peak on International Women’s Day

RuPaul is facing online backlash for supposedly posting the wrong trans flag.

RuPaul apparently doesn’t know what the trans flag looks like

Tess Cagle is a reporter who focuses on politics, lifestyle, and streaming entertainment. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Texas Monthly, the Austin American-Statesman, Damn Joan, and Community Impact Newspaper. She’s also a portrait, events, and live music photographer in Central Texas.

Tess Cagle

Every company cutting ties with the NRA

Samantha Grasso is a former IRL staff writer for the Daily Dot with a reporting emphasis on immigration. Her work has appeared on AJ+, Vox, Splinter, Los Angeles Magazine, and Austin Monthly.

Samantha Grasso

A picture of Pamela Geller's daughters next to a picture of Pamela Geller.

YouTube show sisters are hiding their anti-Muslim mom from followers

Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.

Jay Hathaway

Janelle Monae's 'Make Me Feel' video features bisexual lighting.

How a neon aesthetic became ‘bisexual lighting’

An illustration by Yocelyn Riojas titled 'My Dreams Are Not Illegal'

Meet Yocelyn Riojas, your new favorite Latinx resistance artist

Nico Lang is an essayist, movie critic, and reporter who specializes in the intersection of politics and LGBTQ issues. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, Jezebel, Esquire, and BuzzFeed, among other notable publications.

Nico Lang

Pulse survivor says Parkland students will change the world: ‘It’s unstoppable’

David Britton is a writer and comedian based in Rhinebeck, New York who focuses on internet culture, memes, and viral news stories. He also writes for the Hard Times and is the creator of StoriesAboutWizards.com.

David Britton

Twitter can’t stop laughing at the woman who dyed her skin blue with a bath bomb

Kristen Hubby is a tech and lifestyle reporter. Her work has also appeared in Austin Monthly and the Austin American-Statesman, where she covered local news and the dining scene in Austin, Texas.

Kristen Hubby

Is Bumble really better than Tinder?

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

Nayomi Reghay

Swipe This! Am I foolish to hold out for a guy who just updated his Tinder pics?

Rose McGowan, Andi Dier, and believing survivors even when it’s inconvenient

An art student created a conceptual art piece responding to a teacher's request to 'dial down the feminism.'

Art student delivers perfect response to teacher’s request to ‘dial back the feminism’

Amrita Khalid is a technology and politics reporter who specializes in breaking down complex issues into practical, useful terms. A former contributor to CQ, a Congressional news and analysis site, she&#8217;s currently a master&#8217;s candidate in international relations at the University of Leeds.

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