Tricia Crimmins
Tricia Crimmins is a Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election. She can be found on Twitter at @TriciaCrimmins.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘This is my story, not hers’: Teen says anti-trans article about their puberty blockers got facts wrong
‘I was disgusted.’
On Apr 4, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
‘It’s just like full of vodka’: Man sober 16 months says bar served him alcohol after he repeatedly asked for a virgin drink
‘I just felt not welcome there.’
‘Everyone needs to be 20% smaller’: Influencer calls out Ozempic ad campaign for pushing weight-loss drugs
‘I’m so afraid of us.’
On Mar 30, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
Straight girls on TikTok are disparaging lesbian relationships by calling their exes ‘bitches’
It’s not funny when queer people and queer relationships are the butt of a joke, no matter how many straight women are laughing.
On Mar 29, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
‘This is literally so scary’: Parent tapes cutout of white baby onto Pampers box featuring Black baby
‘It’s scary to think their hatred runs so deep.’
On Mar 28, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
‘You’re the one that needs to be held accountable’: Queer TikToker LesbianPlantDad accused of emotional abuse and manipulation
‘I wasn’t a valid lesbian in her eyes.’
‘I was invalidated and neglected’: Survivor of teen wilderness therapy says he was told appendicitis was all in his head
‘How could parents send their kids to such awful, abusive places?’
On Mar 27, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
‘I’m traumatized’: Kettlemans Bagel employee says she was fired after reporting she was raped
‘Absolutely sickening.’
On Mar 22, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
Health professionals using a TikTok sound that makes light of opioid addiction isn’t a great look
TikTok’s got a thing for joking about percocet.
‘Happy she’s getting the help that she needs’: TikToker helps Amanda Bynes on street before the actor was placed on psychiatric hold
‘My heart hurts for her.’
On Mar 21, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
‘It’s tough times out here for trans people’: Self-identified TERF harasses trans woman at Cheesecake Factory
‘The way she instigated it and then acted like you were provoking her.’
On Mar 16, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
Debunking TikTok’s ‘lucky girl syndrome’
‘Lucky girl syndrome’ has its detractors.
Eden Knight, Trans Twitter presence, says she was forced to detransition in viral suicide note
‘I don’t think there was a universe where I was ever strong enough to survive this.’
On Mar 14, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
‘Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it wrong’: The internet is defending a TikToker living with HIV from Twitter hate (updated)
‘Grow up if queer joy in the face of an epidemic makes you upset.’
On Mar 9, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
No, a TikTok palm reading filter can’t tell you if you’re sick
All of this just leads to videos about serious subjects, like someone’s health, based on arbitrary evidence, like a TikTok filter.
On Mar 8, 2023 by Tricia Crimmins
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