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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

Southwest Airlines apologizes after forcibly removing passenger from flight

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

Everything you never understood about being nonbinary

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

Men and women speaking at a desk in a workspace

Finally, there’s a perfect term for when a man repeats, then gets credit for, a woman’s idea

Brianna Stone was a contributing reporter to the Daily Dot. Her work has been published by the Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, and USA Today.

Brianna Stone

VA suicide report reveals shocking numbers for female veterans

Brian Patrick Byrne

Daily Stormer’s Andrew Anglin, still on the run, served lawsuit via Ohio newspaper

Barbara Sueko McGuire contributed features to the Daily Dot about women pursuing inspiring paths in life. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in nonfiction writing and lives in Los Angeles, California, where she happily waits tables at Swingers Diner.

Barbara Sueko McGuire

Lenora Claire has been viciously stalked for 6 years—now she’s taking her fight to Congress

Nurse consulting with patients in waiting room

Why ‘Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day’ is so important for minority communities

Andrew Couts is the former editor of Layer 8, a section dedicated to the intersection of the Internet and the state—and the gaps in between. Prior to the Daily Dot, Couts served as features editor and features writer for Digital Trends, associate editor of TheWeek.com, and associate editor at Maxim magazine. When he’s not working, Couts can be found hiking with his German shepherds or blasting around on motorcycles.

Andrew Couts

Trump supporters are burning their MAGA hats over DACA deal

Bikini baristas file suit against city, defend right to work in bikini

Rihanna’s diverse new makeup line has the beauty community scrambling to catch up

Christine Friar is a writer and editor in New York who focuses on streaming entertainment and internet culture. Her work has appeared in the Awl, the Fader, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, Vogue, Elle, and more.

Christine Friar

YouTube parents who ‘pranked’ kids get 5 years probation

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

Nayomi Reghay

Woman using Tinder while her friend cries during a Skype call

Swipe This! Am I a bad friend for multitasking during a heavy Skype conversation?

Tomi Lahren’s ancestor allegedly charged, acquitted for citizenship fraud

A firefighter crew rescues Liam Smyth's Tinder date from two windows she became trapped between while retrieving a poop she tried to throw away.

Woman gets stuck in Tinder date’s window after fetching a poop she tried to throw out

Jessica Machado is the former IRL editor of the Daily Dot. Previously, she was an associate editor at Rolling Stone. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Elle, Vice, Salon, BuzzFeed, Guernica, Bitch, Bust, the Cut, the Awl, the Toast, among others.

Jessica Machado

Sean Rogan and Jahed Choudhury, the first Muslim in a gay marriage

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