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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

Culture

‘Intersectional feminism’ isn’t a complicated concept

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

How ‘Drag Race’ is teaching straight people about queer culture

Women now have another unreasonable bikini expectation to adhere to: ‘Hip cleavage’

Kris Seavers was the senior IRL editor and training director for the Daily Dot. Her work has appeared in Central Texas publications, including Austin Monthly and San Antonio Magazine, and on NPR.

Kris Seavers

New York lawyer Aaron Schlossberg was filmed going off on a racist tirade at a Fresh Kitchen.

New York lawyer threatens to call ICE on women for speaking Spanish

A rainbow bench with dividers appearing to be a type of 'hostile architecture' against homeless people.

Twitter thread breaks down how this seemingly ‘inclusive’ bench targets homeless people

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 knew about being genderqueer

Facebook ads outed me to my boss

Chris Tognotti is a news and current events writer based out of Berkeley, California, and a co-host of the podcast Now We Know. While he specializes in domestic politics and opinion writing, he’s also savvy on sports, video games, and film.

Chris Tognotti

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.

ICE has wrongly arrested more than a thousand Americans since 2012, report says

Teen takes his mom to prom since she didn’t get the chance

New Jersey Ahmed Abdel-Basit Mohamed, who's been detained by ICE and could face a death sentence in his homeland Egypt.

ICE detains teacher who faces death in home country

A person wearing a transgender flag as a cape at the Women's march in Washington D.C.

Culture

‘Intersectional feminism’ isn’t a complicated concept

How ‘Drag Race’ is teaching straight people about queer culture

Women now have another unreasonable bikini expectation to adhere to: ‘Hip cleavage’

New York lawyer threatens to call ICE on women for speaking Spanish

Twitter thread breaks down how this seemingly ‘inclusive’ bench targets homeless people

Everything you never knew about being genderqueer

Facebook ads outed me to my boss

ICE has wrongly arrested more than a thousand Americans since 2012, report says

Teen takes his mom to prom since she didn’t get the chance

ICE detains teacher who faces death in home country

How to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility

The dangerous, immersive world of Eating Disorder Twitter

Understanding the difference between race and ethnicity

Boy who hugged a cop in viral photo feared dead in car accident (updated)

50 iconic photos from the March for Our Lives rally in D.C.