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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

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Dove’s new body-type bottles are getting dunked on by feminist memes

Michelle Jaworski was a staff writer and TV/film critic at the Daily Dot. She covers entertainment, geek culture, and pop culture and has covered everything from the Sundance Film Festival, NYFF, and Tribeca to New York Comic Con and Con of Thrones. She is based in Brooklyn.

Michelle Jaworski

Conservatives accuse Netflix of censoring old ‘Bill Nye’ segment on gender

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

Former reporter Valerie Hoff from Atlanta

White reporter resigns after her attempt to jokingly use the N-word with a source

Czech scout valiantly defies Neo-Nazi at counter-protest

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw was a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Why Hollywood filmmakers need to stop advertising LGBTQ characters who don’t exist

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

Heineken’s new ad is not that woke—it’s actually pretty dangerous

Lisa Allen

The Peoples Climate March marks Trump’s 100th day with fiery protest

Milo Yiannopoulos’s latest online venture will make lives of progressives ‘a living hell’

Monica Riese is the Daily Dot’s former director of production, and she previously served as the publication’s entertainment editor and assistant managing editor. She is Raleigh, North Carolina, and formerly contributed to the Austin Chronicle, where her breaking news work was recognized by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Monica Riese

The secret to that black ice cream you’ve seen everywhere

Nidia Cavazos is a multimedia journalist with an emphasis on political reporting. She&#8217;s contributed to Univision, KXAN, and USA Today College, and she was named one of six NBC Fellows by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 2017.

Nidia Cavazos

United Airlines reaches settlement with doctor violently removed from plane

FaceApp has been accused of whitening skin with their "hot" filter.

FaceApp is ‘deeply sorry’ for its skin-whitening ‘hot’ filter

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

Aaron Hernandez proves we have no idea how to talk about bisexuality

Adidas post-Boston Marathon email congratulates runners on ‘surviving’

Christina Bonnington is a tech reporter who specializes in consumer gadgets, apps, and the trends shaping the technology industry. Her work has also appeared in Gizmodo, Wired, Refinery29, Slate, Bicycling, and Outside Magazine. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a background in electrical engineering.

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