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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.

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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.

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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.

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Pamela Geller

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

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How a neon aesthetic became ‘bisexual lighting’

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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.

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

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

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Someone gender-swapped all of the U.S. presidents—and it’s amazing

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.

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

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

Obdulia Sanchez, who live streamed her sister's death on Instagram, was sentenced to six years and four months in prison.

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Teen who livestreamed sister’s death on Instagram sentenced to 6 years in prison

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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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