Yes I am a witch
Jia Tolentino
Features editor at Jezebel, former contributing editor at the Hairpin.
Links
- Rush After "A Rape On Campus": A UVA Alum Goes Back to Rugby Road (Jezebel)
- Why I Have To Be So “Rude” (The Hairpin)
- A Note to Chait: Dissent Isn't Suffocation, Internet Isn't Real Life (Jezebel)
- Good for Business: Five Years in, What Does ‘Shark Tank’ Mean for America? (Grantland)
- The Difference Between ALS and Ferguson Is That One Ill Can Be Cured (Time)
Locations
Sonia Saraiya
Sonam Parikh
Would love to write long-form features, shorts, reviews or pretty much anything else! Can provide a lot more clips, as well.
Links
- Guerilla Toss’s Space Noise Gets in Your Brain (MTV Iggy)
- La Luz’s Shimmery Surf Rock Shines Through the Haze (MTV Iggy)
- Good Throb Tears Punk Anew (MTV Iggy)
Locations
David Turner
Links
- You Can’t Put a Hashtag on Success: The Battle to Be Atlanta’s Hottest Dance (Pitchfork)
- Review: Tut, "Preacher's Son" (Pitchfork)
- The Essential Wisdom (and Freestyles) of Meek Mill (Pitchfork)
- On 'The Nightly Show,' Larry Wilmore does as much listening as talking (Baltimore City Paper)
Topics
Locations
Nilina Mason-Campbell
Links
Nantale Muwonge
H. Drew Blackburn
Links
- Dallas' Deadly After-Hours Parties Carry On, No Matter How Many Times The Cops Shut Them Down (The Dallas Observer)
- Whatever Happend to the Best Music Writing Series? (Vice)
- The Cathedral of Hope Is More Than Just The Largest LGBTQ Church In The World (Central Track)
- Keep It 100: We Rated Rappers On The Madden Scale (The Concourse)
- The Real Negrodamus: On Chris Rock's Hilariously Prescient Born Suspect (The Concourse)
Locations
Morgan Jerkins
Links
- Is the camera phone the only way for black men in America to get justice? (Quartz)
- The Struggle To Be A Good Critic (Electric Literature)
- How Therapy Doesn’t Make Me A Bad Christian (Buzzfeed)
- Mo'Nique won an Oscar, then got 'blackballed'. Of course it's about race (The Guardian)
- To Junot Diaz (Book Riot)
Jozen Cummings
Links
- New York Post archive (New York Post)
- Billboard archive (Billboard)
- Second Coming: A Timeline of D'Angelo's Last 20 Years (Complex)
- You Don't Need a Winter Romance: The Case Against Cuffing Season (Gawker)
- Blog (Until I Get Married)
- A Player Leaves the Game (WYNC)
Locations
Tara Mahadevan
Links
- Goldlink, Unmasked, Comes Down To Earth Before He Takes It Over (Noisey)
- A New Hope: Black EL Embraces Change With His Space Wave Hip-Hop (Noisey)
- Rappers Are Dressing Like 80s Rock Stars And It's Awesome (Noisey)
- 10 Genre-Blurring Musicians You Need to Listen To (Green Label)
- Village Voice archive (Village Voice)
Locations
Julia B. Chan
I don’t know nearly enough about anything – but you can’t blame a girl for trying.
Links
- A history of eBay's waffling on its gun policy (Reveal)
- Winter is coming: What to expect if it's dry again (Reveal)
- Soliary confinement's comedic moment shows it's no laughing matter (Reveal)
- Getting down thizzness: Looking back at the hyphy movement (The Center for Investigative Reporting)
Topics
Locations
Alexis Stephens
Links
- Life in Jeopardy! (Rookie)
- ICON: Meshell Ndgeocello Is Forever Fearless (MTV Iggy)
- Dre Skull: Jamaican Hitmaker Brings Unlikely Experiences to Dancehall (SPIN)
- Meet Mexico City's Electronic Underground (Thump)
- Looking Beyond the Maps of Richard Florida's "The Divided City" (Next City)
- Scandal and Grey's Anatomy: Shonda Rhimes' Twisted Sisters (The Hairpin)
Locations
Pilot Viruet
hatching chick emoji
Links
- Are This Season's Diverse Shows Ushering in a New Era of Multicultural Television? (Flavorwire)
- 'Black-Ish' Doesn't Perpetuate Racist Stereotypes; It Expertly Demolishes Them (Flavorwire)
- 'Furious 7' Keeps the Franchise Thrilling With Endless Action Sequences and a Graceful Paul Walker Tribute (Flavorwire)
- A Place Like Home: On Being Black and Punk (The Hairpin)
- Black-ish: "Martin Luther Skiing Day" (The A.V. Club)
Locations
Vijith Assar
also a programmer and audio engineer, love deeply nerdy technical explorations of the hidden structures embedded in music and technology
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Topics
Locations
mensah demary
If asked, I will write a humor piece on Tyrese.
Links
- Every “Routine” Traffic Stop Is A Racial Encounter When You’re Black (Thought Catalog)
- Liner Notes: To Pimp A Butterfly (The Toast)
- Moving to New York City (Queen Mob's Tea House)
Lauren McEwen
I currently work in the Washington Post’s Style section as a digital editor/editorial aide. My main areas are classical music and dance and I am basically a cross between a web producer and editorial assistant. I produce stories for online, add multimedia elements to features, create content for the web and conduct photo research. I also schedule all concert reviews, serve as the liaison between the paper and freelancers and manage the editorial budget.
In addition to writing, I also have social media management experience. I served as a podcast intern for the Black Girl Nerds podcast, doubling the number of Twitter followers within a few months. I also started the Black Girl Nerds Newsletter, which I designed and wrote twice a month. I also update the Post Style Facebook page.
In 2014, I launched a newsletter called All Black Girl Everything with my friend, Niesha Miller. We send out the newsletter three times a week and it contains stories that are by, for and about black women and girls.
Links
- No Room in the Cipher for Female Hip Hop Fans (Ebony)
- DC groups help female cyclists, others learn how to handle street harassment (Washington Post)
- How Shonda Rhimes gets away with changing the TV landscape (Washington Post)
- #YesAllWomen, a short fuse between rejection and violence (Washington Post)
- 'American Dad': One of the most sophisticated mainstream shows on African-American culture (Washington Post)
Topics
Locations
Amanda Faye
Dianca London
I am an MFA candidate at the New School, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction Fellow.
Links
- Clips (GirrrlAfraid)
Locations
Laina Dawes
My book: What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal.
Links
- Hit TV Show "Empire" — Why the Same Old Tired Black Stereotypes? (AlterNet)
- What It Means to be a Black Gentrifier (Medium)
- Clips (Writing Is Fighting)
Locations
Safy-Hallan Farah
I’ve written for Rolling Stone, Vice, Nylon Mag, and The Toast, among other publications.
Links
- Pitchfork archive (Pitchfork)
Locations
Reggie Ugwu
Britt Julious
I’m an essayist and podcast host. I’ve won some recognition. I back up my ideas. I’m hungry for new opportunities.