I’m also working on a book called The Pursuit of Misery for Random House Canada which is exactly what it sounds like.
Brooke Marine
NYU grad, currently at the University of Chicago
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Yesha Callahan
Currently writing and pitching television series with the creator of The Daily Show.
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Sophia Nguyen
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- The Posthuman Scar-Jo (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- Teenage Screams (The New Inquiry)
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Ezekiel Kweku
Ezekiel Kweku is a pseudonym.
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Craig Jenkins
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Pirooz Kalayeh
Pirooz Kalayeh received an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the founding member and proprietor behind the musical group, The Slipshod Swingers, and the records Orange Lamborghini (2006) and Transistor Radio (2008). Kalayeh has also served as an Associate Producer and Post Production Coordinator with Weller Grossman Productions and Screen Door Entertainment on several television programs, including STRICTLY SEX WITH DR DREW (DISC), CRAFTLAB (DIY), and LOOK WHAT I DID (HGTV). In 2009, Kalayeh’s first solo directorial feature SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL (2012) was released under his personal label ILIKENIRVANA and had a theatrical release at select theaters throughout the United States. Kalayeh’s documentary feature about Buddhist teacher Brad Warner, entitled BRAD WARNER’S HARDCORE ZEN (2013) premiered at the Buddhist Film Festival in Amsterdam on October 5, 2013. THE HUMAN WAR (2013) was co-produced and co-directed by Kalayeh and premiered at the Beloit International Film Festival on February 21, 2014. His novel THE WHOPPER STRATEGIES details an advertising executive’s journey to package Enlightenment in a Box. Kalayeh is currently working on several web series and film narratives, including the much-anticipated comedy, ZOMBIE BOUNTY HUNTER M.D. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles and South Korea. He interviews various entertainers and artists on his blog, Shikow.
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Alexander Hardy
As a bilingual dual citizen (American and Panamanian) who is a lupus survivor and writes about depression and happens to be a full-time homosexual, I write from the intersection of various communities. To date, my essays have been included in curricula at Emory State University, California State University-Chico, and New York University.
More of my personal writing can be found at thecoloredboy.com. My freelance work can be found here: alexanderhardy.contently.com.
Also, I don’t believe in snow.
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- Blog (Blog)
- Eat The Cake, Anime: On White Cluelessness (and Beyoncé) (The Colored Boy)
- On Depression: To Anyone Else Living In A Fog (Gawker)
- What NOT To Do When Someone Comes Out To You (Huffington Post)
- Why Black Gay Dads Matter (EBONY Mag)
- Madonna's Use of the N-word is more of the same (CNN)
- On Selma, the movie" (Abernathy Magazine)
- On Michael Sam and Babysitting the Emotions of Bigots (Gawker)
- Personal Writing
- Clips
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Catherine (Cate) Young
I can pretty much do anything, but my favourite things to write about and discuss are the feminist intersections of pop culture. I love television, I love movies and I love talking about what television and movies say about us as a collective. I can write for eternity about the way sexuality is perceived differently by race and how history feeds into those assumptions, but I can also write about the amazing way that Frozen subverted the “true love” trope and what it means to have overtly feminist media representations for children. If you need something written about pop culture, I’m your gal.
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- Blog
- This Is What I Mean When I Say White Feminism
- My Feminism Will Never Look Like Yours
- The Beyoncé Conversation: Black Women, Feminism and the Presumption of Sexual Agency
- Discussions of Sexuality Are Not the Same for Women of Colour
- Solidarity is for Miley Cyrus
- I Am Not Okay With Lily Allen's New Video
- Sexualization, Exploitation, And Black Female Celebrities: On The Subtle Womanism of Rihanna and Nicki Minaj
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Brittany Spanos
I’m full-time at Rolling Stone and am not looking for any freelance work at the moment. However, I’m always available for quotes, panels, etc!
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Dee Lockett
Bylines at vulture.com, slate.com, pigeonsandplanes.com, and (soon) thefader.com.
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- Why Is TV’s ’90s Reboot Boom Ignoring All the Great Black Comedies of That Era? (Vulture)
- White Men Don't Catcall. They Harass In Other Ways.
- How Empire Is Changing the Game for “Black TV" (Slate)
- The 50 Best 'Glee' Performances, Ranked (Vulture)
- Interview: Sam Smith (Pigeons and Planes)
- Why 2013 Was a Terrible Year for Women in Hip Hop (Pigeons and Planes)
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Ashley Clark
From London, England; live in Jersey City, USA
Curated “Space is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film” at BAMcinematek, Brooklyn
Have appeared on BBC One Film Show as a guest critic
Frequently moderate onstage Q&As and panels
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- The LA Rebellion: when black film-makers took on the world - and won” (The Guardian)
- Daily Show: now it’s not all white on late night, but what about the women? (The Guardian)
- Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly album cover: an incendiary classic (The Guardian)
- Breathing Space: Nothing But a Man (Reverse Shot)
- Back to black: the 101-year making of the oldest black American-starring feature (Sight & Sound)
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Sona Charaipotra
Have published in the NY Times, American Way, TeenVogue, Cosmopolitan, Parade, MSN, ABC News, iVillage.com, Vulture.com, People, TeenPeople, The Daily Beast, Mom.Me, CafeMom, TheBump.com and other major media. Formerly a reporter at People magazine and senior editor at TeenPeople, also contributing writer at MSN TV for more than four years.
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Marcus Jones
I’m a student at NYU Gallatin so I’m basically studying how media is expanding and changing, and making sure it changes for the better (more representation of marginalized groups, acceptable humor, wider definitions of what we may consider a film or television show). Great with video production, public speaking, and social media management too. Also available for internships or fellowships.
Willing to write just about any article involving Kanye West.
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- Female directors receive critical acclaim (NYU News)
- All 95 Times Jerry Screws Up on Parks and Recreation (Vulture)
- Lil Wayne’s Daughter’s My Super Sweet 16 Was Out of Control (in a Good Way) (Vulture)
- Chris Rock Wisdom Generator: Let Him Tell You How It Is (Vulture)
- True or False Quiz: Did Winston Do This Crazy Thing on New Girl? (Vulture)
- ARTS ISSUE: ‘Scandal’ cast, plot stretch boundaries of network TV (NYU News)
- Chelsea Peretti talks “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and her new stand-up special (The Highlighter)
- A guide to dealing with your DVR separation anxiety (The Highlighter)
- Video: CirKiz: A Rave For Children (New York Magazine)
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Sharon D Johnson
WGAW member (since 1993), PhD
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- Sharon D Johnson (Academia)
- Sharon D Jonhson (Sharon D Johnson)
- Sharon D Johnson (The Emerald Rock)
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Vanessa Willoughby
Vanessa is a Prose Editor for Winter Tangerine Review.
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- Ugly Girls, by Lindsay Hunter (Bookslut)
- Into the Go-Slow, by Bridgett M Davis (Bookslut)
- Insel, by Mina Loy (Bookslut)
- The White Beauty Myth (The Hairpin)
- Black Girls Don't Read Sylvia Plath (The Hairpin)
- I Am, I Am, I Am: Writing While Black and Female (The Toast)
- Nice Guys (The Toast)
- Welome to Connecticut. Now Go Home. (The Toast)
- Nicki Minaj Shows the Importance of Fighting Abortion Stigma (Bitch Magazine)
- Lemony Snicket and a Series of Predictably Racist Events (Bitch Magazine)
- Vanessa Willoughby (Karma Loop)
- Vanessa Willoughby (Literally, Darling)
- Bloodletting Season (Good Reads)
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Fariha Roisin
I’m hardworking, and a very, VERY good writer that deserves more work, if I do so say so myself! I have written a book and I would like to get it published soon! Everything from Race—to Films/TV Show—Pop Culture—to Zayn Malik—to Feminism—to Serial Killers. I can write the shit out of many things. I love writing about all the aforementioned topics because I can write passionately about them by applying personal experiences, facts, and history on to them, creating a tapestry of writing that is both profound, and entertaining.
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- Let Me Love You (The Hairpin)
- Free Speech has not been kind to Muslims (Aljazeera America)
- Devil in Disguise (N+1)
- Not The Way White Girls Do (The Hairpin)
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Nichole Perkins
Interested in pursuing travel writing, especially as a means of encouraging more women of color to travel;
Currently working on a collection of personal essays.
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Jessie Peterson
Currently freelancing at Radio.com, but I’ve written previously for MTV and VICE.
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Reniqua Allen
I write but I also produce television and documentary film. Mainly for PBS (Bill Moyers), POV (a new film this year with Bob Hebert about the black middle class). But also for HBO (Hot Coffee) etc… My website: www.reniquaallen.com
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- For black men, a permanent recession (Al Jazeera America)
- Having Obama in the White House has made it harder to talk about race in America (The Washington Post)
- Why Blue Ivy's Hair Matters (The Atlantic)
- The black middle class failed Michael Brown long before a white policeman shot him (Quartz)
- The Color of Money: Black Brokers Make Wall Street Pay Up in Lawsuit (Uptown)
- It’s time to admit that America will never really include black America (Quartz)
- Why isn’t the Cosby Show for a new generation on network TV? (The Washington Post)
- Why Today’s Black Youth March on Washington (BillMoyers.com)
- Our 21st-century segregation: we're still divided by race (The Guardian)
- Split Palate: examining the black middle class aesthetic in new Newark's restaurant culture (Transition; PDF)
- What Ever Happened to Black Power? (And Do We Care?) (Colorlines)
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Alexis Stephens
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- 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)
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Pilot Viruet
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- 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)
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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Dawn Campbell
I went to school for this (m.f.a. from NYU/TSOA). I’m also a one time dancer and a failed piano prodigy. I’m an incredible mimic and I’m all about that dialogue—even in silence, my characters are never at a loss for what to say.
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Stephanie Georgopulos
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- Who's On Top? A Game of Thrones Season 5 Power Ranking (Paper magazine)
- Cosmopolitan archive (Cosmopolitan)
- My bank erased my $60,000 student loan (The Guardian)
- Coming Out As Biracial (The Toast)
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gynecologist (Medium)
- Some Things I Did for Money
- Clips