Meredith Talusan is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Nation, WIRED, VICE, BuzzFeed, Mic, The New Inquiry, and other publications. She has received awards form GLAAD and the Society for Professional Journalists, and is a contributor to several edited volumes, including Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution. She lives in New York.