Who We Are

Email: arturo@racialicious.com /Twitter: @aboynamedart /Other Projects: Addicted to Race 2.0

Andrea J. Plaid

Sexual Correspondent

Andrea (AJ) Plaid writes as the official Sexual Correspondent at Racialicious, where she explores the crucial nexus of race and sex in popular culture from her homebase in Brooklyn, NY. Her perspectives on race, gender, and sex have been featured in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Bitch Magazine. She was a contributor to Change.org. Her work has been republished at Penthouse, Wiretap Magazine, and RaceWire.

Email: andrea@racialicious.com /Twitter: @andreaplaid/ Other Projects: AJ’s Headspace

Jessica Yee

Special Correspondent

Jessica Yee is a self-described Indigenous feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter. Twenty-five years old and Two-Spirited from the Mohawk Nation, Jessica is the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, a CanAmerica wide organization by youth and for youth. She has spent more than half her life mobilizing individuals, families, and communities alike to reclaim their ancestral rights to self-determine decisions over their own bodies and spaces. Her health research centres around empowering youth as researchers in the areas of sexual health promotion, decolonization, and reclaiming traditional knowledge. She is a strong believer in the power of the youth voice, and you can see her activisting it up on sites like Racialicious, Indian Country Today, or pick up her recently released book “Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Communities of Colour, and Sexuality,” and look for her upcoming book in Winter 2011 “Feminist Education Now: Youth, Activism, and Intersectionality”.

Email: Jessica@racialicious.com /Twitter: @JessYee/ Other Projects: Native Sexual Health Network

Fatemeh Fakhraie

Special Correspondent

Fatemeh Fakhraie is an editor, author, and blogger who writes about issues from her perspective as Iranian-American Muslim woman. She writes about Islamic feminism, Islam, and race for several online and print outlets, including Racialicious, Bitch Magazine, and AltMuslimah. In 2007, Fatemeh founded Muslimah Media Watch, a website dedicated to critically analyzing images of Muslim women in global media and pop culture. She is editor-in-chief of the website, in addition to serving as an Associate Editor for AltMuslimah. In 2009, Fatemeh published her first book, Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Hijab Styles in Urban Iranian Women, a textbook version of her master’s thesis.

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