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 Danforth

Special Correspondent

Jessica Danforth is the Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice throughout the United States and Canada.

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.

Email: fatemeh@racialicious.com / Personal Website: FatemehFakhraie.com/ Twitter: @fatemehf / Other Projects: MuslimahMediaWatch.org

Joseph Lamour

Fashion and Entertainment Editor

Joseph Lamour not only writes about Scandal happenings and Vogue foibles for Racialicious, but he also does art direction, graphic/web design, illustration… basically anything arts-related. He’s even styled nominees for The Grammies.

A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Joe spends his time drawing, writing articles and lyrics, (he’s a singer too,) and designing. His clients have included Smithsonian Latino Center, Pace-Wildenstein Gallery, The Kennedy Center, The Pentagon, and The White House, among others.

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