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Samantha Riedel

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Covers:  LGBTQ+ issues, transgender news, trans history/culture, comic books, video games
inactive account. bsky: @/samanthawrites.net pic: @isthatyourmain

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Samantha Riedel is a freelance journalist and essayist from the Northeast U.S. Since graduating from Binghamton University with a degree in writing and poetry in 2012, Samantha has written about transgender and LGBTQ+ issues for numerous print and digital publications, including Publishers Weekly, Bitch Magazine, Vice, The Establishment, The Huffington Post, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, as well as the 2019 essay anthology BURN IT DOWN (ed. Lilly Dancyger). From 2015 to 2016, she also work…

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Dave Chappelle Claims His Anti-Trans Jokes Are Not the Same as the GOP’s Original

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Dave Chappelle says he resents Republican politicians for using anti-transgender jokes in their campaigns, saying Donald Trump’s 2024 platform was “a weaponized version of what I was doing.” Chappelle made the comments in an interview for NPR’s Newsmakers podcast this week, in which he defended his own litany of anti-trans jokes across his last several stand-up specials but drew a line between his onstage conduct and that of conservatives.
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Black Trans Woman Davonta Curtis Killed in Her Chicago Apartment Original

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This story contains descriptions of fatal violence. Davonta Curtis, a Black transgender woman from Chicago, was beaten to death in her apartment on the night of April 5. She was 31 years old. Police have arrested Curtis’ alleged killer Deandre Bell, 24, and charged him this week with first-degree murder and possession of a stolen vehicle, according to CW news affiliate WGN. Initial media reports of Curtis’ death last week misgendered her as a man.
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Conservative Parents Are Suing a Minnesota School District for Letting Trans Kids Use Bathrooms Original

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A conservative parents’ group is suing a Minnesota school district over its transgender-inclusive bathroom policy, one month after the Trump administration announced its own suit against the state’s Department of Education.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first time doing anything approaching journalism was a column about faculty misconduct in a BU grad department, my best work there.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I loved slamming keys and making them jam as a tiny child, and grew up to vaguely fetishize the Beats. so yes!

How is social media changing news?

Fewer people seem to engage with a story past its headline/the featured graphic in their rush to comment. I get it, but please read more!!
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