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We're thrilled to welcome ANNA HOLMES back to the Writers House for our annual APPLEBAUM PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS SERIES. Holmes, who founded the iconic feminist website Jezebel and now serves as editor of digital voices at Fusion, will be joined by Penn English professor SALAMISHAH TILLET, along with Penn student journalists TAYLOR HOSKING and REBECCA TAN. Moderated by Creative Writing Program director JULIA BLOCH, our group of writers will discuss the current state of doing feminist, anti-racist, intersectional journalism, including the new sorts of challenges journalists face around parity, opportunity, and integrity in the current political and social landscape. 

ANNA HOLMES has written and edited for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, InStyle and The New Yorker online. She is the founder of the popular website Jezebel.com and the 2012 recipient of a Mirror Award for Best Commentary. In 2013 her Twitter account was named one of the top 140 Twitter feeds by Time Magazine. She is the editor of two books, including the Book of Jezebel, and works as a columnist for the New York Times Book Review and as an editor of Digital Voices at Fusion. She lives in New York.

SALAMISHAH TILLET is an associate professor English and Africana Studies and a faculty member of the Alice Paul Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Penn. Salamishah has appeared on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, TedxWomen, and written blogs and editorials for The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Nation, The New York Times, The Root, and Time. She is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc., a non-profit organization that uses art to end violence against girls and women. 

TAYLOR HOSKING is an urban studies and political science student at the University of Pennsylvania whose academic interest in the interdisciplinary study of urban inequality has become a focus of her journalism. An investigative article she wrote for Impact Magazine won Best Analysis Article of the 2014-2015 school year from Penn's Publication Cooperative. She has also written for Philly Mag.

REBECCA TAN is an English and creative writing student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she works as a beat and senior reporter at The Daily Pennsylvanian covering gender and diversity; she has also written and researched for Singapore’s leading gender equality advocacy group, AWARE, and has written for Impact Magazine, Vulture and The Straits Times.