Samantha Allen

Samantha Allen writes about gender, sexuality, pop culture and more. She is a senior reporter for The Daily Beast focusing on a LGBT stories, a former staff writer for Fusion's Sex + Life vertical, and a former Tech + Health reporter for The Daily Beast. Prior to that, Samantha Allen was a freelance writer who contributed regularly to The Daily Dot, Paste Magazine, and Hello Giggles. Her work has also appeared on Rolling Stone, The Advocate, Salon, Huffington Post, Mic, Kinsey Confidential, Jacobin, and in Adult Magazine. Samantha Allen has a PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University, where she was a George W. Woodruff Fellow. In 2013, she received the John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology from the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and in 2014, she was published in the journal Feminist Theory.

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