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Jessica Machado
Former Senior Identities Editor
Jessica Machado was Vox’s Senior Identities Editor. Previously, she was the Identities Editor at the Daily Dot and an editor at Rolling Stone. Her work on gender, race, parenting, and culture can be found in the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Vice, Jezebel, The Cut, and more.
Latest articles by Jessica Machado
![On being “ethnically ambiguous”](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22236073/IMG_0809.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Growing up in Hawaii, being mixed or hapa is the norm. But when I moved away, I suddenly had to explain myself.
![The future of feminism](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19773697/GettyImages_908059302.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.932126696833%2C0%2C70.135746606335%2C100&w=2400)
Five feminists explain where the movement needs to go next.
![6 myths about the history of Black people in America](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19715160/GettyImages_515177654.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about Black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.
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![Trump gave Americans a lesson in white history](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19696892/GettyImages_1198673650.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
In his State of the Union, Trump erased Native Americans, the enslaved, and non-white immigrants in the founding of America.
![What it’s like to live through the Australian bushfires](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19623873/DSCN5160.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C66.682532127558%2C100&w=2400)
From leveled homes to volunteer relief: six Australians on the devastating impact of the fire crisis.
![We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19386306/natbookawards2019_final.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=23.333333333333%2C0%2C53.333333333333%2C100&w=2400)
The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
![5 things people still get wrong about slavery](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19084549/GettyImages_610279978.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.655052264808%2C0%2C66.689895470383%2C100&w=2400)
We asked historians to debunk slavery’s greatest myths.