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Jessica Machado

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”
Culture

Growing up in Hawaii, being mixed or hapa is the norm. But when I moved away, I suddenly had to explain myself.

By Jessica Machado
The future of feminism
archives

Five feminists explain where the movement needs to go next.

By Jessica Machado and Karen Turner
6 myths about the history of Black people in America
Race

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about Black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.

By Jessica Machado and Karen Turner
Trump gave Americans a lesson in white historyTrump gave Americans a lesson in white history
Politics

In his State of the Union, Trump erased Native Americans, the enslaved, and non-white immigrants in the founding of America.

By Jessica Machado
What it’s like to live through the Australian bushfires
Climate

From leveled homes to volunteer relief: six Australians on the devastating impact of the fire crisis.

By Jessica Machado
We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.
Culture

The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.

By Susannah Locke, Elizabeth Crane and 14 more
5 things people still get wrong about slavery
Explainers

We asked historians to debunk slavery’s greatest myths.

By Karen Turner and Jessica Machado