Named one of Ebony.com’s “8 Dynamic Black Women Editors in New Media,” Andrea Plaid not only serves as the Arts and Culture Editor for the award-winning Twin Cities Daily Planet but also as a contributing editor for the Feminist Wire and a critic for Kirkus Reviews. She was an associate producer of renowned web series Black Folk Don’t. Her commentary has appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, Huffington Post Live, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post. Plaid worked as an associate editor for the award-winning race-and-pop-culture blog Racialicious, and her work on race, gender, sex, and sexuality has appeared, among other places, at In These Times, On The Issues, and Bitch.com.