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Magdalene Taylor

Magdalene Taylor is a staff writer at MEL. She covers internet culture, sex and the online adult industry. She lives in Brooklyn but is from God's Country, Western Massachusetts.

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How Chumbawamba Tricked Everyone into Thinking ‘Tubthumping’ Was a Pop Song

At first glance, ‘Tubthumping’ is a saccharine, smooth-brained drinking song designed to be shouted in pubs. But below the surface, it’s a Trojan horse designed to covertly deliver anarcho-communism to the masses

How Not to Be West Elm Caleb

It’s easy to look at Caleb in terms of the internet’s violent propensity for canceling and doxing everyday people, but it’s much more useful to learn from his mistakes

The Era of Self-Deprecation Is Over. It’s God Complex Time

We’ve put ourselves down with phrases like ‘dumb bitch’ and ‘empty-headed’ for far too long. It’s time to cast our self-doubts aside and fully lean into the delusion that we're almighty, omnipotent supreme beings