Irin, pictured masticating a delicious mackerel sandwich while in Istanbul last month, is the latest and greatest addition to the Jezebel staff, where she will be reporting, writing, and helping us engage in minor acts of women's media disobedience.

Irin's curriculum vitae is both varied and impressive: a native of Israel, she grew up on Long Island before heading off to Harvard, where she majored in literature and wrote for the Crimson on everything from activist sex workers in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires to the Miss America pageant. After graduation, she worked for the Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama, where she covered, among other topics, the longest flea market in the world, evangelical Zionists, and Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Her travel column for the Boston Globe both helped pad out her passport and her fluency in Portuguese and Spanish, and, from 2006 to October 2009 she worked at Women's Wear Daily for that paper's much-read, oft-quoted "Memo Pad" column, where she covered media and dug deep into the likes of Vogue's Anna Wintour, Miley Cyrus and got on Martha Stewart's shitlist. She describes herself as "mildly obsessed with yoga, Latin America, interior decorating blogs and shelter mags", and we're pleased as punch to have her. Please give her a warm welcome!

Kate is also a regular contributor to the Broadsheet section of Salon. When she is not knocking Jez editors' socks off and inspiring millions of readers with her intelligent, humorous, and decisive writing about all manner of issues pertaining to women and body image, she is chilling out at home in Chicago with her husband and two dogs. Please give her a warm welcome.

Shapely Prose [Official Site]
Kate Harding Writes Stuff [Official Site]
Kate Harding's Twitter [Twitter]
Lessons From The Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting And Declare A Truce [Amazon]
Yes Means Yes: Visions Of Female Sexual Power And A World Without Rape [Powell's]

Kay, who has lived in DC since 2006, is a Minnesota native and therefore was well-versed in delicious foodstuffs (many on sticks) long before she began contributing to the foodie destination The Internet Food Association. In addition to that site, she writes on her own eponymously-named blog, and edits Campus Progress, a web arm of the Center for American Progress devoted to assisting young people interested in taking more active roles in progressive issues. (You may also remember her from her numerous stints as a Crappy Hour contributor, various election cycle liveblogs, and her appearance at the "Foodie Feminist" gathering of last November, where she assisted in the preparation and eating of animal testes.) Please give her a warm welcome.

Campus Progress [Official Site]
Kay Steiger [Blogspot]
The Internet Food Association [Official Site]

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Latoya, who has contributed to Jezebel for many months - both as Crappy Hour participant and contributor - comes to us from Racialicious, the much-admired politics-meets-pop-culture blog devoted to issues of ethnicity and race. (She runs it!) Latoya has a self-admitted eclectic streak, which means that she may - nay, will - be writing about everything under the sun, from public policy to dating rituals, video games, geek culture and foreign fashion magazines. Her command of language, understanding of complex issues and research skills are outstanding, and the fact that she is only in her early 20s puts the rest of us (the older ones, that is) to shame. She is definitely, for lack of a better phrase, 'one to watch'. Shout-outs, and all-enveloping embraces, in the comments, please.

Related: Racialicious [Official Site]

Lindsay - formerly editor at Videogum and longtime proprietress of Lindsayism - is what some would call a pop culture junkie, and, as my headline alleges, she is also literally one of the nicest, most down to earth people I know. Her brain is also the repository of hilarious anecdotes and facts about everything from the quirks of northern Florida to road trips and Christian evangelicals (those things are not necessarily mutually exclusive) and her ability to find and curate odd and cool stuff on the internet is unparalleled. Please give her a warm welcome.

*Lindsay actually doesn't need any introduction. She has been blogging before there were blogs, and, as such, she knows more about its culture than almost anyone else I know. (As former Gawker/current NY Mag editor Jessica Coen puts it, "She knows more about the depths of this inane online culture than anyone one human being should, and yet she's totally sane — which means she must be an angel. From heaven." Agreed.)

The online features editor at Radar — until it was snapped up by American Media (owner of the National Enquirer, Star, and Shape) last year — Paige is now a self-described "poster-girl for unemployment," with her post-Radar life chronicled in The New York Times, Time Out New York, and the New York Post.

She has a less-than-scholarly obsession with teen lit, Sex and the City, and is especially proud of her editing work on a special feature about a fish that makes you shit orange. Please give the farmer's daughter — she grew up on a peach orchard! — a warm welcome.

Section 1: How You Approach Life and How You Appear To Others

The following is a description of your basic stance towards life, the
way others see you, the way you come across, the face you show to the world.
In Chapter 3 you will read about the "The Inner You: Your Real Motivation",
which describes the kind of person you are at heart and where your true
priorities lie. Read this chapter and the next one and compare them - there
may be significant differences between them, in which case "the inner you"
may not shine through and others are in for some surprises when they get to
know you at a more than superficial level. This chapter describes the
costume you wear, your role in life, while Chapter 3 talks about the real
person inside the costume.

Leo Rising:

Ferociously proud and somewhat vain, you like to be impressive and to be
seen as Somebody Special. You are not timid, meek, or self-effacing, and are
rarely content being in the background or in the subordinate position. You
are a natural leader, and do not take orders from others very well. You must
have something of your own, something creative - be it a business, a
project, a home or whatever - that you can develop and manage according to
your own will and vision. Whatever you do, you do it in a unique, dramatic,
individual way. You like to put your own personal stamp on it.

You also have a very strong sense of dignity, self-respect, and personal
honor and are deeply offended if someone treats you in a humiliating or
dishonorable way. You will rarely confront the offender - you are too proud to do so - but you will lose your affection and respect for them. You dislike pettiness and hate to be snubbed or ignored.

You admire others who are strong individuals like yourself. When you befriend someone, you are tremendously loyal, sincere, and willing to go to extraordinary lengths to make that person happy. You are very giving and generous, but your gifts are never anonymous - you expect recognition and appreciation for them. You also expect the intense loyalty that you offer to your dear ones to be reciprocated. However, you often have trouble working with people who are as strong as yourself, for you do not really cooperate or share the leading role very easily. If you are not in the leading role, you aspire to be and will compete with the person who is.

You have great heart and courage, and people often look to you for strength, encouragement, and affirmation. You always have your best face forward and rarely allow others to see you hurting, disheartened, or vulnerable. You also have a very strong need for love, admiration, appreciation, and praise, although you don't like others to realize just how important it is to you.

Your outlook on life tends to be very personal and rather self-centered. Your own self-expression, self-actualization and self-realization interests you more than anything else. You feel that if you do your best where you are, the rest of the world will take care of itself.

This goes on for about 23,000 more words, but I'm going to stop and encourage you to watch this instead:

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Here are your Jezebels: Anna Holmes (left), Jennifer Gerson (center) and Moe Tkacik (right). Photo by Nikola Tamindzic; shot on location at Sutra Lounge, NYC.

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Editor Moe Tkacik began a once-promising career in journalism at the Philadelphia Daily News, where she covered murders and other harsh realities of urban life she had theretofore experienced primarily through rap lyrics. She later worked at the Wall Street Journal covering the athletic footwear, sportswear and auto accessories industries as those subjects gradually became the central topics of rap lyrics. She was inspired to take this job when she realized Common's I Used To Love H.E.R. could have really been written about Jane Pratt. Moe has also worked at Time Asia, the National A-1 phone sex call center and the now-defunct Philadelphia Independent. She is hungover right now.

To the best of her knowledge, Associate Editor Jennifer Gerson is the only person from Marietta, GA to have come to school wearing Helmut Lang bondage pants. After graduating magna cum laude from Tufts and Columbia universities, Jennifer parlayed her education in trauma theory into a career in fashion, working as an editorial assistant and the assistant to the editor-in-chief at Elle. She has also written for Paper magazine, Sephora.com, and worked in the office of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.