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Catherine Taylor is a freelance writer and editor and the former deputy director of the freedom of expression organisation English PEN. She writes regularly for The Guardian, the Financial Times, New ...

Molly Williamson is an associate production editor at Aeon+Psyche. She lives in London.

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Emma Gilby is a senior lecturer in French in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her latest book is Descartes’s Fictions: Reading ...

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Lindsay Lee Wallace is a journalist focused on culture, health and technology. She has written and reported for outlets including the BBC, Teen Vogue, Xtra and Time magazine.

Eric Spiegel, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Philadelphia, PA. He is the owner of Attune Philadelphia Therapy Group, and a past-president and fellow of the American Society of ...