Samantha Puc
the verbal thing

Samantha Puc is an essayist and culture critic whose work has been featured on Bitch Media, The Mary Sue, SheKnows, The Beat, Bustle, and elsewhere. She mostly writes intersectional pop culture analysis with a particular focus on representation of LGBTQ and fat characters in fiction. Samantha is the managing editor at The Beat, as well as the co-creator and editor-in-chief of Fatventure Mag, an outdoors zine for fat folx who are into being active, but not into toxic weight-loss culture. She lives in Rhode Island with her partner and cats.