Today is the birthday of not one, but two awesome Feministing contributors. So, happy birthday, Syreeta McFadden! Syreeta is a true renaissance woman, who reads, writes, shoots photography, edits the literary magazine Union Station and teaches writing. A native of Milwaukee, who now calls Brooklyn home, Syreeta started her first novel at the ripe old age of 12. Her heroins are Trinity from The Matrix and her grandmother. When it comes to the one feminist she’s want to have on a desert island, Syreeta is torn between Rachel Maddow and Melissa Harris Perry.

Whether she’s writing viral tweets about injustice (see above), calling out Saturday Night Live‘s diversity ...