Kelly Gonsalves

Contributing Writer

Kelly Gonsalves is a sex and culture writer exploring love, lust, identity, and feminism. Her work has appeared at Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more, and she previously worked as an associate editor for The Week. She's obsessed with badass ladies doing badass things, wellness movements, and very bad rom-coms.

A child plays underneath water cannons in Queens, New York.

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The simple joys of playing in water

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Is this coffee-themed app the future of crowdfunding?

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A photographer's guilt

President Dwight D. Eisenhower faces reporters at a news conference on Feb. 25, 1953.

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The president and the press

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Blood, sweat, and coffee

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Lunar New Year celebrations in Zhangjiakou, China.

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China's invisible city

An elephant gets a bath in New Delhi, India.

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The mystic power of tribal tattoos

Supporters of the Kenyan opposition watch its leader Raila Odinga's 'swearing-in' ceremony in Nairobi.

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Two swimmers brave hazardous surf conditions at a pool in Sydney, Australia.

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Alabama players celebrate winning the NCAA college football playoff championship game.

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100 years of snowmen

Times Square in New York City on January 1, 2012.

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Cleaning up the biggest New Year's mess in America

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The year's best photojournalism

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Santa Claus, creep

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The joyous journey of Christmas mail

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The bewitching creepiness of Jerusalem's giant spider webs

A wintery road outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

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13 insane Christmas cards from 100 years ago

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The devastating beauty of Greenland's melting ice

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The crabs who ate Christmas

Laundry hangs from windows in Mumbai, India.

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2017 through the eyes of American teens

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A global tour of the season's autumnal splendor

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Don't mess with these boxing grannies

A golden larch in Bayrischzell, Germany.

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Thailand's female rebel monks

A woman stands in the remains of her home in after an earthquake struck in Tepalcingo, Mexico.

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What's left of home

The Hoa Binh hydroelectric power plant in Vietnam opens its flood gates.

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Santa Rosa, California, after the flames.

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5 shocking photos that put the California wildfires in perspective