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katrina

katrina

Assistant News Editor

Katrina is a 19-year-old grrrl splitting her time between her great homeland of New York City and Washington DC, where she is a second-year student at American University. She loves activism and hates sleep, which is convenient because neither of those things really allows for the other anyway. She thinks that slang is rad. As a math equation (with words, because she is bad at math), Katrina would go as such: writer + riot grrrl = wrioter grrrl. When not manifesting itself as a mathematical equation, Katrina’s life usually reads out like a lesbian coming-of-age novel, though sometimes she wishes it were more like a bad 1950s lesbian pulp fiction story. Also, she really, really, truly believes that the revolution is upon us. Come read her rantings about it on her twitter and blog!

Contact: katrina[at]autostraddle.com

April 20, 2012

Queer Women of Color: The Peculiar Kind Wants YOU!

Katrina’s Team Pick: Be smart and funny, but maybe not smarter and funnier than me, ’cause I want this too, y’all.

March 15, 2012

Where Were They While She Was Getting High?

Surprise! A new survey indicates that LGBT people “experience higher rates of substance use and abuse.”

March 08, 2012

Kreayshawn Comes Out In GQ As "Bisexual, But Not That Bisexual"

“I’ve dated girls, and I’ve liked girls. But they’re usually straight girls, so it never works out. I’m not THAT gay, so I don’t have the energy to convince someone else to be gay, you know?”

March 01, 2012

The Peculiar Kind: Queer Women of Color Represent!

“The Peculiar Kind says something a lot of us already know but few of us ever really talk about: the fact that activism can look like anything, that we feel for our work and fight for our causes, but we also find comfort in each other.”

February 27, 2012

Artist Spotlight: Azealia Banks and the Second Coming of the Female Emcee

Banks is an anti-glamour loudmouth chasing big-time success without mercy or apology, because, let’s face it, who has time to apologize when you’re becoming famous this fucking fast?

January 30, 2012

Movie Night: Josie and the Pussycats

It’s okay to sing along. It’s also okay not to.

January 23, 2012

Muji: Look at This F*cking Notebook

Go ahead girl, put yo poetry in it.

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November 18, 2011

SIGNIFIED Continues the Conversation on Queer Spaces

“Man, we gotta stop bitchin’ about this and start BITCHIN’ about this!”

November 08, 2011

SIGNIFIED: Coming to a (Small, Community-Oriented) Theater Near You!

Katrina’s Team Pick: Something cool, but even cooler if you’re in Washington, DC.

October 21, 2011

Keeping It Real: Authentic Diversification in Occupy Wall Street

“What exactly does ‘success’ mean for OWS? It could mean giving power to conversations and movements that activists, organizers and thinkers have been having for years.”

October 18, 2011

Girl on the Run: The Kit

This Megabus is leaving at 9:30am whether you’re on it or not!

October 13, 2011

Tegan & Sara Boxed a Set: 3 Films + 1 Live Record x Our Hearts = "Get Along"

This trailer will make your day and I like that because I want you to have all of the feelings about Tegan and Sara. Even the cheesy ones.

October 10, 2011

You Need to Watch "Default: The Student Debt Documentary"

Katrina’s Team Pick: “The conversation about student debt is a conversation that everyone who’s in school should be having.”

September 29, 2011

Educar, No Lucrar: Students In Chile Demanding Change

”We do not want to improve the actual system; we want a profound change – to stop seeing education as a consumer good, to see education as a right where the state provides a guarantee.”

September 09, 2011

Where the F*ck is this? Now You Know.

Katrina’s Team Pick: Finally get closure on the Windows XP desktop background circa 2004.

August 25, 2011

On Kanye West and 'Watch the Throne'

Kanye West is seeking redemption — he’s just having a hard time wading through all the diamonds to get there.

August 01, 2011

How (Not) to Quit Smoking: What Will Occupy Your Lesbian Hands?

Lesbians and bisexual women are 2-3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes regularly than straight people, which might be one of the 46 reasons I’m finding it hard to quit.

July 22, 2011

Confessions of a Post-Teenage Runagay: The Future Freaks Me Out

“While this freedom isn’t quite as sweet and lush (nor is it as free as I imagined), I don’t mind paying for my independence. For, me it’s still worth it.”

June 24, 2011

How to Queer Mainstream Media and Progressively Start a Revolution Online

We’re online, we’re in the streets, we’re everywhere. And, goddammit, we’re on our way.

June 20, 2011

Netroots Nation 2011 Day Two: Things All Progressives Love, Actually

Day Two! All hands on tweetdeck! Queer Media and the Alternative Revolution (my panel!), overall political inspiration, business casual, and BEER.

June 18, 2011

KC Danger Does Netroots Nation 2011: Day One Roundup

“When Beyonce sang “to the left, to the left,” I think she was directing me toward Netroots.”