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riese

Editor-in-Chief / CEO of Ideas

Marie Lyn Bernard, aka Riese, is a freelance journalist, award-winning writer, blogger, fictionist, copywriter, video-maker and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, got wise in New York City, and now lives in the San Francisco area. Her work has appeared in eight books, magazines including Marie Claire, GO!, Interlude, NeXt, CollegeBound and Curve, and all over the web including nerve.com, Jezebel, OurChart and Suspect Thoughts. Her blogs have earned many dubious honors including Best Personal Blog (2008 Lezzies), Best LGBT Blog nominee (2008 Webblog Awards, the largest competition of its kind) and Hottest Bloggers 2008. She’s the recapper for The L Word Online and host of Showtime’s Lezberado. A graduate of the University of Michigan and The Olive Garden's week-long training intensive; she enjoys eating foods, having big ideas, reading books & talking to her stuffed dog, Tinkerbell. She is more excitant about the new Autostraddle than she has ever been about anything else, ever. Follow her smokin’ hot adventures on twitter.

Contact: riese[at]autostraddle.com

February 10, 2012

Real L Word 2's Cori and Kacy Post Heartbreaking "Update On Our Family"

After seven months of trying, Cori got pregnant in August 2011. Today they’ve written on their blog about losing the baby on Christmas Day.

February 10, 2012

Glee Recap 312: The Spanish Teacher and Santana Are Too Sexy For This Show

Glee, how long ’til your soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light?

February 09, 2012

How Maggie Gallagher Became Maggie F*cking Gallagher of NOM

Salon digs in to the life story of Gay Marriage’s Enemy Number One, Maggie Gallagher and reveals new insights into exactly how she got this way.

February 09, 2012

Art Attack: 10 Websites For Looking at Pictures All Day

I don’t wanna work, I just wanna look at art/design/photo blogs all day.

February 08, 2012

Known Lesbian Ellen DeGeneres Addresses JC Penney Controversy Like A Boss

Ellen talks about Prop 8, gay marriage and the 40,000 alleged Moms who thought JCPenney shouldn’t be associating its fine brand with Ellen’s lesbianism.

February 08, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANEIA!

“what do you say to the world when you get what you’ve wanted? i mean who do i thank for this.”

February 03, 2012

Things I Read That I Love #11

Topics include Bill O’Reilly’s mental health, botched murder investigations in Baltimore, Downton Abbey, Dan Savage, Brandon Teena and the for-profit Phoenix University.

February 03, 2012

Vote For Autostraddle In The 2012 Bloggie Awards!

Autostraddle is somehow miraculously a finalist n the 2012 Bloggie Awards for “Best Entertainment Blog” and “Best Community/Group Blog” AND “WEBLOG OF THE YEAR”!

February 02, 2012

Glee Episode 311 Recap: Michael Would Probably Not Do This

Brittany and Satana are gonna make out on Valentine’s Day, which gives me permission to like this episode.

January 30, 2012

10 Badass Yet Toxic Best Friends: TV & Film's Hottest Troublemakers

“So I started hanging out with Rayanne Graff. Just for fun. Just cause it seemed like if I didn’t, I would die or something. Things were getting to me. Just how people are.”

January 30, 2012

Playlist: Music For Writing With Your Heart Split Open

Here’s the situation: you have a lot of feelings and you have a keyboard or a notebook and your ears are lonely.

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January 29, 2012

Autostraddle Live!: Come See Me Talk About Sex at Yale For Sex Week

Sex Week 2012 is a thing and I’m gonna be there, you should come. Get it?!?! COME?!?!!!

January 27, 2012

Things I Read That I Love #10

Today’s topics include living alone, Grey Gardens, Mary Karr, homophobia at an elite private school in Texas, Victoria Jackson and the influence of Pitchfork.

January 26, 2012

10 Great Places to Meet Lesbians If You Have a Time Machine

If you’re really sick of the lesbian scene where you live, why not build a time machine and go back to when everyone hated us? Here are some excellent places to meet ladies from history.

January 25, 2012

Shiloh Panic! Life & Style Rehashes Fears About Shiloh's Haircut, Pants, Dinosaur Toy

Once again, Life & Style is freaking out about Shiloh’s deviant “shorter-than-ever” haircut and Angelina’s secret plan to “turn Shiloh into a boy.”

January 25, 2012

In Canadian TV Show "Bomb Girls," It's Women and Lesbians First

Who’s in the mood for a show about girls working in World War II bomb-making factories and sometimes making eyes at each other? YOU ARE.

January 23, 2012

8 Queerish Short Story Books

So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!

January 22, 2012

14-Year-Old Gay Teen Phillip Parker Kills Himself in Tennesee

Phillip Parker was 14 years old. He was gay and he lived in Tennessee and now he is dead.

January 20, 2012

Top 10 Best Candy Situations You Can Buy at a Gas Station

Actually, this post contains Top 10 Candy Situations You Can Buy at a Drugstore and 6 Underrated Candy Situations, so the headline doesn’t even approach the amazingness of this post.

January 20, 2012

The Loving Story: New Look at Couple Who Challenged Law Against Interracial Marriage, Won

Photographs from a new exhibition on Mildred and Richard Loving, who fought for their right to live as a married couple in Virginia despite being of different races and henceforth changed the whole world forever.

January 19, 2012

"Real L Word" Gets a GLAAD Nod and Gaga Starts "Born This Way" Foundation

Lady Gaga launches the “Born This Way” foundation, GLAAD Awards announce their 2012 nominees, MegaUpload shuts down and Britney’s bodyguard is writing a book about her lesbian orgies.

January 17, 2012

Listling Of Commentary: Shit Taylor Swift Fans Say To Me

“She isn’t a feminist’s worst nightmare! I have a friend who is a feminist and she adores taylor.”

January 17, 2012

Ani DiFranco's New Album "Which Side Are You On?" is Both Good and $4

It’s time to throw an Ani DiFranco Appreciation Club Meeting in your ears with her new album “Which Side Are You On?” — it’s only $4 today!