Comments on: State of the Autostraddle Union: A Letter from the Editor

By: jessgitner

jessgitner — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:06:14 +0000

Amazing accomplishments from Autostraddle in such a short time. I’m honored to be able to join the team!

By: lauren

lauren — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:13:56 +0000

autostraddle makes me feel shiny! i’m just glad that something good has come out of me not being able to watch anything without knowing the plot first. especially something as wtf as the l word season 6. thank you for being gay without being y’know gay! x

By: riese

riese — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:41:31 +0000

This has been a huge learning experience for me too. I kinda feel like I’ve been in gay school all year making my own coursepack and syllabus, which might be my all time dream. These words you say are fantastic so thank you

By: The Brooklyn Boy

The Brooklyn Boy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:52:58 +0000

I’m quite proud of you crazy kids, and miss all your faces. You’re doing good things, big things, and doing it by doing you. So keep ballin on a(/no) budget until y’all make the magic happen. Believe. I do.

Superstars. =D

By: RachelwasHere

RachelwasHere — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:17:09 +0000

Haa Some of my students here got into a heated debate on whether or not Jenny was truly dead. I spent 11 weeks trying to plan lessons and games to get them to dive in and discuss things in English, and on week 12 we went to a cafe and I said “Speak English” and they got more passionate about the L-Word than anything I’d put work into. We never did reach an agreement- about half the students very much wanted Jenny dead.

“If I’m talking about the end of the series, can I say it was bullshit? Does that work?”

Then I got to teach them “power suit” and “hot mess”.

By: kelsey

kelsey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:50:59 +0000

I’ve had an Autostraddle crush for quite awhile now. I am secretly getting my girlfriend to do my AS bidding, and am trying to infiltrate as soon as possible.

I am constantly hearing updates about how many unique visitors you got on a particular day, in a particular month, and it simply astounds me. It is awesome that something so good is getting the attention it deserves. It’s one of those things that just feels right.

I am SO READY for this new year and to get the VIDEO/VLOGz up and running. eeeeeeeek.

Get ready ladiez! Moving on up!

By: brown bear

brown bear — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:16:27 +0000

OH MY GOD. there’s another mississippian here?! SHUT UP.

By: RachelwasHere

RachelwasHere — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:21:21 +0000

n’avez pas peur! on aime l’accent français
je suis au Mans et mon accent est affreux, mais je dois parler plus. j’adore la ville et mon travail, mais mes amis sont tous anglais et américains ou ils parlent très bien l’anglais allors…

and if your comment below is any indication, you have nothing to worry about! don’t hold back.

By: riese

riese — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:55:08 +0000

That is SUPER FUCKING AWESOME. Seriously, it matters to know that we matter. Autostraddle was also the best part of my 2009, coincidentally.

By: riese

riese — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:51:29 +0000

I love this comment too.

By: Sapphicsass

Sapphicsass — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:30:56 +0000

It’s crazy that you guys are only like 1 years old because you are like my gay mommy. You have incredible spelling/all other skills for being an infant. Also, you guys have been like my lesbionic lightsaber this year, helping me fight off all of the evil conservative meanies/whateverkindofcreaturesyoufightwithalightsaber. Thank you. I love you. I would kiss you on the mouth with lots of tongue if you were here/consented.

By: riese

riese — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:24:09 +0000

“if I had tried to go through this last 1.5 years without the incredible LGBT community that is on the internet I would have drank a lot more and smoked a lot more and I already drink and smoke more than any one person ever should in their whole entire life and so I might have ended up in rehab or not alive.”

I oddly feel exactly the same way?