Riese
Marie Lyn Bernard
Editor in Chief / CEO
Marie “Riese” Lyn Bernard is a freelance journalist, blogger, fictionist, copywriter, video-maker and aspiring cyber-performance artist raised in Michigan and based in New York City. Her work has appeared in eight books, magazines including Marie Claire, Interlude and Curve, and all over the web including nerve.com, 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. 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.
riese[at]autostraddle.com
@autowin
Laneia
Executive editor
Laneia just wants to live in the forest and wear scarves and skirts and talk about tea. Instead she lives in the suburbs of Phoenix with Cheryl The Knitter and two little dudes who have cool names and grape-juice-commercial-faces. One time, she made a really beautiful quilt out of vintage fabric for a baby she’d never met. She has a yellow origami balloon in a red box on her bookshelf. Laneia’s probably a lot like you, but with 70% more feelings and 2/3 fewer shoes.
Go ahead and follow her on twitter.
laneia[at]autostraddle.com
@grrreen
Sarah
Managing Editor
Sarah lives in the middle of the country but hopefully not for long. During her free time, she loves reading large books, baking adventurous things, taking road trips, visiting museums, threatening to move to Italy, and drinking way too much Mountain Dew.Follow her on Twitter.
sarah[at]autostraddle.com
@sarahapalmer
Crystal
music editor
Crystal has spent most of her adult life as a music writer and band / tour manager. Originally hailing from Sydney, Australia, she was adopted by Autostraddle after traveling to New York City with a sole missing from her shoe. Crystal likes to wear black and listen to Green Day like she’s still 13. She digs band t-shirts, Sara’s shoes and spending money she doesn’t have on concert tickets. Oh and right now she’s going through an intense Kaki King phase. You should email or follow Crystal if you want to send her free CDs or you know who her next favourite band should be.
crystal[at]autostraddle.com
@disappear_here
Becky
Style Editor
” Hola, my name’s Rebecca but you can call me Becky. I don’t have a twitter, but maybe someday I will. I can play sweet nothings for you on my banjo but really I have an otherworldly addiction to Top 40. I dance too much. I pride myself on my cuban heritage, my collection of Criterion dvds, and my stocked liquor cabinet globe. I used to keep a wine journal back when I was captain of the chess team. Now I live in an apartment with four of my friends at Wesleyan University where we talk about hegemony a lot. I’m a film and anthropology double major so I can make films like Dazed and Confused. I was going to name my car cognito so I could say ‘i’m traveling in-cognito right now’ more often than not, but then I named hir César. True story. We should be friends. ”
becky[at]autostraddle.com
Taylor
Technology editor
Taylor is an NYC-based blogger and visual artist. Her mediums include photography, graphic design, words, cartooning and beer. She is a nerd extraordinaire who loves all things geek, from gadgets and graphic novels to neuroscience and spacetime. She hails from most states in the south and hopes to fulfill manifest destiny on a personal level, heading west in the footsteps of her great, pixelated forebears of the Oregon Trail. Check out her ever-evolving virtual scrapbook or follow her on twitter @ouroboring.
taylor[at]autostraddle.com
@ouroboring
Jess Rothschild
Senior Editor
Jess is a pop culture junkie living in New York City. She enjoys endless debates about The L Word, Howard Stern, new techy gadgets, DVR, exploring the labyrinth of the Lesbian Internet, memoirs, working out, sushi, making lists, artsy things, anything Lady Gaga touches, traveling, puppies, and nyc in the fall. Find her on Twitter.
jess[at]autostraddle.com
@jessxnyc
Katrina Casino
Senior Writer
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!
katrina[at]autostraddle.com
@kcdanger
Rachel
Senior Editor
Rachel is 21 years old and lives in Boston, where she is a student and a barista and a librarian and public transportation enthusiast. She enjoys drinking tea and buying herself cardigans, and dislikes patriarchal white hegemony and Katy Perry. She has many feelings about many things and if you feel like it, you can follow her twitter.
rachel[at]autostraddle.com
@monkeykin