Riese
VIDEO ASSISTANT
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
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Nat Garcia
vlog superstar
This Hispanic Lesbian social activist animal-lover was born & raised in New Mexico, moved to Denver in 2007 (she LOVES DENVER ALL CAPS) and now resides in Los Angeles a.k.a. Lesbian HQ, where she actively pursues an alternative lifestyle and also enjoys playing with her dog Maggie, making tea, the beach, swinging on swings, eating sushi, and hanging out with her cat Pumpkin who “is a gansgter, missing parts of his ear. He is like 50 Cent as a cat.” She also loves dancing — as in; ballroom, swing, two-step, waltzing, salsa and some oldies. Favorite things in life include Dolly Parton, The Graduate, Harold and Maude and The Golden Girls — because she is apparently 79, hopelessly trapped in the body of a 23-year-old. This seems to be working out okay for her though.
nat[at]autostraddle.com