Members

Name	riese
Age	31
Location	Oakland, CA
About Me	I'm a freelance journalist, blogger, fictionist, copywriter, video-maker and aspiring cyber-performance artist raised in Michigan and based in the San Francisco Bay Area. My writing has appeared in eight books including "The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image, and Other Hazards of Being Female" and "The Best American Erotica 2007, " in magazines including Marie Claire, GO!, Interlude, College Bound and Curve, and all over the web including Jezebel, Nerve, OurChart, Emily Books, The L Word Online and Suspect Thoughts. + In addition to editing Autostraddle videos like "Julie & Brandy In Your Box Office" and the "Haviland & Riese Vlogs, " I've produced videos for Wingspan Pictures and Broadwayworld and starred in Showtime's online video series "Lezberado." + I've appeared live in front of people saying important things at Yale, The University of Chicago, New York University, BlogHer 2011, The Museum of Sex and The KGB Reading Series, among others. + 2-D situations include GO Magazine's 100 Women We Love 2010 and 2011, VUE Weekly, Curvy Awards for Best Blogger and Best Lesbian Website, 2008 Hottest Bloggers Calendar, 2 Lezzie Awards for Best Personal Blog, etc.
Check All That Apply	Queer
Website/Blog/Tumblr	http://www.autostraddle.com
Twitter	autowin
Relationship Status	In a Relationship
Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy	jew

Favorite Writers	Stephen Dunn, Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill, Eileen Myles, Joan Didion, AM Homes, Dorothy Allison, Amy Bloom, Jack Spicer, Jonathan Franzen, Pam Houston, Tao Lin, Jack Kerouac, Emily Gould
Favorite Books	Stephen Dunn: New and Collected Poems, On the Road, Savage Inequalities, Bad Behavior, Self-Help, Anagrams, Because They Wanted To, The Year of Magical Thinking, Soft Maniacs, A Home at the End of the World, Freedom, Where I'm Calling From, The Safety of Objects, Bastard Out of Carolina, Veronica, A Blind Man Could See How Much I Love You, Prep, Cowboys are My Weakness, The Ice Storm, No One Belongs Here More Than You, Whores & Other Feminists, Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, My Misspent Youth, Fast Food Nation, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Appetites
Favorite Queer Books	Naked, Tipping the Velvet, Sorry Tree, Annie on my Mind, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure
Favorite Documentaries	This Film is Not Yet Rated, Roger & Me, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices, Food Inc, The Carter Documentary, We Live in Public, Grey Gardens, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, For the Bible Tells Me So, 8: The Mormon Proposition
Favorite TV Shows	The Wire, Six Feet Under, The Office, Skins UK, My So-Called Life, Lost
Favorite Music	Ani DiFranco
Favorite Sandwich	grilled cheese
Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com	100 Photos of Shane Laneia's Team Pick: These Cashews

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