Letter From Your Editors
Hello Scented Candles!
Well, what have we here? We have the month of March. For a small set of geographical locations including many of ours, this means spring has sprung, and we’re ready to think about flowers and/or hold them in pictures!
1st row: Laneia, Djuan, Riese, Alaina, Carmen
2nd row: Cee, Kayla, Nikki, Isabel, Stef
3rd row: Raquel, Maree, Rachel, Aisha, Alex
4th row: Erin, Maddie, Mey, Audrey, KaeLyn
What a magical month it’s been for (this dog who follows me everywhere) our website! We’ve been voting and spring cleaning and passion planning and writing and gearing up for camp. Laneia survived a 2.5-week spring break by the skin of her teeth and worked on A+ content plans and finalized some podcast plans. Yvonne has had one of the hardest months of her life, personally, but when she has been...
It totally should be illegal to produce representations of fetuses that aren’t scientifically accurate and that face
in the belly was just WTF
The lost and delirious bit was hilarious
The A+ content is amazing. Thanks everyone for the hard work you put into it and all of the content.
Thank you RFP!
I will never look at navels the same way again…
I just scrolled through this and did not get a chance to read all of it, but wow that face in the stomach is horrifying
(although I feel like that would give you a lot of power? If somebody lifted up their shirt to reveal that I’d probably be rendered incapable of functioning for awhile)
this is a good hot take. i like it.
The modern Medusa.
It snowed in Ottawa again today. SNOWED. AGAIN. I really thought it was over, ya know? I’ve been wearing my leather jacket for two weeks already, and I’m supposed to go to a We Believe Survivors rally at the courthouse tonight and I do not want to have to get out my winter jacket again. Meaning, I’m really jealous of your pictures with flowers. I miss flowers.
That Lost and Delirious conversation was hilarious, people are completely bonkers. But mostly I just sort of wish that Lost and Delirious could be a TV show where season 1 ends with Paulie jumping off the roof and season 2 begins with her waking up in the hospital after breaking her leg and fracturing several ribs. But then the show would probably just find a way to kill her again anyway.
This is the best thing ever.
YOU ARE
Thank-you Thank-you Thank-you for the link to “Going Mad In New York City”
Just… Ah
I needed that
you’re so very welcome!
(The link to the birthday article lead me to all the links IN the birthday article and now I’m knee deep in The Archives and you and Laneia have written some beautiful things and I’ve swallowed cries three times today over three different wonderful essays and feel like my chest is empty and barking)
(Thank-you Thank-you Thank-you)
It was really soothing listening to Heather and Stef talk while reading this. I vote for more random staff conversations in Insiders.
heather you can call and ask me five dumb questions every wednesday for as long as i live.
riese were you really in 9th grade when the oj verdict happened because i think i was in 5th grade?? are you lying to me about your age?
I Fucking love that show! Perks of being a foreigner: I have no idea what happened except for the final verdict so I gasp and get excited because it’s all new to me
I asked my wife not to tell me any spoilers and she just rolled her eyes
yeah, i was! it was the fall/winter of 1995, i was in 9th grade, i’m 34 years old, be honest were you held back
wait… this was 1995 so i was like 11. so 7th grade (no i was not held back I WENT IN EARLY)?!? was i wrong this whole time? was i in middle school? why do i remember this happening in a totally different year?
am *i* lying about my age?!
this is actually me:
well the bronco chase happened a full year before the verdict, yeah? bronco chase was june 94, verdict was october 95, so maybe that explains some of it. i mean… not all of it. but some of it.
AH so the bronco chase was like right after fifth grade which makes sense now! what a time.
That face in the stomach is just like Voldemort sticking out of the back of Prof Quirrel’s head
Truuue. But without the possibility for the Harry Potter Musical Quirrelmort romance
Yvonne I hope things get better for you
Thank you <3
Can I just say, without even having read this yet, how much my heart lifted when it showed up on the home page? Like running into your good friend at a coffee shop. <3 :D
No one is too old for snapchat. My cousins and I just taught my Grandma how to use snapchat, and she doesn’t get it on any level, but she sends the best snaps.
This was all delightful. Thanks for the post round-up too, I think I missed some things!
Heather this was the best call, let me know when there’s a sign up sheet for Stupid Question Calls with Heather.
isabel. wait, what?! this is genius. i want one of these aqua notes now!
thanks for sharing your sweet story!
WATER
PROOF
NOTE
PAD
THOUGH
It’s so nice to get little check-ins from past Autostraddle writers and I love that you calm them alumni. Keep doing that.
did you notice that palmer obviously did not invite any of us to her wedding !
Aqua Notes!!!!!!!! I NEED THEM.
Assuming the Body is one of favorite books of all time!
Assuming a Body* Oops, got too excited…
You all look so cute in the photos, and I’m looking forward to meeting team Autostraddle at camp!! :D
I’ll have to check out Wicked Plants – I liked Amy Stewart’s other book Wicked Bugs.
On a different note, I think those stock photos will give me nightmares…
i can’t believe nobody is worried about mrs noodle and her path of destruction
I am seriously ALL FUCKING IN for a weekly series of Mrs Noodle and Mugatu’s misadventures.
What, you didn’t all make up a name for the little dog in your heads? Just me?
its name really is sasquatch! i read a whole article about rose mcgowan and her dogs (she mostly adopts boston terriers).
Those entitled celebrity pets!
honestly both the lost and delirious chat and the sasquatch bobbi part made me feel like i was in on an inside joke with you guys, which is especially nice bc i struggle to really comment a lot/feel part of the as ‘community’/whatever. you are so warm and delightful, what a great job!
Well it’s perfect that Erin’s birthday graphic has her drawn face down in a hole :D :D :D
Also I almost burned my pizza because I was reading this entire thing.
Laneia: What was her deal were her wings clipped?
I don’t get
^^^^^^ funniest thing I have read all year!
Also, poor elderly lady being knocked over by mrs noodle. Like, that lady would have been petrified and is dealing with a lot of shit in a time where she should be going for nice walks and getting senior discount coffees at cafes and seeing movies. Not being stuck in bed all day because some celebrity couldn’t keep their giant, overly friendly dog in check.
Mrs Noodle!what have you DONE???
Ugh I had a discussion about whether ‘lgbt’ should be a label anymore with a girl at school. She argued that it shouldn’t exist anymore, to which I responded that maybe in the future that’s possible but we aren’t there yet. She (as I can understand) is not lgbt in anyway, so why should she be the one to decide what identities should and shouldn’t be labeled anymore? Also she said she disliked how this one girl at school is really outspoken about being bisexual. Anyway I was kind of annoyed; and then I thought of a number of different rebuttals afterwards which I could have used but anyway…
The Insider was especially good this month! Heather and Stef your voices are like really pleasing to listen to and I hope that isn’t a weird thing to say. And Heather your laugh is delightful!
Gabrielle I used to fantasize about saving Hilary Duff so I can relate.
i have never heard my voice described as ‘pleasing to listen to,’ if you must know in my own head it sounds a lot like butthead, so.
heather’s laugh really is delightful though.
Stef made some solid philosophical points re: Tina and Taylor Swift in that slack call.
And now I am craving mozzarella sticks at 10:25am.
So last weekend I was in Wales hiking the best hikes of my life and since I came back I’m in a funk, and that funk means procrastinating and reading old fanfictions of The Pretender (!!!). And then I land on excerpts of your convos and GUYS this is so much better than fanfiction. Like seriously my mind is clear now and I’m ready to get back to work.
Also “I think you’re a mysoginist” is the BEST worst pick up line in the history of bad pick up line.