Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.
Riese has written 3271 articles for us.
is katie sackhoff a lesbian!?! please say yes
as far as i know she is straight as an arrow. we’re breaking the “queer-girl-only” single-subject gallery rule due to everyone yelling about starbuck here.
This is why we love you. You know we love you, right? Do we tell you that enough?
Seconded. As far as I’m concerned, Riese and co. can have my first-born child and redeem it for awesome points at the awesome factory, assuming those exist if/when I decide to have children but it’s the thought that counts, right.
God, I love Autostraddle.
How does one embed gifs in comments?
Hahaha yes! Now this is one lady in a uniform I will always love.
Whoops, let’s try that again, looking less like a spambot.
(Will this work, do Autostraddle comments like HTML, probs not …)
autostraddle, how do you do it? how did you know I would be so depressed after reading that politics article that the only thing to cheer me up would be 39 pictures of my TV girlfriend?
you guys are awesome (get out of my head)
I still feel bad for yelling :s but yay Starbuck!
GLORIOUS. :O
now thats what i am talkn bout!!!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED NOW
Thank you. Starbuck will always make my day better.
Ahahaha, Riese, you are so badass.
I greatly enjoy that this article exists solely out of peer pressure.
Frakking AWESOME. Riese, I’m sorry everyone yelled at you but I’m also conflictingly overjoyed that you went ahead and made this post in just a few hours, just for us. This is one of many reasons why I love Autostraddle.
(And it’s 39 reasons why I love Starbuck!)
PS. I’m definitely going to go as Starbuck for Halloween this year, so also thank you for doing all the costume research for me ahead of time!
So I guess I should start watching BSG?
So say we all.
yes.
a thousand times yes.
I just started this summer and I’m already on season three…
Me too! I started watching because of Starbuck but the rest of the show is pretty awesome, too.
so, friday night lights is to football as battlestar galactica is to space and . . . various techy things.
Dear Riese,
Thank you. Just. Thank you.
If no one else is going to say it I guess I will:
FRAK YEAH, CAPTAIN THRACE, FRAK YEAH
The following video is 1) hilarious, and 2) relevant to your interests (especially the song at the end): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdmo_KCsutI
Who the fuck is Starbuck. I was expecting pictures of coffee.
Close, I thought it would be cute chicks drinking Starbucks (coffee, you perverts). I have no idea what the fuck a Starbuck is. But Riese made a lot of people happy so it is all good, and I have a free gift card for Starbucks right next to me and it all works out.
Starbuck / Kara Thrace is a character from the tv show Battlestar Galactica. She is also a badass and looks good in a uniform. Here, watch this and be edumacated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bRQ8SRyZo
I don’t even feel like that video even really encompasses all of Starbuck’s swag. But maaaaaaaaan.
I know, right? I saw everybody screaming about the lack of Starbuck on the other post and thought “Wow, people get really cranky when caffeine deprived”
Thanks Riese. You are the best.
Oh, Starbuck. Why won’t you love me?!
This has made my day. Thank you, Autostraddle ;-;
Seeing Grace Park on the first pic just made my day!! Starbuck!!
Gods, Reese you are just so frakking awesome. Kara Thrace epic win FTW.
I very nearly marathoned the shit out of BSG today. Seeing this pics makes me think it needs to happen.
I am anticipating a BSG marathon myself. Netflix is ready, I need to gather supplies.
Came for the coffee. Stayed for the woman.
mm yes. haha
What an absolutely awesome start to my day.
Did you guys know Katee can sing?!? I just found this out! Can she get any more awesome?
I fixed your link. You have to use HTML instead of BBcode.
Ah, thank you! That’s what I get for having several browser tabs open at once. I start mixing up which site takes which code!
Never heard of her. But when she smiles, i think of what’s her name in True Blood… right, Sookie. I just love that she’s going poly btw ^^
AHHHHHH!!!! I THOUGHT YOU READ MY MIND, RIESE?! Cuz did I forget to tell you, Kara Thrace and I are engaged? Our marriage is going to be epic and my life is going to get made into a reality TV show called either “Pyramid Wives” or “Battlestar Wives.” I am also going to have alllll her babies. As part of our pre-nup she is NEVER ALLOWED TO WEAR WEDGE HEELS or else it is OVER.
But I like even better that this post is crowdsourced.
I got such gay vibes from her. I think that’s why I love bsg so much!
Autostraddle is the best. forever.
This made my WEEK! She is the reason I started watching BSG in the first place…. I am stealing all of these pics… specially the motorcycle one.
Uhm… this totally makes me want to rewatch BSG. For the plot, of course. Uh-huh…
droolzing.
Mmmmmm……BSG
http://triciahelfer.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/page2.gif
Y’all can keep Starbuck…
…I’ll stick with President Roslin. ‘Kay, thanks. :)
Jeeeeeeeeeeesus. Why oh why did they make her straight on the show?