Results for: you need help
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Advice Columns Were My Guilty Pleasure Until They Became My Connection to Community
That’s what makes these posts so special, really, is that they’re not about a singular person bestowing their wisdom onto faceless readers but rather a coming together of a community to help each other sort through their shit in confidence.
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We Need You To Buy Us Some Time Before Time Runs Out
If we don’t get the money we need, we’ll be gone before Pride.
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Queerness Is Messy, I Am Messy and That’s a Very Good Thing
It would have been impossible for me to write the novels and stories that I’ve created without the help of Autostraddle.
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It Was Like Living on the Moon
“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”
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Together, How Far Can We Go?
You all have never, ever raised money for Autostraddle this quickly.
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STILL HERE AND QUEER AFTER ALL THESE YEARS — Queer Media Needs Your Help!
“This is the most urgent I have ever felt”
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Yes, Fundraising Is Part of Our Business Model: Here’s Why
Here are updates to our current financial situation. Still, the essentials of everything we’ve been saying for years are true. Fundraising is a part of our business model!
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I Focused My Time on Proving Her Wrong
“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”
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Who Else Is Going To Publish a History of Lesbian Cheerleaders?
At a small, indie operation like Autostraddle, I can say that the more funds we raise, the less we have to remain hyper-vigilant about our own survival, the more we can concentrate on the core of our work, the sooner I can get these projects out into the world, the more I can do the kind of erotic-academic work I love to do.
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WHAT In the Queer Media Happened You All!?!??
No, this is UNHEARD OF.
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I am a Sucker for Romantic Comedies
“The dapper Black girl that danced and sang about the future had led me to a new corner of the universe and I was smitten.”
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The Little Things Matter
It’s complicated (or at least, it’s by design) that underneath structures of capitalism, queer independent media is never intended to survive.
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Your Comments Showed Me I Wasn’t Alone
“Sharing my stories with that audience never felt right — I always felt like I was explaining, never that I was just telling my truth.”
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Writing for Autostraddle Helped Me Find the Words for My Real Coming Out
“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”
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How To Blow Up Your Life
I thought that by 35, I’d be married. I thought by 35, I’d have kids. I thought I’d be straight.
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Thank You Thank You Thank You – Today Is Our Last Day of the Fundraising Drive
This is an unbelievable, humbling experience.
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Do You Love Queer Books?
I want fewer queer books slipping through the cracks.
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This Is a Highly Serious Post
Who wouldn’t love to see the AS senior staff sit in a bathtub of cold legumes, just for the sheer hell of it?
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Ten Things I’ve Learned In My Four Years at Autostraddle
“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”
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You Gave Us The Best 13th Birthday Gift We Could Ask For!
You got us WELL PAST OUR GOALS! Thank you, thank you! We hope you’re proud of what you’ve accomplished these past two weeks!