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Welcome Our New Director of Brand Partnerships, Anya Richkind!
I’m so excited to be here. Let’s build Autostraddle’s financial future into something stronger, steadier, and more exciting than we’ve ever imagined!
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Campership Alert: GladRags Wants to Send You to A-Camp and Change Your Life
GladRags, a rad feminist company that makes comfortable, reusable menstrual products, wants to send one lucky human to A-Camp X for free! Plus, they’ll hook you up with the reusable menstrual product of your choice!
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A-Camp Spring 2017: Win A Campership From Catalyst Wedding Co.!
Campership alert! Catalyst Wedding Co. wants to give one lucky camper full funding to attend A-Camp 8.0!
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A-Camp Spring 2017: Win A Campership AND Fancy Shoes from Tomboy Toes!
If you’re a fashionable queer on a budget with a penchant for classy masculine dress shoes who’s still hoping to attend A-Camp this May, today’s Campership Contest announcement is going to make you feel like dancing and prancing!
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Roundtable: Our Long and Winding Career Paths
“When I was 10, I wrote a letter to Disney asking them what I should do to become an imagineer.”
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From Fashion to Radical Art: 8 Disabled-Owned Businesses You Should Know About
When the world isn’t built for you, you build something for yourself. We know how to adapt and generate new ideas because we’ve been doing it out of necessity for our entire lives. So sorry, tech bros – “entrepreneurial spirit” doesn’t exclusively belong to you.
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Screen Writer and Performer Brittani Nichols’ Hot Tip for Success — Naps
“Life is hard and you should just do what you want to do. Luckily the things that I want seem sort of selfless because of my identity. If I was the aforementioned straight, able-bodied, cis, white guy, my career goals would be boring and unnecessary which is why I think they should all get out of entertainment.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Coffee Roaster Tara Brown on Courage, Connections and Simple Pleasures
“A-Camp was sort of a turning point for me. We were talking about building a year-round Autostraddle community and it was decided that I’d be the coffee roaster. I was like, ‘Well, guess I better get good at this coffee roasting thing.’ You can’t have mediocre coffee in a queer commune. I started actually writing a business plan the next weekend.”
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Follow Your Arrow: For Books’ Sake’s Jane Bradley Champions Women Writers
“There’s no denying that women writers are affected by systemic, institutionalised sexism in the media and publishing industries, but women who are queer, trans, of colour, disabled, sex workers, from low-income backgrounds and/or otherwise outside the mainstream are inevitably impacted more than most.”
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We Mean Business: Four Queer Women Entrepreneurs On Taking The Plunge
The panelists for our A-Camp workshop on “Turning Your Passion Into a Business” chat on the benefits, drawbacks and rewards of starting your own business.
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Follow Your Arrow: Web Developer Cee on This Freelance Life
Autostraddle’s webmaster Cee Webster has been a freelance web developer for 15 years. Here, she shares her thoughts on freelance working, ‘winging it’, the challenges of juggling many projects, and the perks of working when you choose.
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Business of Art Fix #7: I’ll Be Right On Top Of That, Rose
Vice is launching a women’s vertical, Ad-Blocking goes mainstream, the story behind Buffalo Exchange and other resale shops and other important business and journalism related news that you MUST READ.
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Business of Art Fix #6: Will Internet Kill The TV News Star?
Caitlyn Jenner’s press strategy, millennials’ news consumption, how Clickhole gets shit done, stuff about money, a call for our new column on solopreneurship and more!
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GIVEAWAY: Tradlands Wants You to Have the Best Button-Down Shirt Ever Made
Yes. That’s right. Tradlands wants to put their threads on your body for zero money.
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Salon LGBTQ Conference: Join Autostraddle In Atlanta October 17th-19th!
Riese, Alex and Vikki will all be in Atlanta October 17th-19th for Salon LGBTQ, the world’s first national LGBTQ social media conference and you should be too!
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Freelance Graphic Designer: The Kit
Stick it to the man and be your own boss! These are the resources and inspiration I use most often for designing and freelance.