A+ Members: Jumpstart Holiday Shopping With 20% Off Autostraddle Merch

Hello! If you're an Autostraddle Plus member, you're well aware of the fact that we are very in need of money at this time. So we're stocking the Autostraddle Store with all kinds of new stuff for the holiday season that we're sure everybody will fall desperately in love with and feel compelled by forces larger then ourselves to purchase, en masse, for everybody they've ever known or loved or maybe even for themselves. Anyhow, you can look forward to that new merch rolling in circa Thanksgiving.

But just because we're getting new stuff doesn't mean there aren't tons of classic and also-relatively-new items in the merch store right now that you perhaps have been craving with deep animal hunger! Maybe you look at your girlfriend or partner...

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Riese

Riese is the 41-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.

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