When you woke up this morning you probably rolled over in your bed to discover that your dog had already left for work and then you thought to yourself, “Hot damn I hope I have the chance to type words into blank boxes today!” Or perhaps you fell out of bed into a bath-tub filled with Jell-O molds and yelled at the sky, “Where are my multiple choice answers at?” Well, have I got good news for you!
1. Survey For You
We hear a lot from y’all in the A+ Priority Contact box and now we have some simple and mostly multiple choice questions for you about A+ and what’s working for you so far. The Senior Staff will be in Big Bear next week plotting the future and your feedback is integral to this process. Furthermore, there’s a special surprise at the end for finishing the survey! We’ve already heard from 400 A+ members and would love to hear from 900 more!
FILL ME OUT
2. Form For You
One thing that has already come up a few times in the survey is that not all of you have received your A+ Member stickers (for all members) or t-shirt (for Gold Members only). The information-about-members exporting system on Memberpress isn’t exactly as robust as we’d hoped, so we’re not super-surprised about this but would really like to fix it!
If you’ve been an A+ member for more than six weeks and haven’t gotten the goods yet, please let us know here:
I NEVER GOT MY STICKER/T-SHIRT
In conclusion, Happy Co-Dependence Day Weekend! Tell your cat and/or girlfriend and/or laptop that we love her too. If you don’t live in America, Happy Weekend In General! The same rules apply w/r/t your co-dependent object.
<3 I think you're doing an awesome jorb and stoked to hear there are 1,300 A+ members so that maybe you can keep existing; please never leave us.
I am so excited about actually getting my t-shirt! I just want to wear autostraddle things all the time!
I didn’t ever receive the sticker but please consider the postage saved an extra (very small) donation.
I got a second tshirt and sticker in the mail yesterday (and I’ve already contacted Bren about the error).
Got my sticker right when I signed up! And I did the survey when y’all sent out the email. :D Can’t wait to renew for year 2!
I got my sticker like a week ago and it was such a nice surprise! I had totally forgotten about it! But now I’m afraid to put it anywhere because no spot is truly worthy of the honor. Also I filled out the survey as soon as I saw the email and I was a little tipsy? Sorry about that. All of the information should be accurate, it just might be a bit enthusiastic at times.
I feel exactly the same way about the sticker. I am glad to be not alone in this.
I totally blanked on the part of the survey asking for any website/magazine y’all should know about but I remember now!!! In the Apple App store there is a “PRIDE Study” app that works with the “Health” app that is pre-installed in the Apple devices. It’s a research tool to gather info about LGBTQ individuals health so that in the future there is more data and that data can be used to better serve the community. I really hope this is making sense. Anyway, it’s called “PRIDE Study” and it’s by the University of California at San Francisco.
WILL I EVER GROW TIRED OF THIS PICTURE OF ALEX NONCHALANTLY POURING SIERRA NEVADA OUT ONTO THE DECK?
NO I WILL NOT.
Is this a good place to say out loud that I am forever amazed by Alex’s magic hair? Bc like. *stares in wonder*
omg ikr. Alex’s magic hair is the first time I’ve been really tempted to actually take a photo in to my hairdresser (usually I use a trust-based hair-styling strategy).
I got a second sticker for no reason so thanks guys
Yup, me too. Though I did feel a little bad that you’re posting things to the other side of the world unnecessarily.
In the survey I wrote that I would like the A+ podcast to be downloadable. Welp, turns out it already is. My bad! Just ignore that part of my survey :)
Ooh, awesome! When I was filling out the survey yesterday, it actually reminded me that i never got the sticker. Now I can have something to identify me at meet ups!
what was wrong with the beer in the bottom left photo?
I filled it out, and I used one of the comment boxes to leave a few thoughts, hope that was okay. Thanks for asking for our feedback!
I’m gonna do the same thing since there’s no generic comment box :)
I don’t know if the survey has a textbox for random comments or explanations, but, I didn’t find it. :( So, I thought I’d give a little bit of explanation over here for certain contradictory stuff I marked in the survey.
I am one of the weirdos who said I don’t consume most of the content that you guys give in A+ but that I still want all of those in there.
I have a reason, a perfectly sane reason.
See, I don’t read the personal stories that you give out because it’d most possibly leave me feeling incredibly lonely. There are all these great people on the other side of the globe from me, and I cannot even meet them. So, I never read these pieces. ;-) Which is kind of silly, but there you have it.
I am in India, and while I know (I am pretty sure) that there are gays in India, I don’t know any of them. I am a social inept person who takes years to make friends, which is probably the reason why I don’t know any of them. So, nobody’s fault but mine. ;-) and that is why I don’t ask questions in A+ message box. Because, I know the problem (or fault), and I know, I need to be the one to solve it, so what is the point asking. *rolls eyes at self*
Thought I’d share it in case you are going to analyse the survey. Happy Sunday! :)
I want to hug you so much right now. Hope that’s not weird :)
Sending love from the U.S. :)
i did a lot of gushing in the survey bc like, if i could i’d just give you guys $5K a year just because youre all perfect and I can tell how hard you work and while I appreciate the content and the sweet tee shirt and the sweet sticker i really just want this to be around forever and ever and always
I am a nerd and love taking Autostraddle surveys and reading your analyses of them- thanks for posting this! Hoping for a follow up post (and for more people to purchase A+ memberships!).
1. I had a good time doing this survey, would take again.
2. CANNOT WAIT TO PUT MY STICKER ON MY CAR
But what was up with that dessert question?!
A PLUS FOREVER
I don’t want the sticker because I’m touch sensitive and hate the feel of extra stuff on my clothes like stickers and badges (yeah I know I could just put it on a book or something I guess). So please either give mine to someone else or consider the postage saved a small donation.