Letters From Your Former and Current Editors
From Riese
I’d been telling my team that Heather Hogan was going to join us any minute now since she’d told me, in 2010, that she wanted to. We’d been emailing since she’d first reached out to me in 2009 to talk about my recaps, a few weeks before I’d transform my personal L Word blog into the Autostraddle that exists today — mostly just compliments, volleyed back and forth, some L Word gossip, but also a lot of yearning for the day she’d join Autostraddle. Like… a lot of yearning. I also, apparently, wrote her around ten emails I never sent — ideas I had for stories we could write together, a 2012 draft entitled “idea i had at 1am” and the idea is essentially Clexacon, requests for quotes for ...
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