The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Fourteen, August 2015

Letter From Your Editors
Hello World Books!

Last week I wrote you from a mattress, this week I write you from my mother's kitchen table, which is also doubling as "my office." This is probably how Anna Wintour runs Vogue. Here are the team's Summer Looks!

1st row L to R: Lydia, Yvonne, Laura M, Mey, Heather2nd row L to R: Maddie, Hannah, Gabby, Ali, Rachel3rd row L to R: Carmen, Raquel, Carolyn, KaeLyn, Robin4th row L to R: Aja, Riese, Beth, Stef, Chelsey5th row L to R: Alex, Laneia, Audrey, Brittani, Nikki

So, I was out of town for a huge portion of July and now I'm in Michigan, which has really got me thinking about how pretty much all news media comes t...

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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.

Riese has written 3179 articles for us.