Last Chance to Be a Part of the Most Inspirational Fundraising Drive in All of Herstory

These are the final days of our Fun(d)raiser to Save Autostraddle from Not Being a Thing! Last weekend we asked you to please pretty please give what you could and maybe also buy some stickers because we really needed your help. And then you guys blew our minds with generosity and love and helpful emails and WE LOVE YOU. We’ve always loved you, but now we can stop worrying about how to pay for the dedicated server long enough to really revel in this love for a little while.

So far we’ve raised $16, 253 through generous donations and sticker sales!!

(UPDATE: Saturday night 11:59 PM PST – $18, 156!)

And even more of you have signed up to be AS subscribers which is excellent, it’s the closest thing to a “reliable paycheck” we will probably ever know. So thank you, thank you, thank you.

Our goal is $20,000 by the end of this week and we are super goal-oriented (it says so on our unused resumés) so getting to that number would be EXCELLENT. Every dollar you send our way is going directly into fleshing out our brilliant ideas and making sure we have enough macaroni and cheese to get through the week. We are “stepping it up” and “adding new things.” We are SO EXCITED about what the future looks like! It looks hot, you guys, and it couldn’t have been a thing without you.

You have a couple of days left to donate to the biggest most insanely successful and exciting fun(d)raiser in Autostraddle history!! Buy stickers! Do you want a zine from Emily? She’ll send you one! Just let us know.

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In celebration of this triumphant push, many team members have made kittens for you.

In celebration of this final push, everyone on the team has made you a kitten. Isn’t that nice.

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Autostraddle cannot exist without the generous support of our readers. We're running the fundraiser through March 29th! We're out of immediate danger...but we had to ask...what if we could survive for longer? Will you help?

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83 Comments

  1. kittenssss…

    (which I am also allergic too. it sucks b/c they are so cute.)

    I want a zine. Does this count as letting you know? I will go dig under couch cushions and search the floorboard of my car for moar money to send you.

  2. OK, so I finally got my bollocks together and subscribed… Though because I don’t understand the interent/paypal (yes, I know I’m letting down my generation!!) I have a stupid question…!
    Paypal now says my Paypal account is in debt… Paypal just take the money out of my bank automagically?? Right? Like, I don’t actually have to do anything else.. Do I??

  3. I would like a zine as well, but if it’s too much trouble sending it overseas, nevermind :D Donated again & bought stickers again. My plan is to get hit on by all the queer nerdettes in the uni library.

    What do you mean those stickers are not magic?

  4. It must be cool for Brandy and Julie, two of the things they participate in got crazy monetary support by readers/listeners (for this and the crazy awesome Gay Pimpin podcast).

    People need to hire them so we can get more of them. They create cash (and fun).

  5. I created a Paypal account just for this (well, and also donated a Safer Schools pack via the LGF, but that’s queer too so.)

    Autostraddle, you have £12.43 of Britishness in your Paypal account,which equates to $20.

    Can we have $20 worth of hot British lesbians now?

  6. So I paid my taxes recently and then I voted and I thought….God I’m lucky to live where I live and have all these opportunities and equality and stuff so I figured next on my list of responsible things I need to do that makes my life better is to subscribe to Autostraddle so that’s done…..

    can it be summertime now?

    runon sentence intentional. please don’t yell at me.

  7. okay I am now a subscriber! I too opened the dreaded paypal account ONLY FOR YOU, AS. Don’t particularly like paypal, but, took a leap, cause life without autostraddle or kittens is unthinkable.

  8. You guys, the Auto-goal is totally gonna happen. I know this because I was looking at a photo in the infrastructure (ironic?!) section on pictorymag just now and I swear. I SWEAR! Dana Fairbanks is looking over us. Look at the photo and tell me that Dana is not lurking in that waterfall on the top right side. Well, it’s either her or the eye of Michael Jackson. I haven’t truly decided.

    http://www.pictorymag.com/showcases/infrastructure/#pictory-3172

  9. =^.^=

    Supporting Autostraddle makes me so happy. Autostraddle makes me so happy. I’m the biggest Scrooge when it comes to spending money, and have buyer’s remorse after EVERY purchase. Except this one.

    <3

  10. Reading Autostraddle is literally* all I’ve done this weekend SO I just donated another $5. I hope you reach your goal! That would be badass.

    Okay so ALMOST literally…I also went for a walk, took pictures, uploaded the pictures onto facebook, learned everything I possibly could about Julie Goldman, watched lesbian movies, and ate food. Yup, that’s about it.

  11. i am in americorps [this means I WORK SO MUCH AND I AM SO BROKE]. i also have a crush on riese. i also read autostraddle literally every day. i put five dollars into the fund. i wish i could add zeroes after it, but i can’t. i love you guys so much.

  12. My roommate and I always play a game where I try to convince her to become a lesbian (don’t judge how we spend our Friday nights). My argument this night was that it is so much cheaper to be a lesbian because we don’t have to buy condoms/birth control. This made me think if we just pooled all the money we don’t spend on contraception together we would have enough money to run AS for ETERNITY!

  13. YOU GUYS!! this is fantastic! !I really enjoyed seeing that blue skinny penis squirting out little blue stars in JOY! I felt the same way! (my stars were made out of rainbows and my penis is not skinny- nor blue- but long:p ) Cheers!

    PS. Just kidding my stars were made out of whiskey.
    PPS. YAAAAAY :D

  14. Yay! I got my purchase in by the skin of my teeth last night, due to moving with no internet connection and craziness– hence me not even bothering to sign in, as I just wanted to bask in the after goal making glow with you all and am using my gf’s iphone to teeter off the internet for a sec. Yay! Go Us!!!

    Next week I will sign up for my monthly subscription <3

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