This Business of Art Fix #31: Bustle Sure Is Good At SEO and Other Important Stories
Topics include my personal problems with Bustle’s SEO strategy, beating airport boredom, Gawker Media filing for bankruptcy and more!
Countdown to Baby T. Rex: Crying Over My Multigrain Waffles and Whimsical Onesies (31 Weeks)
I started the 31st week of my pregnancy crying over the kitchen sink as I crammed my gestational diabetes breakfast into my mouth. It wasn’t the pregnancy hormones this time. It was the overwhelming grief and the sudden realization of what it means to be a parent.
Follow Your Arrow: Coach Elizabeth Cooper on Grounding Her Business in Self Care
“An integral part of my business is to create and cultivate positive, meaningful, supportive relationships with everybody from my clients to my colleagues, people I’m renting space from, potential clients, etc. It’s important to me that my actions demonstrate my values that every person and every body deserves love, respect, and care.”
This Business Of Art Fix #30: Where Do You Work (From Home)?
Topics include sitting on the couch, the most popular political candidates on social media, work/life balance, changes at Longform and moar!
Sweaty All The Time: 11 Things That Didn’t Cure My Hyperhidrosis and the One Thing That Did
Let’s talk about (excessive) sweat, baby.
Countdown to Baby T. Rex: Pregnant Adoptee Feelings and Dino Decal Decisions (29 Weeks)
Being an adoptee has made being pregnant all that much more strange and interesting.
The Starting Place: How an Unlikely Hiker Can Get Outdoorsy
A personal take on showing up, hiking through it, and knots and how to tie them.
Take Yourself on a Diarist’s Hike
Can you capture some of the magic of A-Camp’s Diarist Hike where you live? Based on my experiences, I’d say yes.
For You: A Menstruation Cry Calendar
Ah, that beautiful transition in your monthly cycle where increasingly the things you cry at shift from understandable to irrational.
Mama Outsider: When Your Mother Thanks You for Keeping Your Baby
“Instead, I jump back into the mind of the girlish woman I was at 28, the one who didn’t know enough about the consequences for unacceptable motherhood to plunge headfirst into the fire. It has taken me much longer than my mother to see the gift of my own naiveté.”
Business of Art Fix #29: If “The Toast” Was Your BFF You’d Respect Her Need To Move Out But Still Miss Her So Much
Topics include the closing of The Toast, layoffs at Vice and The NY Times, preparing for last-minute interviews, Buzzfeed’s shift towards video and so much more!
Team Pick: “Queer Kid Stuff” Brings Fun LGBTQ Videos to Preschool Children
Lindsay Amer is the cool Queer Big Sister you wish you had when you were a wee tot and she’s changing the landscape of kid-friendly content for ages 3-7.
Five Images Of My Family
“I’m going to be a single, poor, gay, mom, and it’s going to be fine. It’s going to be amazing. I mean sure, I might date sometimes, but I don’t need a partner. Partners just get in the way. And what are the odds that I would meet a woman I would want to be with who would also want to have children with me? I can’t even picture it!”
Countdown to Baby T. Rex: Sipping My Way Into the Third Trimester (27 Weeks)
“Sometimes I turn to Waffle and randomly exclaim, ‘This is happening!’ I should probably stop doing that as we get closer to, like, the possibility of me going into actual labor.”
Follow Your Arrow: Gym Owner Nathalie Huerta on Hard F*cking Work
“I didn’t get any funding until year three and it came from a member who truly believed in me. Now in year six, funding opportunities are coming from multiple places, thank you baby Jesus, but all of those opportunities are coming my way from relationships I have formed, not from banks or investors.”
Mama Outsider: Learning Black Zen in a White House
“Why some people mean? One income that isn’t a livable wage plus racism will do that to you, and you can’t imagine the rage until you’ve lived it.”
This Business of Art Fix #28: What If Your Most Important Financial Relationship Is With The Reader
Topics include why people pay for the New York Times but won’t pay for Buzzfeed, liberal bias in Facebook’s trending topics, how Bitch Magazine got started, being productive in your home office, how to turn a negative conversation around and so much more!
Countdown to Baby T. Rex: “Mommy” Feelings and Dinosaur Mobiles (25 Weeks)
There is no chance I’m going to evade the Cult of Mommy-ness. My undercut can’t save me.
Join Autostraddle and Olivia For A-Camp-Style Fun In Mexico This November!
Olivia invited us on a trip and that’s cool because we really need a vacation, y’all. Maybe you do too? Get in here to find out how to hang out in Mexico this November with Autostraddle, Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher and Julie Goldman! Also butch yoga.
Follow Your Arrow: Dog Trainer Mary Tully on Clear, Loving Communication
“I knew I wanted to train animals by the age of 3. I didn’t know that I wanted to start this business until 3 years ago.”