A writer with a style I know & love + a series that defined my adolescence = WIN. Bret Easton Ellis Does the Babysitters Club: “Kristy and Mary-Anne had been talking for about 10 minutes before I stopped totally zoning out, just trying to mellow really on the B-side of this new Beach Boy album. There is nothing more depressing than coming home after last bell at StoneyBrook High, trying to get my room in order for the Baby-Sitters’ Club meeting, and then realizing that you really don’t even give a shit anymore.”
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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.
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oh. em. gee.
made my life.
haha oh wow. ‘This is his first attempt at writing young adult fiction.’
Written from Claudia’s point of view, nice…ya know, because Claudia has her own phone line…
This totally made my morning. Also, Kristy = total lez.
kristy, mary-ann and dawn totes had a love triangle going on, amirite?
Kristy vs. Abbey was 100% built on sexual tension, we all know it.