The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 41, November/December 2017

Letter From Your Editors

Hello daily doubles!

Yes, this is a combo Insider for November/December — a situation which ideally will never reoccur but nonetheless is clearly occurring at present. The reason for this is that November was entirely consumed by an intense move which included a long drive and then the top of December was a lot of crashing and finding a new place to live and now it's unpacking! But listen we're all here now:

1st row: Tiara, Laneia, Valerie Anne, Mey, Rachel, Heather // 2nd row: Erin, Alexis, Cee, Casey, Riese, Carrie // 3rd row: Yvonne, Raquel, Vanessa, Kayla, Siobhan, Carmen // 4th row: Stef, KaeLyn, Laura, Nora, Kristin, Sarah

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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 3164 articles for us.