Letter From Your Editors
Hello, such baby angels!
This is Heather, writing to you this month because Riese is tucked away deep inside a writing cave finishing up a personal essay for our Bad Behavior Issue, which is coming to a close and honestly we could not be prouder of how it all shook out. It seems like ten minutes ago half of us were dying of scarlet fever at our senior staff shakedown as Riese hunkered down over a piece of poster board brainstorming theme ideas and telling us to stop proposing "ghosts." And now here we are, having published two entire months of ravishing new voices with dazzling new graphics. Anyway, I'm excited for you to read Riese's contribution. She's been working on this a long, long time.
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Riese is the 43-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 3271 articles for us.