Letter From Your Editors
Hello butternut squashes drawn into the form of tiny puppets!!!
Well, we are BACK from A-Camp and now it's time to have our mid-year identity crisis and start scheming for how to shake things up and move things forward. Here we are ENJOYING THE SUMMERTIME:
1st: Laneia // Courtney, Kaylah, Sarah // Valerie // Carmen + Reneice // Kayla2nd: Drew // Sam + Heather // Vanessa // Rachel // Al(aina)3rd: KaeLyn // Stef // Riese + Kristin // Carrie // Alexis
I hope everybody had a wonderful Pride Month, a month during which every website on the planet goes balls to the wall with thematic Pride content and we look at each other circa late May with dazed expressions on our faces like, "UHHHH should we do anything for Pride?" It...
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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.
Riese has written 3262 articles for us.