The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 70, July 2020

Letter From Your Editors
Hey lovers and haters,

We hope your unnormal summer is going swimmingly, even if it doesn't include swimming and extra congrats if it does! This is what new summer looks like for us:

1: Malic, Shelli, Kamala, Christina // 2: Carmen, Heather, Drew, Dani // 3 Rachel, Abeni, Vanessa (Congrats!!), Stef // 4: Valerie, Nicole, Ari, Sarah

On the whole, I'd say we're doing about as well as anyone else, in that we're taking this time of uncertainty to really rally together, be honest about where we're all at and embrace our need for a fundraiser to make it through the gauntlet of 2020 — because if not now, when? So if this the first you're ...

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Kamala Puligandla

Kamala Puligandla lives in LA and is the writer of various autobiographical fictions. She is the distinguished recipient of her parents' leftovers and hair compliments from strangers on the street. Her first novel is forthcoming from Not A Cult. Find her work at kamalapuligandla.com.

Kamala has written 50 articles for us.