Letter From Your Editors
Hello to my April flowers!
And speaking of flowers, this month's prompt was take a photo next to a flower/ something green/something growing, and here we are, clutching on to spring with all our might:
Top: Nicole // Shelli // Dani // Meg // Drew // Vanessa // RachelBottom: Kayla // Ro // Sarah // Stef // Carmen // Laneia // Heather
Well this month just FLEW RIGHT ON BY, didn’t it? I’m sitting here with a blank page trying to look back on it for you, and? It’s a blur. A blur of hard raw emotion in the face of another slew of very public police murders, of the trial of Derek Chauvin, of facing the vulnerability and stress of looking to protect yourself and your loved ones and track down even just one vaccine appointm...
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Carmen Phillips is Autostraddle's former editor in chief. She began at Autostraddle in 2017 as a freelance team writer and worked her way up through the company, eventually becoming the EIC from 2021-2024. A Black Puerto Rican feminist writer with a PhD in American Studies from New York University, Carmen specializes in writing about Blackness, race, queerness, politics, culture, and the many ways we find community and connection with each other. During her time at Autostraddle, Carmen focused on pop culture, TV and film reviews, criticism, interviews, and news analysis. She claims many past homes, but left the largest parts of her heart in Detroit, Brooklyn, and Buffalo, NY. And there were several years in her early 20s when she earnestly slept with a copy of James Baldwin’s “Fire Next Time” under her pillow. To reach out, you can find Carmen on Twitter, Instagram, or her website.
Carmen has written 716 articles for us.
