Weekday Update: Autostraddle Fun(d)raising & Headhunting

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All of our feelings are buried in posts here and there and so we thought we’d consolidate them into this singular, compact easy-to-read post, like a fold-up bike or a poncho.

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1) Fun(d)raising!

There’s a thermometer in the right column of the website tracking the progress of your donations and fundraising sticker purchases, which we feel is relevant to your interests.

As of the morning of Tuesday, April 19th, we’ve raised almost $13,000 (UPDATE: Thursday 8:00 AM PST — $16,037) thanks to about 500 readers who donated and ordered stickers. It’s F-CKING MINDBLOWING and, as discussed in this post, we f-cking love you for it. It’s basically changed our lives forever more or less — and yours, because you’ve already guaranteed that we will both continue existing AND eating 2-3 meals a day, plus snacks.

We’re being super aspirational and continuing this fun(d)raiser until the end of the week! Because our parents always told us to reach for the stars (way before they told us that liking girls was just a phase). If you think that’s crazy, just remember — we ARE crazy!!
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You can buy stickers at our Goodsie store.
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Other Ways You Can Help:

When you buy things, buy them via our Amazon Associates Account. Check out the bottom of the “We Need Help” post for a list of some of the shopping guides we’ve produced including Boyshorts 101 and The Headphones Shopping Guide. If you’re buying books outside of America, we now also have an account with The Book Depository.

If you want to turn on us on by getting off, we also have affiliate accounts at Babeland and Good Vibrations — so there’s never been a better time to get that vibrator or that harness you need?

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2) Business Advisor / Ad Person Hunt

In the “We Need Help” post, we let you know about how we need an Ad Salesperson and a Business Advisor to keep this ship sailing.

We’ve gotten a ton of REALLY AMAZING applications and we’re really excited to go through all of them and figure out what the hell to do with ourselves!

Two quick reminders:

a. We will be getting back to people late this week but more likely early next week.

b. Also! Remember that we are not looking for new ideas of things we (as in — Laneia and I) can do on our own. We are looking for explanations of what YOU can do.

If you’re pitching a business/money-making/marketing idea to us in your email, at least 75% of your pitch should be an explanation of how YOU can make that happen or help make that happen — because clearly if we could make it happen without you, we wouldn’t be asking for your help. You follow?

c. We’ve gotten a really incredible response to this and would like to let you know, once again, that WE LOVE YOU.

Autostraddle cannot exist without the generous support of our readers. We're running the fundraiser through March 29th! We're out of immediate danger...but we had to ask...what if we could survive for longer? Will you help?

Go to our Fundraiser!
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26 Comments

  8. commenting/donating for the first time bc about a year ago some friends came over to tell me that “oh my god [my old college dormmate] is a total lesbian and a drag king!! we found video!!” so we watched the videos & they laughed & emailed everyone the links & asked if i was ok. i felt mad & confused but i didn’t know at who or why. i just had this overwhelming feeling of ‘we don’t know shit…none of us, sitting here in the houses our parents bought us with our boyfriends in their khaki pants, knows shit’

    so everyone left & i started to google and i came across autostraddle. i started reading and my first thought was oh my god we are homophobic assholes. i hadn’t seen it before, because i don’t think i even really knew or cared, but it was there & i couldn’t ignore it any longer.

    but beyond that i had found this place where women were powerful & smart & funny. where women had voices & opinions. where i learned it was ok to finally say “i know he has his own house & a great job & knows all the people, but i can not be led by the hand my whole life and told i made such a great impression when all i did was smile and say hello. i can not.”

    anyways three weeks ago i left & moved to phoenix to live with my best friend. i have absolutely no plan or idea of what is going to happen next and i have never been happier. i don’t think i could have done it without this website. so the very least i can do is donate & write this very long thank you.

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  10. i don’t post much, but just wanted to let you guys know i feel proud and inspired to be part of such an awesome community

    sending you lots of love & appreciation (ok, and cash, cause lets face it, that’s what you really need right now)

    <3

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  12. I don’t comment much, but I just thought I’d let you know that now that you have the $5/month option I donated again. :) I recently gave up my expensive Tim Horton’s addiction and this is a MUCH better place to be spending my hard earned pennies. <3

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  13. I’ve not commented before (I may have registered in order to do so…) but I just wanted to say thank you so, so much for what you ladies do. Autostraddle provides a place for female-oriented queer discussion (plus 100 pictures of Shane) and it has been invaluable to me, even sitting on the sidelines as I’ve been doing. I’ve bought some stickers with the dregs in my bank account and I’m planning on getting a subscription as soon as my loan kicks in :)

    Thanks so much ladies, you are incredible.

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