Letter From Your Editors
Hi! Hello! Welcome! It’s a New Year, and we are tackling it with some new notebooks and some stubborn We Can Do It energy!
1st: Rachel // Malic // Laneia // Drew // Meg2nd: Nicole // Heather // Vanessa // Casey // Stef
Well my friends, January really came in swinging, did it not? There was an insurrection, an inauguration (funny how those words rhyme), a pandemic that funny enough still wasn’t cured when the clock struck 12 on New Years Eve, and at least from my bedroom window — lots of cold, lots of snow, and long dark nights. A friend recently joked to me “the thing about January is that she’s going to make sure you feel each and every one of her 31 fucking days." I’m not sure if that’s ever felt more true to me t...
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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.
