Welcome welcome welcome! We are so excited about this and you and your hair. Are you doing something different? It looks great.
The A+ Bee was inspired by the A-Camp Bee — a daily newspaper about goings-on around camp that we distributed at May 2014 A-Camp. We liked making it sooooo much that we proposed doing something similar for A+ members, and here we are! The A+ Bee is a newspaper all about YOU, our amazing Autostraddle community! It will include so many more exciting things in the future directly from your mouths and brains and hands! We even have a PO Box for you to send us collages and fun envelope art — but for now we’ve mustered up a little something straight from our hearts. Also note that although we’ve included Meet-Up info in The A+ Bee, that info isn’t exclusive to The A+ Bee and will continue to exist wherever said information typically exists, whether that be the facebook page of the group or in a meet-up week announcement on Autostraddle proper. MEET-UPS FOR EVERYBODY!
You can also click here to download a PDF of the very first A+ Bee, to print out and enjoy wherever you damn well please — bring it to your local meet-up group, read it out loud to your girlfriend, peruse it in the bathtub or make it into paper cranes. You can even instagram yourself reading the A+ Bee and — well, we’ll tell you more about that IN THE BEE!
Please, please let us know any of your questions, comments, ideas and suggestions in the comments.
xoxo,
Chelsey & Grace
disappointed by the lack of stories about bees.
I know, right! I thought this was gonna be all about bees who got really good grades and were probs picked on in bee school.
Member of the Month will be determined by a rigorous sapphic spelling bee administered via Google Hangouts. I HOPE YOU ARE ALL READY
So the Member of the Month will actually just be the most cunning linguist then?
EVERY SINGLE TIME (twice) I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE THE FIRST COMMENT YOU BEAT ME TO IT.
CHALLENGE (that i just made up for myself right now) ACCEPTED.
#nevernotbeezing
I actually know a lot about bees and would be happy to fill The Bee with this knowledge. Just sayin’
don’t worry i already sent chelsey a bunch of articles about homosexuality as it refers to bees.
bee is hilarious
http://www.autostraddle.com/honeybeezzzzzzzz-135656/
THANKS CHELSEY AND GRACE. I love everything about this!
So proud that a Rockford Peach was the first A+ member *single, glittering tear*
Yes! Yay Kate!!!
I love horoscopes but never ever actually seek them out, so this is what I am most excited about. AND my baby IS in the corner of my mind and we ARE running out of time! HOW DID YOU KNOW.
IIIIII didn’t know — THE STARS KNEW
I DO LIKE DINOSAURS AND MAC AND CHEESE HOW DID YOU KNOW
Helllllll yeah I’m going to that concert!
Love this, you guys :)
hey look! that’s a picture of me being Super Gay!
Boy bands right? =p Yes, hands up if y’all tried to figure out the name of the songs the lyrics were from. This thing is GREAT!! I totally love it! When I get to work I’ll try to print a copy or maybe I should just have Office Depot do it so it’s colored (OOOOHH FANCY) and bring it to work and read it in my dapper teacher clothes. MAC AND CHEESE. GUYS. You have to try the ramen mac n cheese thing!!!!
I actually had most of my hair cut off this morning, thank you so much for noticing.
IT LOOKS FANTASTIC
Yay Twin Cities Autostraddlers! Glad to see some pics made it in the Bee. No worries, I’ll be supplying more. A photo scavenger hunt meetup was just created and is happening soon. ALL THE PICTURES!
I LOVE PHOTO SCAVENGER HUNTS
Me too! Yay bonding and goofiness and exploring and CAPTURING IT ALL IN GROUP SELFIES! :D
I hope Stef’s comic is a regular contribution
really i just can’t wait to see what happens next
Yay!! [resisting the strong urge to read this until I get to a printer…]
Okay, I think my heart exploded with happiness over this. Once again, this A+ content is way better than I could have anticipated.
Now excuse me while I go squee into my pillow about Doc & Jill’s engagement announcement. OMIGOD I FEEL LIKE WE’RE REALLY ALL NEIGHBOURS!!!
This is spectacular, guys. Thanks heaps!
Homoscopes. YES. I have never read a truer horoscope and it’s my favorite Backstreet Boys’ song!
I really did think this was going to be a spelling bee and I couldn’t figure out how you were going to let us know the words without letting us know the spelling. This makes a lot more sense.
Familiar faces! A Savage Garden horoscope! Dinosaurs! Yessss
SAVAGE GARDEN <3
little sad that it wasn't the Libra horoscope, because I totally missed it until I read this comment.
Yay! So fun!
Wait, does bi-monthly mean once every month, or twice a month?
I can’t remember because, sadly, as a gold star lesbian™, I’m contractually obliged to erase everything to do with bi- prefixed words from my cognizance. It makes life really tricky, you know.
Er, I meant once every two months, or twice a month.
See, I just can’t wrap my head around these confusing concepts.
Would a Dinosaur Fact of the Month feature be too much dinosaur?
Also, can I express my heartfelt gratitude for the “Stuff We Think You Like” montage. For too long, the internet has been in thrall to all these imperative headlines like “Eight Thousand Books You Must Read Before you Die” or “Fifteen Formulaic Rom-Coms You Will Love” or “Twelve Hundred and Fifty-Three Things You Should Not Eat to Avoid Feeling Guilty When You Eventually Get Cancer.”
These really get my back up, because I respond badly to anonymous people telling me what to do, or making assumptions about what I will like, especially when these shouty demands are written in really ugly typeface.
“Stuff We Think You Like,” on the other hand, is so much more considerate and polite, and ooh, what a nice little stencil font!
But aren’t root vegetables bad for nigtshade intolerance?