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Hello you special wonderful creatures!
It's fall, my favorite season! A season of crisp leaves and pumpkin bread and whiskey-cider and posts about feminist Halloween costumes! To celebrate this grand time in our lives, we have shared pictures of ourselves with pumpkins. Some of these pictures are very old and some of them are new and some are of gourds, but that's fine.
1st row L to R: Hannah, KaeLyn, Maddie, Aja, Laura M. 2nd row L to R: Carolyn, Nikki, Mey, Riese, Yvonne 3rd row L to R: Stef, Kaitlyn, Carmen, Mari, Laneia 4th row L to R: Laura W. and Gabby, Robin, Heather, Rachel, Chelsey
This past summer was the first in recent memory that we didn't put out a call for new writers. We usually do that in June or so...
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Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.
Riese has written 3266 articles for us.
