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Editor’s Notes: Divorce Week

Carmen Phillips and Nico
February 20, 2024
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Editor’s Notes: 13 Days of A+ and the SHAME Series

Nico January 8, 2024
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Editor’s Notes: BEGIN AGAIN

Nico November 27, 2023
A desaturated collage: an image from Street Fighter, an image of Reed Erickson with two women, an image of Patti Harrison, and image of writer Daven McQueen as a child.

Editor’s Notes: Trans Awareness Week

Drew Burnett Gregory November 20, 2023
HORROR IS SO GAY 2 over a television with a bloody handprint on it

Editor’s Notes: Horror Is So Gay 2

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 31, 2023
the Bubble Trouble header looks like a Surge can, with a green background and red burst and the words AUTOSTRADDLE BUBBLE TROUBLE written in the red burst. it reminisces of the Surge logo

Editor’s Notes: Bubble Trouble

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 13, 2023
a stock photo of a woman freaking out about a burning turkey who is FULLY GRIPPING the turkey pan with her bare hands and screaming as she takes it from the oven, all against a dark cyberspace vector backdrop

13 Days of A+ 2022: The Editor’s Notes are Screaming Internally

Nico December 25, 2022
Horror Is So Gay in yellow block text

Editor’s Notes: On Horror Is So Gay

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 30, 2022
a white napkin with red print that reads AUTOSTRADDLE Diner Week

Editor’s Notes: On Diner Week

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 15, 2022
A tweet from @KaylaKumari that reads: watching all these mainstream publications do their 2-3 token pride pieces that are mostly just seo grabs and meanwhile we're out here at @autostraddle with a dynamic pride package with TWENTY FIVE pieces planned even tho we're queer all fucking year and not corporate-backed. The tweet is against a floral backdrop.

Editor’s Notes: On Pride 2022

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 29, 2022
in this collage piece, two fat, Black femmes post behind a foregrond of collaged foliage and in front of a background of shimmering and textured blue colors. The person on the left has her hair in a protective style and is wearing a green top with cut-outs, and posing with her arms above her head. In the background, a femme with long loose hair poses with her hand on her hip, wearing a satiny, black two-piece outfit.

Editor’s Notes: On the Fat Femme Fashion Series

danijanae May 26, 2022
Hand drawn images of human-like figures float around the words Time Zone Week in chalk against a black bacgkround

Editor’s Notes: On Time Zones Week

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 25, 2022
Nicole, the A+ director, smiles in their garden inside of a triangle design for this feature image. feature image reads: editor's notes

Editor’s Notes: On 2021’s 13 Days of A+

Nico December 27, 2021
Image reads "Editor's Note" in white writing on a black and grey background. There are small pink and orange icons, including speech bubbles, a camera and microphone.

Editor’s Note: On ‘How To Survive A Post(?)-COVID World’

Ro White June 8, 2021

Editor’s Notes: On AAPI Heritage Month 2021

himani May 31, 2021
The words "Editor's Note" shine in a bright purple against a dark starry sky that is covered in a loop of dark, shimmering oval of a purple galaxy and purple roses that growing like vines on the edges.

Editor’s Notes: On Black History Month 2021

Carmen Phillips February 27, 2021
Feature image for Editor's Note with peaches along the border.

Editor’s Notes: On Butt Week

Laneia October 20, 2020
An abstract background of floating shapes and lines in a pastel palate of the bi flag colors, with the text EDITOR'S NOTES across the center

Editor’s Notes: On Bi+ Week 2020

Rachel September 16, 2020

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