Letter From Your Editors
Hello Parking Meters!
Well, the 95% of our readers who did not attend camp will be pleased to hear that camp has now come and gone, and therefore we will stop talking about it very soon. However, presently we're still basking in that post-A-Camp glow and... it feels pretty good! I hope your April flowers have turned into May Showers because our April Flowers sure did look good this May:
Top Row: Erin, Alaina, Raquel, Rachel, Valerie, Yvonne // 2nd Row: Laura M., Casey, Faith, Stef, Maree, Cee // 3rd row: Cecelia, Riese, Nikki, Cameron, Heather Davidson, Molly // 4th row: Nora, Siobhan, Kayla, Sarah, Kaelyn, Laneia
This year's camp felt especially magical and inspirational. Maybe we all really needed it — a break, a ...
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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 3279 articles for us.
