The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 44, March 2018

Letter From Your Editors

Hello raindrops falling on my head!

This month, Laneia asked us to take a photo of ourselves with our favorite piece of ART in our homes. I cheated and sent a picture I took like a year ago, but I also didn’t cheat,...

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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.

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  3. i want to project laneia’s out of context words onto the sides of buildings like jenny holzer truisms

  5. omg yes! lady aberlin was an early favorite of mine. queer girl reminded me! lady elaine always terrified me

  6. marni i can’t believe you missed salad sandwiches, the vegan option at every lunch at beber camp, let me indoctrinate you

  7. You know, the epically tragic thing is, that Trump would so not get that thumb biting comment and actually think it was about biting thumbs.
    And then he would be like,“I‘m the best at biting thumbs! The Best!“ And then he‘d just start randomly biting people‘s thumbs, because he just ignored the „at“ part, because he didn’t understand it,and the Republicans would all just stand up in Congress and applaud him for it,anyway, because they‘ve all of them always believed in thumb biting and are now making it a priority.

    And not to veer off topic, but does the reread of „A Wrinkle in Time“ hold up, Natalie? I only remember having loved the book dearly at fifteen, and I‘m afraid of ruining that memory.

    And smoothly segueing into actually going to sleep myself, hopefully: Queer Girl, the Nap Girls could be like a group of Superheroines, teamed up, like the Ju..or rather the Avengers.
    They could dream up a brighter future and after waking up, rock reality well rested, bright and sharp.

    Have a good night everyone, and thanks for that Insider!

  8. Important announcement re: Lady Aberlin!:
    There is currently a livestream of every Mr. Rogers episode in order (weeks of them!) in honor of his would-be birthday. It is at www dot twitch dot tv slash misterrogers.

    And the real Lady Aberlin makes appearances in the chat every once in a while! Highly recommend for all the neighbors out there. I am getting nothing done this week.

  9. STEF!! I went to a screaming females show in PHX, do they *always* give Marissa paternoster the shittiest mike, like she isn’t the bands hook, or was that just a fuck up the specific venue made!?!?

    • no! that must be the venue! we take such good care of her at our spots! i just want her to like me!

  10. i was going to try and respond w something relevant to the content but my brain is currently at Fog levels of comprehension so I’ll just tell u that Bonnie the Lunchlady quit / is retiring / idk i didn’t read the staff newsletter, which means we had a Potluck Lunch today, and I ate three different kinds of cake.

    • This was a really important update thank you for sharing.

      Also 3 different kinds of cake for lunch is now my new ambition.

  11. @queergirl you are the most perfect human bean and you in a pile of puppies would not only be on brand but also possibly too much beauty for this worn out world to handle.

  13. Also hello amazing AS staff I SEE YOU TRYING

    Even your bad days make our bad days better <3

  14. I love the Insider so muuuuuch!

    Every time you post one, it feels like pay day has come early.

  15. Just wanted to give another round of applause to the roundtable about internalized homophobia! Truly Magisterial

  16. A filter on Pussy, I can’t even.

    I love how you tech support each other.

    I always laugh so hard at this, this evening it resulted in whisky through the nose, I’m crying it hurts so much but they are tears of joy, really

  17. Plus you’re all such amazingly gorgeous babes, Can I say that ? I’m saying it. There.

    • OH, special thought ! I’m going to put these in as my screensaver. Yes ! I knew my brain would deliver.

  23. Stef, since hamotzi is said just before eating, is there something you want to tell us about you and Demi?

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