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Hello Winter Wonderlands!
This month we were all supposed to look cozy. I don't know what's going on with Casey feeling cozy in the bathtub of all places, but everybody else seems bundled up in a joyful embrace. Well, except Stef and Rachel who are looking a little intense and not super-joyful. Okay, enough with my show notes.
Top: Laneia // Rachel // Molly // Valerie Ann // Heather // Siobhan // RieseBottom: Sarah // Carrie // Raquel // Stef // Alexis // Carmen // Casey
Today Mic.com announced they were laying off virtually their entire staff. I would not recommend my lifestyle to anyone, but it's interesting how being so hand-to-mouth and never having had the benefit of investors, we've managed to avoid so many po...
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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.