Letter From Your Editors
And just like that, February is over!
Why, hello there! Our theme this month was “did you take a photo of yourself? Great! Come as you are!" And look at all these gorgeous, brave humans, making their way through the world. We’re glad to have you here, reading this letter. Thanks for coming as YOU are, too.
1st: Heather // Drew // Dani // Meg // Kayla // Stef2nd: Sarah // Sally // Nicole // Adrian // Rachel // Carmen
Do you remember last month, when I made the vague promises of “we have been working day-and-night for a lot of exciting things to come!" WELL MY FRIENDS, here we are only one month later and we are already over 2/3rds of the way through our fundraiser goal! And because the Coronavirus continues to wreck ...
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Carmen Phillips is Autostraddle's former editor in chief. She began at Autostraddle in 2017 as a freelance team writer and worked her way up through the company, eventually becoming the EIC from 2021-2024. A Black Puerto Rican feminist writer with a PhD in American Studies from New York University, Carmen specializes in writing about Blackness, race, queerness, politics, culture, and the many ways we find community and connection with each other. During her time at Autostraddle, Carmen focused on pop culture, TV and film reviews, criticism, interviews, and news analysis. She claims many past homes, but left the largest parts of her heart in Detroit, Brooklyn, and Buffalo, NY. And there were several years in her early 20s when she earnestly slept with a copy of James Baldwin’s “Fire Next Time” under her pillow. To reach out, you can find Carmen on Twitter, Instagram, or her website.
Carmen has written 716 articles for us.
