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Doing a Pride package at a place like Autostraddle — where we are not only queer all year but also indie all year, which significantly impacts our access to resources — is a tricky task. This was my first time helming our Pride package as managing editor, and my initial thought was we could maybe do about seven Pride pieces and call it a day. After all, every mainstream media company every year trots out their handful of LGBTQ articles — a lot of them blatant SEO grabs — in June and calls it a day. Why should we work harder when we’re the ones who are, again, queer all damn year! When we are the ones covering queer and trans issues with a variety of angles and scopes and...
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, short stories, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the assistant managing editor of TriQuarterly, and her short stories appear or are forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Joyland, Catapult, The Offing, and more. Some of her pop culture writing can be found at The A.V. Club, Vulture, The Cut, and others. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram and learn more about her work on her website.
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