Ellie and Hannah / 21, 22 / Student, Receptionist / The living room of my messy student house in Birmingham, UK

“This Friday we spent the night at my university Spring ball. The photo was taken just before we left (we don’t tend to don fancy clothes of a normal Friday eve… but maybe we should). I’m not sure what warranted our reaction in the picture? I don’t think we’ll ever truly know, but we’re both having a GREAT time either way.”

Alie, Lindsey, Minkus, and Jess / 24, 24, 9 months, 25 / Weed Enthusiast, Entrepreneur, Chaos Monster, Entrepreneur/Dog Harness Fitter / Our living room in Philadelphia, PA

“We all have different work schedules, so it’s actually amazing that we were all sitting together when Lindsey’s alarm went off to remind us to take this picture. Our other cat, Tulip (4 years/Sass Master), was not interested in joining the picture.”

Shea, Ariel, Alex, Sarah (Kitchen Psychic), Emily, Ezra, Robin, Michael (reacting to s’mores Girl Scout cookies), Morgan / 23 – 27 / Texas Woman’s University Graduate Assistant and Editorial Assistant for Films for the Feminist Classroom (Ariel), Being cool and cute (Everyone else) / Pittsburgh, PA

Location: for an Autostraddle Camp reunion!
My occupation: Texas Woman’s University Graduate Assistant and Editorial Assistant for Films for the Feminist Classroom
Occupations of those pictured: Being cool and cute

“A-Camp’s 2016 Lion’s Club cabin thoroughly enjoying each other’s company post-Carol (dir. Todd Hayes) drinking game. Discussing Girl Scout cookies and how to look natural in pictures.

Before last June, most of us had never met. Now we semi-regularly travel around the country just to hang out with each other. One of these days we’ll all make it to Australia to visit our resident Lion Down Under.”

Allison and Marissa / Alicia Keys Concert at the Houston Rodeo in Houston, TX

“We are friends because we both listen to Buffering the Vampire Slayer. (Thanks Kristin and Jenny!)  We went in matching outfits to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo together on a Friday night and cried when we heard Alicia Keys sing!”

Rachel / Managing Editor at Autostraddle / Kitchen in Milwaukee, WI

“This was around 6:30 pm; I was going to go to a queer zine exhibition but I didn’t know if anyone else I knew would be there and it was very cold and gray outside, so I stayed in my kitchen to drink some box wine and make cauliflower for dinner.”

Fruzsi and Kate/ 22 / Wood workshop organiser, Architect in training / Budapest, Hungary

“Post-date-night late night cereal. We watched Moonlight at the cinema and it was SO. GOOD. There was also gin, 10/10 evening.”

Siobhan / 29 / Writer / My living room

“I am literally taking a break from writing an Autostraddle article to send this in. As you can see from the picture this has been an interesting week.”

Cait / 27 / Paper-pusher at a physiotherapist company / Leeds, UK

“Here I am having a wild night looking at videos of Kate McKinnon on YouTube. I need help.”

Josie / 34 / Stage Manager / Chicago, IL

“I work in theatre so Fridays are work nights. Tonight I’m in my tech booth, rocking my girlfriend’s hoodie, drinking ginger pear tea, and getting ready to run the show for the second time today.”

Lauren, Maddie, Hannah, Mary / 22, 23, 22, 23 / Visual artist, cartoonist, poet, painter / Maddie’s house, post-sushi

“It was Maddie’s birthday celebration! We got drunk on sake and mimosas and watched dumb Youtube videos with our other friends.”