Letter From Your Editors
Y’all Summer is officially 2/3rds over and I am in p r o t e s t. It’s going by way too fast, with entirely too much chaos, and not nearly enough watermelon lemonade slushies! But we are making the best of it, hey look at our cute team and our cute lil summer vibes!
Top: Drew // Riese // Carmen // Kayla // Vanessa // Casey // SarahBottom: Laneia // Heather // Meg // Ro // Stef // Nicole // Shelli
I know that I say this basically every month (got keep ‘em wanting more, amirite?) but we have some BIG changes coming up at Autostraddle! Like on Thursday night I was here working until I literally said to Riese “my eyes are getting blurry at the keyboard letters" and Riese was like “go to bed" (which I did!) and I do beli...
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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.
