Letter From Your Editors
From our hearts to yours, autumnly. 🍁
Top: Vanessa + Hoagie // Ro + cemetery // Heather + WNBA playoffs // Nicole + a stone // Casey + pumpkin ice creamBottom: Meg + hot coffee // Kayla + decorative gourd // Carmen + denim jacket // Laneia + open door // Drew + family visit We also had a late addition from the one and only Sarah Sarwar on the Oregon coast!
The breeze has cooled and this morning when I did a quick grocery run, I got to wear sweats and sneakers and grab a warm apple cider on my way out the doors and my friends — it was bliss. I never understood why Cancers are destined for summer, with cozy sweaters and warm blankets and baking projects galore, Fall has always been My Season.TM
To be honest, I haven’t...
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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.
