It’s time.
We are having an A+ pop-up Discord server to celebrate you all, the A+ members who keep us here and queer! It’s incredibly difficult to run an indie queer media site, especially in such a hostile world and volatile economy, but we’re doing our best and we love that you all are doing your best alongside us! We’re currently fundraising for our survival, so if you can, we ask you to consider chipping in.
What’s in the server? Glad you asked! All kinds of channels for chatting about whatever topics are nearest and dearest to your heart. At times, Autostraddle team members drop in, too.
This server, we’re having not one but TWO watchalongs with our favorite and illustreous Yellowjackets Queen and Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya. More info here, but the first one is a rewatch of Season 1 Episode 1 tonight to get ready for the premiere watchalong on March 24th! Buzz buzz!
Okay, so, here’s the invite link. Will I see you in there?
How do I get on the pop-up Discord?
It’s helpful if you make a Discord account ahead of time if you do not already have one. Then follow this handy dandy link, or enter via the widget below.
What will the event be like?
So, unlike a permanently run Discord, we will open this Discord, and then close it, so it’s great if you can stop by before it turns into a pumpkin!!! We keep our Discord pop-up’s text-based. They’re essentially like a chatroom or a Slack with different “channels” based around different topics you all might want to discuss such as sports or TV or parenting or crafts. You can use Discord on your phone or on a computer (probably also a tablet) and you’re invited to stop in as much or as little as you like. We ask every member to abide by a code of conduct (best summarized as respect each other and respect consent!). We just hang out and chat and share photos of our crafts or baked goods or leather work, whatever! It’s a good time and a great chance to talk to fellow queers and Autostraddle community members.
Accessibility
We want Autostraddle events to be as accessible as possible and we opted to go with a text-based chatting format via Discord in large part because it was one of the most accessible ways to hold this virtual event, not just in terms of audio/visual accessibility, but also because we know it can be hard to ask a question out loud or know when to jump into a conversation. We hope this helps things go as smoothly as is possible for a virtual event. That said, if there are accommodations that would make it easier for you to attend this event, please reach out to me at nico[at]autostraddle.com to let me know. Also, here’s a link to a guide on using Discord with a screen reader.
When will you have a Pop-Up Discord again?
Probably for Pride! Did you know we’re currently fundraising in order to make it to Pride / the rest of the year in general? Yep.
In Summary
Come hang! We’d love to see you. We have two Yellowjackets watch-alongs and this server will be open through March 29th at 12pm NOON PST.
I’ll probably actually post this in the discord server too but:
I really adore the temporary nature of the A+ discord server. It neatly solves some big problems that are common with discord servers, namely that often they die a slow painful death of inactivity and also that moderating a large one can be like a whole second job that people shouldn’t have to do for free.
Also also it always feels like a tiny little holiday when it’s going on!! Small festival of gay people in my phone!!