Hey, have we told you lately how we love you? Is it too soon? Would it be better if we just said that we REALLY REALLY REALLY LIKE YOU? Or that maybe we don't know that much, but we know this much is true: we are blessed because we are loved by you? By "blessed" we mean "able to eat." So we made you some videos!
If you're an A+ silver or gold member, you've by now gotten some e-mails from us about the delay in delivering the A+ podcast — a process which INCREDIBLY hit yet another snag when our intrepid volunteer podcast editor spilled water on her laptop! (I know at this point we probably sound like pathological liars but we swear we're actually just cursed?) We're going through podcast editor applications real soon, and in the meantime, we...
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Riese is the 41-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.
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