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VIDEO! Getting In Bed With Kristin: Advice on Self-Care, Meds and the Best Dating Apps

Kristin —
Aug 12, 2018
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Welcome back to Getting in Bed With Kristin! This week Kristin is joined, once again, by Sam the Cat as she answers advice questions about self-care, regulating psychiatric meds, coming out, self-care, job hunts, dating apps and so much more!

Join Kristin on August 16th on our Facebook live as she gets in bed with Sophia Wallace.

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Hello! My name is Kristin Russo and I am a writer, speaker, educator and consultant with a focus on LGBTQ issues. I co-direct Autostraddle’s A-Camp, I co-founded Everyone Is Gay &  My Kid Is Gay and authored This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids (Chronicle, 2014). I also worked as host and producer of First Person, a video series on gender and sexuality from PBS Digital and WNET & have a Master’s in Gender Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center. Last but certainly not least, I co-host & produce of Buffering the Vampire Slayer alongside musician Jenny Owen Youngs, which was named one of Time’s Top 50 Podcasts of 2018 and selected as one of Esquire’s Top 10 Podcasts of 2018!

Kristin has written 61 articles for us.

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