2014

“If I never type the word problematic again, I will die the happiest bastard on the planet.”
KATE SEVERANCE, JULY 2014

This team picture ended up looking like the engagement session for Riese & Laneia’s Mormon Wedding (Big Bear, CA)
Whitney, El & Laura Mandanas (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Greyscale Goods Opening (Los Angeles, CA)
Kaylah, Kai and Carmen at the A-Camp Wedding Reception (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Tech Team Cee & Eli at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Yvonne & Rachel: I ship it! (Big Bear, CA)
Alex, Mary, Mal & AB Chao at Bren & Carrie’s A-Camp Wedding (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Lizz & Gabby at the GLAAD Awards Red Carpet (New York, NY)
GOOD JOB EVERYBODY
Bren & Carrie get hitched (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Riese presents at BlogHer (San Jose, CA)
Riese’s career as a butt model continues (Big Bear, CA)
Sophisticated Marketing (Big Bear, CA)
A-Camp Hard (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Gonna go eat now (Big Bear, CA)
Pre-Party (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Azul, Taylor, Meredydd and Stef are laughing, post-crying (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Yvonne & Rachel (Big Bear, CA)
Brittani’s Selfie Party at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Recording an A+ Podcast that never made it to air (Big Bear, CA)
Bonnie & Melinda (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Phoenix walks the runway at DapperQ’s Fashion Week Show (New York, NY)
Laneia at Bonnaroo (Great Stage Park, TN)
One Non-Blonde and Five Blondes (Angelus Oaks, CA)

freshmen

“Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined what an impact it would end up having on my life.”
Read Chelsey Petty’s memory >

I started working for autostraddle as an Intern in 2012. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined what an impact it would end up having on my life. In 2014, I was tasked with the unique opportunity to be the bee keeper of both the A-Camp Bee and the A+ Bee, where I got to work directly with our readers and our staff to create weird and wonderful newspapers with Grace. I will always cherish my time at Autostraddle and think fondly of all the hilarious and heartwarming messages that would grace my Gmail inbox every day during my time there. What other job would have you working with Brittani on a Dear Sour column for the Bee and adding an article about anal sex to WordPress all in a day’s work?

—Chelsey Petty

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My very favorite thing I got asked to do as an intern was photoshop the L Word characters into an IKEA shopping scene. In fact, this may be my favorite thing I was asked to do at any job.
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the year of us

this year we did a lot of…

“[x] is problematic” / callout posts (which we soon decided we wanted to stop doing forever)
Black Lives Matter coverage
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Interviews with Ex-Girlfriends