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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.

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6 Comments

  1. It’s partially banned at my school. It’s still in my office, on my lanyard, in random places around my classroom. It does not make the school feel like a safe place for my students. Or for me.

  2. thank you as always Carmen for filtering the internet for us!

    I want to lift up Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s voice
    – she is a queer anishinabekwe – about how murdering and taking indigenous women about ongoing taking of LAND and has been going on since colonizers arrived. this is something i would not have understood without her explanation. She writes about it in many layers, but a quick intro is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiFIgF_OHlM

    • I believe in free speech and being critical of popular things or people. However, I do not condone cancelling or bullying someone because you disagree with them.

      This constant cancelling of people for their “problematic views” is annoying, useless and wrong.

      You don’t like the jokes that a comedian is telling? Don’t watch his or her show.

      “You have the right to be offended. That doesn’t make you right” – Ricky Gervais.

        • LOL

          There are many things that I find offensive but I don’t go out of my way to insult threaten or abuse people because said person said an offensive statement, or just something I don’t agree with.

          I am absolutely right.

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