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It’s Our Birthday! Ask Us Anything At Our All-Day A+ Birthday Party!

the team
Mar 9, 2015

Hello and welcome to our sixth birthday party! We are so pleased to be here with you!

Here’s how it works:

By the way, all A+ members can get 20% off merch in the Autostraddle Store all day today, so get on it! The code is aplusbday6.

Here’s our running tally of how many A+ Members we have:

As of March 9th 9PM PST we have 1,124 Paid Members!


Rachel_KincaidRachel Kincaid, Managing Editor, Autostraddle.com

@internrachel

7 AM – 8 PM PST / 10 AM – 11 PM EST (with a lunch break)

Expertise: Basic budgeting and financial literacy, intense skincare regimens, pursuing a career in creative writing, teaching at the college level, bisexuality and dating/general wellbeing as a bisexual, legumes of all kinds, The X-Files, getting married/having a wedding


heatherHeather Hogan, Senior Editor, Autostraddle.com

@heatherannehogan

7 AM – 7 PM PST / 10 AM – 10 PM EST (with a lunch break)

Expertise: Books, pop culture, depression, ad(h)d, christianity (general theology, reconciling faith with religious upbringing, super religious family), long-distance relationships (turned living-together relationship), women’s college basketball (I will fill out your march madness brackets), bicycle maintenance and repair, volunteering questions, animal questions (rescuing, training, etc.), and social media.


yvonneYvonne Marquez, Senior Editor, Autostraddle.com

@yvonne

7 AM – 10 AM PST / 10 AM – 1PM EST

Expertise: Being gay and Latina, growing up and being gay in a border town / returning to that border town and still being gay, being in a long-term relationship, going through an extremely unpleasant break-up, working from home, taking care of a big dog, navigating white, radical spaces as a queer brown woman, being a chunky brown girl and giving no fucks about it (especially in yoga), talking about Texas forever!


gabby1Gabby Rivera, QPOC Speakeasy, Autostraddle.com

@ogfunkbandit

7 AM – 8 AM PST / 10 AM – 9 AM EST

Expertise: Interracial dating, boundaries, being muy romantic, dealing with a partner that has an addiction(s), sex w different body types


kaelynheadshot2014KaeLyn Rich, Contributing Editor, Autostraddle.com

@kaelynrich

7 AM – 10 AM PST / 10 AM – 1 PM EST

Expertise: Sex & sexuality, small animal care, grown up life shit (buying a house, finding a financial planner, leasing v. buying a car), “Should I go to law school?”, relationships, bisexual/pansexual/queer stuff, nonprofit career advice, IPV and sexual assault support, community organizing as hobby or career (coalition building, legislative advocacy, government relations, etc), leggings as pants affirmation, monolid makeup, veg food, clothes, and lifestyle, leadership & management, feminist careers, body positive / fat positive stuff including fatshion


stef-ali-airportAli Osworth, Geekery Editor, Autostraddle.com

@alioh

8 AM – 10 AM PST / 11AM – 1PM EST

Expertise: Relationships, sex, technology and existing in an MFA program. Oh, and liquor!


laneiaLaneia Jones, Executive Editor, Autostraddle.com

@green

9 AM – 11 PM PST / 12 PM – 2 AM EST (with a lunch break)

Expertise: Parenting, being older than 30, feelings, 60s/70s classic rock, teen pregnancy, divorce, hippie bullshit, death


vikkiVikki Reich, Co-Founder of VillageQ

@vikki

9 AM – 11 AM PST / 11 AM – 1 PM EST

Expertise: Relationships, kids, coming out stuff, life


Riese_BernardRiese Bernard, Editor-in-Chief / CEO, Autostraddle.com

@riese

11 AM – 11PM PST / 2 PM – 2 AM EST (with a lunch break)

Expertise: Relationships, sex & dating, DEATH, writing & reading, starting your own business, sex work, mental health (personal history as well as experiences as a partner and family member, whatever your little heart desires)


beth-maidenBeth Maiden, Tarot Columnist, Autostraddle.com

@littleredtarot

11 AM – 2 PM PST / 2 PM – 5 PM EST

Expertise: Tarot, living in a tiny space, starting/running a just-you business


via Jack Tar 207Mey Rude, Trans Editor, Autostraddle.com

@meyrude

11 AM – 1 PM & 3 PM – 4 PM PST / 2 PM – 4 PM & 6 PM – 7 PM EST

Expertise: Being fat, femme stuff (“especially low-budget femme”), Trans issues, Geeky (“if anyone has questions about sci-fi movies or tv shows or comic books or superheroes or things of that nature, I can talk for days about that stuff”), being Queer & Christian (“specifically Catholic.”) Also: witch stuff (“but not wicca, I’m not wiccan. but I am more than just an aesthetic witch, like my witchcraft is tied into my Mexican La Virgen-based semi-Catholicism, sort of like what was in the Gloria background story of OITNB, but not nearly as hardcore.”)


danniellebioDannielle Owens-Reid, Co-Founder of Everyone is Gay

@dannielleor

12 PM – 3 PM PST / 3 PM – 6 PM EST

Expertise: Relationships, cat care, andro / genderqueer shopping, healthy living, being vegan, how to use social media like not a dumbass


kristin
Kristin Russo
, Co-Founder of Everyone is Gay

@kristinnoeline

2 PM – 3 PM PST / 5 PM – 6 PM EST

Expertise: Relationships, cat care, healthy living, dealing with a vegan, planning a wedding, writing a book, hula hooping, lip syncing, how to use social media like not a dumbass


ajaAja, Femme Fashion Icon

@fit-for-a-femme

2 PM – 5 PM PST / 5 PM – 8 PM EST

Expertise: Style, beauty, parenting, relationships, boundaries


Ginger Hale, Sobriety Columnist, Autostraddle.com

@gingerhale

8 PM – 9 PM PST / 5 PM – 6 PM EST


a-loba-loca-newAna Bel (aka “La Loba Loca“), Community organizer, Artist, Researcher, Writer, Body-powered tattooist, Midwife student and Eco-feminista

@lalobaloca

3 PM – 5 PM PST / 6 PM – 8 PM EST

Expertise: Decolonial food, reclaiming abuelita knowledge, ‘cultural’ Spanish, reproductive justice, abortion support and companionship, re-wording body parts and situations to better support people through reproductive lives, conscious mooning, healthy and delicious food and drinks, herbs and their uses, eco-feminism, how to survive academic institutions as a Queer Brown person, how to not be a complete privileged asshole


lizz-rubinLizz Rubin, Med Student & Former Autostraddle Fashion/Style Editor

@lizz

4 PM – 6 PM PST / 7 PM – 9 PM EST

Expertise: Fashion, Sex and Health


Mari Brighe, Contributing Editor, Autostraddle.commari_horizontal

@maribrighe

4 PM – 6 PM PST / 7 PM – 9 PM EST

Expertise: Skincare, hair-care, makeup, and sex/dating for trans girls


lauramandanasLaura Mandanas, Contributing Editor, Autostraddle.com

@laura-m

4 PM – 7 PM PST / 7PM – 10 PM EST

Expertise: Women in STEM, TV pop culture, mixed-race issues, martial arts, bisexuality


Tinkerbell, Autostraddle Mascottink

@tinkerbell

4 PM – 8 PM PST / 7 PM – 11 PM EST

Expertise: Having one eyeball bigger than the other, Uh Huh Her, pink outfits, being famous, Littlefoot, trysexuality


djuan-2Djuan Trent, Motivational speaker, Activist and former Miss Kentucky

@djuantrent

5 PM – 7PM PST / 8 PM – 10 PM EST

Expertise: Relationships, being single, Self-Esteem, Religion, Coming Out, Goal Setting and Achieving, Self-Awareness, Race Relations, Self Discovery and Identity.


danielaDani Rodriguez Da Silva, Sexuality Educator

@doubleornothing

5PM – 8PM PST / 8 PM – 11 PM EST

Expertise: Queer sex(ual health), gender (de)construction, relationships, living queerly as a Latin@. I can also give some advice on how to have a healthy, happy dog while working full time and living alone.


carolyn-yatesCarolyn Yates, NSFW Editor, Autostraddle.com

@carolyn

6 PM – 9 PM PST / 9 PM – 12 AM EST

Expertise: Relationships & Sex


morganMorgan McCormick, Kinky Transy Poly Gamer Ginger Southerner

@translabyrinth

7 PM – 9 PM PST / 10 PM – 12 AM EST

Expertise: Being trans, poly, kinky, queer/trans/sex friendly video games and spaces.


lydia photoLydia Okello, Blogger & Fashion Editor, Autostraddle.com

@lokello

7:15 PM – 9:15 PM PST / 10:15 PM – 12:15 AM EST

Expertise: Fashion, beginner gay things, friendship. Also being a minority in a largely conservative/predominantly white environment.


malloryMallory Ortberg, Co-Founder, The Toast

8 PM – 11 PM PST / 11 PM – 2 AM EST

Expertise: Jobs, boundaries, jokes, being direct, coming from a religious background, cute ladies in sports


Brittani_NicholsBrittani Nichols, Comedy Editor & Dear Sour, Autostraddle.com

@b

9 PM – 11 PM PST / 12 AM – 2 AM EST

Expertise: Writing, Comedy, Relationships and “Being Perpetually Sad.”


We love you. We couldn’t be doing this thing without you. And we are so excited to be spending our birthday with you!