i was abroad during november of ‘08, and while there was still coverage of the election all over the world it was hard to find coverage of what was happening with prop 8, and i was really worried about it. while looking through blogs that were talking about it i found a bunch of lesbian blogs doing this thing called “8 against 8,” and one of them was autowin. i looked through it for a while and sent in a photo for the no on 8 collage that riese was doing, but then was like “this is stupid, there’s nothing about prop 8 on here” and went on to something else.
later i checked back and realized it was actually a pretty funny/beautiful/great thing, and read through a lot more of it. i noticed she kept mentioning this autostraddle thing she was starting, but i wasn’t really into the l word so i never checked it out. except eventually i did, and i think it was around the time of NYC pride, and everyone seemed so happy/pretty/fun/funny/awesome. everything they wrote about was smart and good and the idea of a group of gay girl friends in real life was still novel to me.
then there was a call for intern applications and unpaid internships were pretty much my thing all through college, so i applied. then i was an intern but also consistently the only person who was always at home and always ready to write and then i spent like a million hours one week writing prop 8 recaps and then i think after that riese moved my picture from the intern section of the team page to somewhere else
and then hilarity ensued
