It's My Last Week at Autostraddle

It's time to chase new creative dreams!

Hello, my friends. This week is my last week at Autostraddle. I want to thank you all for hanging in here with me. The questions have been fast and furious now, for months, and I have just been caught in such a pickle trying to figure out how to move forward and pursue my creative dreams while hurting the absolute fewest people possible. I have so much love for so many of the people I have worked with at Autostraddle over the years, and so much love for so many of the people who have left for various reasons, big and small. I think my feelings today could fill up the entire ocean, so I won't even try to parse them here. I have given my whole self to the Autostraddle community over the last decade, and I will miss it enormously, even though I know in my deepest heart that it's time for me to move on. 

I've written a goodbye letter over at Autostraddle, which is mostly just a love letter to y'all. 

What this means for me, creatively, is that, for the time being, you're gonna find pretty much everything I write on my newsletter. I'm definitely looking for other creative opportunities, so if you have any that you think would be a good fit for me, or stumble across any, please reach out. I would love to hear from you. I'm also continuing to work on what I hope will one day soon be a book of published essays. It's been slow-going for the last year or so, but I am really, really starting to finally feel like myself again, so the words are coming easier and my heart is feeling lighter. 

What this means for me, practically, is that I have left a full-time job with benefits in a dying industry on an internet that's in flames while managing a complex chronic illness and disability. It is, by far, the most terrifying (and maybe bravest? hopefully not stupidest?) thing I have ever done. The best way you can support me is to sign up for my newsletter — and if you can support me with a paid subscription, well, I would be grateful beyond the telling of it. Your financial support in this space is the reason I was able to make the decision to move forward and pursue fresh dreams beyond Autostraddle. I was able to save enough money from my subscriptions to pay for the rest of this year of health insurance, in one lump sum, before I'm able to get on Stacy's insurance at the beginning of the next year. I was also able to purchase all my medications through the end of the year, including my specially compounded ones and injections. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Thank you, Larry, my NY Healthcare Marketplace broker, for talking to me on the phone for three hundred hours to make sure I was able to cover all my many medical needs!) (And: Thank you, Obama!) 

I've got a couple of fun posts coming at you later this week: Horror Movie Plots Based on Things I've Heard My Wife Say and Books With Queer Witches In Love. But for today, I just wanted to share this huge news with you, thank you for reading my words all these many years, peep toward the future, and give you a little boop on your nose.