Women And Words: The Horrible-ness of AfterEllen

Summary: Women and Words 18-23 September 2016 Andi Marquette and Jove Belle chattin’ up a storm this week! 18 September: Author Heather Blackmore stopped back by to tell us a bit more about and provide another excerpt from her latest, <a href="https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/for-money-or-love-by-heather-blackmore-1869-b">For Money or Love</a>. Women and Words link <a href="https://womenwords.org/2016/09/18/the-master-of-romance-by-heather-blackmore/">HERE</a> Heather Blackmore’s <a href="http://www.heatherblackmore.com/">website</a> 19 September: Author and Women and Words’ intrepid explorer Stevie Carroll joined us for another fab description of her latest adventure, to the city of Hudderfield in West Yorkshire, where she discovered that there are lots of lions incorporated into the architecture…hmmm…what does it all mean… Women and Words link <a href="https://womenwords.org/2016/09/19/an-urban-lion-hunt/">HERE</a> Stevie Carroll’s <a href="http://stevie-carroll.livejournal.com/">LiveJournal</a> 21 September: Author Jody Klaire stopped by with her ruminations on how writing can help you raise awareness in a variety of ways. Jove and Andi ruminate on the zen of Jody. Women and Words link <a href="https://womenwords.org/2016/09/21/raising-awareness-through-writing-by-jody-klaire/">HERE</a> Jody Klaire’s <a href="https://jodyklaire.wordpress.com/">website</a> 22 September: Author and Women and Wordster Gill McKnight told us a bit about Women Fest on the Greek island of Lesvos, in the town of Skala Eressos, where Sappho’s legendary school was based. Women and Words link <a href="https://womenwords.org/2016/09/22/so-comes-autumn/">HERE</a> Gill McKnight’s <a href="http://www.gillmcknight.com/">website</a> 23 September: Fangirl Friday with author and Women and Wordster Andi Marquette, who discusses the 1985 film The Goonies, and her recent visit to the town where it was filmed in Oregon. She and Jove ponder why that movie resonated with so many, and bring in some angst of the era to unpack it. Women and Words link <a href="https://womenwords.org/2016/09/23/fangirl-friday-goonies-never-say-die/">HERE</a> Andi Marquette’s <a href="http://www.andimarquette.com/">website</a> Jove is headed up to Seattle Saturday the 24th to participate in the <a href="https://gayromancenorthwest.wordpress.com/programming/">Gay Romance Northwest meetup</a> at the downtown branch of the Seattle Public Library. Books! Authors! Discussions! Free! Jove and Andi discussed the horrible-ness of AfterEllen.com shutting down. That is, the site will be left up, and there might be some new content from freelancers, but basically, it’s dead. Former editor-in-chief <a href="http://trish-bendix.tumblr.com/post/150695653921/eulogy-for-the-living">posted on her Tumblr</a> about what happened, and that AE was taken over by a media company that gave it two years to be profitable. Apparently, it wasn’t profitable enough, and Trish also called out the new management, which is mostly male and mostly heterosexual. For that, she was let go earlier and <a href="http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/09/afterellen-publishers-deny-shutdown-fire-editor-advertiser-blowback/#.V-MKvF18aa8.twitter">the offer of a severance package was rescinded</a>. [NOTE: it’s Bilerico that reported that, not LGBTQ Nation, as Andi said in the podcast. Sorry about the error.] Former colleagues at AE set up a fundraising page to help Trish Bendix. The page wanted to raise $5,000 and anything past that they’d give to AutoStraddle, which is perpetually struggling. The larger question Andi and Jove raise is how do we keep lesbian/bi/queer women’s media going? Something

Women And Words: The Horrible-ness of AfterEllen

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