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09-23-2016, 06:50 PM
Saying goodbye to AfterEllen, and a generation of queer women's media
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If you were a queer woman who was at least partially conscious at some point in the past 20 years, chances are you read an article on AfterEllen. You may have loved it, you may have hated it, but at the end of the day you were grateful that it was at least kinda gay — just like you.*
It's a lesbian, bi***ual and queer woman-focused site, writing about pop culture from a feminist perspective. And on Tuesday, AfterEllen (http://www.afterellen.com/) Editor in Chief Trish Bendix posted an article on her Tumblr (http://trish-bendix.tumblr.com/post/150695653921/eulogy-for-the-living)an**uncing that the site, one of the earliest and largest for queer women, would be virtually shutting down at the end of the week.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/23/after-ellen-queer-womens-media-shut-down/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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If you were a queer woman who was at least partially conscious at some point in the past 20 years, chances are you read an article on AfterEllen. You may have loved it, you may have hated it, but at the end of the day you were grateful that it was at least kinda gay — just like you.*
It's a lesbian, bi***ual and queer woman-focused site, writing about pop culture from a feminist perspective. And on Tuesday, AfterEllen (http://www.afterellen.com/) Editor in Chief Trish Bendix posted an article on her Tumblr (http://trish-bendix.tumblr.com/post/150695653921/eulogy-for-the-living)an**uncing that the site, one of the earliest and largest for queer women, would be virtually shutting down at the end of the week.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/23/after-ellen-queer-womens-media-shut-down/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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