I haven’t posted this week yet because there has been a lot of decision making with GAF’s amazing tiny team to reach our full potential. These decisions will eventually lead to some major changes.
I’m just going to list them out because then they’re less scary and easier to swallow:
Girls Aren’t Funny is transitioning to an online magazine
I started this as a blog a little over two months ago while I was traveling. It was my dream for it to become a submission-based blog, but I soon recognized this won’t work. As a personal blog, it makes it difficult for those who want to submit to fit into a brand that is literally all about me. It is important to me this becomes a platform for funny women and am so excited for this shift in format.
Think The New Yorker’s Humor section meets The Onion meets feminists meets my parents for their blessing meets something new and sparkly (but with fewer sparkles)
We are still brainstorming how Girls Aren’t Funny will look and feel, but I guarantee if you’ve been following along with me on here you will enjoy the relaunch of GAF. It’ll be a whole lot more of this from many other women.
We are currently crafting submission guidelines but reach out anyways
As always, if you are interested in showcasing your work on a platform dedicated to hilarious ladies then please use our email gaf.submissions@gmail.com or reach out through our contact form. We are looking for personal essays, satirical articles, fiction, nonfiction, cartoons, however you want to express your sense of humor. Write about the female experience, don’t write about it. Write about politics, or don’t. Write about sexual escapades, write about your long wait til marriage, write about being asexual. I literally wrote an essay about a door at Starbucks that created a coffee traffic jam.
If you are an illustrator please reach out to us
We have a great photographer on our team, but we’d like to explore the possibility of adding an illustrator to our mix to create creative featured images for the essay and articles. If you are interested in the position, the contact page is your friend.
If you are interested at all in joining GAF’s master team
We are a small team trying to birth a major project. If our work interests you and you think you have some special skill or superpower we NEED you. If you do not identify as a woman that is more than OK. We already have a boy on our team that ripped up the metaphorical ‘no boys allowed’ sign so that’s the end of that. Contact page, contact page, contact page!
News on the podcast
For those of you who have been following my random updates about this illusive podcast. Big news! As a team, we decided to grow the podcast as a separate project. We are now officially the ‘Not Your Typical Feminist Podcast’ podcast. Our web developer is busy at work building the new website as well as recreating Girls Aren’t Funny. This was decided because the goal of GAF and NYTFP overlap, but are still different. NYTFP will focus on inclusion in the feminist space. GAF still holds the mission of dismantling the stigma that girls aren’t funny. So many acronyms!
Lots of love to all of you who are here
I’m so grateful for every single person who took the time to read my blog. Of course, I will still be contributing to Girls Aren’t Funny in its future form, but it will obviously be different. No more casual posts about my itchy nipples (we’ll see). I will continue to post in this blog until we are ready to roll over officially. There will be a warning before things launch.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
That is all.