Learn a Little More About Lady Business

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Topics

✭ About
✭ Contact Us
✭ About Ira
✭ About Jodie
✭ About KJ
✭ About Renay
✭ About Susan
✭ What is your review policy?
✭ Do you participate in blog tours?
✭ Do you accept pitches?
✭ Comment Policy

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About

               

Lady Business is edited by Anna, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan. Our regular columnists include Jenny. Our former editors include Ana, who you can find at thingsmeanalot.com, and Clare, who you can find on Twitter at omnivoreal.

Our My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic art was commissioned specifically for our project from Ira. You can check out commission costs at their tumblr.

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Contact Us

You can reach us the following ways:

• thisisladybusiness@gmail.com
• via Twitter at feministponies
• message us on Dreamwidth
• Since there's several editors and columnists it can be hard to know who to address specifically when emailing the group. If you have a general question, feel free to address Jodie and Renay.

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   Ira

Ira is an illustrator and gamer who decided that disagreeing with everyone would be a good way to spend their time on the internet. Ira has been a voracious reader of books since before they can remember, and their friends have been subjected to their opinions for long enough -- it's time for everyone else to take a turn. Ira has been, at various times, an internationally ranked competitive rock climber, a martial artist, a web developer, and a teacher. Ira discovered feminism and then it all went downhill from there; they now wish to analyze books, comics, games, movies, and TV shows from an intersectional feminist perspective. They wish to branch out into editing, pro writing, and video editing. Ira lives in Pittsburgh with their three cats and Corgi.

Ira makes art and fanfic and posts them variously to their tumblr and AO3 account.

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  Jodie

Jodie is currently living the dream as a bookseller for a major British chain of book shops. She has no desire to go back to working in the real world. All the opinions she voices at Lady Business are hers alone and are not associated with her employer.

Jodie enjoys talking about media critically, but she is also happy to try to fall in love with your favourite thing at the drop of a hat. She welcomes the chance to make connections by squeeing over media, or gleefully picking apart that thing you hate-love, especially if you have a supernatural program to recommend. She is always up for sharing gifs of hot boys and awesome female celebrities.

Jodie also reviews at Shiny New Books, blogs about TV at Irregularly Scheduled Viewing and is now available as a freelance writer for other publications.

'Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken but humanity is good. I believe that. — Hank Green, (source)

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   KJ

KJ is an underemployed librarian, lifelong reader, and more recently an avid gamer. For the last decade, she has shared her fanfiction, thoughts on media, and feminist rants on her journal, owlmoose. She is incapable of looking at a list of books without wondering how many of the authors are women. Although not shy about sharing her opinions, she is also cursed with the ability to see almost every side of any given argument. She lives the cliche in San Francisco with her spouse and two cats.

You can also find her on Twitter at iamkj and on Tumblr at lifeofkj.

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   Renay

Renay is a political organizer in the rural South, writes intensely personal essays and reviews, loves a good rec list, and is constantly trying to improve her pun game. She's available as a freelance writer for other publications (via twitter).

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   Susan

Susan is a library assistant who uses her insider access to keep her shelves and to-read list permanently over-flowing. Her current quest is to devour all of the stories involving heists, mythology, LGBT detectives, magical girls, and/or female warriors that she can get her hands on, while flailing to anyone who'll listen about her finds. She lives in England with her Spousal Unit and insufficient bookcases.

Susan can primarily be found capslocking wildly on twitter and posting fanfiction. She's also available as a freelance writer for other publications.

"We all do stories. We all live in stories... They need to be told. They need to be heard." — Ishmael Angaluuk Hope (Kisima Inŋitchuŋa / Never Alone)

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What is your review policy?

For potential coverage for your upcoming book on Lady Business, please check with us at least three months before your book's release date. Otherwise, we won't have time to consider it! Below is a list of reviewers currently accepting review copy. Please see our contact section to reach us.

STATUS

Ira: Closed.
Jodie: Closed.
KJ: Closed.
Renay: Please see Fangirl Happy Hour (Renay's podcast) for status on ARCs.
Susan: Open to graphic novels, manga, and queer fiction. Not interested in any story involving Bury Your Gays tropes. Welcomes hardcopy, pdf, or epub formats. Lives in the UK.

You can contact us using our contact information.

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Do you participate in blog tours?

Nope! All our guests for all features are invited personally by us right now. We're also too busy to stick to the schedules most blog tours require, so we don't do those, either. Sorry! :)

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Do you accept pitches?

We started accepting pitches a few years ago, but we're a non-paying venue. We absolutely encourage everyone to see if there's a home for your work where you can be paid because getting paid for your writing is so important. If you're still interested, though, you can read our guidelines.

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Comment Policy

1. If you comment without a Dreamwidth/OpenID account, pick a handle and use it across all your comments so it's clear who we're speaking with.
1a. But account creation is free, and comes with nerdy icon slots. Icons were big in the 00s. It's practically retro and therefore cool.
2. If you forget, just reply to yourself (look for the "reply" link under your comment) and say "this is me."
3. Don't treat us or other people in our space like meat popsicles.
4. Don't forget to be awesome.

We reserve the right to screen/freeze any and all comments/threads if they don't follow these guidelines, and to make exceptions based on situation context for our pals who are cursed by the lack of a robust commenting system (we know, and we're sorry).