Trish Bendix

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a writer, living in Chicago with her girlfriend, two pugs and two cats. She writes about the intersection of queer women and pop culture/media as blog editor of AfterEllen.com and pens fiction by night and weekend.

She is also a freelance writer and has written on queer life & art, music, pop culture, media and feminist issues for publications such as The Village Voice, Time Out Chicago, Out, Punk Planet, Planet Out/Gay.com, The Daily Herald/Beep, Rockpile, UR Chicago, and Newcity. She was one of three founding editors of the daily blog, Girlfriend is a Homo, and was also co-founder and managing editor of the now-defunct online magazine, CHILLmag for Chicago’s Hip Independent Lesbian Lifestyle.

Trish was a founder of Queer Fest Midwest, an all-day music and arts festival in 2007. She has been interviewed by the Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago, the Windy City Times’ Nightspots, and Feministing about her work and opinions on queer lifestyle.