Just in time for Halloween, Samhain, Dia de los Muertes & Im Kheperu:

Absent Cause #3: Death, Dying, Undeath
NOW AVAILABLE

$4 plus shipping
Available at [link]
For trades contact: redguard@gmail.com

The new 72-page issue features:

* Wrap-around cover by BRANDI LEE

* Interviews with feminist artist PUSSY POWER
and Black / Doom Metal band WOODS OF YPRES

* Full-color art centerfold

* Essays, photography, artwork, fiction, poetry from
LESLIE FEINBERG
EMAN RIMAWI
JAIMIE HASHEY
gabiMONSTROSITY
JAMES RUSH
QUINN COLLARD
and many more!

PLUS:

FREE bonus 60-page Literary Supplement featuring more fiction, poetry and artwork devoted to everyone’s favorite subject, death.

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Explore the dark side with Absent Cause: Underground cultures, hidden histories, feminist and queer sexualities, size-acceptance, chosen families and radical politics; vampirism, the gothic, horror and the macabre; surviving abuse, coping with mental illness/dangerous gifts, self-harm and suicide.

Everybody dies. But in our underground and radical communities we often have very different ways of coping with death than the dominant culture.

What does the prospect of death mean to someone who’s lived through violent abuse? Discrimination? Mental illness?

How does a revolutionary or artist contemplate what their contribution may mean after their death?

How do we express our fears, celebration, anger, and/or desire for death? Can death be sexy?

Available at [link]

Explore the dark side with Absent Cause

Underground cultures, hidden histories, feminist and queer sexualities, chosen families and radical politics; vampirism, the gothic, horror and the macabre; surviving abuse, coping with mental illness/dangerous gifts, self-harm and suicide.

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The theme of the third issue of Absent Cause zine is death, dying, and undeath.

Everybody dies. But in our underground and radical communities we often have very different ways of coping with death than the dominant culture.

What does the prospect of death mean to someone who’s lived through violent abuse? Chronic disease? Discrimination? Mental illness?

How does a revolutionary or artist contemplate what their contribution may mean after their death?

How do we express our fears, celebration, anger, and/or desire for death?

Can death be sexy?

Absent Cause welcomes submissions of essays, comix, poetry, short fiction, artwork, photography, recipes, etc. Send to: redguard@gmail.com

The DEADline for Absent Cause #3 is Sept. 1, 2009.

To order the first two issues of Absent Cause, visit:
[link]
or email redguard@gmail.com to trade.

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Join Absent Cause & Fat Grrrlz! at the New York Zine Fest, June 27-28 at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Visit [link] for more info.

My friend Christine is organizing the Neo-Indie Arts Festival June 13 in Arlington, Va., and is looking for zinesters, artists, musicians and other creative folks to participate!

[link]

Now Available!

Absent Cause #2: DUALITY

bisexual bipolar body-conscious dead or alive
dialectical doppelganger gendered
identified mirrored radical
schizophrenic vampires

Featuring:

Amanda Palmer interview on music, madness and the ReBELLYon

And INTERVIEWS with:
* Walaa Quisay, Egyptian student activist
* Laura-Marie Taylor, Functionally Ill zine
* Breaking To Top, Maoist punk band from China


“Arab in the American World” by Andria Alefhi
“Changeling” new fiction from James Rush
“The un-american aesthetic” by Brandi Lee

And FICTION, POETRY & ESSAYS from:
* Mademoiselle Aly Basterr
* Tonia Bellon
* Boo
* Stephanie Eversole
* Oscar Fuentes
* Jessika
* Vondora Jordan
* Druscilla Morgan
* Jolie Noggle
* Eman Rimawi
* Alison Roh Park
* JC Reilly
* zeraph

“Do You Know My Story?” by Lailati Nar

Plus ART, COMIX & PHOTOGRAPHY by:
* Jessica Amorelli
* Heidi "bluegirl" Calvert
* Diane Carroll
* chasterwebb
* Toni Lynn Crane
* Disdane
* gabiMONSTROSITY
* Brad Hemmelgarn
* Kelushka
* Christine Stoddard
* Beverleyann Wilson
* zowolf

... and much more!

Plus essays, reviews, and comix from redguard.

Absent Cause includes artwork IN COLOR.

Order for $4 including shipping from my Etsy shop at:
[link]

By mail to: Absent Cause, PO Box 1568, New York, NY 10276

To arrange a trade email redguard@gmail.com

EXPLORE THE DARK SIDE WITH ABSENT CAUSE:
underground cultures, hidden histories, feminist and queer sexualities, chosen families and radical politics; vampirism, the gothic, horror and the macabre; surviving abuse, coping with mental illness/dangerous gifts, self-harm and suicide.

Consider this a friendly nudge...

The deadline for submissions to Absent Cause #2 is December 1.

Duality is the theme -- doppelgangers, mirrors, shadows, doubles, our bodies and our body-images, twins, split or multiple personalities, mental illness/dangerous gifts, bisexuality, gender swapping and gender play, immigrants living in a foreign culture, interracial identity, etc. But don't feel bound by this if you want to contribute ... there are no hard and fast rules.

Then new issue will be published in January 2009.

Please submit your harrowing stories of survival, writing, poetry, artwork, photography, comix, recipes, reviews, crazy evil kinky DIY projects, etc.

Contact me with your submissions and feedback:

redguard@gmail.com

Absent Cause
PO Box 1568
New York, NY 10276

P.S. -- Copies of AC #1, Mentally Ill mini-comic, and the erotica collection TUMS are available for trade or at [link]

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