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Call for submissions: Absent Cause #5
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Call for submissions: Absent Cause #5 – Dangerous Gifts
Absent Cause zine was established in 2008 as a venue for people from myriad cultures and selves, pushed to the outskirts and into the underground, to find each other, draw connections between their experiences, and gain strength for their struggles.
The term "Dangerous Gifts" is usually associated with the special contributions of people with mental illness / variance. But there are many kinds of dangerous gifts we experience and share: the person who chooses to wear a veil as an expression of culture or religion; gender or gender-less expression outside the male-female binary; being a fat person, a hairy grrrl, or having other physical characteristics outside mainstream acceptance; existing as a survivor in a social system that celebrates abuse and war; the choice to confront capitalism, racism, patriarchy and heteronormativity in a culture of submission; and so much more.
Absent Cause is seeking submissions on your experience of "Dangerous Gifts" for the forthcoming issue. Artwork, comix, photography, essays, poems, and SHORT fiction are welcome.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 30, 2011.
Explore the dark side with Absent Cause:
Underground cultures and hidden histories; feminist, gender-variant 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.
redguard / Greg
redguard at gmail dot com
Absent Cause zine was established in 2008 as a venue for people from myriad cultures and selves, pushed to the outskirts and into the underground, to find each other, draw connections between their experiences, and gain strength for their struggles.
The term "Dangerous Gifts" is usually associated with the special contributions of people with mental illness / variance. But there are many kinds of dangerous gifts we experience and share: the person who chooses to wear a veil as an expression of culture or religion; gender or gender-less expression outside the male-female binary; being a fat person, a hairy grrrl, or having other physical characteristics outside mainstream acceptance; existing as a survivor in a social system that celebrates abuse and war; the choice to confront capitalism, racism, patriarchy and heteronormativity in a culture of submission; and so much more.
Absent Cause is seeking submissions on your experience of "Dangerous Gifts" for the forthcoming issue. Artwork, comix, photography, essays, poems, and SHORT fiction are welcome.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 30, 2011.
Explore the dark side with Absent Cause:
Underground cultures and hidden histories; feminist, gender-variant 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.
redguard / Greg
redguard at gmail dot com
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No, I will not be bullied or terrorized
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In her latest abusive stunt, my ex Michelle has tried to threaten me with losing my job over a partially nude self-portrait I took and posted for DeviantArt's "Spirit Day" project last year.
As you may recall, on Spirit Day — October 20 — people wore purple in solidarity with the victims of anti-queer bullying and to remember those who've died as a result.
My photo — Called Spirit Day Queers Bash Back — was an attempt to infuse the idea of fight-back militancy with the right to open sexuality. I wore a purple hoodie and was naked below the waist. My fist was wrapped in a red bandanna from the Honduran National Resistance Front (FNRP), symbolic of the terror visited by the U.S.-backed coup regime against gay, lesbian, bi and trans activists in that country.
For me, showing my body was also symbolic of solidarity with queers from someone who was mercilessly bullied as a child for being fat. It was not something that came easy to me, to expose myself like that.
I posted the photo on my old Tumblr and also at DeviantArt, as part of the Spirit Day project and on my personal page, where it can still be seen.
Dear reader; you may or may not appreciate this photograph as art. But what do you think of someone who would threaten a person's job over such a piece? Particularly the co-parent of their children, whose care and well-being are dependent on that job?
It was a foolish threat on my ex's part, because my place of employment is a progressive organization with many individuals who participated in Spirit Day in various ways. Even if my managers don't like the photo, they wouldn't dare fire me over it, since it would cause a shit-storm among their queer and anti-censorship supporters. Not to mention, I have a strong union contract with ample protections.
But most importantly — even if none of that were true — I refuse to be bullied — I refused to be terrorized by her any longer.
And so I repost the photo here, for the world to see, because I'm proud of it. And because I won't allow an abusive bully to have power over me any more.
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As you may recall, on Spirit Day — October 20 — people wore purple in solidarity with the victims of anti-queer bullying and to remember those who've died as a result.
My photo — Called Spirit Day Queers Bash Back — was an attempt to infuse the idea of fight-back militancy with the right to open sexuality. I wore a purple hoodie and was naked below the waist. My fist was wrapped in a red bandanna from the Honduran National Resistance Front (FNRP), symbolic of the terror visited by the U.S.-backed coup regime against gay, lesbian, bi and trans activists in that country.
For me, showing my body was also symbolic of solidarity with queers from someone who was mercilessly bullied as a child for being fat. It was not something that came easy to me, to expose myself like that.
I posted the photo on my old Tumblr and also at DeviantArt, as part of the Spirit Day project and on my personal page, where it can still be seen.
Dear reader; you may or may not appreciate this photograph as art. But what do you think of someone who would threaten a person's job over such a piece? Particularly the co-parent of their children, whose care and well-being are dependent on that job?
It was a foolish threat on my ex's part, because my place of employment is a progressive organization with many individuals who participated in Spirit Day in various ways. Even if my managers don't like the photo, they wouldn't dare fire me over it, since it would cause a shit-storm among their queer and anti-censorship supporters. Not to mention, I have a strong union contract with ample protections.
But most importantly — even if none of that were true — I refuse to be bullied — I refused to be terrorized by her any longer.
And so I repost the photo here, for the world to see, because I'm proud of it. And because I won't allow an abusive bully to have power over me any more.
fav.me/d3154by
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Artists Against Arizona's SB 1070
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Absent Cause zine has signed on to this important effort. Please add your endorsement and forward to others!
***please post widely***
Artists Against Arizona's SB 1070 - Seeking your Endorsement
We believe the decision by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to sign into law
the poorly conceived immigration measure SB1070, marks a new low in the
fight to protect civil liberties in The United States. This law allows
any officer of the law at the state, county, or city level in Arizona to
determine the legal immigration status of anyone at anytime, among other
provisions, including making it a crime to be in Arizona illegally.
Millions of people everywhere believe it will lead to rampant racial
profiling, particularly against people of Latino/a heritage. President
Obama has called it "misguided." Furthermore, immigration is a national
issue and the state of Arizona has no constitutional role in determining
who has legal status in this country.
We are calling on members of the worldwide artistic community—whether
visual, performing, literary or other discipline—to boycott the state of
Arizona in opposition to this unjust legislation, for as long as it
remains on the books. We ask artists to not perform, produce, present,
appear or conduct business in Arizona so that lawmakers there understand
that the rest of the country disapproves, so they will feel the economic
impact of their bad decision. We call on talent agents, managers,
publicists, unions and associations to also support this effort and the
artists they represent who choose to join.
We also call on fans and supporters of the arts to contact their
favorite performers and artists and encourage them to participate in
this boycott. Fans can also show their support for the boycott by
writing to Arizona Governor Brewer, and by supporting their favorite
artists when they make appearances in other states.
The artistic community has a natural role to play in commenting and
responding to social issues. Now more than ever the time is right to
act.
To Sign-on & Endorse this Campaign as an organization, group or as an
individual; please send your: Name, Title/Affiliation and City & State
to artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com
To follow us on Facebook see: www.facebook.com/pages/Artists…
***please post widely***
Artists Against Arizona's SB 1070 - Seeking your Endorsement
We believe the decision by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to sign into law
the poorly conceived immigration measure SB1070, marks a new low in the
fight to protect civil liberties in The United States. This law allows
any officer of the law at the state, county, or city level in Arizona to
determine the legal immigration status of anyone at anytime, among other
provisions, including making it a crime to be in Arizona illegally.
Millions of people everywhere believe it will lead to rampant racial
profiling, particularly against people of Latino/a heritage. President
Obama has called it "misguided." Furthermore, immigration is a national
issue and the state of Arizona has no constitutional role in determining
who has legal status in this country.
We are calling on members of the worldwide artistic community—whether
visual, performing, literary or other discipline—to boycott the state of
Arizona in opposition to this unjust legislation, for as long as it
remains on the books. We ask artists to not perform, produce, present,
appear or conduct business in Arizona so that lawmakers there understand
that the rest of the country disapproves, so they will feel the economic
impact of their bad decision. We call on talent agents, managers,
publicists, unions and associations to also support this effort and the
artists they represent who choose to join.
We also call on fans and supporters of the arts to contact their
favorite performers and artists and encourage them to participate in
this boycott. Fans can also show their support for the boycott by
writing to Arizona Governor Brewer, and by supporting their favorite
artists when they make appearances in other states.
The artistic community has a natural role to play in commenting and
responding to social issues. Now more than ever the time is right to
act.
To Sign-on & Endorse this Campaign as an organization, group or as an
individual; please send your: Name, Title/Affiliation and City & State
to artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com
To follow us on Facebook see: www.facebook.com/pages/Artists…
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Call for submissions to Absent Cause #4
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The new issue of Absent Cause zine will focus on surviving. Some possible topics are:
Your personal story of survival
The repercussions of surviving emotional, physical and sexual abuse
Surviving under a classist, anti-poor, racist, sexist, anti-queer and fat-phobic system
Sex work and survival
What should be the role of social-justice activists and organizations in personal survival issues?
Coping methods, good or bad – alcohol and drugs, food, sexual acting out, relationship merry-go-rounds, art and writing, isolation, fashion/style, therapy — and their consequences
Absent Cause welcomes submissions of essays, poetry, artwork, photography, comix, etc. Contributions from people of color, wimmin and queer people are especially welcome!
The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 28, 2010. Send your submissions to redguard@gmail.com
To check out previous issues, contact me or visit redguard.etsy.com
Your personal story of survival
The repercussions of surviving emotional, physical and sexual abuse
Surviving under a classist, anti-poor, racist, sexist, anti-queer and fat-phobic system
Sex work and survival
What should be the role of social-justice activists and organizations in personal survival issues?
Coping methods, good or bad – alcohol and drugs, food, sexual acting out, relationship merry-go-rounds, art and writing, isolation, fashion/style, therapy — and their consequences
Absent Cause welcomes submissions of essays, poetry, artwork, photography, comix, etc. Contributions from people of color, wimmin and queer people are especially welcome!
The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 28, 2010. Send your submissions to redguard@gmail.com
To check out previous issues, contact me or visit redguard.etsy.com
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Available Now! Absent Cause zine #3
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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 redguard.etsy.com
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 redguard.etsy.com
Absent Cause #3: Death, Dying, Undeath
NOW AVAILABLE
$4 plus shipping
Available at redguard.etsy.com
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.
——————————
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 redguard.etsy.com
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