Happy Anne Elizabeth Month!

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Hello All,

Much as Tax Day came a day late this year, I wanted to give you all an extra day to gather your thoughts before I sent out this occasional update to my goings on, mid-Anne Elizabeth Month. As we are all most assuredly aware, my birthday is celebrated throughout the entirety of April, in various manners appropriate to each individual celebrants' location and station in life, but a few key things must take place before the close of the month, in order to ensure proper celebrating: 

1. Both a cake and a pie must be consumed in full, either by you, the receiver of this email, or in your presence. (Dieters are allowed only the concession that they may chose to create a very tiny cake or pie, and it can be as healthful as you desire, but it must be delicious.)

2. Birthday wishes must be expressed, although not necessarily to me, nor necessarily to any living thing. Just, in general.

3. You must, at some point, do something fun this month for no single reason other than you feel like it instead of what you have to do. IMPORTANT!

Please look over your recent weeks and make haste to complete the remainder of the above-listed tasks in the next 14 days. Your attention in this matter is appreciated.

Additionally, you may consider yourself forewarned in regards to the following: 

Lisa Vinebaum wrote this great little piece on Garment Work for the Journal of Modern Craft.

I have a new piece out in the exciting new Chicago free quarterly The Land Line. It's called "Capitalism and Its Discontents," and if you don't like free things, I also made a $10 version. It's red, white, and blue. I silkscreened it. I never done that before.

I wrote some new journalism, a long-brewing piece on the mass faintings in Cambodian garment factories. The Truthout version is here. It also got picked up by my pals at Alternet. 

I will be presenting a talk on Garment Work, FEINT, and some of my findings on the Cambodian mass faintings this weekend at the Creating Justice symposium at Oakton Community college. There will be some cool people there.

I will also—SAME DAY—be speaking at Sappho's Salon. Hooray for queers!

The last Ladydrawers column on Truthout got people pretty excited, and I think the next one will, too. Read the most recent installmen with Lauren Weinstein here, and catch up on the lot of them here.

The Adventure School Comics Intensive deadline is May 1, and collaborator Nicole Boyett has created this handy comic that will help explain certain things about our programming, but further enshroud others in mystery. What I can probably say outright, and here, is this: 

- There are only two weeks left to apply 

- It will be going down June 4-15 at the Read/Write Library in Chicago and Spudnik Press

- It is right before CAKE (June 16 & 17)

- Although we are open to collaborators of all genders and identities, we ask participants to politically align themselves with the female creators that, in comics, make up close to 40% of the industry, 60% of the characters pictured sans culottes, and receive an average of 10% of the paid gigs at mainstream or independent presses

- It will be totally awesome

Finally: early warning. I'll have, like, a new secret book coming out in a short bit here, mostly of photographs. Green Lantern Press is publishing it, and you can find out a little bit about it here. It's going to be cool, I swear it.

OK, celebrants, time to get partying!

AEM