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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]

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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.

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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.

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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]

[link]

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Trades are welcome! Contact me at redguard@gmail.com or
Absent Cause
PO Box 1568
New York, NY 10276

ADULTS ONLY, please.


From the introduction:

Trick, treat

Collected here are several pieces of smut I wrote between 2000 and 2007.

I’m not joking when I say this is smut. Major themes are pregnancy-risk, submission to penetration, deceit, incest, and extremely unsafe sex.

Looking back at how these themes dominated my erotic writing over the years, it’s clear how much I was working through my own traumas, fears and fantasies as a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in childhood and adulthood. I posted them in online groups under various pseudonyms. Frequently I wrote from the point of view of other individuals onsidered “feminine” and “less than” by the dominant social order of capitalist patriarchy -- women or gay men.

I am a radical and a feminist, but the stories here are not especially so. They may not appeal to you. Some you may even find offensive. All I can say is, they were ways of helping me to make sense of my desires and pain in a time of my life when I had few outlets.

It’s okay if you’re turned on by these stories. I was. I am.

It’s okay if you’re disturbed by these stories. I was. I am.

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with special guests (in the following order):

Dave Fried of Black Carrot
Greg Butterfield (redguard) of Absent Cause
Sage Adderley of Sweet Candy Distro

Hosted by Hannah Neurotica

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It's a brief comix history of my struggles with depression, PTSD, abuse, marriage and fatherhood, recovery and struggling to reclaim a sense of self. It's cartoony but not light hearted. There is lots of potentially triggering stuff here. Consider yourself warned.

It's yours for a buck, a couple of stamps or a trade. If you would like a copy, you can order it from my etsy store or shoot me an email.

redguard@gmail.com
[link]
[link]

Absent Cause
P.O. Box 1568
New York, NY 10276

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redguard

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[link]

Welcome to Philly Zine Fest '08!

October 5, 2008 at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St, West Philly, 12-6 pm

Join the Philly Zine Fest email list to keep up-to-date with the latest news. Also check out our Myspace page!

The Fest is in its sixth year, and we're going strong. We are looking for more people to help keep up the momentum. We need help with workshops and weekend events!

There is no parking lot at the Rotunda, but there is street parking and a parking garage (4011 Walnut Street) across the street.

On the Web site, the cost to rent a half-table is $6, and the cost to rent a full table is $12. There are no extra fees or charges for individual zinesters.

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For my birthday, Michelle, Ripley and I took a road trip to Dorney Park, a water amusement park in Allentown, Pa. Michelle and I were both feeling pretty self-conscious about displaying our bodies in public. The day we spent there was an eye opener for me about the absurdity of fat-phobia in U.S. culture and politics.

Who did I see at Dorney Park? Considering that it was a weekday, it was very crowded. There were a lot of kids and tweens on summer day camp trips, but also many families, couples, college-aged people and teens.

The folks I saw were majority white, particularly the kids from nearby areas. But not overwhelmingly so; there were many African American and Latino families. It was overwhelmingly working-class people from easily commutable distances – most probably from northern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a smattering of folks from NYC and Philadelphia.

Most of the adults I saw – and I don’t mean half, or even a slight majority, but most – were fat, at least as that word is defined by our society, the media, and advertising/modeling industries.

The point is, seeing this cross-section of “Middle America,” people of all colors from urban, rural and suburban areas, most of them fat, just pointed out the absurdity of our thin-obsessed society, especially where women and their bodies are concerned.

What’s more, the “thin” people I saw at Dorney Park, aside from young kids, were generally the unhealthiest looking. It was particularly apparent when mothers and teens were depriving themselves – they did not look well. Meanwhile, mothers who had bellies, full hips and bosoms, meaty legs and arms, looked much healthier and robust. So did younger and older women with meat on their bones. So did young and middle-aged men.

Please don’t take this as a slam at anyone who is thin. Not at all. The point is, we all have different body types, and all should be okay. The problem comes when the powers that be tell us we all have to fit into one mold of what is “healthy” – especially when that is clearly not the healthiest size for many folks.

Fat is a loaded word, but one I’ve come to embrace after reading a lot of fat-positive literature and thinking about the subject. “Overweight,” “heavy,” “obese,” etc., imply a negative judgment. Fat is, or should be, simply descriptive, since nobody really knows what another person’s ideal weight, shape or size is.

The Dorney Park experience was striking to me because 1) I live in New York, which is a center of fat-phobia in terms of how people show or don’t show themselves in public, and 2) because I’m rarely in any place with that big a cross-section of people in various states of undress!

I couldn’t imagine seeing this balance of people at, say, the beach at Coney Island, even though it is also a very working-class hangout. Not because there are necessarily fewer fat people in New York (maybe so, maybe not), but because they feel more repressed about displaying their bodies in public.

It’s widely acknowledged that people in the U.S. are on average substantially taller than their ancestors of 50, 100 or 200 years ago. I won’t begin to speculate on the reasons, but is it really such a leap to think that people’s bodies change and adjust to different conditions over time? And that these changes can be healthy? Should we start encouraging people to lop their legs off at the knees?

The poison of capitalist culture has successfully twisted the notions of fitness and appearance into a big nasty knot. Everyone wants to be fit, but when it comes right down to it, they’d rather be thin. The two things are not the same.

Do most people, including fat people, need more exercise and healthier diets? Probably. Should they be starving themselves, taking drugs and cutting up their organs to fit an unrealistic and quite possibly unhealthy ideal?

Mind you, I didn’t take off my black t-shirt at Dorney Park. No way in hell. But I’m honest enough to admit my hypocrisy. And I’m starting to grapple with the issue after a lifetime of self-body-hatred and yo-yoing weight.

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In celebration of the Filipino people's 40 years of revolutionary struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the CPP Information Bureau is launching a digital poster-making
contest in line with preparations for the Party's upcoming 40th anniversary. The contest will be guided by the following:

1. Posters are to reflect the theme "Celebrate the Filipino people's 40 years of revolutionary struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines."

2. The contest is open to anyone.

3. Entry specifications:

* Entries are to be submitted in digital format (as computer files):
* Entries should include both the rasterized/bitmap (tiff or png)
output and the source files of the artwork. Source files should be in
any of the following formats: Inkscape SVG files, Gimp files,
Illustrator, Photoshop PSD files. If bitmap images are used, these
should be submitted separately in high resolution. * Artwork should
be 17" x 22" in dimension in either portrait or landscape
orientation.
* Posters may be in color or black-and-white.
* Submission of entries
* Entries are to be submitted anytime from today to September 15.
* Entries are to be submitted to any of the following addresses: (i.)
angbayan@yahoo.com <[link] (ii.)
cppmedia@gmail.com <[link] You can secure your
submitted entry by using the this PGP/GPG key.
* Entries can also be
submitted through any revolutionary organization, CPP committee or NPA
unit.
* Entries will accepted whether signed o anonymously
submitted.
* Entries will be judged according to:
* how well the stated theme is illustrated
* mass appeal *
originality
* creativity/artistry
* Contest winners
* Winners of the contest will be announced on October in the
Philippine Revolution Web Central (philippinerevolution.net)
* Chosen top entries will be printed in paper and distributed to various
organs for mass dissemination.
* Submitted entries will be placed in
the public domain for unrestricted reproduction, modification and mass
distribution.

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Please let me know if you want to order a copy -- either in print or via email as a pdf file. If you can, please contribute a $4 donation (includes postage). You can pay via PayPal to gregb@wwpublish.com OR via mail at G. Butterfield, 754 Washington Ave 4R, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Check out [link] for more info. And please consider contributing some writing, comix, photography, evil recipes, kinky sex tips, etc. for the next issue!

The first issue of Absent Cause features:

Interviews with
* Velocity Chyaldd, Vulgaras singer/songwriter and all-around badass
* Tina Elshalakany, Arab-American student activist
* Vampiress Jessika, fat-positive model and photographer
* Jessica Mills, author of radical parenting guide "My Mother Wears Combat Boots"
* Empress Nightshade, haunted house impresario and founder of the Shadow Box Theater program for autistic kids

Poetry and essays by
* Imani Henry
* Eman Rimawi
* Amanda Harvey
* Mohammad Awadallah
* Courtney Laine Jones
* DJ Mistress X

Artwork, comix and photography by
* Chasterwebb
* Ruslana Eisenschmidt
* Amanda Tannahill
* Solace Amongst Nightmares
* zowolf
* Disdane
* gabiMONSTROSITY
* Kelushka
* Mykill

Plus essays, poetry, book reviews, comix and whatever else I can cram in from me, redguard.

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Absent Cause, my new zine focused on “dark culture,” will be available in early July.

I created AC to explore topics that resonate with me and many of the artistic and political people whose work I respect and admire: underground cultures, hidden histories, feminist and queer sexualities, chosen families and radical politics; vampirism, the gothic, horror and paganism; surviving abuse, coping with mental illness, self-harm and suicide. Thanks again to all the amazing folks who contributed!

The first issue of Absent Cause features:

Interviews with

* Velocity Chyaldd, Vulgaras singer/songwriter and all-around badass

* Tina Elshalakany, Arab-American student activist

* Vampiress Jessika, fat-positive model and photographer

* Jessica Mills, author of radical parenting guide “My Mother Wears Combat Boots”

* Empress Nightshade, haunted house impresario and founder of the Shadow Box Theater program for autistic kids


Poetry and essays by

* Imani Henry

* Amanda Harvey

* Mohammad Awadallah

* Courtney Laine Jones

* DJ Mistress X


Artwork, comix and photography by

* Chasterwebb

* Ruslana Eisenschmidt

* Amanda Tannahill

* Solace Amongst Nightmares

* zowolf

* Disdane

* gabiMONSTROSITY

* Kelushka

* Mykill


Plus essays, poetry, book reviews, comix and whatever else I can cram in from me, redguard.

Absent Cause will be available in print and pdf formats. Both formats include artwork IN COLOR.

Preorder for $4 (includes shipping) via PayPal from gregb@wwpublish.com or by mail to G. Butterfield, 754 Washington Ave. 4R, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Or send me your zine in trade! Please specify which format you prefer and your mailing address / email address. All proceeds go back into producing the next issue.

Coming in October: Red Army Comix #1
Original comix by redguard featuring The Upyr, Mighty Girl, Necro and Frankenstein

Coming in January 2009: Absent Cause #2
If you are interested in submitting work, please contact redguard@gmail.com

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