My top crowdsourcing considerations for this month – filled with queer, womanly and sexuality-oriented goodness 🙂
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Khaos Komix: The Boxset Gay, Lesbian, Bi and Trans – Khaos is a diverse, character-driven coming-of-age comic series about 8 teenagers of varying sexualities and gender identities. The comic finished back in the beginning of the year, and now that the 4th and final volume is ready to print creator Tab Kimpton wants to end the series with a bang by releasing a shiny box to keep them all in. Khaos helped me a lot through my earlier years as a queer and questioning individual; it’s a really relatable and quite realistic comic about dealing with personal issues and the angst of self-discovery. If you’ve not checked it out before – this is your chance to get all 4 volumes, as it’s a perk! Back it at The Kickstarter! |
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Sam Orchard: “Doing His Thing” When I interviewed Trans*Comics darling Sam Orchard back in June, he mentioned wanting to one day remake/release an old academic project of his. And, with help from you (yes you!) he is now trying to do just that! Vote for him on ‘Do Your Thing‘ to help him win the AMP Scholarships required to fund the project! Vote for him HERE! |
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Interviews with Queer Artists of Color Art-Activist, Zinester, Cartoonist, Drummer and Filmmaker Nia King started her We Want The Airwaves podcast back in March, updating weekly with fascinating and personal interviews and conversations with queer artists of colour. Now Nia wants to take the transcripts of those interviews and share the stories she’s collected in book, e-book, and zine form. She aptly describes these as funny, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching – and I’d really recommend checking out the podcast, and backing the project. Support the project on IndieGogo |
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Smut Peddler 2014 is coming!!! After a very successful Kickstarter for the first anthology last year, Smut Peddler gained a reputation among the lady creators of mature comics as “One of the best ideas someone’s ever had”. Okay, so that’s a paraphrase of my own thoughts, but seriously – everyone I know or have interviewed loved the first book, and even more people have been excited on social media to be applying to be in the second, come 2014. Self-described as “Indie comics’ most sex-positive, lady-friendly, dirty little mini”, Smut Peddler is an all-star showcase of comic erotica, made inclusively (not exclusively, as collabs are allowed) by women. I’m a big fan of sex-positive content, and making sexuality about enjoyment and self-love, rather than shame and degradation – So I’ll be looking forward to this new volume with baited breaths. |
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Girl Sex 101 Smut Peddler too mainstream for you? Or just want more options to your smut? Then why not take a more educational approach with Girl Sex 101 a “feminist, pleasure-positive, and consent-oriented sex education to help women of all orientations and experience levels understand their bodies and those of their partners.” Each chapter opens with a story featuring our diverse cast of characters that illustrates the rest of the info in the chapter: Layla has a hard time speaking up about what she likes in bed with a hot femme, Jamie finds herself in bed with a trans guy and doesn’t quite know how to ask him about his body, and later Layla has to figure out how to communicate about her STI status with a new flame. Diverse, informative and characterful, back it on Kickstarter! |
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Anything That Loves After trebbling their KS funding goal, the Anything That Loves anthology was put together and published to fantastic effect: It’s 223 pages of Comics Beyond the “Gay” and “Straight” – bi, pan, omni, questioning, trans, it is choc-full of norm-challenging and thought-provoking stories and characters. From amazing fictions like Bold Riley, to personal tales from Erika Moen and Amy T. Falcone. You can but it now, digitally of physically, from Northwest Press |