Community

Pirates

Selena Simmons-Duffin – radio producer, visual artist
Valerie Wetlaufer – poet, doula
Caroline Manring – poet, artist, educator
Saeed Jones – poet
Perez – writer and radical doula
Bekah Ash – visual artist
Avery Bang – engineer, visual artist, bridge-builder
Analiese Marie – health/food blogger
Laura Hershey – writer, poet, activist
Malaka Gharib – illustrator, food blogger, digital media
Becky Lettenberger – photographer
Jason Reeves – singer/songwriter
Kelley Eskridge – writer, editor
Nicola Griffith – SF author, editor
Meg Day – poet, activist, arts educator
July Westhale – poet, activist
Lawrence Schimel – writer, editor, publisher
Charles Jensen – poet, editor
Dan Vera - poet, writer, editor
Julie Enszer – poet, writer, lesbian activist
Elle Perez – photographer
Minnie Bruce Pratt – poet-activist
Eileen Myles – writer
Ely Shipley – poet
Tamiko Beyer – poet, educator
Eric Nguyen – writer
Najva Sol – writer, photographer, multi-media artist
Jory Mickelson – poet, journalist

Boats

Lambda Literary Foundation – queer literature
Iowa Matthew Shepard Scholarship – for openly LGBT high school seniors in Iowa
The Daily Palette – Iowa writers and visual artists
Genderfork – beauty in ambiguity
The Runcible Spoon – food zine based in Washington, DC
United Action for Youth – youth center in Iowa City, IA
Bridges to Prosperity – building footbridges all over the world
The F Word – feminist media collective in Vancouver, BC
Queer Zine Archive Project – queer DIY history
WWOOF – info exchange for volunteers and organic farms