Nothing But Red Author:Anne Barringer, David Baker, Judy Bagshaw, Mechele Armstrong, Ann Aguirre, Skyla Dawn Cameron, Kimberly Bea, Hanne Blank, CL Bledsoe, Melinda Blount In April 2007, a group of men pulled seventeen-year-old Du'a Khalil Aswad into a mob. They proceeded to stone and beat her to death, a supposed "honor" killing for allegedly falling in love with a man of a different faith. Several camera phones recorded the entire incident from the front row, and videos later surfaced online. One m... more »onth later, popular filmmaker Joss Whedon expressed his despair and outrage at the misogyny in all cultures on a fan-run blog. "Because it's no longer enough to be a decent person," he wrote. "It's no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. I've always had a bent towards apocalyptic fiction, and I'm beginning to understand why. I look and I see the earth in flames. Her face was nothing but red." The arts anthology Nothing But Red was conceived as a way to raise both awareness of the issues he spoke of, as well as money for the charity Equality Now.
Written and illustrated by Skyla Dawn Cameron, Ann Aguirre, Mechele Armstrong, Judy Bagshaw, David Baker, Anne Barringer, Kimberly Bea, Hanne Blank, CL Bledsoe, Melinda Blount, Jill Boland, Kerry Budd, Elaine Corvidae, Kevin Craig, Maggie Dougherty, Leigh Dragoon, Catherine Egan, Sasha Elliott, Dana Evans, Elizabeth Frank, Stephanie Gayle, Valentina Gnup, Gila Green, Liza Hamilton, Reina Hardy, Janna Hastings, Stacey Hill, Jody Houser, Tom Hulley, Barbara Hunt, Abha Iyengar, Dale Jacobson, Lee Kendall, Julie Klumb, Laure Lackey, Guy Lancaster, Nora Landry, Rae Lindley, Virginia Lore, Bobbi Lurie, Jennifer Macaire, Mehrin Masud-Elias, Ellen McCord, Virginia McRae, MG, m. jules, Nick Monteleone, Scott Neigh, Gill O'Halloran, MK Proietta, WJ Ray, Alex Remy, J.E. Remy, Clare Roach, Sonia Rupcic, Lilith Saintcrow, Jasmine Santos, Wayne Scheer, Lisa Schleipfer, Leah Schnelbach, Ellen Sheeley, Lynn Tait, Angela Todd, Jessica Tudor, Ruth Walker, Joss Whedon, Lise Whidden, Peter Wong, Andrena Zawinski« less