One-hour zoom hang with Mia Mingus – your chance to talk about whatever floats your boat! You can ask questions about Mia’s work on topics like access intimacy, pods and pod mapping, disability justice, transformative justice, Moving Towards the Ugly, etc. Or, Mia can do more of an AMA (ask me anything) — with consent of course 🙂

Mia generously donated two zoom hangs, so two people can win this prize!

About Mia: Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a queer physically disabled korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. Mia founded and currently leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project which builds the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive. She has been involved in transformative justice work for almost 2 decades and  has supported numerous people, groups, families and communities in addressing harm, violence and abuse using transformative justice.

Mia helped to create and forward the disability justice framework. Her writings on disability have been used around the world and are a regular part of college and university curricula. Her blog, Leaving Evidence, has become a staple resource for anyone wanting to learn about disability and she has coined language and concepts such as “access intimacy,” “magnificence,” “politically and descriptively disabled” and “forced intimacy.” Mia has played a key role in connecting disability justice with other movements and communities and she has worked tirelessly to educate different communities about disability, ableism, access, disability justice and abled supremacy.
TICKET PRICE: $125

Learn more about Mia’s work.

Drag queen and children’s book author Lil Miss Hot Mess will record a Cameo-style video greeting for a friend or family member (for a birthday, wedding, or other special occasion, you name it), plus send a signed copy of her picture book Make Your Own Rainbow: A Drag Queen’s Guide to Color. (Note: video greeting must be scheduled in advance, and may take up to 1-2 months depending on her schedule.)
TICKET PRICE: $75

Learn more about the book and Lil Miss Hot Mess.

This prize includes one copy of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press, 2025), signed by editors Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp. Additionally, Harris Kornstein will be available to speak about the book with the winner’s classroom or community group via Zoom (to be scheduled at a mutually-agreeable time).

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic includes contributions by wide-ranging disability scholars, writers, and activists whose research and lived experiences chronicle the pandemic’s impacts in prisons, migrant detention centers, Chinatown senior centers, hospitals in Queens and the Bronx, subways, schools, housing shelters, social media, and other locations of public and private life.

By focusing on New York City over the course of the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book reveals key themes including: hierarchies of disability “vulnerability,” the deployment of disability as a tool of population management, and innovative crip pandemic cultural production. How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic honors those lost, as well as those who survived, by calling for just policies and caring infrastructures, not only in times of crisis but for the long haul.
TICKET PRICE: $200

Learn more about the book.

Signed copies of award-winning books from Carmen Maria Machado!

Her Body and Other Parties: In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
TICKET PRICE: $25

In the Dream House: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is a searing account of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman. Each chapter in this wildly inventive memoir is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds her story up to the light, examining it from different angles. She considers her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.

Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
TICKET PRICE: $75 for rare hardcover edition

Learn more about Carmen and her work on her website.

Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects and resistance groups fall apart because people treat each other poorly, trying desperately to live out the cultural myths about dating and relationships that we are fed from an early age. 

How do we divest from the idea that one romantic partner will be the solution to all our problems? How do we bring our best thinking about freedom and justice into step with our desires for healing and connection?  

Love in a F*cked-Up World is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, preparing us for the work of changing the world. 

Dean has generously donated three copies of the book, so three people will win this prize! TICKET PRICE: $30

Learn more about Dean and his work: DeanSpade.net.

In Care at the End of the World, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany, and Aurora Levins Morales, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency, cultivating radical interdependency, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. She highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support. TICKET PRICE: $25

Learn more about Jina and her book.

Hooray, What A Day!/¡Viva,Qué Día! is a bilingual children’s book by non-binary artist Sunny Allis. It follows ten-year old Frankie and their best friend Jesse through a joyful day in their queer and colorful community. Join Frankie and Jesse as they go to a parade, make DIY projects together, and help out at the neighborhood garden. Along the way Frankie learns to celebrate the people in their life that they get to call their chosen family. People of all ages can enjoy this uplifting look at identity, self-esteem and friendship. TICKET PRICE: $20

Learn more about Sunny and their work: sunnyallis.com.

Three classic albums to choose from!

• You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This. Vinyl album. 20-year anniversary reissue, signed by the artist! Double LP. TICKET PRICE: $50
• Advisory Committee. Vinyl album, LP. Signed by the artist! TICKET PRICE: $25
• C’mon Miracle. Vinyl album, LP. Signed by the artist! TICKET PRICE: $25
  

Learn more about Mirah and her work on her website.

A custom altar charm- Maze will work with the winner to design a custom altar charm just for you. An art piece meets magical tool, this piece will be crafted with your input, which will shape the intention and use of the piece. TICKET PRICE: $250

Maze/ Melanie Griffin (she/he/they) is a non-binary, queer Black artist based in New York. She is an ardent believer and lover of plant medicine, plant magic and healing justice. They are deeply invested in collective healing and creative paths that center those most impacted by interlocking oppressions. Through textiles, multimedia works, writing, and performance/ritual/magic, Melanie explores issues around home, self-care/ self affirmation, sickness, healing, race, gender, sexuality, capitalism, liberation and our relationship to this planet.

Check out more of Maze’s work via their website and Instagram.

TextaQueen merch bundle! Includes:

• Learn Your ACABs colouring book
• Bollywouldn’t publication
• Correspondence risograph print
• Good White Person certificate
• Hey Progressive Arts Creators and Community Builders risograph
• Various postcards
• Chihuahua not included!

TextaQueen generously donated two bundles, so two people can win!
TICKET PRICE: $130

Learn more about Texta and their work at textaqueen.com.

A set of two potions from Dori Midnight:

APOCALYPSE POTION: for grace, resilience, rigor & curiosity in the face of mystery & unraveling. for cultivating courage, kinship, & collaboration with all beings. with essences of moss, oak tree, fireweed, dandelion, knotweed, mycelium new moon, rainbow kelp, citrine, emerald, & ruby in spring water and honey brandy.

PLEASURE ACTIVIST: authentic pleasure is a measure of liberation. with essences of honey rose, wild ginger, tulip poplar, rainbow shower tree, opal, rhodochrosite, carnelian, dolphin love, hot springs, northern lights, honeybees in spring water and honey brandy. (Limited release in collaboration + celebration of adrienne maree brown’s book Pleasure Activism.)

Two sets available (two people will win this prize!) TICKET PRICE: $50

Learn more about these potions and Dori’s work.

Unique ceramic bowl by Petit Chiang. This bowl was hand thrown and glazed in LA, and features clear stripes with bright yellow and white underglaze marks. Medium sized (cereal bowl). TICKET PRICE: $100

Check out more of Petit Chiang’s work on her Instagram.