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Calamity Woman was a collaborative original art book running from the fall of 2019 through the spring of 2020. This anthology portrayed a diverse array of cowgirls through the illustrations and comics of 58 artists.

The gorgeous artwork of our contributors is featured on our Twitter.

This was a project of love organized by myself and co-moderator Luke Ge. I conceptualized the book and worked as its co-organizer, communications and social media manager, and graphic/layout designer and editor. I also provided various spot illustrations and standalone artworks for the book itself.

Artists were offered an equal cut of financial compensation for their work with the option to leave their payment for a collective donation to an appropriate cause. All contributors maintain full creative ownership over their individual submissions. Complimentary physical copies of the anthology and its accompanying merchandise were sent to all participants.

Thanks to the gracious donation of profits by our contributors, a total of $10,400 was donated to RAICES and the Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund. Our team consciously chose to support these two services as a reparation to the Indigenous populations that are exploited by the frequent colonial revisionism of the mainstream Western genre.