Elizabeth Caudy

California based painter

Chicago based photographer and technology artist, as well as professor at The University of Illinois at Chicago

Retired Columbia College Chicago tenured professor and fine art photographer

Chicago based photographer and educator at Columbia College Chicago

Chicago based photographer and former professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

I've known this amazing New York and Chicago based photographer since Catholic grade school! I really love her eye... she sees things others wouldn't even notice!

Chicago based photographer who went to grad school with me and whose work deals largely with gender isues viewed through a feminist lens.

I've known this incredibly talented Oakland, California- based illustrator and designer since I was in high school. When she was living in New York City, she met Tim Burton and asked him to sign her sketch book, and he said he liked her drawings! How about THAT?

Artist and teacher based in Rhode Island

Vesna's exquisitely rendered drawings are informed by her knowledge of science.

Widely known for her work that deals with body image, Jen Davis is a NYC-based photographer who studied at my alma mater, Columbia College Chicago.

New York based photographer, singer, and actor

Formerly known as Macaque, this band is comprised of Kelly Evers Jackson on vocals and Christine Hart on vocals and keyboard. If you scroll down you'll see a banner that reads "Goddamned New York Electronica Band." I coined that phrase as a bad joke, but they liked it so much they used it as a banner! Also if you scroll down, you'll see pictures I took of the band when they performed in Chicago, credited to me.

Co-founded by Tori Amos, RAINN pushes for awareness about and help for victims of rape, sexual abuse, and incest

Promotes awareness about and help and community for those who suffer from mental illness; fights stigma surrounding mental illness

Promotes awareness about all disorders of the brain, from brain tumors to mental illness

promotes awareness about depression and suicide

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Helps you quit smoking for good.

This page from an antiacne site gives details about how smoking affects your skin and how quitting can reverse these effects

Her own writing along with that of her friends and colleagues (including a poem of mine called "The Hissing of Summer Lawns," yes, after the Joni Mitchell song. The poem can be found in the writing section of this site.)

This magazine ran my first short story to ever be published. The story is called "Falling" and it's in Issue 41.

If you want evidence of how cool this woman is, when we were in high school she often wore a Menard's t-shirt to school. (You might not get the Menard's reference if you're not from Chicago :P) If you want more evidence, visit her blog because, as she puts it, "I'm just really hilarious and I want the world to know." And, believe me, the blog is pretty hilarious!

This is a quarterly aimed at people with bipolar disorder. Not only is it informative, it makes me feel that I'm not alone.

I love this zine and have been published in it!

Brilliant writer and artist. Brilliant and inspiring site.

My blog is the Creative Schizophrenia blog.

Michael Stone is a Milan-based film/ video maker. This particular YouTube offering is called "Under My Arm Forever--Rihanna Umbrella Parody" and it's hilarious! While you're there, watch his other videos, like "Pepperoni Face," his hysterical parody of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face."

This is a project I'm backing. It's going to be film exploring armpit hair, why women are supposed to shave it and men aren't, where this idea of shaving armpit hair came from, etc. I really hope someone out there reading this backs it, too, so it can happen!

Chicago's feminist bookstore... they need your support!

This bakery, cakery and cafe made my wedding cake. It was delicious and beautiful to look at, too!

Your one-stop shop for fun, left-of-center, ethically and environmentally-consciously made flair. 10% of all proceeds go to RAINN (Rape Abuse and Incest National Network.) I particularly like my button of Courtney Love kissing Kurt Cobain.