Weāre looking for an artist for the cover of a book about autistic women!
An acquaintance named Heather Stone Wodis asked me to share this. She is having a book published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Itās her PhD thesis and itās a collection and discussion of the stories of several women on the autism spectrum.
Sheās offering $100 for a good piece of original art for the cover, created by a woman on the autism spectrum.
It can be something youāve already done, it can already be posted online somewhere, just as long as itās your own work and you think it would fit well with a book about autistic womenās stories.
Since itās a pretty serious book (again, a PhD thesis), I donāt think sheād be interested in art thatās cartoonish, but whatever you have, it canāt hurt to try.
Iām guessing it would have to be a pretty high-resolution image. 300 dpi at least. And big enough to fill the width of a standard book cover (maybe 6 by 9 inches). I donāt think it has to be the same dimensions as a book cover, because they can put the title and authorās name above and below it, or crop to a part of it. But it needs at least enough resolution for them to do that.
To submit:
Send me (@erikahammerschmidt) either a message on Tumblr, or an email at humanalien@gmail.com. Include either an attached file of the art, or a link to where you have it up online.
I will send Heather what you send me. Sheāll look at the pieces and pick one to use. Iāll get back to the winner when she decides.
Notes:
1. I am not sure of the deadline, and she isnāt either. Itās probably soon, because the book is just about to come out. So I wouldnāt recommend starting a project that will take a long time.
2. I am not sure how the artist would be paid. Iām guessing she could do Paypal or a check in the mail, but I donāt know for sure. I really havenāt gotten much time to talk to her about this, and Iām in a hurry to post this because the deadline is probably quite soon.
2. She hasnāt told me how she defines either āautisticā or āwomen.ā She seems like a very progressive and accepting person, so I would hope that she would accept self-diagnosed autistics and trans women, but I canāt guarantee that she would. However, I doubt that she would require you to show her your diagnosis or the sex on your birth certificate, and she might have to know your legal name in order to send you the payment but thatās probably all.
I donāt even know. Itās from a book about languages my friendās been reading. (itās creepy that I can understand it ā¦)
It was actually invented with that purpose: anyone who spoke any European language should be able to understand esperanto. It was meant to be a lingua franca.
STOP WHAT YOUāRE DOING YāALL AND TELL ME IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS
I,understand about a half of it, I speak some dutch
āWhat Happened? Did your computer catch a virus? Did you suddenly develop BSE [mad cow disease]?ā
Between German, English, Latin, a bit of French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian that was actually pretty readable to me.
I speak English and a very little spanish, and I can read it.Ā
i grokked everything but a couple words that i could gather from context.
Hi folks! This is actually not Esperanto. Itās true that Esperanto draws words, syntax, etc. from other languages, but Esperanto would also be much less intelligible. Esperanto was constructed to be a consistent language that would be easy to learn. If you look at the description, this language is called Europanto.
(The way you can tell is that Esperanto has rules for how different parts of speech end: for instance, all the nouns end in -o. Also, Esperanto has a slightly different alphabet from English, and if you look at the alphabet for Europanto, it contains the same letters as the English alphabet.)
For instance, here is the first sentence of the first Harry Potter book in Esperanto:Ā
Gesinjoroj Dursli Äe numero kvar, Ligustra Vojo, fieris diri, ke ili estas āperfekte normalaj, multan dankon.ā
As you can see, it doesnāt look like the passage in the original post, and itās much more difficult to understand, unless you have the first sentence memorized, in which case itās pretty simple. Some of the words, likeĀ āperfekteā andĀ ānormalajā, are similar to English, while others likeĀ āestasā andĀ ādankonā are ones that English speakers can generally figure out with a vague knowledge of words in foreign languages. However, there isnāt nearly the same level of immediate comprehension in Esperanto that there is in Europanto.
That being said, both of these languages are super cool!
I had a dream last night that I discovered that Lin-Manuel Mirandaās name is short for Benjamin FrankLin-Manuel Miranda, and realized that at some point in the future when he becomes old and time travel is invented, he would travel back in time and BE Benjamin Franklin and introduce people to various innovative ideas, and that all those years he was a diplomat, he would actually be traveling back and forward in time. In the dream, I thought, āThatās why Benjamin Franklin isnāt in Hamilton. He didnāt want anyone to realize theyāre the same person.ā
