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Ovaettr Art Newsletter!🍃 > July 2024 🏳️‍🌈

Hello again everyone! Happy Disability Pride Month AND Queer Wrath Month! It’s also my BIRTHDAY MONTH! I turn 33 on July 24th. If you are feeling in the spirit, I have a handful of things I’m seeking on my wishlist like covid antigen tests, LGBTQ+ books to donate to Little Free Libraries, and native TX flower seeds to distribute on my walks and anywhere I travel! Never expected but always appreciated! <3 Now let’s dive in TO THE BIG NEWS!!!!

‘The Fox Who Became A Girl’ will be releasingphysically AUGUST 17TH 2024! 🦊

IT’S HAPPENING! The printer, Ken, from KENESS just got back to me yesterday and let me know that I’ll have the books in plenty of time to be prepared for the Grand Rapids Zine Fest on August 17th! So, that’s the official physical release date! If you’re in or near Grand Rapids on Aug. 17th come by the Fountain Street Church 12pm - 6pm and get one of the first signed copies!!! I am so happy this is finally happening!This was made possible by the Greater Denton Arts Council’s microgrant award the comic won in 2023, funding the first 100 copies of the comic. THANK YOU TO THEM AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE COMIC!

Pre-Orders For ‘The Fox Who Became A Girl’ OPEN TODAY!

Snag the pre-order for the PHYSICAL COMIC RELEASE and get two limited edition 3” stickers of the story’s characters included with your comic!

Still Looking For Part-time Employment! Hire me! 💼

Portfolio / Resume / hello@orionfern.art The hunt continues still for my primary employment! If you hear of any positions or openings, let me know at my e-mail! Thank you!

Open for Custom Commissions, Booking for August!✍🏻

I’m excited to say I’m also available for NEW WORK and eagerly await people’s great ideas! I’m open for illustration, character design, logos, videos, commercials, streamer kits, sketch sheets, and PNGtuber rigs! Got an oddball idea? Let me hear it in my interest form & we can work something out! Commissions Interest Form | Queue & Previous Commissions

Vendor & Virtual Events for End of July & August 2024 🎪

Got some AWESOME events coming up! Debuting The Fox Who Became A Girl in physical format at The GRZF on 8/17, can’t wait to see how people like it in person! Hope you see you at some of these events! - 7/29 6pm - 8:30pm CT - Virtual Life Drawing w/ clothed model photo/video @ My Twitch Stream (twitch.ovaettr.gay) - 8/17 12pm - 6pm ET - The Grand Rapids Zine Fest @ Fountain Street Church (24 Fountain St NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503) - 8/30 9pm - 2am CT - Goth Night @ The Vinyl Lounge (314 E Hickory St Suite 121, Denton, TX 76201)

My freebies I giveaway this month at my booth will continue to be the “How To Help Gaza & Palestine” zines provided by the @blackzinearchive and edited by me for the MICHIGAN area at GRZF and Free N95 Masks + Covid Info Zines for the Summer Surge of infections HAPPENING NOW. Stay masking! * Anyone wearing a mask to my booth this month gets 1 free Potion sticker Envisioning a better world, together with you.*

URGENT: Helping Palestine 🇵🇸

Continue to urge elected officials to: - Demand an ARMS EMBARGO from your representatives & President. - Enforce a permanent CEASEFIRE NOW! - Allow real humanitarian aid into Gaza - Reinstate UNRWA funding.

CALL TOOL // EMAIL TOOL Additional: Are they ignoring your calls and e-mails? Send postcards too. - Donate an E-Sim Card for a Gaza citizen using the instructions at the Cartoonists Co-op, and qualify for free art to match your donations. - I am still a VOLUNTEER ARTIST for the E-Sims For Gaza initiative and would be happy to take your request for helping a Gaza citizen stay connected to their loved ones. - See what I am offering at my landing page for this effort.

• See how much of your own or your area’s US Tax Dollars go towards genocide with the Not My Tax Dollars tool. ****
• Find a Protest Near You and bring friends
• Attend the 30 Minute Power Half-Hours for Gaza run by Jewish Voice for Peace to connect, recollect, and maintain your hope and strength. They run Mon - Fri 2pm - 2:30pm CT.

COVID-19 News & Updates 🦠😷

• We are currently in The Summer Surge of COVID-19, it is not seasonal, but all year long and has increased due to travel, conventions, and other gatherings in the Summer time. Read about the current wave as of 7/13 with Dr. Ruth Ann Crystal’s  
• Use code TRUST30 for a 30% discount at BonafideMasks.com including free ground shipping.*(Snag your antigen tests and KN95 / N95s now!) *
• See the facts Dr. Lucky Tran shares on how long one is contagious and just how contagious the current mutation of COVID-19 going around this Summer, and STAY PUT if you test positive for 10 days.
• Join some of the fun COVID-safe virtual events with the COVID Isn’t Over Community hangouts! **

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