I've had some inquiries about the T-shirt associated with my Vote No essay (What Do I Tell My Goddaughter?) so, having just ordered a couple myself, I can walk you all through the process.
First, for those eagle-eyed proofreader friends of mine who noticed the first draft of the shirt misspelled "amendment" as "amendement" - the artist caught that and fixed it for the next test run. All shirts ordered will respect the laws of good spelling.
The shirts are by Fish Design, the brainchild of my friend James Fish, a recent graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I own several other T-shirt designs he's created and count them among my favorites. So I can vouch for the guy and his business personally. (He also designed the covers for several of the published versions of my plays.)
The new photo of the T-shirt includes James' contact info (though the contact info doesn't actually appear on the shirt, fear not, just the Vote No art).
Send your order to
JamesWasFish@gmail.com
Indicate
T-shirt size
Cut - Male or Female
Type - Minnesota State version, or plain old Vote No version (I ordered one of each)
Shipping Address
Additional Contact Info like phone, if you want (just in case he needs to get in touch with you about the order - he'll already have your email, of course)
Locally (Twin Cities area) he might be able to arrange an in-person pickup, so inquire if that interests you, see if your schedules align. Me, my schedule's too nutty right now. Mailing is best. It's worth the extra five bucks to me.
T-shirts are $17.50 each for regular sizes (S, M, L, XL), $20.50 for XXL or XXXL
Shipping is $5.00
He'll be processing payments through PayPal, which means you need to factor in an additional 3 percent to zero out their fees.
A single shirt would be
17.50 - shirt
5.00 - shipping
22.50 subtotal, plus another $0.68 to negate the 3 percent PayPal fee
So that grand total would be $23.18
As for payment, you go to Paypal.com
Sign yourself in
Choose the Send Money option
Enter James' business email - JamesWasFish@gmail.com - in the To field
Enter the total cost of your purchase ($23.18 for a single T-shirt) in the Amount field
In the "This is a purchase of:" section, choose Goods
Click Continue
If you don't already have a credit card set up with them, the system will walk you through all that, plus the shipping address for your order, and there'll also be a place to put a message (I copied my order info there, just to be on the safe side. I'm anal that way.)
Then you finalize your order and you're on your way. You get an email confirmation, and James follows up as well.
All relatively painless as internet shopping goes.
James does quality work, and I consider that price a bargain to rally for a good cause, and also support a local artist starting up a business.
I was exchanging messages with James the other day and marveled that he'd designed a shirt in protest within hours of the state senate's vote and had it posted online. He replied...
"Yeah, I noticed the ruling and it just makes me mad because I have known people that are/were planning to get married out of state. You shouldn't have to leave your hometown to do what you want to because of your sexuality.
If there are any other social or political issues you feel NEED to be addressed, or like the idea with these shirts, please feel free to shoot me some input.
I'm not doing this for the money. This is something I truly believe in, and I'm sick of the way things are governed in our country. Mob rule someday? Who knows. But if it's an idea I can back I will use all the equipment and skills I have to help get it out there!"
Go, James! I know tons of great straight people. I don't know why it still (pleasantly) surprises me sometimes when they want to pitch in on behalf of a gay cause. I suppose they'd argue, "it's not a gay thing, it's a human thing." Guess I just figure somehow it's only "my fight." Nice to know so many people think it's their fight, too, regardless of where they fall on the Kinsey scale.
You'll see my proudly wearing my red T-shirts around town soon.
(Wouldn't it be nice if some legislative miracle happened and I didn't need them after all? We'll know soon enough.)
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