Nothing But Red - Now Available!

Visit www.lulu.com/nothingbutred to purchase your copy!  The full colour eBook is $5.95, and the black and white trade paperback is $15.95.  All profits (about $4 per book) will go to Equality Now.

If you would like to read the foreword to the book, click here.

NBR Updates

Hey folks.

You’ll find a complete list of contributors on the site now and their bios, as well as a list of volunteers who have put this project together.

If you’re interested in purchasing a copy of Nothing But Red when it’s released, please head here and join our notify list.

The book will run roughly 350 pages. The trade paperback version will probably cost about $15 - $16, and the eBook version around $5 - $6. All the profits are going to Equality Now, and once the book is on sale, we’ll be updating the website monthly with details about how many copies have sold and how much money has been raised.

If you’re looking for something to do to mark the anniversary of the murder of Du’a Khalil Aswad, please visit this page for suggestions.

Nothing But Red - The Inspiration

“Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. I’ve always had a bent towards apocalyptic fiction, and I’m beginning to understand why. I look and I see the earth in flames. Her face was nothing but red.”

- Joss Whedon, May 20 2007, Whedonesque.com

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In April 2007, seventeen-year-old Dua Khalil was pulled into a crowd of young men—some of them family members. They proceeded to stone and beat her to death, a supposed “honour” killing for being in the company of a man of a different faith.

The police stood by and did nothing, and several members of the crowd filmed the incident with camera phones. You can find the video on both CNN’s website and YouTube (We have not linked to the video. A simple search will find it for you.).

One month later, popular writer and filmmaker, Joss Whedon, posted his complete despair and outrage on a fan-run news blog, Whedonesque.com. Among his words was a call to action. This is how some of us responded.