SAW SPX 2026 Round Up!
Yay! Hello! We had an amazing SPX. Or I did! I barely left my table except to give. A panel and a workshop. I don't even have a picture of the workshop. I barely left the SAW table.
I got to meet so many people here from SAW, so many of you, so, I'm just going to show, some pictures. Here's some of the people I got to see. First, I saw our 👑Regent👑, Sally Charette !
I saw Sally a bunch, but when I took this photo, I was very very TIRED and it shows :( Don't look at me!
Don't look at me with Mae Wilson either! I was even more tired! Mae had coffee. Smart!
ANYWAY, I met so many more people! Finally met Oneita Parker in IRL! Here is/are me, Oneita and Joe K !!
And also met -not for the first time, hurray- Larry Lee and Olivier Ballou . Here they are with me and Elise Dietrich
Lots of people came from the 2025-2026 Year Long Program, I met Kathy DeLoria
And Sydney Kempf !
And Katie Okon !
And the aforementioned Joe K , here in front in a post-breakfast photo (more about that below) with me, Mae, Sally and Edgar Russell
Somehow I did not get another selfie with EDGAR? But I did get to hear DIRECTLY FROM THE MOON PRINCESS, holy cow!!!!!
Oh, and Edgar shared this comic about me, Carly and even Gary Groth (just mentioned)
Ok, I was also incredibly honored to meet Zareen Choudhury and Mariko Abe . Hello! I wish I had a better photo of your table (their sign says "The Wild Peas"!!!! 😊), but they will appear again at breakfast, below.
More SAW photos coming soon after a break!
Our main mission was MEET PEOPLE but after that, announce and sell YOUNG IN IRAN (buy it here), which we are so proud of.
Here we are on a panel about it. This is me talking about the section called "Those Who Leave" L-R, that's Liz Frances, amazing editor/publisher of Street Noise books, Shagheygh Moazzami, me, and our moderator, the amazing Zareen Choudhury - Zareen, thank you for doing such an astounding job!
Liz reading from I Won't Pretend These Missiles are Stars.
We met new supporters!
This woman, Hannah, from DC, spoke fluent Farsi and spoke to our editors via phone message.
Ok, back to SAW PICS!
Here I got to meet again Pam Wye (I forget which account is active so here is another Pam Wye !)
And the first person I ran into was Yao Xiao. So lucky! We ran into each other again at Whole Foods where Yao gave me a good shopping list.
ok since Whole Foods is owned by Amazon I have to showcase Friday night's Fuck Amazon shirt, a gift from Leela Corman :)
OK, back to pics!
I met Debbe R-H too but didn't get a selfie, but pics were had. Apparently there is an "ink store" 10 minutes from the hotel? Here she is with Sally and Mae.
Also met again, my student Kelsey Norman !!! :) Who was an Year Long Program IN PERSON person, in 2016 I think. I love Kelsey! You may notice her in promo pics now and then, she had an amazing end of year show in 2017!
And it's always great to connect with Miss Lasko-Gross, who is doing the best work of her career with HENNI
I got to see Peter Bagge again, who I used to harangue when I was a young adult in Seattle
I met a Therian! I love Therians.
Ok random pics now…
Breakfasts were bagel and lox from Whole Foods. Very grateful to discover the grocery store. Sorry about the plastic.
I didn't get a selfie with Jessica Pavone but I was so happy to see her new work!! Jessica let's talk about what you're up to!
And finally the big finish. I want to THANK SO MUCH Zareen Choudhury, Mariko Abe, Larry Lee and everyone else who put a group chat together and arranged a Sunday morning breakfast, thank you all. It's really an honor to work with you all and be a part of everything you do. Thanks you! In order, L-R, sorta clockwise, Joe K, Mae, Edgar, Zareen, Shaghayegh, Debbe, Katie, Elise, Oneita, Sally, Mariko, thank you so much for being here!
Thanks everyone! Those of you I missed, I forgot to take pictures of :( Next time! Thanks!