About Me
Hi! I’m Daisy. I use she/her/hers pronouns, I live in Maryland, and I’m a writer and MRA (Minicons’ Rights Activist). I pay the bills by working as a vet tech when I’m not campaigning. I’ve been a Transformers fan since around 2009, dipping in and out of the fandom over the years, but I’ve been back for real since 2017.
I can be found on tumblr and twitter. I’m also on ko-fi!
About the Campaign
You might think this all started because of Armada, but it actually started with RID2015. (Armada at least talked about the plight of minicons. RID2015 was awful to them!) For a while it was just a fun tumblr URL, but then I started going to cons and didn’t have the money or time to cosplay, so I started doing this instead.
This project has probably been one of the most fun things I’ve ever done. It has made lots of people smile, which is really all I could ask for, but holding a sign and a petition has also given me the courage to talk to people at cons, and I’ve had some really wonderful interactions because of it.
If you’d like to get in touch with me, I can be found on twitter and tumblr, or you can e-mail me at miniconsuffrage@gmail.com. I’m also on AO3 if you want to read some Beast Wars fic! (Most of it is good, I promise.)
Cons I’ve Attended
TFNation 2018: I was in the middle of moving myself from the United Arab Emirates back home to the US, and I decided to spend a week in England to break up the trip. All my stuff was in one (very heavy) suitcase and I’d just had wrist surgery 3 weeks beforehand. I stayed in a hostel in Birmingham and took a train to the convention center and back every day. I met James Roberts and admitted to him I didn’t know how British money worked, and also gave him a lot of Pringles. The campaign for Minicon rights hadn’t yet entered my mind.
TFCon Chicago 2018: I made the ill-advised decision to attend TFCon Chicago in 2018 (flying there at the crack of dawn Saturday morning, staying in a cheap motel down the road that night, and flying home the next evening) very soon after getting settled in MD. I didn’t have the time or inclination to cosplay, but it was my second ever Transformers convention, and I wanted to do something. So I made a sign and had business cards printed. It all cost under $20 and I had a blast.
There were a lot of cops involved in my motel stay but I survived it, and I saw Ian James Corlett and Alec Willows do a panel together, which made everything worth it. I gave James Roberts more Pringles. The sign ended up with a lady running a t-shirt stand. I hope it’s doing well.
TFCon LA 2019: I wasn’t going to go to this one, but a bunch of my friends were going, so… I made another sign, but I knew I needed to escalate, so along came the zine. I made 50, and gave them out along with the rest of my business cards. I gave one to Jack Lawrence, and ended up on Ian James Corlett’s Instagram, and David Kaye said such kind things to me I still tear up when I think about it.
This is also the last time my sign was a McElroy reference. My mom didn’t get it and said I should change it, so I figured a bunch of other people probably also didn’t get it.
TFCon DC 2019: I was able to drive to this one! It was 45 minutes from my house!! I hosted 7 people in my apartment and it was great. This time I wanted something I didn’t have to hold, so I made a sandwich board. And then decided to take a petition with me for people to sign, which meant holding something. I also got new business cards printed. I got over 200 signatures in all, including from Jack Lawrence and David Sobolov.
What’s next? Nobody knows! We’re in the hell year.
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