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The Lupus Magazine
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The Story Behind The Lupus Magazine - Meet our Writers
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The history of The Lupus Magazine
April 2010 - On April Fool's Day, the very first edition of The Lupus Magazine goes online featuring Seal on the homepage. The first writers are Geoff Thomas, Kim Nault & Julie Miller. Gail Falconer features telling her lupus story. The editor suddenly realises what he's got himself into!
May 2010 - Lorie Streeter is interviewed by Geoff and her song "Wherever you Float" is featured. The response was hugely popular and totally unexpected. World Lupus Day is the central theme of the articles. We have Leen, a young lady from Syria, discussing her lupus journey. The magazine caters for a global readership. The Lupus Magazine launches its own You Tube channel - Lupus News
June 2010 - Soprano Jenny Myers tells of her relief to finally publicize her lupus. Our readership includes those from 6,200 different world cities within in a few months and with the only publicity being via facebook and word of mouth. Sheira (aka Johnny Trash) joins our writing team to give a cheeky perspective of lupus from the UK. It's APS awareness month. Marcia Urbin Raymond writes about her documentary trilogy, Stories of Lupus, For Life & Living through Dying.
July 2010 - Miss USA runner-up Morgan Woolard is featured in a world exclusive interview as she discusses her lupus and the politics of pageantry. Woolard also exclusively retracts a previous statement regarding being cured of lupus. Tiffany Marie Peterson joins the team and Kim Nault discusses Tyler Malcolm's remarkable lupus theory. We also begin promoting Love Simple, a movie with a lupus theme set in Brooklyn. "Wherever you Float" gets 1000 hits on our You Tube channel.
August 2010 - Love Simple's Patrizia Hernandez launches our new Spanish Language pages and Nancy Arocho is our editor. After merely five months, we're bilingual to an extent. We also launch our first competition in association with the producers of the movie. Patty Gaetz, who was profiled in our July issue, writes for us and our friendly team of writers all make their deadlines - just! Videos on our Youtube channel continue to attract attention - especially Larry Lupus - a foreign guy who does stunts to raise awareness. We also feature our own press room and offer to send out free press releases for those who submit lupus info to TLM. Kimberly Lehanka joins our writing team and is an instant hit with readers.
September 2010 - We welcome Jules Sherred to The Lupus Magazine and feature a special three chapter lupus essay by Debra Highberger. Ro Molina also joins the team and despite almost all of our writers being ill, we file the last article hours before going online. It was a draining month for all involved, but we were inspired by our new young sister from Jamaica, Shoyea-Gaye Grant. For those who meet around the virtual TLM water cooler, Shoy keeps the conversation going for a full month!
October 2010 - Tiffany-Marie interviews Shante Broadus, the wife of Snoop Dogg, for our feature article. Shante's daughter suffers from lupus. Kimberly reports from the LFA's Butterfly Gala event in New York City and Kim Nault submits yet another great piece of writing assisting those yet diagnosed with lupus. Johnny recollects her brain fig - or is that fog? - episodes and we welcome Maria Pfeifer to the team. Once again, we publish more articles in Spanish and translated by Nancy and an article by our youngest writer, Shoyea-Gaye from Jamaica, is one of the most 'liked' articles of all time on our facebook page. Jules and Ro once again contribute great content and we relate the lupus story of Kathy Patterson, Founder of Lupus MCTD Foundation, on our Meet Someone With Lupus page.
November 2010 - Our November issue was a Love Simple love-fest. Celebrating the worldwide DVD release of the little film with the big heart, Kimberly interviewed actress Patrizia Hernandez, Jules Sherred conducted a radio interview with producer John Casey & Geoff interviewed the director and writer of Love Simple, Mark von Sternberg. and Tiffany reviewed the film. Julie wrote about walking for lupus, Ro discussed finding Dr. Right, Kim and Patty penned lovely articles regarding loved ones and lupus, Shoyea-Gayle suggested year-round lupus awareness and Johnny wrote about being in hospital with lupus, ironically from hospital! We also met the lovely Sharon Harris, Public Relations Director Lupus Alliance of America Michigan Indiana Affiliate - who shared her lupus journey with us.
December 2010 - Our December issue featured two new writers, Amy Cate Keefe and Sharon Harris who supplied two great articles - one featuring Chris Wilcox from the Detroit Pistons. We covered the Lupus Research Institute NY's brilliant effort in illuminating the Empire State Building for lupus awareness. Kristel shared her lupus story with us and Maria Pfeifer wrote about anthropology and lupus. Our regular contributors, Kimberly, Nancy, Jules, Julie, Patty, Johnny & Ro wrote about the things that mattered most to them as usual and Shoyea-Gaye received fan mail due to her wonderful article titled, 'Tears of a Butterfly.' All at The Lupus Mag were thinking of Kim Nault, who for the first time since going online, was unable to write for us due to illness - but we knew she'd be back bigger and better than ever.
January 2011 - In the January edition of The Lupus Magazine we opened the new year featuring yet another talented person affected by lupus. Geoff Thomas discovered a remarkable lupus advocate, Elisa Lynee, and we learnt of the musical, and often frustrating lupus journey, of the girl behind the benefit song, “Fly Free Butterfly Fly Free” Our growing list of writers was extended to include Debra Highberger, who we featured back in September 2010, and also young Maddie Pearce from Washington State, who featured on our 'meet someone with lupus' page. The January edition also marked our biggest 'Spanish' edition too - Nancy translated articles by Shoyea-Gaye, Julie Miller, Geoff Thomas and of course her own piece, as 'La Revista de Lupus' continued to grow.
February 2011 - With a growing number of writers we featured a record number of articles in the February edition of TLM. Leading the way was young Maddie Pearce and her wonderful interview with Salimah Mussani, a golfer who hasn't allowed lupus to get in the way of her dreams on and off the golf course - even Tiger Woods made an appearance! It was also lovely to have Elisa Lynee and Kristel Goodspeed-Correa join the writing family. Elisa featured in our January issue and subsequently offered to write a regular column titled 'Butterfly Blessings'... We also welcomed back Kim Nault after a difficult time with lupus and MS and it was lovely to have Tiffany Marie Peterson contribute for the first time in 2011, along with all the regular girls who make The Lupus Magazine what it is - an independent voice for those with lupus, by those with lupus.
March 2011 - The story of three young English ladies and their Beat the Butterfly lupus awareness campaign lead the way in out March edition. We welcomed Lori Kirk to our family of writers and Lori was also featured on our Meet Someone With Lupus page. The sometimes controversial Johnny Trash relayed the events of her first hospital visit of the year and Elisa Lynee continued her column, Butterfly Blessings. Kristel reported on an ad council billboard campaign that has spread due to online interaction while Maddie Pearce wrote an excellent article for those with lupus and attending college. We also welcomed Donna Oram from the Lupus Alliance of America as a guest writer and contributions continued from all your favourite regular writers as we approach our first birthday online.
April 2011 - The April edition was a bit of a TLM lovefest as we celebrated our first year online. The editor wrote about how the magazine evolved and highlighted the year thus far and many of our writers spoke of what it has meant to be part of the magazine. We even released two videos courtesy of Nancy and Elisa showing the faces of lupus, or more appropriately, the faces of the writers involved: see our Youtube Channel. However one of the most important things we introduced was a page specifically for teens with lupus edited by the talented sixteen year-old Hannah Tubbs: "Teen Lupus - The Prose and Cons"
May 2011 - The May edition of The Lupus Magazine had a family vibe as we recognised the often forgotten ones who deal with the affects of lupus. Kimberly Lehanka interviewed her parents and we learned how being a caretaker affects those around us. Maddie Pearce wrote about the love of a brother and Nelly Chester detailed some wonderful kids who raised awareness and funds for lupus. Our teen editor Hannah, introduced a new column titled 'exPEERiences' for those younger ones to share their lupus story with other teens. Daniela Ayala joined us as a writer for our Spanish pages, La Revista de Lupus while our regular writers to make contributions included, Tiff, Johnny, Debra, Elisa, Julie, Maria, Jules, Ro, Kristel & Shoy. Annie Taylor from Brisbane, Australia, also joined our writers on a regular basis.
June & July 2011 - In this double issue of The Lupus Mag we featured the wonderful efforts of Kimberly Dansby and The Purple Rose Foundation. This Californian based organisation was formed to raise funds and assist those with lupus to attend college and complete their education. Along with all our regular feature writers, we highlighted the efforts of those holding lupus events worldwide, including The Lupus Association Queensland (Australia) and their high tea event. This function was attended by our writer Debra, who flew all the way from Boston to be part of it. We also took the time to reflect on the future of the magazine and how we should advance our theme of global lupus awareness - therefore, a new format was agreed upon and we were excited in our approach to make the magazine a one-stop global lupus directory commencing August 2011.
August 2011 - The Lupus Mag is re- launched! Editor Geoff Thomas explains... "Over the past few years it has been an absolute pleasure to bring you informative news from the lupus world and also highlighting the fine art and writing of some very talented contributors. Publishing the magazine monthly has been a huge task for all involved, considering it's 100% voluntary and we all have a form of lupus. And as all things evolve, we've decided to make a few changes to the format of The Lupus Magazine.
December 2011 - The Lupus Magazine retires.
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