essays titled Still Can't Keep a Straight Face. From September 1997 to April 1998 Stevens' The Chosen Family appeared several times in the pages of Canadian comic strips OH... (Issues #19-22). Stevens' strips also appeared in The Body Politic, Ms., Gay Comix, A Queer Sense of Humor, Weenie-Toons!, the Women's Glib series, and several feminist and LGBTQ+ anthologies. Stevens retired The Chosen Family in 2004 after producing almost 400 semi-serialized installments of the strip. Her last public online article is posted in the Xtra! webpage titled 'Strathroy suicide shows how teasing can kill.''' Personal life From 1993 to 1995, Stevens was an owner and the manager of Winona's Coffee and Ice, the first gay and lesbian café in Winnipeg. In 2003, Stevens and her partner, Jill Town, were the first same-sex couple in Manitoba to jointly adopt two children, Dillon and Savannah Stevens, whom they had fostered since birth. Their adoption experience was featured on a 2009 episode of the Discovery Health Channel series Adoption Stories''. In 2006, Stevens married Jill Town. References 1962 births Living people Artists from Ontario Canadian comic strip cartoonists Canadian women artists Canadian LGBT artists LGBT comics creators Female comics writers People from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Writers from Ontario University of Manitoba alumni