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Zines are an important way of tracking history, particularly the history of social movements — they were crucial organizing tools for protests and community action as well as vehicles for artistic expression. Now, they're becoming part of museum and archive collections. Atlas Obscura discusses their importance for queer and trans communities in the past and today, where they're enjoying a resurgence. "We’re all the voices that don’t show up in other media and presses,” says Milo Miller, co-creator of the Queer Zine Archive Project.

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#Zines #SocialHistory #Activism #QueerCulture #Culture #TransRights #History @histodons

Atlas Obscura · Zine Archives Preserve Trans Survival and StorytellingBy Emma Cieslik

I made a zine about why we lift up hopeful climate fiction stories on the Bright Green Futures podcast! (plus my prior one about solarpunk)

You can download/print/share them (plus I have a handy video on the trick of folding them): brightgreenfutures.substack.co

Ep of the pod about how the resurgence of zines is an indicator of cultural change: brightgreenfutures.substack.co

Tabled the first ever Zine Jamboree in Ypsilanti yesterday. Turnout was amazing, I was so busy I didn’t get a chance to take a pic of my set up or anything. But I did manage to fill my lil basket up with zine trades :) Zine fest people are my favorite people, I’m still floating on an overstimulation cloud. #zinefest #zines

A new Zine – Gender-queer Graphic Novels!

I finally completed my new zine! I’ve been wanting to make a new zine for a while, but haven’t been able to decide on a topic. I was inspired by a recent Violet Fox zine, and finally figured out my topic. If you’ve been following me for any length of time you probably know that “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe is important to me in my personal gender journey. If you pay attention to library news at all, you probably know that “Gender Queer” has been one of the most banned books almost since it was published, and therefore one of the more talked about queer books. “Gender Queer” is a wonderful important book, which I am going to feature during a talk tomorrow for Trans Day of Visibility, but it’s also correspondingly well-known. But there are many wonderful other graphic novels with gender-queer and nonbinary characters, which are much less well-known. So! I decided to make a mini-zine highlighting six other graphic novels about gender-queer and nonbinary characters that are not “Gender Queer”. It is a full color zine, with joyful descriptions of each book, all of which I read before making the zine. You can download the zine, and zine-folding instructions below.

queer GN ZineDownload How to Fold a ZineDownload

“6 Genderqueer Graphic Novels You Should Read That Are Not ‘Gender Queer'” is presented under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, which means anyone is free to share it or remix it with attribution except for commercial purposes, i.e. you can’t sell it yourself. I want people to read these great books, so please share the zine widely! Some of the books are from my personal collection, and some I discovered when I went looking for graphic novels to fill out the zine pages. Nor are these all the gender-queer graphic novels I ran across! These are mainly just the ones I was able to get ahold of and read in any kind of reasonable time-frame. I was able to check many of them out from my local public library, so remember that great resource if you want to read these!

I wanted to only feature books I had actually read, so that I could properly talk about the feel of the representation and story. It was important to me to feature books that felt good to read, even if the characters behave badly at times. I wanted characters that found joy in their gender or lack there-of, so share the joy I’ve found in mine. All of these books were a delight to read, and I definitely encourage everyone to check out all of them! I’m excited that I was finally able to finish the zine in time for Trans Day of Visibility as well! So if you want to help spread trans visibility on Monday, print and share this zine with your friends! And happy Trans Day of Visibility to all my trans siblings who are still able to be openly themselves. You are wonderful, and loved and the government cannot erase the joy you find in your authentic existence. To my trans siblings who cannot be their authentic selves or be visible in order to stay safe in an increasingly terrible world, you are also loved and wonderful and you deserve to have joy in yourself as well. One day, I believe, everyone will be free to be themselves. Hope this zine can bring a little hope and joy to your day!

violetbfox.infoRadical Books zine – Violet B. Fox
Est ce que je peux parler au nom de ce groupe ?

"Parler publiquement
pour transmettre
des informations fausses,
partielles,
mal argumentées,
accompagnées
d'un propos politique bancal
c'est faire du mal à un groupe minorisé"

Ce texte est la suite de "Est ce que je peux entrer dans cette non mixité ?", mais les deux textes peuvent être lus indépendament.
C'est une réflexion autour des témoignages publics de personnes minorisées, des porte paroles autoproclamés, et de l'automatisme pas très malin "je suis concerné.e = je peux représenter tout le monde".

Remise en main propre sur Caen ou envoi par la poste
(envoi international possible)
1 euros prix minimum + FDP
N'hésite pas à commander plusieurs fanzines en même temps,
c'est souvent plus avantageux !

#Zine #Zines #Zinester #ZinesterFrancais #FrenchZinester #Caen #Fanzine #Fanzines #QueerZine #Queer #QueerFanzine #QueerArt #QueerArtist #ArtisteQueer #ZineQueer #FanzineQueer #Feminisme #Feministe #DIY #MicroEdition #EliotAstree #AutoEdition #LGBT #LGBTI #LGBTQI #LGBTQIA #EliotAstree #Caennais