NEW DEADLINE call for submissions! hoax #8: feminisms & MYTHOLOGIES
please note: due to recent relocations and life changes, we have decided to postpone the deadline for next issue of hoax to december 15th, 2012.
the topic of hoax #8 will be feminisms and MYTHOLOGIES. we are eager for feminists of all backgrounds & genders to submit!
potential ideas for material include, but are not limited to:
Language: storytelling and folklore (creating and supporting women’s narratives outside of academia / archetypes of men and women / the ways knowledge gets passed down from generation to generation / the role of fantasy in understanding); the academic industrial complex & what types of knowledge / intelligence are valued; transforming language; role of art in modernizing certain myths
History / Culture: when to keep and discard traditions; diaspora & navigating multi-cultural influences or heritage; silence & erasure; modes of survival; whitewashing; term reclamation (who is allowed to use certain terms?); importance of retaining & having access to historical records; reading the past to understand the present & future
Science: resisting biological determinism & essentialism;how scientific narratives influence our understanding of morality and “truths”; ways in which science reaffirms the scripts of kyriarchy (such as GID and the DSM / ties between the “obesity epidemic” and race / views about menstruation); problems within the healthcare system; radical mental health; making science work for people who aren’t straight white western cis men
The Body / The Self: mind-body dualism; body modifications & medical procedures; intentional and/or unintentional politics of bodily presentation; self-determinism & active resistance of dominant narratives; enacting self-care; do we all have a “true self” or “essence” of being?; where the self ends & community begins
Relationships: chosen families; myths about sexuality and sex positivity; consent (expressed vs. body language / legacy of shitty health class information / talking about queer and/or non-normative sex); theories of “otherness”; myths about “diversity” within communities; handling disagreements (“tone arguments” / should a person with a marginalized identity have to “play nice” when talking to somebody who has privilege they don’t have?)
Enacting Change: the white savior complex and career activism / is change quantifiable?; “normative” & expected changes (in terms of personal & community development, growing up, queerness as “a phase,” recovery, etc.); delusions of “progress”; changes that have not necessarily been positive
Visibility / Communication / Media: divisions between public and private; bridging the gap between online & offline communities or experiences; communication & the erotic; media’s (mis)use in social justice circles; intersection between visibility, authenticity, & mimicry; choosing when to “come out” & nuances of disclosure
Legislation: local, state, federal, & global action; mythologies & their influence on policy creation (and vice versa); problems with the nonprofit system; racist ideologies in the prison industrial complex; criminalization of sexual assault; alternatives to the legal system
we also totally need lots of artwork (photos, collages, illustrations, drawings, paintings, comics, etc.), particularly for background designs and things that compliment the written material!
please aim to send us yr amazing material to hoaxzine (at) gmail (dot) com by december 15, 2012. if you are interested, feel free to e-mail us yr ideas for topics & artwork! as always, we are willing to work with you during any and every stage of the writing process. the sooner you send us yr work, the better!
please note - we edit almost every submission we receive. please be flexible if make changes or we offer suggestions. we won’t print anything without your final approval! also, we ask that contributors use trigger warnings when sending pieces that may be very intense or emotional. one of the benefits of collaborating on this project is that we can split up material that is particularly upsetting or unnerving to either of us. this helps ensure that the reviewing and editing process is emotionally safe and does not interfere with our decision making.
thank you so much to every contributor, reader, & supporter of this zine! we are looking forward to seeing yr work!
in solidarity,
sari & rachel
POC (People of Color) Zine Project 2012 Tour Dates:
Sept 24 New York, NY
Sept 25 Philadelphia, PA
Sept 26 Pittsburgh, PA
Sept 27 Athens, OH
Sept 28 Detroit, MI
Sept 29 Ann Arbor, MI
Sept 30 Chicago, IL
Oct 1 Champaign, IL
Oct 2 Bloomington, IN (NOT in IL as previously noted)
Oct 3 Columbus, OH
Oct 4 Pittsburgh, PA (NOT in Blacksburg, VA as previously noted)
Oct 5 Washington, DC
Oct 6 Baltimore, MD
Oct 7 New York, NY
We’ll have specific details about each city and how you can help and participate in the coming weeks. If you can’t wait, email daniela@dcapmedia.com with your questions! We’re excited!!
Be sure to follow poczineproject.tumblr.com and “Like” our FB page if you haven’t already to get the latest updates as soon as we post them.WAYS YOU CAN HELP NOW
1. If you’re from or around any of these cities, contact us and let us know if you’re interested in volunteering, have a band and want to perform, want to table, can help out with hosting us overnight, can assist with livetweeting and livestreaming from events, etc.
2. Donate to help us offset the cost of this tour, vehicle rental and gas money. We appreciate every cent. POC Zine Project is 100% a volunteer entity.
3. Reblog this post and share the link with your friends, especially in these cities!
We’ll have an official page up soon for the tour but for now here are some details:
- In some cities we’re doing a multimedia show in the evenings but in others we’re looking to do that PLUS paid speaking events at local universities & ally organizations during the day. If your city is part of the tour and you’d like us to speak at your school, contact us. It’s especially helpful if you can point us to a contact at your school.
- We want folks to table and to sell/trade poc zines at our shows! We’ll have more details about who’s participating but for now contact us if you’re interested in participating.
- Do you write for a print or online publication that would like to share information about the tour and event details as they happen? Contact us for interviews or connect us with your friends who do. We want as many folks as possible to find out about this tour and why we feel POC Zine Project is vital to DIY/punk/zine/activism communities.
BACKGROUND ON THE UNIVERSITY COMPONENT OF THE TOUR
Here are some details you can share with your school administrators so they understand what it is we aim to discuss and share on campus.
TITLE
BEYOND ‘MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’: People of Color in Zines from 1990 - Today
SPEAKER PROPOSAL SUMMARY
The POC (People of Color) Zine Project is taking ‘MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’ on the road in September of 2012. Drawing from the first MMATRR event co-produced in 2011 with the Barnard Zine Library and For the Birds Collective, POC Zine Project will bring a thought-provoking and visually stimulating multimedia event and panel discussion to participating universities during their inaugural POC Zine Project tour.
BACKGROUND
In recent years, punk and riot grrrl have become the subject of much retrospection and analysis (there are easily a score of scholarly and popular monographs, documentaries, and exhibitions completed or in progress). This retrospective turn, with its subsequent institutionalization of some stories about punk and riot grrrl and not others, has largely failed to center race as a crucial factor, or to observe punks of color as a vital but also a discomforting presence. Punk musics, punk looks, can trace their origins through the blackness of rock ‘n’ roll and young street toughs, even as this provenance is ignored, or disavowed; the clubs that fostered nascent scenes were often located in neighborhoods populated by people of color, and operated by them as well – consider Mabuhay Gardens (San Francisco), Raul’s (Austin), Madame Wong’s and the Hong Kong Club (Los Angeles)—though these cramped quarters often led to racial tensions and sometimes riots. And yet these histories of tension and contribution are not often acknowledged, let alone understood.
BMMATRR interrupts this void.
‘BEYOND MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’ includes a rotating roster of speakers who offer through their zines a chronology and a partial history of the creative and intellectual production of people of color.
SPEAKERS
The POC Zine Project tour members and ‘BEYOND MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’ panelists are:
Osa Atoe: Shotgun Seamstress zine series author and musician.
Daniela Capistrano: POC Zine Project founder, Current TV producer and media literacy activist.
Mimi Thi Nguyen: Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, author, activist and creator of the seminal Race Riot zine series.Cristy C. Road: Floating in a pool of her own blood, sweat and occasional tears. C. Road is a 30-year-old Cuban-American artist and writer. Blending social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies and social justice - she thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect.
Other panelists to be announced in the coming weeks.
ABOUT POC ZINE PROJECT
The POC (People of Color) Zine Project, founded in 2010, is a grassroots non-profit organization with a mission to make zines by people of color easy to find, share and distribute: community and activism through materiality.
POC Zine Project is curating a traveling POC zine exhibition, establishing an archive, producing a community website and providing, tools and events for zinesters of color and their allies.
TOPICS COVERED
Intersection of race, zine and punk/diy culture and inequality
Community through materiality
SESSION BREAKDOWN
TRT: 95-100 minutesBACKGROUND ON THE MULTIMEDIA SHOW COMPONENT OF THE TOUR
Osa is booking venues and contacting bands as we type, so contact us if you’re interested in participating as a performer, connecting us with a venue in your city, hosting, etc.!
Holler
Queer Zine Fest London is go! We’re planning, scheming and looking for queer zine comrades and friends to help organize the fest. Please get in touch if you are interested in any of the following:
- Attending!
- Tabling (setting up camp to sell yr wares)
- Helping to table for absentee zinesters. We’ll be selling zines from around the world on behalf of zinesters and distros who can’t be with us in person and will need plenty of extra hands
- Donating zines for the communal zine table or materials for workshops
- Hosting a workshop or skill share session
- Appearing on a panel/giving a small talk
- Helping to set up the venue
- Helping out on the day (assisting on the door, introducing folk, acting as point-of-contact for stall holders, visitors and fest attendees)
- Have tips, advice or other contributions to make to the planning stages of the fest.
- Want to offer services not listed above
- Want to host us! We’re still choosing a venue. Ideally, we’re after somewhere roomy, accessible, well-lit and affordable.
queerzinefestlondon@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/lgbtqzinefestlondon
btw, the date & venue have been set now: Saturday 8th December at Space Station 65
rural and small town queers : call for submissions
I’m trying to edit together a zine on the lives of gender and sexual minorities in small towns and rural areas.
Currently looking for contributors and submissions. I’m accepting any form of content: personal experiences / accounts, quotations, articles, links/resources, art, poetry, prose centered around the past and current experiences of trans* and queer folx in these areas.I’m looking for collaboration on any level; this is my first zine editing endeavor.
Microcosm Distribution makes custom buttons now, eh?
I think that the the Microcosm Publishing/Distribution split is a laughable attempt at change, but I don’t really care enough about it to spend much time on it. They still support and carry Microcosm Publishing titles so I still see them as supporters and apologists for Joe Biel.
What I found today annoys me. Apparently Microcosm Distribution makes custom buttons. Microcosm Publishing didn’t and doesn’t make custom buttons since I left. Do you know why? Because I was the one who made custom buttons when I worked there and when I left Microcosm and divorced Joe there was an agreement that Microcosm would not make custom buttons and compete with my business. So, Microcosm Distribution is a totally different company? Great, I guess that means they don’t have to honor the agreements made by Microcosm Publishing.
If you would like to get custom buttons made by someone who has been doing this since 2000, you should follow me to my new project Portland Button Works.
Shotgun Seamstress Zine Anthology will be available to order in late September, and can also be picked up at the POC Zine Project tour.
Shotgun Seamstress Zine Collection (six zines by & for Black punks) will include all the issues of Osa Atoe’s zine, which includes a ton of interviews, reviews, and so much more! We are extremely proud to help put out this book, and we hope you are equally as excited to read it.
Please give this a read: is anyone interested in contributing to a feminist zine?
Hey! My friend Charlotte has this feminist art collective called Project:BABE, and they do a zine called GirlZone. She’s basically asked me to curate the third issue and have it be all about male feminists and stuff. We’re gonna call it Mankini Kill, after an injoke about a tibute band that I wish I could start.
Both of the previous issues have been about one specific issue - the first one was about body hair, for example - so instead of attempting to go too broad and cover all the issues that I’d like to cover in a small space and do a bad job, I think it’d be interesting for this issue to specifically be given over to accounts of male feminists, or at least male feminist allies, and what drew them to it. I would love to deal with some other subjects and cover, say, trans experiences in relation to feminism, and all sorts of other things, but I think it’d be unfair to assume that I’m an authority on anything other than my own experience, and that those subjects are better left for later, when we can do them justice.
So are there any male-identifying people out there who are just generally half-decent human beings and are interested in writing about it? What does feminism mean to you? What started your interest in it? However you want to express it. I’m a big fan of wordy, text-based zines but this one has generally been more art-based, so I’m open to anything.
Drop me a message on here and we’ll sort something out. Deadline for submissions is September 24th.
MIND OVER MATTER ZINE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Yep: signal boosting myself. No shame / no cares.
I’ve had some great submissions so far: looking to publish this this summer, so do keep them rolling in! (Send your writing in here)
Thanks.
Choo choo! Last call! I’m publishing this at the end of the month so send your thoughts my way if you want in! xoxo
Hey y’all!!!! As I told everybody who bought a zine, I am really really interested in making a collab zine with other people’s stories about their girlhood/lack of girlhood/reclamation of their girlhood and the role femininity played in yr childhoods, especially from trans* people, poc, disabled people and anyone who had to grow up quickly or dealt with abuse or mental illness in their childhood!!!
So if anyone has any tales to tell on this subject let me know @ letnomancy@gmail.com!!!
—-THE NEW DEADLINE JULY 30THso send me stuff please xoxoxo
