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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Grrrl Zine Network Haydeé posted: February 21, 2008 Rebel Girl, Rebel Worlds: An Anthology of International Grrrl Zines By Elke Zobl (Austria) with Red Chidgey (UK), Sonja Eismann (Germany/Austria) and Haydeé Jiménez (Mexico/USA) DO YOU PUBLISH A ZINE WITH A FEMINIST TAKE AND WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF GRRRL ZINES? We are zine activists who believe that the cut'n'paste revolution is an important part of contemporary movements for social change – whether it’s talking about messed up beauty standards, how to change rape culture, or how to fix the wheels on your bike, zines are crucial documents for everyday change, empowerment, and education. To create a living archive of feminist zines from across the globe, we are working on an overview of the international Grrrl Zine Network; bringing together primary documents on a wide range of topics with analyses of the strengths and challenges of the Third Wave feminist movement. Based on Elke’s web site GRRRL ZINE NETWORK - A resource site for international grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines, distros and DIY projects (http://grrrlzines.net), we are compiling this anthology to document the variety and fierceness of pro-girl zinesters’ voices and are looking for your contributions! The Book Part grassroots history, part activist anthology, Rebel Girl, Rebel Worlds is a pioneering text, consisting of a mix of essays, interviews with zinesters, visual examples from zines, documentation of zine events, scene reports from various countries, resource guides and manifestos - all from a global viewpoint. We believe that zines are a vital form of alternative media that provide stories, art, critiques and reportage lacking from the corporate-run, male-dominated presses. Zines help us to resist the status quo, engage with our feminism, and make a difference. This book hopes to provide a comprehensive overview of this culture in order to introduce zine-making to a broader audience, and to collect together some of the most inspiring writing from grrrls and their allies today. Aims This non-profit book hopes to represent a wide range of voices and experiences from the grrrl zine community. We do not strive for uniformity of opinion, but hope to build a picture of dissent, skill-sharing, collaboration and network building. This book will illustrate that grrrl and ladies in many countries are working on zines and keep the feminist movement alive and well! It is our aim that young women, feminists, trans-folk and their allies across the world will gain a sense of personal and political empowerment from reading this book, when they discover that they too can take the tools of cultural resistance into their own hands and contribute to the global feminist effort of dismantling patriarchy and effecting social change. Please submit! We are eager for this project to be as collaborative as possible. Please send us your zine, contact us if you know a cool zine you’d like to see included, let us know if you’d like to do an interview or are just curious about the project! We are open to suggestions and ideas! Submissions are welcomed from feminist zine producers, editors and distributors from all parts of the world (covering zines from 1980 to the present day). Potential contributors could submit: Feminist zines (electronic or print) via email or postal mail Digital images from feminist zines (images, covers, photos, illustrations, comics etc.) via email · Interviews with grrrl zinesters Essays on the grrrl zine community and Third Wave feminism Scene reports - what is the history of grrrl/feminist zines in your country? Comixs on third wave feminism/riot grrrl/girl zine culture The call includes, but is not limited to, zines which address the following topics: The personal is political Let’s smash patriarchy! Riot Grrrl, Feminism and Activism DIY revolution! Music, art, pop culture, and comics Ethnicity, race, colonialism Gender identities Women’s Bodies and Health, disabilities Zinemamas: Motherhood and alternative views of parenting The Beauty Myth: Body image and self-esteem Sex and Sexualities Survivor Culture: Abuse, Violence against women, self-defense Class, work and education Travel and leisure Religion and beliefs Environment and animal rights Protest, Dreams and Utopias |
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All submitted zines will be listed at www.grrrlzines.net. A selection of zine articles, interviews, essays and scene reports will be chosen to feature in the anthology. Submissions: Please include, a short biography, full contact details, date of birth and nationality. Zines should be submitted to elke@grassrootsfeminism.net or via postal Mail to: Elke Zobl, Roemerweg 22, 5061 Elsbethen, Austria (Europe). by Monday, March 31, 2008. Many thanks! We expect to complete the book by June 30, 2008. (The book proposal will be submitted to a feminist publisher in the USA) Biographical notes on editors: |
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| Elke Zobl, Austria (*1975) created the online resource site Grrrl Zine Network (www.grrrlzines.net) in 2001 and has been part of the Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go collective conducting zine workshops with girls and young women in San Diego, USA (www.gzagg.org). Since her return to Austria for research projects on feminism and alternative media, she has conducted many zine workshops and exhibits. She is currently working on a comprehensive web site on Grassroots Feminism: An archive and resource platform of the feminist movement today, www.grassrootsfeminism.net (up soon). Red Chidgey, UK (*1979) has been involved in zine cultures for the past ten years, including running the pro-girl zine resource fingerbang distro. She received her MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, where she re-trained as a Life History researcher. She curated last year’s ZineFest! at the Women’s Library, London, and recently published a chapter on riot grrrl writing in Riot Girl: Revolution Grrrl Style Now! (Blackdog, 2007). www.redchidgey.net Sonja Eismann, Germany/Austria (*1973) works as a pop culture journalist and academic. She was a founding member of femzine nylon in Vienna and is writing on feminism and pop culture (www.plastikmaedchen.net). Recently, she published the anthology Hot Topic: Popfeminismus heute (2007). Haydeé Jiménez , US/Mexico (*1981), grew up in Tijuana, Mexico. She studied International Relations with a focus on Latin America and is interested in issues such as human rights, gender issues, environment, and migration. When she is not working with Elke on grrrlzines.net, she puts out her own electronic music projects (www.myspace.com/hidhawk, http://umor-rex.com). |
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Event Announcement Edgy Women Festival Mélissa posted: February 21, 2008 Studio 303 presents the 2008 Edgy Women FestivalFeminist flair, live art, and conversation. Studio 303 celebrates the 15th anniversary of Edgy Women from March 3rd-16th with an array of diverse activities, in the intimacy of its studio. Unabashedly queer, this edition focuses on dialogue and development, featuring new enveloppe-pushing creations by two artists in residence (Lazlo Pearlman and Dayna McLeod), creative workshops for artists, a screening-discussion and one outreach activity targeting youth interested in a career in the arts.
Guest artists: Dayna McLeod, Lazlo Pearlman (UK), Jennifer Miller (USA), Ivan Coyote, Choeur Maha, Nathalie Claude, Alexis O'Hara, Clara Furey. Don't miss our main events:
March 14th: Hot Hot Gossip, a live-theatre lesbian soap opera by Dayna McLeod
March 15th: Madame Pierre's Other Tongue by trans artist Lazlo Pearlman
And the Edgy Party at the Social!
A festival like no other, Edgy Women offers fresh feminist perspectives, celebrating audacity above all through workshops and forums, risky performance events, and of course, socializing! We hope you will join us!
Please visit our website for more details: http://www.edgywomen.ca/
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Coordonnatrice aux communications et à la production Studio 303, danse et arts indisciplinés 372 Ste-Catherine Ouest Montréal Qc H3B 1A2 Tél. (514) 393-3771 Télec. (514) 393-3154 http://www.studio303.ca/ |
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Grrrl Zine Network Elke posted: January 15, 2008 Call for Submissions for a Proposed Edited Volume Feminist Grassroots Media in Europe: An anthology Edited by Red Chidgey ( UK), Jenny Gunnarsson-Payne ( Sweden) and Elke Zobl ( Austria) Women have always played an important role in movements for social justice. Using media to transport their messages, to disrupt social orders and spin novel social processes, feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed media to forge resistant identities and build coalitions. In fact, as Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi has found, “almost by dint of their existence alone, autonomous media controlled by women with women-defined output offer a challenge to existing hierarchies of power; when these media take up specific issues and campaigns, and align themselves with larger social movements, their political potential is significant” (1996:234). Autonomous media cultures are currently gaining in critical attention. Over recent decades, scholars have developed conceptual frameworks such as ‘radical media’, ‘alternative media’, ‘activist media’, and ‘citizens’ media’ to help explain the unique characteristics and working models of grassroots media production – and to ask whether self-managed media can effect social change, foster critical consciousness, and aid in participatory democracy (Atton, 2002; Bailey, Cammaerts, and Carpentier, 2007; Byerly and Ross, 2006; Downing 1984, 2000; Rodriguez, 2001; Waltz, 2005). Within this burgeoning field, however, documentation and in-depth studies considering feminist grassroots media from a specifically cross-generational and European perspective and have yet to emerge. The Feminist Grassroots Media in Europe anthology proposes to address this lack in research, bringing together activists and academics to re-evaluate existing theoretical frameworks and to portray activist projects in light of feminist media production. As such, the book will be of interest to a broad audience, such as activists and researchers within the fields of gender and media studies and will serve as an undergraduate textbook for research on feminist ‘radical media’ praxis whilst delivering a much-needed archive of DIY media projects, networks and producers from the 1980s to the present day. The Book Project The term ‘Media’ is employed broadly here to include traditional broadcasting channels (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, films, photography) and non-traditional genres (zines, blogs, vlogs, websites, wikis, posters, burn stations, podcasts, textiles). ‘Grassroots’ refers to self-managed media, produced outside of a commercial agenda, by a collective and/or individuals working from a community or social movement perspective. The editors seek a variety of submissions from throughout Europe. The anthology aims to represent feminists from a diversity of age cohorts, backgrounds, races, classes, genders, geo-social regions and political priorities. The book seeks to ask what possibilities, limitations and vulnerabilities – with attention to class, race, ethnicity, age, disability, sexuality and gender dynamics – feminist grassroots media projects currently engender, and to map the histories, successes and challenges of women-led grassroots media in the late twentieth century and beyond. The editors are also keen to explore the links and discontinuities between ‘second’ and ‘third wave’ feminist media production. The call includes, but is not limited to, work which addresses the following topics: European Feminist Grassroots Media and:
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From these submissions, a free directory of grassroots media projects will be made accessible via the website Grassroots Feminism: A resource site for the feminist movement today www.grassrootsfeminism.net (currently in planning) Submission of Abstracts Submissions (in English) are welcomed from feminist activists, community media producers, and scholars from a variety of disciplines. Potential contributors should submit:
Deadline for Abstracts: Abstracts should be submitted to book [AT] grassrootsfeminism.net by Monday 17 th March 2008 . Biographical notes on editors Red Chidgey (*1979) is a member of the Feminist Activist Forum in the UK, and publishes widely on feminist zines, riot grrrl and Ladyfest cultures. She received her MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, where she re-trained as a Life History historian. She is currently involved in third wave media and feminist history projects. Jenny Gunnarsson-Payne (*1976) completed her doctorate in Ethnology at the Department of Culture and Media, Umeå University, Sweden, and currently teaches Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her publications on ‘alternative media’ focus primarily on representations of gender and sexuality, and collective mobilisation, in Swedish feminist zines. Elke Zobl (*1975) created the online resource site Grrrl Zine Network (www.grrrlzines.net) in 2001 and has been part of the Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go collective conducting zine workshops with girls and young women (www.gzagg.org). After finishing her doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, Zobl pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of California at San Diego. She is now continuing her research on “Young women as creators of new cultural spaces” at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. |
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Event Announcement Feminism & Dessert Kim posted: January 14, 2008 What could be better than smart talk, swell people and sweet food? This month we're digging into fat & feminism with Marina Wolf Ahmad, Founder & Director of Big Moves. Feminism & Dessert, the first Tuesday of every month, is our monthly series of engagingly informal talks about subjects that impact our daily lives. Feel free to bring your dinner, but dessert's on us! Feminism & Dessert Fat Is Still A Feminist Issue Thursday, January 3 @ 7:00PM CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge UK Free and open to the public! Please help us spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to your friends and colleagues! We hope to see you! |
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Forever 29 posted: September 27, 2007 Deadline to be received: October 15, 2007 Theme for the 2008 Chicago Hand Bookbinders members exhibit is Forever 29. As a member of CHB, I plan to create a piece for the annual show that will begin at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in January 2008. I'm always looking for ways to spread the word about mail art and plan to create a book that will display mail art received through this call. The book style is called "Storage Book" and was taught to me by Hedi Kyle. Won't you help me? Please mail me a piece to include in the book. Size: A6 flat card (41/2 x 6 1/4, thickness up to 1/8 inch) Documentation to all participants. http://www.myspace.com/marlenescott |
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Zine Yearbook 2007!!! Tamara posted: September 27, 2007 The torch of editing the zine yearbook has been passed to us at Microcosm and we are beginning to assemble the 9th annual Zine Yearbook for 2007! "Wow!" you're saying to yourself "I sure wish my zine was in there!". Well, it can be! Simply send a copy to us with a note explaining your intentions. All you need to qualify is a print run of less than 5,000 copies and to have been published in 2007. Deadline for submissions is Dec 31 so hurry! Space is limited so not every submission will be included. Make sure to provide all of your contact information and get in touch with questions. Please also let us know if you could hang up posters in your town! You can also print out your own copies here. Thanks to Richrd for making the posters! http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/ Microcosm Publishing is an independent publisher and distributor based in Bloomington, IN and Portland, OR. We distribute & publish zines, books, pamphlets, stickers, buttons, patches, t-shirts, posters, films, and more! |
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair Tamara posted: September 27, 2007 The 2007 Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair, bringing together radical and independent publishers, distributors, bookstores, and authors for a weekend of workshops, panel discussions, and performances, all free and open to the public, will take place on October 20th and 21st. As an added bonus this year, we're also organizing a Radical Film Festival on October 19th to kick things off. The bookfair will be taking place in Baltimore at 2640, the new cooperative events venue and social center launched this year by Red Emma's, which also serves as one of organizations behind the Bookfair. Questions? CONTACT: bookfair [AT] redemmas. http://redemmas.org/bookfair/2007/ |
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CALL FOR DONATIONS Books through Bars Tamara posted: September 27, 2007 http://abcnorio.org/affiliated/btb.html Donate your zines or books to prisoners For further information, or to arrange a donation of books: btb [AT] abcnorio.org 212.254.3697 ext. 322 (voicemail) We are always looking for new books and used books in good condition on the following: African-American history, especially 20th century Native American history Latin American history Radical politics Social sciences and psychology Dictionaries, thesauruses, and Spanish-English dictionaries Learning world languages How-to (drawing, chess, sign language...) Mayan and Aztec history Memoirs and fiction by people of color Poetry anthologies We prefer paperbacks since most prisons do not accept hardcover books, and they are expensive to mail. We do not take: religious books, including Bibles; legal books (except legal dictionaries) old magazines (besides National Geographic); white supremacist literature or anything advocating racial animosity, sexism or homophobia; business books; encyclopedias; mass market fiction (such as Danielle Steele and Stephen King). |
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Fence Cheryl posted: July 31, 2007 Now that issue #8 of The Fence (a bi women's zine) is complete, it's time to start thinking about issue #9.... So please send me your writing and/or artwork!! This includes but is not limited to - short articles, rants, personal narratives, lists, stories, fiction, poems, quotes, reviews, comics, drawings, photos, collages, and so on.....I'm accepting submissions for #9 until December 1, 2007. Zines are small, so keep your submissions under 2000 words please. Artwork needs to be easily reproducible in black and white. (This is a low tech, cut and paste, photocopied type production.) Previously unpublished stuff is much preferred. Anything that has to do with bi women or that might be of interest to bi women is welcome. I'd like to have submissions for the next issue in hand by December 1, 2007. I'm looking forward to many excellent submissions as always! Send stuff to: Cheryl Dobinson/The Fence #705-88 Isabella St., Toronto, ON, Canada, M4Y 1N5 email: cheryl_dobinson [AT] And don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. A handy dandy subscription form is conveniently located at the bottom of this email. |
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT Zine Librarians Caucus Virginia Allison posted: June 20, 2007 Zine Librarians Caucus Facilitated and Presented by Virginia Allison http://alliedmediaconference.org/user/virginia_allison and Julie Herrada http://alliedmediaconference.org/user/julherra This caucus for zine librarians (in the broadest sense of the term) is a place to meet up and share resources, best practices, and zines! Join our open discussion on the pleasures and hurdles involved in creating alternative media collections. Zinesters, Distros, and Info-Shop affiliates interested in building relationships with libraries are also invited to come. Resources for starting a zine collection in a public or academic library will be available in addition to guides for getting your zines into library collections. Such collections operate through collaborative efforts with the zine and library community. Come together and strengthen our mission to bring alternative media to the public forum. This caucus meeting will take place on Friday, June 22, 8PM, off-campus at Beans & Bytes cafe, 4200 Woodward Ave. at Willis. http://maps.google.com/maps?f%3dd%26amp;hl%3den%26amp;saddr%3d Wayne%2bState%2bUniversity,%2bDetroit,%2bMI%26amp;daddr%3d4200%2bWoodward% 2bAve,%2bDetroit,%2bMI%26amp;sll%3d39.25359,-84.927017%26amp;sspn%3d7.9 09216,14.80957%26amp;ie%3dUTF8%26amp;om%3d1%26amp;ll%3d 42.356546,-83.067884%26amp;spn%3d0.014747,0.028925%26amp;z%3d15 Really long URL, map from Wayne State to Beans and Bytes |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS Sour Grapes Zine Sam, US posted: April 20, 2007 SG is looking for full time writers. Submissions will still (as always and fucking forever!) be accepted but were looking for a few super awesome zinesters to add to our team. If you know something and something and would like to tell the world through SG, write us! :) If your into writing: Columns Record reviews Zine reviews How-to guides Survival guides Bike Repair Recipies or as always would like to submit: photography cover art cartoons drawings Write us if you would like to take a stab at becoming a part of our full-fledged zine staff! We'd love to have you. sourgrapeszine [AT] gmail.com or girlnamedsam [AT] gmail.com http://www.myspace.com/sourgrapeszine Thanks |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS Evolve Zine US posted: April 20, 2007 Evolve, a new feminist/progressive hardcore zine, is looking for interested progess-minded individuals to contribute this new nationally distributed zine!! We are looking for any type of submissions your creative little minds can come up with: letters, poetry, visual art, responses, FREE ads for your store or band, hate mail, WHATEVER. We will also be doing music reviews, so please send us your records/cds/tapes for review!! The idea here is to publish ANY progressive ideas relating to gender/race/sexuality/etc., and our format is very flexible!! Send us a message if you are interested in contributing!! Further, we want to keep this zine COMPLETELY FREE OF COST to anyone who is interested in reading it. That being said, we are forking out the dough ourselves to collect, publish, and distribute this zine. So, if you are interested in supporting us and want to make a DONATION, please send us a message!! E-mail us at evolve_zine [AT] yahoo.com!! http://www.myspace.com/evolve_zine |
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT Intensive Writing Class! Jacinta Bunell posted: April 5, 2007 WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE! DO YOU WANT TO WRITE? DO YOU WANT A SEAT IN THE WRITING CLASS TAUGHT BY LYNDA BARRY on SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JUNE 16th & 17th in Madison, Wisconsin? Do you know this is a two day class designed especially by our official class monitor, Kelly Hogan, for night owls and sleepy heads? Check out the late-start hours! Saturday 1:00pm-7:00pm and Sunday noon-6pm! OK! We know about the hours and the food, but what about the class?? THIS IS AN INTENSIVE WRITING CLASS! It's not a social situation at all! Actually, you can be completely anonymous in this class! You don't even have to make eye contact! And you don't have to be a writer to be part of it! In fact, this is a class that works especially well for 'non-writers' like bartenders and janitors and anyone who has given up on 'being a writer' but still wonders what it might be like to write. Lynda teaches a specific way of working she learned from her teacher, Marilyn Frasca, in the late 1970's and has used ever since. She says it will work for anyone who has any kind of curiosity about writing or remembering, especially people who have always wanted to write but were too confused about how to even start. BE ADVISED! IT'S GOING TO BE TWO DAYS OF INTENSE CONCENTRATION AND HARD WORK! It is not jive! It is for real! (It is also, actually, pretty fun too, but not in a social way!) Can you dig that? If so, we can dig YOU! All students must figure out their own transportation and lodging. We'll tell you the classroom location and other details when we confirm your reservation! Come to Wisconsin! Come to Madison! Come to Lynda's writing class! Kelly Hogan describes the class this way: "Blow your mind with..... your own mind!" GOOD! GOOD! GOOD! VERY LIMITED NUMBER of TICKETS to this small class NOW AVAILABLE at Lynda's eBay store -- SHOP SUPER MARLYS!!! http://stores.ebay.com/Shop-Super-Marly Questions??? Contact class secretary BETTY BONG at fromthedeskofmarlys Come on! Let's go! |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS Girlistic Magazine Summer Issue Jaymi, US posted: March 23, 2007 Hello! Our Summer issue of Girlistic Magazine is open for submissions. We're currently looking for articles, interviews, profiles, etc for the issue. The theme is Feminism & Marriage. Some of the topics we already have covered are name changes, gender roles within marriage, tradition-breaking wedding ceremonies, and legal issues with marriage and partnerships. Other ideas are very welcome! If you're interested in submitting, please check out our submission guidelines. If you have any questions after reviewing them, please feel free to contact us! Thanks, and looking forward to hearing from you, The Girlistic Team |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS Make/Shift Magazine no.2 Jessica Hoffmann, US posted: February 28, 2007 Deadline: March 23 Make/shift, a new feminist magazine launching this spring, is seeking submissions for its second issue (fall/winter 2007). The first issue features fiction by T Cooper; an interview with Loretta J. Ross; a love letter to Ugly Betty; dispatches from Beirut; a photo essay of immigrant hotel workers struggling for a living wage in Los Angeles; columns by Randa Jarrar, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Nomy Lamm, and Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore; and much more. For Issue 2, we are seeking --investigative journalism --photojournalism --critical essays --personal essays --profiles of feminists activists, artists, projects, and thinkers --fiction and poetry --art and photography --book, maga/zine, film, art, and event reviews --hybrid pieces We are also seeking content for the following regular make/shift features: --Everyday Actions: scenes of feminist action in everyday life (200 to 400 words) --Documents: documents of feminist discourse in progress (doodle-covered meeting minutes, e-mail exchanges, notes on recent actions, and the like) --Make/Plans: listings for our international calendar of upcoming events (submit info for events occurring between September 2007 and March 2008) Finally, we¹re searching for a crossword-puzzle artist in need of a venue. Make/shift pays $.02/word plus two copies. Send pitches or full-draft submissions to info [AT] makeshiftmag. Deadline: March 23 The editing and publishing collective behind make/shift is Stephanie Abraham, Jessica Hoffmann, and Daria Yudacufski. www.makeshiftmag.com |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS Make/Shift Magazine's Premiere Issue! Jessica Hoffmann, US posted: October 5, 2006 Deadline: November 1 Get ready for make/shift, a new magazine scheduled to launch in spring 2007 that will feature creative and critical work by progressive feminists and radicals who are feminists (just not, you know, radical feminists in that gender-essentializi We know feminism isn¹t dead, and we also know it¹s not all about ³women.² We¹re challenging the gender binary and all other oppressive systems by bringing together writers, artists, scholars, and activists from around the world who are transgressing supposed borders, connecting issues, and making change. Make/shift is about action and cross-pollination, intersections and creative divergences. Want to read about how hotel workers in LA are linking issues of gender, labor, class, and immigrants¹ rights in their unionization campaign? Or how a radical-queer single mom navigated her morning? What¹s happening in Lebanon since the mainstream media lost interest? And why have you still not found a home for that politicized short story you¹ve been sending out for months? Or that genre-defying feature about _______? Sounds like make/shift is just what you¹re looking for. Our first issue will feature columns by Randa Jarrar, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Emi Koyama, and Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. We are currently seeking --investigative journalism --photojournalism --critical essays --personal essays --profiles of feminists activists, artists, projects, and thinkers --fiction and poetry --art and photography --book, music, film, art, and event reviews --hybrid pieces Send pitches or full-draft submissions to info [AT] makeshiftmag. Deadline: November 1 The editing and publishing collective behind make/shift is Stephanie Abraham, Jessica Hoffmann, and Daria Yudacufski. www.makeshiftmag.com |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS Artist Book Tamara Wyndham, US posted: September 7 , 2006 deadline: NO DEADLINE ARTIST'S BOOK LIBRO D'ARTISTA theme free - tema libero free size - qualsiasi dimensione no return - le opere ricevute non saranno restituite no fee, no jury - nessuna selezione nè giuria exhibition every 100 books - received mostra ogni 100 libri ricevuti doc. no deadline - nessuna scadenza all books must be sent by post with postage stamps tutti i libri devono essere spediti per posta con francobollo postale address: GIANCARLO DALIO VIA CAVALLOTTI 83 B I - 30171 VENEZIA MESTRE ITALIA email: daliobaracchi [AT] url: www.guzzardi. |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS CFP FemTAP 2.1 Race, Gender, and Social Justice Kazukai, US posted: August 20 , 2006 FP: Race, Gender, and Social Justice Deadline for Submissions November 6, 2006 Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to ikerlee [AT] unm. Chicago manual style w/limited endnotes; full guidelines at www.femtap.com In the recent past we have seen an increase in violence against communities of color and LGBTQ communities, some televised and others completely ignored by mainstream media. We have also witnessed a conservative backlash against models that embrace intersectional analysis and a critical look at privilege from all sectors. Yet, we believe feminist models are uniquely capable of addressing increasing inequities, particularly those models that argue that we must put the most oppressed women at the center of our analysis (see Smith 2006, Brenner 1998, Anzaldua 1984, etc.). As such, FemTAP is accepting submissions that critically engage models, methods, theories, and practices of feminist social justice that highlight race, gender, class, and sexuality as co-equal. All essays should include intersectional analysis including the critical interrogation of whiteness, heterosexuality, and/or class privilege where applicable. We are particularly interested in grounded studies and ethnographic essays but accept essays from a feminist perspective across disciplines. COVER ART - art related to the topic of Race, Class, and Social Justice (sorry no films) are also being accepted at this time. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. A feminist response to un/natural disasters: Katrina, mining on indigenous lands, environmental degradation and environmental racism, etc. 2. reproductive justice in communities of color and working class communities of all colors - we are particularly interested in responses to sterilization projects that target poor women, incarcerated women, etc., holistic projects that seek to deal with multiple-intersecti transgendered and same-sex parenting rights or reproductive justice, and scientific examinations of the impact of use and/or research on NRTs for women of color, working class women of all colors, and LBT women of all colors. 3. Rural feminisms: rural vs. urban queer organizing, rural women's organizing as specific and generalizable, rural feminists' responses to poverty, etc. 4. alternative spaces: women of color and LBT women of all colors resource centers, women of color and/or LBT women of all colors grassroots organizing, LBT women of all colors and/or women of color organizations or retreat-conferences as alternative feminist visions, artist collectives, etc. 5. Historical essays - examination of "unknown" or unwritten histories of women of color, LBT women of all colors, and/or poor women's organizing 6. Models and methods: successful cross-cultural and/or cross-class feminist organization models, successful trans-feminist organizing, successful rural-urban organizing, etc. 7. confronting current issues impacting women of color, LBT women of all colors, and/or poor women of all colors - urban renewal, funding collectives, food collectives, welfare reform programs, parenting students organizations, police and/or court watch programs, housing safety and security programs, programs confronting the rise in hate crimes, etc. 8. academia - the impact feminists of color, working class feminists of all colors, LBT feminists of all colors on policy, curriculum, and organizing (please note the summer edition is on pedagogy so pedagogy essays will be given the least importance in review ranking for this edition but will *still* be considered; if we believe your essay would be more appropriate for the summer edition we will advise you) 9. DEFINING FEMINIST SOCIAL JUSTICE - theoretical essays that examine what is or can be meant by "feminist social justice," praxis essays that examine the meaning of "feminist social justice" and the means by which to actualize it in feminist practice. We accept essays from graduate students, PhDs, and community scholars. For full guidelines, review policies, and guidelines, see appropriate links on website. Questions contact: ikerlee [AT] unm. |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS MAIZ Chronicles Noemi, US posted: July 25, 2006 I've recieved a few great entries, but I still need your input-I've extended the deadline to August 1st so if you're planning on sending anything in please let me know. What to send in? stories, articles, artwork, relevant zine and book reviews, commentaries and more. MAIZ-Mujeres Artistas/Activistas Insurgentes y Zine-istas (women, artists, activists, insurgents and zinesters) Submissions are being accepted for the first issue of the The MAIZ Chronicles. This is an invitation to be part of the zine. If you are a mujer(women of color) and would like to submit to the zine, please contact me at noemi.mtz [AT] gmail. *This comp zine is accepting submissions from all women of color, not only Latinas and Chicanas. There is no theme but we would like to publish pieces from unique perspectives by mujeres on issues concerning mujeres and folks of colors- - issues that are hardly covered in zines. Submissions can be in any language, providing translation. Let me know if you would like to help by passing out flyers, layout, submissions, or including the call out in your zine, message board or your friends and students. Anyone can help out with the process. deadline: August 1st. more info here: http://www.hermanaresist.com/maiz.html |
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Call for Graphic Novelists/ Cartoonist Lambda Legal posted: July 25, 2006 Lambda Legal is seeking an illustrator cartoonist or graphic novelist to create a commissioned series. Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. The series will be based around our Courting Justice campaign (www.lambdalegal. Legal's Courting Justice campaign defends fair-minded judges from political attack and supports the legitimate role of courts to address civil rights claims. The selected artist will work with Lambda Legal to help expand the concept and provide a series of 8-10 color strips with illustration and writing for use with the campaign. The series may be featured in Lambda Legal publications including our triquarterly newsletter with circulation close to 50,000 and on our website which receives approximately 80,000 visits monthly. Please send all portfolios and bids to Ben Riskin (briskin [AT] lambdalegal electronically should be in pdf format. Physical submissions will not be returned unless sender provides a SASE. All bids should be received by August 11, 2006. Bids received past this deadline will not be considered. Please direct all inquiries to the email listed above. |
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With a gracious thank-you to our beta testers, we're finally up and running! |
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Hello, I am a volunteer at the Basement radical bookshop and social centre in manchester (UK) and am looking for zines to stock on the following topics: |
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Hi all - Just want to let you know that I will be heading up to Scotland in a few weeks to the lovely Knockengorrach festival (World Ceilidh - have a look here: http://www.knockengorroch.org.uk/ - highly recommended to come if you are free that weekend), and will be running a DIY creative space with my sister in all things handcrafted, Shaz (maker of incredibly beautiful bracers, armbands, crowns, swords, and other accoutrements befitting a warrior queen/king of old). Shaz and I will be hosting an ongoing weekend-long zine making workshop that will result in a big old festy zine that is compiled from everyone's contributions and mailed out after the weekend is over...and in addition I will be taking various zines, comix, and independant media things (recent copies of Schnews letter etc) up there with me to make sure there is a presence of interesting, informative, and inspiring reading material. |
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS The MAIZ Chronicles Noemi Martinez, US posted: April 21, 2006 Submissions are being accepted for the first issue of The MAIZ Chronicles. This is an invitation to be part of the zine. If you are a mujer(women of color) and would like to submit to the zine, please contact me at *noemi.mtz [AT] gmail . com |
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Anyone know of a fun performance spaces/cafes/collectives in Chicago, Toronto, Buffalo or Washington DC? |
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We are a collective of Romanian grrrls starting a travelling zine-library. If you are a grrrl and make you own zine or have some zines you would like to donate please get in touch!!! |
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LOUDmouth magazine -- a feminist magazine coming out of Cal State LA -- is seeking essays (critical and/or personal), reportage, research, poetry, prose, fiction, photography,illustrations, artwork and more for our summer/fall issue on TRASH. Topics may include but are by no means limited to: * |
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Hi Grrrl Zine Network! The riffRAG issue #2 FINAL submission deadline is coming up a week! We are looking for innovative and/or political writing and art by emerging and under-represented artists around the world. If your work fits this description, we would like to feature you in our next issue. | |