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new blog for the new zine idea! let there be submissions! this page has NOTHIN’ yet, but needs some lovely followers and some lovely submissions to make it possible! reblog far and wide! here are the guidelines for the zine:
* writings/art/photos should pertain to your experience as a queer/trans person of color, however that manifests itself for you (talking about body relations/body politic/image, relationships, your experience w/ allyship or your personal list of ally-tips(these are really fun to write!), coming out, your gender experience, cultural intersections(!!!), anything else you can think of that would pertain to the qpoc experience. *
interested in sharing a piece of writing? a piece of art that can be reproduced in 2D format?submit here, or email eliz.seibel@gmail.com (@laborreguita)
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Insurrectionary Mutual Aid
5 THINGS YOU CAN DO NOW
1. Learn a new skill that may be useful during an emergency, such as: basic carpentry, first aid/trauma care, operating a short wave radio, grief counseling, self-defense, etc.
2. Put together a “Go Bag” that would have everything you might need during a crisis.
3. Start collecting supplies that may be handy. You can often find things in dumpsters, thrift stores, on-line, etc.
4. Read FEMA reports at (www.fema.gov) to get an idea of what the State’s response will be.
5. Make connections with other anarchists and collectives that you may work with wen a crisis occurs.
yes, so important. no need to rely on the government when we can help ourselves and each other.
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about black women/female ID’d people and the way we think/feel/interact with our hair.
Now I don’t have too much of a detailed plan for it yet, the idea just popped into my head yesterday.
So, thoughts?
would anyone be interested in submitting?? :D
Just got my hands on my copy of Grrrl Bodies Zine by Nicole!
I just relaxed today with some tea and engulfed myself in it, and I loved it. It even has spaces for you to write about your own experiences about body image.
It’s like a body positivity workbook, hell to the yeah!
Anyways, it rules and you should get it, also cause there’s a drawing by me in it teehee.
Support yr fellow feminists, it’s good for ya!
Me too me too!! I sent you a message but I guess tumblr ate it; it’s wonderful Nicole!!
I was really excited to see my submission in there—I thought I had sent it in too late! :)
<333
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Note: 1) This is a Digital read. 2) This zine has passed into discontinuation of print. 3) This isn’t the full zine sadly, but what I have of it. My friend Billy has the zine.. I’m hoping he’ll possibly send me a copy of it or something. Regardless, what i have of it is quiet extensive.
URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?ftdkdkohz3y
Intro:
Up until recently the terms anarchism and feminism were rarely found in the same sentence, much less interpreted as integrally related. Indeed ‘anarcha-feminist’ would appear almost as an oxymoron, Emma Goldman being the single example most people could identify as such.
With this important collection of and about anarcha-feminists over more than a century, stunning female anarchist heroes are restored to our collective memory. And this collection is only a sampling that should lead readers to other foremothers of anarcha-feminism, such as Lucy Parsons, Mother Jones, Jessie Bross Lloyd, Hortensia Black, Sarah Ames, Lizzie Swank Holmes, Johana Greie, Kate Austin, Helen Keller, Lousie Michel, Azecena Fernandez Barbra, and thousands of other historical figures and contemporary feminist anarchists.
The historical amnesia we suffer serves well the state authorities, military-industrial civilization, and capitalist thieves that control our lives and destinies. The Sixties Liberation movements broke through the chains that bound us, thinking we are the first generation to do so, only to discover we had true rebel heroes we could and must learn from and be inspired by. Most of the current younger generation is ignorant of past struggles unless they happen upon some of the small press publications such as this one. Bombarded as we are by the obvious fakery of the mainstream press and textbooks, we often become nihilistic rather than pro-active.
Young working class woman, in particular, being prisoners of the beauty myth and consumer culture, have been short-changed. For in the piecing together of a usable radical past in recent years, women have hardly been present in terms of liberating role models, rather only as an icon or two, or a Florence Nightinggale kind of nurturing woman. Women like Voltairine de Cleyre, Emma Goldman, and Charlotte Wilson are something else, being independent, pro-birth control, and anti-marriage before women had even the right to vote. They were lifelong agitators, on the move, speaking to large and small gatherings, writing calls to action and social/political critiques. They were far ahead of anarchist men in their vision of freedom.
Just like today, men find it difficult or unthinkable to not only give up their male privileges but also their sense of supremacy. Independent radical women often live lonely live if they expect equality. Our task as anarcha-feminists can be nothing less than changing the world and to do that we need to consult our heroic predecessors.
For nicole :D
YAY. I need to read this
Gonna do it tonight.
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Edited and put together by Mai’a, the Outlaw Midwives zines are a compilation of writings related to pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, and raising children, specifically as relevant to marginalized mothers, such as women of color, trans* mothers, and poor women, by midwives and other birth/reproductive justice advocates. The concept is as follows:
We envision anti-violence safer communities where mothers and children heal from reproductive violence, because it is when we are whole and confident in our own leadership, are we able to co-create healthy communities.
Communities in which loyalty to a mother’s choice is 99 percent of being a midwife and in which we define ‘motherhood’ as love by any means necessary.
Communities in which we care for ourselves developing spiritual and physical awareness so that we can hold the space, the energy, the vision for folks to make decisions that center freedom, community and revolutionary love.
We must mother ourselves. Hold ourselves the way that we hold our children. And know that our wisdom is stronger and more knowledgeable and relevant than outside expertise. We must live the lives that are given to us. And trust others to do the same. For the sake of our survival. For the sake of our ancestresses. For the sake of our communities. For the sake of love. (via the Outlaw Midwives website by Mai’a aka GuerrillaMamaMedicine/MaiaMedicine)
Outlaw Midwives zines are available to read online:
Outlaw Midwives Vol. 3 is in the production and due out probably in July 2011.
yes yes yes!!!
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So after a long drive back home from college, I was greeted by my grrrlVIRUS zines/package and my Feminist Coming Out Day package, sitting on my pillow <3 So excited to plaster my city with these :)
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