hoaxzine:

HOAX #13:  FEMINISMS & SPACES IS NOW FOR SALE

+ What is Hoax? Hoax is a US annual queer feminist compilation zine that aims to create a space where we can voice our own truths. Each issue has a theme in tandem with feminisms. Contributors do not have to identify with a particular gender and/or as feminists in order to submit work to the zine. You can learn more about Hoax via links about our Mission Statement, Core Values, and Shared Goals, General Hoax FAQs, Submission FAQs, and Stipends for Submissions.

Essays in this Issue:

• An exploratory essay by a queer teacher about whether or not classrooms can be considered safe spaces
• A call to action to counteract dominant activist discourse that permits activists with privilege to police marginalized activists on the basis of not participating in activism “correctly”
• A short essay about minority feminist art spaces in the second and third wave, essentially arguing for people to not rely on tokenism
• An essay about the author’s struggle to negotiate his identity as a femme queer trans man online, including his attempts to pass as cis online while being out as trans in real life
• Using relationship anarchy and anarchist approaches to commitment to (re)frame messed-up family relationships in terms of in/accessibility
• A creative nonfiction meditation on systemic racism, white supremacist normativity, and American society’s conditioned, unconscious justification for the continuous injustices of heterosexual white men and how, historically, their heinous actions have always gone unquestioned
• A personal essay describing a young woman’s experience getting an IUD (intrauterine device) after the most recent presidential election for fear that affordable healthcare could be eliminated
• A discussion of the ways in which the queer community can be unwelcoming to those whose identities don’t fit the mainstream queer narratives
• Experiences working in a domestic violence shelter and how its nonprofit infrastructure made the author’s work harder and exasperated their caregiver burnout
• Identifying the need and subsequently carving space for oneself as a non-binary transgender feminist
• An ode to the author’s city and an understanding of how white supremacy has historically and continues to shape the city’s politics, community, and culture
• A short narrative on reclaiming physical space
• The closet metaphor is both too singular a metaphor for how the author segment their queerness online, and also inaccurate given the author’s use of trash bags for storing clothes
• Tracing the origins of Canadian queer zine culture
• Establishing distance from difficult memories, and the allegory of clocks as instruments of timekeeping  
• A critique of academic spaces that addresses the importance of integrating anti-oppressive strategies into research methodology
• Orthodox Jewish and Native American menstrual rituals in America and how ritual seclusion can be perceived as empowering and used as a way to affirm identity and difference
• Distancing oneself from hostile environments, including a parent, the nonprofit industrial complex, and white feminism as manifested through the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, as a form of reclaiming agency and considering possibilities for a whole self
• Told in second person, an experimental creative non-fiction piece on recovering from psychosis and depression
• An examination of how the colloquialisms dispatched and the postures held by heteronormative society affect one’s personal growth

This issue also includes poetry, a comic, feminists we love, current feminist heroes, and a vegan/gf recipe for Red Lentil and Collards Soup! The zine is ½ size, black & white, 80 pages, printed in English, and very text heavy.

+ Note about Triggering Content: We are circulating the above descriptive list in an effort to reveal the content and chronological order of this issue, thus creating the opportunity for readers to judge on a personal basis as to which essays could be potentially triggering or uncomfortable to them. We have chosen not to place trigger warnings on specific pieces in Hoax because we recognize that triggers are unique and highly personal. We believe that it is impossible to discern what content has the potential to be upsetting and/or triggering to every one of our readers, and we do not want to inadvertently create a hierarchy of what material is “intense” or “real” enough to warrant a warning. Please contact us if you have suggestions as to how to better incorporate trigger warnings into future issues of Hoax.

+ Note about Pricing and Stipends: This issue costs US$3.50. All of the money procured for Hoax goes right back into this not-for-profit project. As mentioned above, pre-sales are vital for ensuring that we are able to give adequate stipends to our contributors. What we are able to offer for compensation will depend on the amount of revenue from sales and pre-sales. Although we cannot afford to pay very much (probably just enough to purchase a few zines), we hope that offering a stipend, however small, will ensure that our contributors of the present and future know that their submissions are valued and appreciated.

You can order via our Etsy shop (for PayPal payments, where you can also find back issues on mythologies, vulnerabilities, embodiments, strategy, and healing as well as some Hoax pins and many of our personal zines) or, if you prefer well hidden US cash via snail mail, you can e-mail us at hoaxzine (at) gmail (dot) com to find out where to send it. If you are interested in potentially becoming a contributor to Hoax, please check out our call for submissions for Hoax #14: Feminisms & Boundaries, which is accepting submissions until May 31st, 2017 (deadline is flexible)!

+ Note about Mailing: We will be mailing out issues on a first-come, first-serve basis as soon as possible, optimally starting on Monday March 27th – but our ability to purchase necessary printing / mailing supplies and send copies out depends on when we will sell enough zines to afford to get everything in the mail. As always, feel free to send us an email if you have any questions about the status of your order.

+ Note about Not Listing Contributors’ Names: We have included a screenshot of the Table of Contents above to safeguard our contributors from “being Googleable” while providing credit and transparency as to who collaborated on this issue. Content that is consented to appear in print is not automatically consented to appear online and respect for our contributors’ comfort, safety, and privacy is also one of many reasons why circulated issues of Hoax are only found in hard copy form.

+ Other Ways to Support this Project: We’d love for you to submit content to future issues of the zine, come to an assembly party (upcoming in Baltimore!), write a review about Hoax, recommend it to your friends and favorite zine distros, and/or donate money to overall Hoax operations via PayPal (our account is hoaxzine at gmail dot com).

Please reblog to spread the word! Happy reading, y’all!

With care,

sari (Editor) & rachel (Editorial Assistant)

mendmydresspress:

Back issues of telegram are in the shop! These are very limited copies, once they are gone, they are gone.💜

oliviaszines:

OMG! Excited about this!

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neutralgender:

hey y’all! i’m making my very first collaborative zine! the deadline to submit is dec 3rd! the goal is to get enough submissions 2 make a ~very cool~ free digital publication and also continue this again.

this zine is about queerness: anyone can submit, but voices of color will be given focus as they are the most marginalized.

if you have any questions, feel free to ask me on here, or email me at willisbn@vcu.edu.

when submitting, make sure you submit a name/pseudonym, title of work (optional), brief bio (optional), or contact (optional, but can be an email/blog/twitter/etc)

please reblog if you can!

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queeranxietybabiezdistro:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

FEMME: a zine about resistance, resilience, and survival

queer anxiety babiez distro is looking for essays, prose, poetry, and art by femme-identified folks about the resiliency and survival of femmes. what does femme mean to you? how has your femme identity shaped itself over time? how have you resisted erasure in a masc-focused world? these questions are only a jumping off point, we want this zine to be the first in a series of resources for femmes.
submissions should be no more than two pages, double spaced. the zine will be printed in half size, black and white. submissions should include the author’s name, pronouns, and url.
deadline is december 3rd - zine will debut at east bay alternative book and zine fest on december 10th.
email submissions/questions to queeranxietybabiezdistro@gmail.com

gumagaling:

whitemansburdenzine:

(Yes that is calamansi in the background.) And yes, submissions are now open 24/7! I have been thinking a lot about the accessibility of this zine, in terms of cost and availability, considering that there aren’t many Pilipino zines in the “zine market” to begin with. I have considered making it completely free and available online. At the same time, I need to honor the production and labor that went into the making of this zine, especially noting that much of the content is written by femmes, nonbinary, and queer folks. When considering allowing the zine to be ‘up for grabs,’ I felt like this could be a step in the wrong direction, as it could potentially undermine the value of the emotional and physical labor that went into its creation, not to mention it would disrupt from the zine’s purpose to donate a portion of funds to certain Pilipino organizations.

The solution to this dilemma is still in the works, but for now I think I have found a way to take baby steps towards this goal. WHITE MAN’S BURDEN will now feature monthly newsletters that will feature 3 - 5 pieces of work that centers around a specific theme. The work featured will no longer be limited to paper! This means having video, audio, and other multimedia submissions. Submission guidelines will still apply (see the more info on Tumblr page or check out the Facebook) but there will no longer be a ‘deadline.’

Printed and digital zines will still exist! And they will be compiled of the newsletter works. This way, everything that will be included in the physical zine will have already been featured in a previous newsletter, which of course will not cost a thing. The point of the zine will be to provide somewhat of a ‘yearbook’ experience– a collective and cohesive output comprised of works from the past months. The bigger picture made into one zine.

I hope this all makes sense! Like I said I am still trying to figure out the process and don’t have plans yet for when exactly the first themed newsletter will go out, but I just want to generally let you all know that submissions are open and why I chose to do that.

*Please share the image above widely if you are able to!

Thank you so much for reading! There will definitely be more updates soon!

hi friends! please share! <3 i’m so excited for this

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torontoqueerzinefair:

torontoqueerzinefair:

torontoqueerzinefair:

torontoqueerzinefair:

~TORONTO QUEER ZINE FAIR 2016~

WHEN: Saturday October 15th, 2016
TIME: 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM
WHERE: Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor Street West
COVER: Pay what you can with a suggested $5 donation and no one turned away due to lack of funds

THIS YEAR’S TABLERS

13 Months Feral
ACE Toronto
All My Friends
Amber Williams-King
Averie & Aidyn
Ahata Aju - I’ll Leave Only to Return
BBHMM
B&D Press
Between the Trees
Black Girl on the Internet
Brettney Lou
Catalyst Community Herbals
Caro Doodles
Carefree
Charline Bataille
Critical Sass
Critical (Trans)Masculinities // WIX zine
Death Cookie Soup Press
Degenderettes Toronto
Disabled Femme
eli howey
ENBY Magazine
Femme Crimes Distro
Femmeoire: Confessions of a Neurowitch
The Femme Zine Project
Femmezuigiri
Fight & Flourish
Frizz Kid
From the Margins
From the Root
Gardenia
Gap Teeth
Ggomababo
Glittering Magpie
gothMuslim
Heidi Cho Makes Art
Highly Sensitive Queer
Into Pixels
It’s Not Just a Girl Crush
Is She Ok?
Jamie Q
Jakery
Kayla Carter
Kyoko’s Koe
late bloom zines
Lee Lai & Tommi Parish
Lovestruck Prints
Lunar Arbor
Kmk Ptrs
Mack & Taylor
Make! Shift! Love!
Marin Boyle Zines
Metonymy Press
Morgan Sea
Musterni
Not Yr Grrl
Pisces Princx
PSSSST
Receptive Collective
root /theCybrTrix
Sarah Mangle
Sidai: 000
Starkiss Creations
Steeltoedblues
Telegram Zine
Tire Swing
Trans(missions)
Twin Willows
Vulnerabilities
Whuulf/Radical Design School
Walmart Punk
Wax Fruit Micro Press
Witchbody
Writing Our Futures (SOY)
The Wheelhouse
Young Batisse
Young Crone Press
ZIPE

ACCESSIBILITY

*This is event is all ages and childcare will be provided on site.

*Trinity-St. Paul’s is a wheelchair accessible venue. There is ramp access leading up to the front door with a push button door entrance.

*There will be three all gender bathrooms on the main floor. One bathroom is wheelchair accessible equipped with grab bars and a push button door entrance. All three bathrooms will have unscented soap and sharp containers.

*ASL interpretation services have been confirmed. We are also recruiting ASL volunteers to work with interpreters and support ASL correspondence among participants.

*A quiet room will be available all throughout the day for people to decompress, naps, and cool down.

*This event is striving to be scent free. There will be multiple tablers and attendees present with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities who can and will get sick if exposed to chemical scents and fragrances such as perfumes, fragrant hair styling products, fragrant laundry detergents, etc. We will provide unscented hand soap in the bathroom and we will be using unscented cleaning products. We ask that tablers, participants and volunteers come scent-free. Please take a couple of minutes to read the following document about working towards being scent and fragrance free: http://www.brownstargirl.org/blog/fragrance-free-femme-of-colour-realness-draft-15

*This event will not be serving alcohol and we ask that people not consume alcohol or other substances on site. Folks who need drink or use other drugs prior to attending the event will not be turned away.

*There will be snacks, coffee, tea served at the Toronto Queer Zine Fair. There will be vegan, gluten-free, nut-free options and ingredients listed with each food item.

*We will have support liasons on site to assist and provide support including active listening, ushering and corresponding with event organizers.

*We, as a collective, are committed to ensuring that the space we create is as safe and welcoming as possible. However, as the fair is held in a public community space that is shared with many other services as well the general public, we cannot guarantee an ideal space but will try our very best to minimize all potential harm and risk.

*If you have any questions, concerns or feedback, please to contact the Toronto Queer Zine Fair. For more info about our safer space and accessibility policy, please visit our website: http://torontoqueerzinefair.tumblr.com/accessibility

VOLUNTEER

*The Toronto Queer Zine Fair is looking for volunteers that can support the following areas: food prep, childcare, support liason, set up and take down, ASL and billeting. If you would like more info about the roles or are interested in volunteering, please visit our volunteer page: http://torontoqueerzinefair.tumblr.com/volunteer

DONATIONS

*The Toronto Queer Zine Fair is a grassroots not for profit collective. The fair is primarily funded by monetary and in kind donations. If you would like to make a monetary contribution, we would love the support. Please visit our donation page to make a contribution: http://torontoqueerzinefair.tumblr.com/donations

THANK YOU

*Thank you to the organizations and individual contributions that have helped make the Toronto Queer Zine Fair possible this year.

*OPIRG TO

*OPIRG YORK

*Alternative Grounds

*Henry’s Tempeh

*Thank you to Jenny Chan for designing such an amazing poster!

CONTACT

Website: http://torontoqueerzinefair.tumblr.com/
Email: torontoqueerzinefair@gmail.com
Facebook: Toronto Queer Zine Fair
Instagram: TorontoQueerZineFair
Twitter: @TOQueerZineFair

TABLERS FOR THE 2016 TORONTO QUEER ZINE FAIR HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED !!!!

PLSSSS REBLOG !!!!!!!

LESS THAN 1 MONTH AWAY !!!!!!

Just a few more days away <3

1 MORE SLEEP !!!!!!!!!

(via torontoqueerzinefair)

livingnotexistingblog:

Plastering this boarded up store front in the Annex with Toronto Queer Zine Fair Posters. If you see this spot on Bloor, just east of Bathurst, snap a photo of it and use #torontoqueerzinefair or #tqzf2016 !!!!! See you on Saturday 😋😋😋 (at Sushi On Bloor)

torontoqueerzinefair:

torontoqueerzinefair:

torontoqueerzinefair:

~TORONTO QUEER ZINE FAIR 2016~

WHEN: Saturday October 15th, 2016
TIME: 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM
WHERE: Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor Street West
COVER: Pay what you can with a suggested $5 donation and no one turned away due to lack of funds

THIS YEAR’S TABLERS

13 Months Feral
ACE Toronto
All My Friends
Amber Williams-King
Averie & Aidyn
Ahata Aju - I’ll Leave Only to Return
BBHMM
B&D Press
Between the Trees
Black Girl on the Internet
Brettney Lou
Catalyst Community Herbals
Caro Doodles
Carefree
Charline Bataille
Critical Sass
Critical (Trans)Masculinities // WIX zine
Death Cookie Soup Press
Degenderettes Toronto
Disabled Femme
eli howey
ENBY Magazine
Femme Crimes Distro
Femmeoire: Confessions of a Neurowitch
The Femme Zine Project
Femmezuigiri
Fight & Flourish
Frizz Kid
From the Margins
From the Root
Gardenia
Gap Teeth
Ggomababo
Glittering Magpie
gothMuslim
Heidi Cho Makes Art
Highly Sensitive Queer
Into Pixels
It’s Not Just a Girl Crush
Is She Ok?
Jamie Q
Jakery
Kayla Carter
Kyoko’s Koe
late bloom zines
Lee Lai & Tommi Parish
Lovestruck Prints
Lunar Arbor
Kmk Ptrs
Mack & Taylor
Make! Shift! Love!
Marin Boyle Zines
Metonymy Press
Morgan Sea
Musterni
Not Yr Grrl
Pisces Princx
PSSSST
Receptive Collective
root /theCybrTrix
Sarah Mangle
Sidai: 000
Starkiss Creations
Steeltoedblues
Telegram Zine
Tire Swing
Trans(missions)
Twin Willows
Vulnerabilities
Whuulf/Radical Design School
Walmart Punk
Wax Fruit Micro Press
Witchbody
Writing Our Futures (SOY)
The Wheelhouse
Young Batisse
Young Crone Press
ZIPE

ACCESSIBILITY

*This is event is all ages and childcare will be provided on site.

*Trinity-St. Paul’s is a wheelchair accessible venue. There is ramp access leading up to the front door with a push button door entrance.

*There will be three all gender bathrooms on the main floor. One bathroom is wheelchair accessible equipped with grab bars and a push button door entrance. All three bathrooms will have unscented soap and sharp containers.

*ASL interpretation services have been confirmed. We are also recruiting ASL volunteers to work with interpreters and support ASL correspondence among participants.

*A quiet room will be available all throughout the day for people to decompress, naps, and cool down.

*This event is striving to be scent free. There will be multiple tablers and attendees present with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities who can and will get sick if exposed to chemical scents and fragrances such as perfumes, fragrant hair styling products, fragrant laundry detergents, etc. We will provide unscented hand soap in the bathroom and we will be using unscented cleaning products. We ask that tablers, participants and volunteers come scent-free. Please take a couple of minutes to read the following document about working towards being scent and fragrance free: http://www.brownstargirl.org/blog/fragrance-free-femme-of-colour-realness-draft-15

*This event will not be serving alcohol and we ask that people not consume alcohol or other substances on site. Folks who need drink or use other drugs prior to attending the event will not be turned away.

*There will be snacks, coffee, tea served at the Toronto Queer Zine Fair. There will be vegan, gluten-free, nut-free options and ingredients listed with each food item.

*We will have support liasons on site to assist and provide support including active listening, ushering and corresponding with event organizers.

*We, as a collective, are committed to ensuring that the space we create is as safe and welcoming as possible. However, as the fair is held in a public community space that is shared with many other services as well the general public, we cannot guarantee an ideal space but will try our very best to minimize all potential harm and risk.

*If you have any questions, concerns or feedback, please to contact the Toronto Queer Zine Fair. For more info about our safer space and accessibility policy, please visit our website: http://torontoqueerzinefair.tumblr.com/accessibility

VOLUNTEER

*The Toronto Queer Zine Fair is looking for volunteers that can support the following areas: food prep, childcare, support liason, set up and take down, ASL and billeting. If you would like more info about the roles or are interested in volunteering, please visit our volunteer page: http://torontoqueerzinefair.tumblr.com/volunteer

DONATIONS

*The Toronto Queer Zine Fair is a grassroots not for profit collective. The fair is primarily funded by monetary and in kind donations. If you would like to make a monetary contribution, we would love the support. Please visit our donation page to make a contribution: http://torontoqueerzinefair.tumblr.com/donations

THANK YOU

*Thank you to the organizations and individual contributions that have helped make the Toronto Queer Zine Fair possible this year.

*OPIRG TO

*OPIRG YORK

*Alternative Grounds

*Henry’s Tempeh

*Thank you to Jenny Chan for designing such an amazing poster!

CONTACT

Website: http://torontoqueerzinefair.tumblr.com/
Email: torontoqueerzinefair@gmail.com
Facebook: Toronto Queer Zine Fair
Instagram: TorontoQueerZineFair
Twitter: @TOQueerZineFair

TABLERS FOR THE 2016 TORONTO QUEER ZINE FAIR HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED !!!!

PLSSSS REBLOG !!!!!!!

LESS THAN 1 MONTH AWAY !!!!!!

Just a few more days away <3

(via torontoqueerzinefair)