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PART TWO OF KONZILIJUM POST

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FIRST ISSUE OF OUR ZINE IS OUT

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Finally after a little longer than expected (that's why the playlist says october!) 'Konzilijum' is out!!

It's still in developing stages and might not be perfect.

Since tumblr only allows 10 pictures, the rest will be posted separately. But a pdf will be out after we scan it!

Btw, like our other zines it's free to print and share!

Feel free to give some feedback in the comments.

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After a long hiatus, our zine will hopefully be posted tomorrow!!

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YOUR RIGHTS ACCORDING TO THE CLASH: a mini zine made by me!

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sneak peak into...

FIRST ISSUE OF KONZILIJUM! :)

Our independent (maga)zine, inspired by punk fanzines from 80s/90s, striving to spread education for *free* (you will be allowed to print it and share it yourself if you want, too).

This month's issue will contain a variety of articles (analysis of "The silence of the lambs", album of the month "Smak" (1975), feminist discussion of internalised misogyny, "Glass menagerie" short essay, playlist of the month, etc.!)

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I think everyone needs to know this skill tbh!! Perhaps Internet won't shut down soon or something, but they can always make streaming more expensive and add tons more ads to youtube until it becomes useless.

Plus a lot of underground songs are disappearing as you read this. Go burn your fav artist/songs on a CD before it's too late ngl.

Punk 101: Burning CDs

People seemed to like my post about how I started burning CDs again, and @olyve-oyle requested that I make a ‘how to’ for people who like to have physical copies of their music, so, here you go!

Disclaimer: There are tons of ways to get music illegally. I’m not going to explain those here for legal reasons, but there are plenty of resources out there that describe how to get music off of youtube, spotify, and tidal. However, Im always going to suggest that you buy your music, if able.

Supplies:

CD-Rs (not CD-ROMs, CD-ROMs are read only disks and you cant save new data to them once they have been created)

CD-RW Drive on your computer (you can also buy one that connects to your computer or laptop since a lot of computers dont have one anymore) RW stands for Read/Write, its what lets you burn a CD

An application like itunes (free accounts are perfectly fine) Windows Media Player also works, but I personally use itunes

Optional but Suggested: Cases

Optional: Craft supplies to decorate cases

Step 1: Obtain Music

There are a couple legal ways to do this. 1. Buy a CD (I typically get mine from thrift stores or my Dad’s old collection to make my own playlists) 2. Buy specific songs you want online. These can all be uploaded to you computer or itunes account

Step 2: Create Your Playlist

Any playlist will work, but it’s important to know how long your CD-Rs burn for. Most typically burn for 90 minutes, so keep your playlist under that. Heres the one I used for this *Note I just threw random stuff together*:

Step 3: Burn To CD-R

Admittedly I only know how to do this on itunes, so heres images showing how, and the settings that I use when burning

Step 4: Decorate

I like to use craft paper and sharpies. Just don’t draw on the bottom of the disk

Step 5: Listen To Your New CD

Punk 101 Masterlist

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Remembering Janis Joplin: The Woman Behind ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll’

Drunk on life stoned on beer. Texas girl, Odetta, choir girl, uneducated. Records found, you love life again… up until the age of ten. Those manly shaped shoulders that shook your friends into lust. Liberated liberated. Sad and tired, got to get away. Mother hurt me please! but you can’t make me stay.

The woman made her way to San Francisco. Music, laughter, sorrow in the night. Hollowed prayers disgust in eyes. She sang her way in. Speed freak. Her nipples are cold. They refuse to sing along.

Sister smiles father spits. Devotion has been a lifelong regret.

She joined signed sighed. But she is not silent. Screams of rage, still no success. All I’ve given, everything at best. Tell them Janis of amazing letdowns. Tell them how your bones poke right through. Shaking. Desire. Empty, half full. Black magic fell into the mind of the young like a life of sin. Sailors, saviors. Here to stay, are ya. Ball n’ chain.

Bourbon-fueled raw gutsy, amazement. You felt held back, no more piece of heart to break. Move over, unacceptable lady. Stick it in puke it out, like a crucifix error.

Return to the hole, they laughed once more. Laughable. People dancing as tomorrow isn’t a myth pledged allegiance the power of acceptance. No care in the man’s land, but you do care. Couples naked in the caress of doubt. Your heart burnt the crowd, confessions and contempt. There ain’t nothing like the real thing baby. This is the way, Pearl the way to the very end. Dated in passion and sensitivity. You killed your selves grasping at your weapon of love; you wore your vulnerability like some splinter-covered glove.

Early morning dark, dark night you took too much of what felt good. Craving distraction seeking sense. Home stalking, no more walking. Cause the Kozmic Blues surrendered with abuse. Number twenty-seven shot on your back, the twenty-seventh attack. This is the end, my only friend.

Vintage store, half-ripped book. Staggered kid, hunched view on life, stay away attitude, isolated. Opening the book, a light shot straight into the heart of a poorly cultured kid. Perspective gained. Intensely reading examining pondering. That’s how I found Janis, sitting on my bed, mesmerized by the treasure in my hands. My seventh-grade self would be amused by the fact that that same paper is loudly laying next to me at this very moment. The blues are blasting in the kitchen. And I’m remembering the exact moment she moved me: *freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose*. I didn’t know what I wanted until it found me, until she found me. And I bet ya can relate, hey. Break the broken, they bleed in blue. Sing the songs, Lord know’s they’re true. Measuring misinterpretations, the space between our hearts. Blues oh blues you flame-throwing love!

Early mornings still remind me of you. I’m utterly lost in the translation of your ways. Oh how the people mourn, how we cry out to you. You’re wine, a stain. There are dead roses with your name now your luck is merely rotten, eaten-at flesh. The power in your voice brings the blues to life; there wasn’t a thing you wouldn’t sacrifice.

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Tearing up rn I love this so much :')

I will never understand people who throw something away the moment it breaks/stops working/goes out of fashion. Isn't there so much more satisfaction in fixing it or at least making something new out of it?

Tho I understand, we live in capitalism and companies make stuff easily breakable and unfixable on purpose and not everyone has time for that.

a comic about printers

I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker

If someone knows it please tell me, I'm pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!

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Both are self-expression, but I totally agree man there sure is a certain pressure to make everything perfect especially for social media, unfortunately algorithm doesn't favour shitty looking zines so it doesn't reach as many people :-( rlly wish it did tho especially for urgent issues where u don't have time to make it look nice

Make DIY look like shit again.

Zines don't have to be artsy. They can look like shit, and not in the "I'm still actually great at drawing" way. Immediacy is an aesthetic. Making something quick and in the fury of making is just as important as carefully planned pretty pictures. There are no actual rules!

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Real 🙏

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Why is this actually so common? It's really sad man.

The worst thing is that you can't convince them that makeup is a way to oppress women, it's so encoded in their brains all their life they just can't understand.

God I'm SICK OF MAKEUUUUUP

I don't want to wear it and guess fucking what!!! My mother guilt trips me with bangers like: "everything in your life is handed to you on a silver platter the least you can do is look pretty for it" and "if you don't put it on your boyfriend will grow tired and cheat on you" and when I said well he doesn't have to do it she said "it's his job to work, and your job to look pretty. That's all you have to do" I WORK TOO. AND THEN SHE STOOD OVER ME AND LITERALLY HANDED THINGS TO PUT ON MY FACE. I complained the whole time but she was literally putting mascara and foundation into my hands, open, and pressuring me too. What is the poiint

Anyway the moral of the story is that makeup is socially coerced and you don't need to put it on if you don't want to.

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hey all, sorry for the accidental hiatus, i’ve been kind of crazy busy lately but! i did manage to finally finish A NEW ZINE!!! 

i’m pretty dang happy with how this one turned out, even if it took me genuinely 7 months from first draft to final print version to finish it. i think it sums up my philosophy vis-à-vis artmaking pretty well, and looks pretty good to boot! 

the full zine is purchaseable on my shop but patrons of mine get access to full PDFs of this zine and all of my others (and behind the scenes posts on the making of this zine from script to final layout!!) wow what a deal!!!

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anyone can make a zine, regardless of skill level or access to materials or design programs. all you need is paper, scissors and drawing utensils (although many people enjoy collaging!) web search "8 page 1 sheet zine how to".

everyone SHOULD make a zine too, you will feel so good about it ♡ it's about putting the power of production into the hands of the people! also you don't have to sell it or anything, you can just make one for yourself or trade/give some to friends!

i really love julia grofrer's guide to analogue self publishing aka making zines on 8.5x11 paper

and jaydragon/jdragsky's thread on staple's self serve print centres (if you're area does not have a local print shop, they probably have a staples or fedex print centre)

if you can't draw, here is twitter thread for public domain art and also a mini summary of when thing enter creative commons (generally 70 years after artist death in the US and CAD)

i also have a DIY zine page on my art blog that i am dedicated to updating as i find more resources! (not accessible through tumblr mobile app, mobile friendly, just open the link in a browser)

go make some zines!!!

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'Defend The Internet Archive' linocut print by Molly White. Bid on a print to support the Internet Archive's Open Library. [Image description] Black ink linocut print of a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is “Free people read freely”; below is “Defend the Internet Archive”.

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Maybe you weren't born a feminist, and that's okay.

You can learn, you can grow, you can expand your mind and accept new ideas.

A lot of people have a really hard time listening to anything that doesn't align with their personal lifestyle and beliefs (the most basic examples of this are women who wear makeup / shave / tradwives / sex workers getting extremely mad and defensive whenever someone brings up an alternative point of view). And I get that sometimes criticism feels too intense and personal, as if us feminists are trying to attack you personally, but we're not.

If someone's saying "hhhmm idk maybe the fact that women shave every single hair on their bodies from their eyebrows down could be a symptom of something bigger" and your first response is "well I shave because I want to", I'm afraid you're missing the point.

We all grew up with a certain set of beliefs about our duties/expectantions as women, and that's just normal given the society we live in. However, when you're shutting down anybody who has the courage to criticize these beliefs, all you're doing is reinforcing them (both for you personally and all women as a class).

Maybe, just maybe, hearing out an alternative point of view and keeping and open mind could change your mind.

I know radfems who used to be OF creators, who used to put on makeup every single day, who used to consume porn, who used to live their lives according to what men wanted from them - and NONE of these things make them any less valid as feminists now.

You grow, you learn, you change!

Keeping an open mind is a clear indicator of intelligence. Don't limit yourself, don't keep yourself closed off to other points of view. LISTEN TO WOMEN!

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I love how misandry is just saying I hate men' and pointing out all the things men can get away with in society and somehow y'all are comparing it to misogyny