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PS don’t forget to apply! https://goo.gl/forms/09zr2xUfQf2Uy2EU2

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Shop update! Symbology is back in print, along with larger tarot notebooks featuring art by @manniemurphy that was originally created for the #thecollectivetarot and printed by @eberhardtpress also perzines by Enola and Julia eff, and just a few copies of my new writings. Xoxo-neelybat (at Tacoma, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqxkYeTlNQ3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g8m46ki7sf4j

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We have an exciting announcement! Dear Diary Zine Fest is coming February 17th, 2019 to the Humanist Hall in Oakland! Save the date. Applications open in two days, so check the tumblr for more details and tell all your perzine friends! xoxo, DDZF (artwork by Carolina Hicks aka subtle ceiling) 

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Last days you can register to vote for the 2018 midterms in all 50 states:

Alabama: OCT.22rd

Alaska: OCT. 7th

Arizona: OCT. 9th

Arkansas: OCT. 9th

California: OCT. 22rd

Colorado: Election day.

Connecticut: OCT. 30th

Delaware: OCT. 13th 

D.C: OCT. 16th

Florida: OCT. 9th

Georgia: OCT. 9th

Hawaii: OCT. 9th

Idaho: OCT. 12th

Illinois: OCT. 9th

Indiana: OCT. 9th

Iowa: OCT. 27th

Kansas: OCT. 16th

Kentucky: OCT. 9th

Louisiana: NOV. 17th

Maine: OCT. 16th

Maryland: OCT. 16th

Massachusetts: OCT. 17th

Michigan: OCT. 9th

Minnesota: OCT. 16th

Mississippi: OCT. 9th

Missouri: OCT. 10th

Montana: OCT. 9th

Nebraska: OCT. 19th

Nevada: OCT. 9th

New Hampshire: NOV. 6th

New Jersey: OCT. 16th

New Mexico: OCT. 9th

New York: OCT. 12th

North Carolina: OCT. 12th

North Dakota: Election Day.

Ohio: OCT. 9th

Oklahoma: OCT. 12th

Oregon: OCT. 16th

Pennsylvania: OCT. 9th

Rhode Island: OCT. 7th

South Carolina: OCT. 9th

South Dakota: OCT. 22rd

Tennessee: OCT. 9th

Texas: OCT. 9th

Utah: OCT. 7th

Vermont: Election Day.

Virginia: OCT. 15th

Washington: OCT. 8th

West Virginia: OCT. 16th

Wisconsin: OCT. 17th

Wyoming: OCT. 22rd 

Please register online if you aren’t already. Check your registration and your friends. Lots of people don’t have much time left to register! Don’t wait until the last minute! 

Register to vote ONLINE NOW!

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Sharing is Caring: World Zine Event Calendar

Curious about zine events happening around the world? Your one stop shop for zine events - fests, clubs, etc - is right here. Check it out here:

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hey if you follow my work you may be excited to know, i have a website now art, illustration, tattoos and creative endevours all in one place 

http://www.bugcru.com

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“I’ve made it very clear that even though i’m born female in this society that I don’t go to or perform in any space that is titled ‘women born women only.’ I am very happy to go to a space that says ‘all women welcome’ because then it is drawing like a magnet all those who self identify, who want to be in women’s spaces, and I feel like all people who are oppressed or discriminated against in this society have a right to get together y’know whether that be a third world caucus or it be a women’s dance, whatever it is. But, I think that when you begin to set a policy that defines who’s gonna be a women, and police the boundaries of it, then it’s not only a threat to everyone who doesn’t fit that, y'know ‘gee her feet are kind of big, her voice is kinda low, look at that beard growth, what do you think about that one’ it sets up a unhealthy atmosphere. Who’s pure enough to decide who’s woman enough? And I think also that it reverts back to a biological definition of women, which, biological determinism, it’s always been the club used against women! You can’t suddenly lift that up as a liberating weapon. I think that that kind of definition ‘women born women, that we’re all women, that we have identical experiences, it’s innate,’ is a setback to the women’s movement. I have always said that the only time I’d go into a space that had been ‘women born women only’ is when I could go together with my transexual sisters”

— Leslie Feinberg, when asked about Mich Fest in this interview (via tuffdyke)

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Colors and symbols to represent the legal abortion campaigns in Latin América. Aborto legal, seguro y gratuito. {legal, safe and free abortion}

∟In order: Argentina • Perú • Ecuador • República Dominicana • Colombia • México. 

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BABYFACE FW19 Fantasy Fashion Collage Zine is now available, this is one of the most fun projects I’ve ever done and I’m so proud of it. It’s a blend of some of my favorite things, surreal collage, bizarre couture and decolonial science fiction. It’s a 40+ page e-zine and it’s available here for free, but I do request that If you enjoy it and can afford to you make a $1-5 donation to paypal.me/tvhp cause I’m a disabled and about to be unemployed artist and I worked so hard on this!  special thanks to @oxeneyes @sw-rm @neelytherese for lending me their beautiful faces. 

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a blessing for transitioning genders, rabbi elliot kukla

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BABYFACE FW19 fantasy fashion collage zine dropping tomorrow 🎀

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Yesterday my truck was stolen, and with it a suitcase that included most of the #mendmydresspress zine distro stock. It’s going to take me awhile to recover, so I’m going to be taking a break for while. Our books will still be available (lucky for us we print on demand and I only had a copy or two of each in that suitcase) in our web store, but most everything else is gone. I hope to reopen the distro fully in the early fall. If you or someone you know makes a zine you think I should carry let me know. I’m especially interested in work by queer Black and POC artists. Xoxoxoxox- @neelychestnut

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I’m teaching my workshop on writing/zine making as a tool to heal trauma today. It’s at two, and the rainbow center in downtown Tacoma. It’s free! Xoxoxo!!! (at Tacoma Rainbow Center)

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (31st JULY 2018): MONSTER WOMEN ZINE

MONSTER WOMEN ZINE is a zine that aims to explore our existence as women in this society. what makes us women. why are we women. how do we experience womanhood. what unites us, because we’re women, and what pulls us apart, because we’re women who are different from each other. is it a happy experience? or is it a monstrous experience? or maybe both?

so mail your written work (opinion essay, poetry, short story or just your more or less brief experience) about being women to soleslilas@gmail.com

for visual art, we aim to show society how much pride we take in being monstrous women: mail to soleslilas@gmail.com illustration, photography, collage, etc portraying MONSTER WOMEN.

we have until 31st July 2018 to get together, so that the snakes sprouting from our heads get tangled in a neverending dance, birthed by our closeness and our differences.

(the zine will be available for free via the Internet and i want to be able to sell a physical copy of it for a pay-what-you-want price! also, each written piece will be translated to Spanish too).

spread the word and start creating.

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please take the time to remember every member of our community who was lost from aids. our government did nothing to save them. our schools do nothing to remember them. an entire generation of lgbt culture and history has been lost, the generation just before our own. remember them when people ask why theres suddenly so many lgbt kids in this generation. we’ve always been here. we cant be stomped out. we will remember our roots and by doing so we can keep those we have lost alive.

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A Wake to Rest, An End with New Beginnings

A Wake to Rest, An End with New Beginnings

Dearly beloved In Other Words Communities,

There is no softening this announcement. After 25 years, In Other Words is closing at the end of June 2018. The current members of IOW do not come to this decision lightly. We are grieving. We invite all of you who have found even a moment of clarity, love, determination, and joy to spend some time with our reasons for closing In Other Words.

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Need an abortion? Here’s a list of hotlines in your country that can help:

United States: 1-877-257-0012/ Financial assistance: 1-800-772-9100 

Mexico: (52) 7559800548 

Malawi: 884773300 

Morocco: 633234333 

Nigeria: 1855531550

Bangladesh: 088-01853-892424

Indonesia: 89674677433

Malaysia: 6012-477-2551

Pakistan: 0307494 07 07

Thailand: 083 99 44 212 8  

Ireland: 1-800-910-049

Northern Ireland/Isle of Man: 0-800-077-6049

Germany: 00-49 15210385680 

Poland: 0048 725 892 134

Argentina: 011 156 664 7070 

Bolivia: 775-08219 

Brazil: 55 11 4349-6230 

Chile: 75307461

Colombia: 0 18000182 182

Dominican Republic: 829 424 3391

Ecuador: 5930-98301317

Honduras: 9439 6384

Peru: 01 945 411 951

Uruguay: 0800 8843 8843

Venezuela: 0426 116-94- 96 

*These hotlines are pro-choice, and can provide you unbiased medical information. * 

REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE.