#neuroqueer zines

[gor3sigil]

The third issue of my zine is out !

This issue is about the overlap between mental illness (especially psychotic disorders) and transness and the struggles of being both trans and psychodivergent.

It contains a long text that I already put on tumblr before, but corrected and expanded, and drawings I did when I was in psychosis between 2018-2020. So please, read at your own discretion.

Hope you enjoy it, and thank you so much for reading.

[glitterwurst]

[Image description: Announcement for call submissions for zine, All in Your Head features an illustration of a femme presenting cyborg, seated near futuristic white and blue orbs. Cords are connected to the cyborg's mechanical skull as they look towards a starry sky.] Text reads: 'All in Your Head: Queerness, Neurodivergence, and Disability Zine. Call for Submissions! Queer Crip Futures. Deadline: December 1st, 2017.']  Call for Submissions! All in Your Head is a queer/feminist traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors. Our zine operates on the following *principles: 1.) social inequality and injustice exists [racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, cissexism to name a few]; 2.) disability, neurodiversity can be understood as a viable form of human difference that intersects with/is shaped by systems of dominance; 3.) claims that there is a “normal” bodymind can have damaging and harmful effects (physically/emotionally/spiritually) and are partly shaped by current social/cultural values and white western colonial histories; 4.) neuroatypical people and people with disabilities must navigate cultural taboos, move among complex institutions and systems of care and negotiate conflicting ideas of “wellness/illness,“ “silence/disclosure,” “visibility/invisibility;” “dis/ability” and more 5.) most importantly, our stories matter. (*this list is by no means exhaustive) We are seeking submissions for issue #7 of All in Your Head. The theme for this issue is: QUEER CRIP FUTURES. We accept many kinds of submissions including: short stories, essays, poetry, rants, manifestos, music playlists, book reviews, doodles, drawings, resource lists, opinion pieces, photography, collage (and more!) that address this theme. If you don't see your idea here, send it anyway! It may just be the thing we’re looking for! Keep in mind that you do not need to be a “good writer/artist/poet” (whatever that means!) to participate. We want to deconstruct and dismantle elitist gatekeeping and restricting access to publishing for disabled, neuroqueer folks. Possible themes/topics for this issue: -Visions for social, cultural, and systemic change from the perspective of queer, disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodivergent people -Accessible technologies -The future of disability activism -Bio-medical ethics and technological developments -Eugenics, disability, and the rhetoric of futurity -Science fiction and disability, gender, race, class, sexuality etc -Activist/artist projects that address the theme Crip Futures as it relates to queer disabled, neurodiverse communities for our activist spotlight column. Send all submissions to: allinyourheadzine@gmail.com Deadline: December 1st, 2017. Word limit: Please try to keep submissions around 1500 words or less. This is to ensure that all folks who submit have a good chance of getting published. Please send with your submission: Bio (optional), descriptions of any images you sent (high res please!), and any links to your work and artistry (optional). All contributors will receive a free copy and are free to publish elsewhere (we do not own your work!).

[keofunkel]

[dmnsqrl]

All proceeds from sale of either of these products will go towards supplies for printing and distribution of the zine version of

[crow-caller]

honestly, I hate the word queer and being referred to as such so much that I

actively avoid anthologies that overuse it in branding, because I don’t want to touch that. I saw a zine that used the word ‘neuroqueer’ in it’s submission call. get that the hell away from me.

even if in theory I should really be applying anywhere, if a publisher was like ‘we’re a super queer press!’ I’d be like ‘bye bitch’

[lunaelizabethart]

Hi Luna Elizabeth! I'm editing a zine called "neuroqueer the zine" by and for queers who experience neurodivergence and/or mental illness- wondering if I could print some of your wallpapers as backgrounds, credit you, and give you a copy if you'd like?

Yes, of course, just credit me, and send me a copy! I would love to see it.

[glitterwurst]

Call for Submissions!

Call for Submissions! All in Your Head is a queer/feminist traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors. Our zine operates on the following *principles: 1.) social inequality and injustice exists [racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, cissexism to name a few]; 2.) disability, neurodiversity can be understood as a viable form of human difference that intersects with/is shaped by systems of dominance; 3.) claims that there is a “normal” bodymind can have damaging and harmful effects (physically/emotionally/spiritually) and are partly shaped by current social/cultural values and white western colonial histories; 4.) neuroatypical people and people with disabilities must navigate cultural taboos, move among complex institutions and systems of care and negotiate conflicting ideas of “wellness/illness,“ “silence/disclosure,” “visibility/invisibility;” “dis/ability” and more 5.) most importantly, our stories matter. (*this list is by no means exhaustive) We are seeking submissions for issue #6 of All in Your Head: Queerness, Neurodiversity, and Disability Zine. The theme for issue #6 is RESISTANCE, RECOVERY & RENEWAL and we are seeking short stories, essays, poetry, rants, manifestos, music playlists, book reviews, doodles, drawings, resource lists, opinion pieces, photography, collage (and more!) related to the theme: RESISTANCE, RECOVERY & RENEWAL.

-Resistance to erasure, invisibility, repression, and discrimination for all marginalized people, with attention to the experiences of queer disabled and/or neurodivergent folks. -Recovering our bodies, ourselves, our histories, our stories, our spaces etc -Resisting colonialism, imperalism, and state-sanctioned violence against marginalized people, particularly IPOC people with disabilities -Recovering individual and collective identities -Renewing our coalitional agreements and dedication to intersectional work -Resisting spiritual violence, recovering from horizontal and/or internalized oppression -Renewing awareness of the interdependent nature of life, the idea that all people and all things are innately connected -Recovering from substances -Renewing our commitments to wellbeing and livelihood -Renewing our relationships with plant/animal/human allies -Activist/artist projects that address the issue of resistance, recovery, and/or renewal as it related to queer disabled, neurodiverse communities for our activist spotlight column

Send all submissions to: allinyourheadzine@gmail.com Deadline: August 30th, 2017 Word limit: Please try to keep submissions around 1500 words or less. This is to ensure that all folks who submit have a good chance of getting published. Please send with your submission: Bio (optional), descriptions of any images you sent (high res please!), and any links to your work.

IMPORTANT: In this issue of AIYH, we are prioritizing submissions by Indigenous folks, people of colors (IPOC) who are LGBTQIA+ identified, disabled, and/or neurodivergent. We welcome submissions from folks who are not IPOC; however, we want to center and prioritize this artistry and writing prior to accepting other submissions. Just be aware that we might not be able to fit every submission in this issue. All contributors will receive a free copy in the mail and retain rights to their content (we do not own your work and you are free to publish elsewhere!).

[keofunkel]

A zine about neurodiversity and queer identity: Print edition coming soon!

[glitterwurst]

[Image Description: drawing of a skeleton arching their back and tilting head backward. Text reads: call for submissions. Issue #8: To The Bone"]

Call for Submissions! All in Your Head is a queer/feminist traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors, sponsored by GlitterWurst Zine Distro. Our zine operates on the following *principles: 1.) social inequality and injustice exists [racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, cissexism to name a few]; 2.) disability, neurodiversity can be understood as a viable form of human difference that intersects with/is shaped by systems of dominance; 3.) claims that there is a “normal” bodymind can have damaging and harmful effects (physically/emotionally/spiritually) and are partly shaped by current social/cultural values and white western colonial histories; 4.) neuroqueer and disabled people must navigate cultural taboos, move among complex institutions and systems of care and negotiate conflicting ideas of “wellness/illness,“ “silence/disclosure,” “visibility/invisibility;” “dis/ability” and more 5.) most importantly, our stories matter. (*this list is by no means exhaustive)

We are seeking submissions for issue #8 of All in Your Head: TO THE BONE: OUR QUEER CRIP BODIES, OURSELVES. We accept many kinds of submissions including but not limited to: essays, short stories, poems, personal narratives, manifestos, rants, drawings, doodles, illustrations, photography, collage, book or movie reviews (related to the theme), song lyrics, playlists, short plays/monologues and more! We resist the notion that there is such as thing as a "good writer/good artist" and seek to dismantle, critique, and challenge that "good writing/good art" means from a queer, disabled, neurodivergent perspective.

Some possible topics for TO THE BONE may include: -Reclaiming and living in our bodies which exist at the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, size, and a multitude of other differences. -Visceral knowing, alternative modes of thinking, perceiving, feeling via a queer crip, neuroqueer bodymind. -Queer disabled engagements with artistic or spiritual bodily movement and practice such as: dance, yoga, theater, slam poetry, film, singing (and others!). -Critiques of and engagements with the notion of "transcending disability." -Explorations of the mindbody split trough the lens of disability. -Analyses of disability, passing, and embodiment. -The rhetoric of "loss" and disabled embodiment (i.e.: "sight loss," "loss of limbs"). -Queer disability, pleasure, body erotics.

Deadline: February 28th, 2018 Send submission and bio to: allinyourheadzine@gmail.com Please limit your submissions to approximately 1500 words and/or send high quality images of your artwork/photography. We enthusiastically welcome and prioritize submissions by queer, trans, and disabled IPOC. All contributors will receive a free copy in the mail!

[glitterwurst]

Issue #5 of All in Your Head, Queer Crip Survival, is now available. In black and white and in full color! www.etsy.com/shop/GlitterWurst

[glitterwurst]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!! All in Your Head is a traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors. Our zine operates on the following *principles: 1.) social inequality and injustice exists [racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, cissexism to name a few]; 2.) disability, neurodiversity can be understood as a viable form of human difference that intersects with/is shaped by systems of dominance; 3.) claims that there is a “normal” bodymind can have damaging and harmful effects (physically/emotionally/spiritually) and are partly shaped by current social/cultural values and white western colonial histories; 4.) neuroatypical people and people with disabilities must navigate cultural taboos, move among complex institutions and systems of care and negotiate conflicting ideas of “wellness/illness,“ “silence/disclosure,” “visibility/invisibility;” “dis/ability” and more  5.) most importantly, our stories matter. (*this list is by no means exhaustive) For the Summer 2017 editions of All in Your Head, we invite you to share first person narratives, essays, rants, poems, doodles, drawings, photography, collages (and more!) that address the concept of “SURVIVAL.” We are seeking pieces that explore the theme SURVIVAL” as it relates to disabled bodyminds and ways that queer neurodivergent, disabled folks encounter and resist cultural stigma and self-authorize our existence. We are seeking topics that address the follow themes (and others): -Survival in the literalist sense—staying alive—and state sanctioned violenceagainst queer, disabled, neurodivergent people of colors; survival and accessto live sustaining medicines and therapies; survival and poverty. -Diverse interpretations of what it means to “survive” as a disabled, queercrip, neuroqueer in an ableist, racist, cissexist, classist,homo/bi/transphobic western culture. -Communal care, caring and healing networks. -Tensions between the concept of interdependence and independence as it relates to survival. -“Help”/ “Charity”/ “Pity” Culture and queer crip survival. -The influences of capitalism on “survival,” ranging from internalized classism to economic realities -Long-term visions of change for the survival of people with disabilities. -Artist or activist projects focused on the survival of queer disabled and neurodivergent folks for our Activist Spotlight Column. Send your submissions to allinyourheadzine@gmail.com before April 22nd, 2017. Please send your submissions via email. For written submissions, please use Microsoft word and submit your writing in .doc or .docx format. (Please try to limit submissions to 1500 words. We are flexible. Let us know if you need a little extra space.) For artwork, please attach high resolution .jpg images to your email. Please include a title for your artwork and any information you think would be pertinent for readers to know about your piece (medium, location, tools used etc). Contributors have the option of sharing a short bio or publishing their work anonymously. IMPORTANT: Contributors should be willing to have their work displayed in another, accessible form of media alongside the traditional paper zine. Contributors should anticipate that their work may be read and translated/captioned in a video via youtube or vimeo or another internet venue. More details on this element to come. Email us with any questions. 

[dmnsqrl]

[Image Description: drawing of a skeleton arching their back and tilting head backward. Text reads: call for submissions. Issue #8: To The Bone"]

Call for Submissions! All in Your Head is a queer/feminist traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors, sponsored by GlitterWurst Zine Distro. Our zine operates on the following *principles: 1.) social inequality and injustice exists [racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, cissexism to name a few]; 2.) disability, neurodiversity can be understood as a viable form of human difference that intersects with/is shaped by systems of dominance; 3.) claims that there is a “normal” bodymind can have damaging and harmful effects (physically/emotionally/spiritually) and are partly shaped by current social/cultural values and white western colonial histories; 4.) neuroqueer and disabled people must navigate cultural taboos, move among complex institutions and systems of care and negotiate conflicting ideas of “wellness/illness,“ “silence/disclosure,” “visibility/invisibility;” “dis/ability” and more 5.) most importantly, our stories matter. (*this list is by no means exhaustive)

We are seeking submissions for issue #8 of All in Your Head: TO THE BONE: OUR QUEER CRIP BODIES, OURSELVES. We accept many kinds of submissions including but not limited to: essays, short stories, poems, personal narratives, manifestos, rants, drawings, doodles, illustrations, photography, collage, book or movie reviews (related to the theme), song lyrics, playlists, short plays/monologues and more! We resist the notion that there is such as thing as a “good writer/good artist” and seek to dismantle, critique, and challenge that “good writing/good art” means from a queer, disabled, neurodivergent perspective.

Some possible topics for TO THE BONE may include: -Reclaiming and living in our bodies which exist at the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, size, and a multitude of other differences. -Visceral knowing, alternative modes of thinking, perceiving, feeling via a queer crip, neuroqueer bodymind. -Queer disabled engagements with artistic or spiritual bodily movement and practice such as: dance, yoga, theater, slam poetry, film, singing (and others!). -Critiques of and engagements with the notion of "transcending disability." -Explorations of the mindbody split trough the lens of disability. -Analyses of disability, passing, and embodiment. -The rhetoric of "loss" and disabled embodiment (i.e.: "sight loss," "loss of limbs"). -Queer disability, pleasure, body erotics. Deadline: February 28th, 2018 Send submission and bio to: allinyourheadzine@gmail.com Please limit your submissions to approximately 1500 words and/or send high quality images of your artwork/photography. We enthusiastically welcome and prioritize submissions by queer, trans, and disabled IPOC. All contributors will receive a free copy in the mail!