#radfem zine

[merskrat]

Backbone 8: begging for submissions

Hey Radblr,

I am once again here asking for submissions for Backbone 8. I have started paying for cover art only, and have that covered for this edition, but if you would like to take a commission for cover art, I’m able to pay $20 and will use it in the next edition. Everyone who contributes will get a copy of the zine. I’ll link our Etsy down below, but just be aware that my printer is out of toner right now, so orders will have to hold off until that gets here. We will have t-shirts posted in the shop by mid-June. If you have any writing or art you would like to see in print, please hit me up! And if you’d like to support us, please buy a zine, and keep eyes for the shirts! I would love to put out a late summer edition if I can collect enough submissions. Please share this around so more women can see it! My main goal is and always has been to get women’s writing and art out there, and keep the magic of zine making alive in the digital age (although we are beginning to have pdf versions available for international readers who don’t want to pay shipping). Please help me keep this project going by submitting, buying a zine, or even just sharing this post! We have been going strong since 2019 when I first joined my irl radfem group and have expanded to readers and writers from all over the world, and this zine means everything to me! (I even have Backbone tattooed across my fingers)

[cherryvampyre]

hihello i am working on creating a (free) radfem zine online, if anyone would like to contribute PLEASE dm me and also if anyone smart wants to help me set up a website for it that would be so great because im actually terrible at coding

[genderatheist]

A radfem zine is looking for contributions!

The theme of the second issue: First rule of misogyny: Women are responsible for what men do. Soft deadline: winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. We'd love to see your writing! Essays, slice of life, fiction, poetry, musings, ramblings, reviews, forbidden questions: everything that fills lots of space in your thoughts and you don't feel like you can share anywhere else. I want to feature as many different women's voices from as many different places as possible. We have more in common than the patriarchy would like us to believe. We're in the same boat, and we have to work together. So if you have something to say, please say! Don't stay silent!

[tardigradefem]

Made a very quick n messy mini zine!

[radicchia]

Zum Frauenkampftag 2023 gibt es die zweite Ausgabe des Frausein-Zines, in dem verschiedene Frauen ihre Erfahrungen und Meinungen zum Thema Frausein schildern.

Hier findet ihr das PDF.

Hier geht es zum Instagram-Account der Gruppe, wo ihr auch Infos dazu findet, wie ihr eine gedruckte Ausgabe bestellen könnt.

[thebodymustbefreed]

any tips for making radfem zines?? no clue where to start/ to find stuff to use to make it

[cherryvampyre]

yall dont know how much that slut pride thing pisses me offffff like the zine that does it

ur just calling women sluts and pretending its liberating like marylin monroe??? really??? after her entire career in hollywood and how awful it all was ur printing out pics of her and writing slut above her head are you serious.

[suffer66]

Hurricane Nancy psychedelic page from It Ain’t Me, Babe, 1970

[overtlydinosaurian]

This might be my .5 a cup of alcohol & late night brain talking, but I've suddenly been overcome with the desire to make and distribute my own radical feminist zine locally.

Anyone have any tips or suggestions to help me out?

How many people do you work with?

How do you distribute the zines?

Do you do physical or online copies? Both?

What do you focus on? How many topics?

[cat-in-a-mech-suit]

In response to the recent rise in “trans radical feminism”, transmedicalism, exclusionism and bio/gender essentialism in the queer community, and the likelihood of a legal trans genocide in the US, it is imperative that you stop treating queerness as an exclusive club or as a slightly different way to participate in capitalism and patriarchy, and start actively being a menace to society as much as you can (if it’s safe for you of course, use your own judgement). Get offline. Organize. Start a zine /pamphlet distributing project or join one. Talk to the queer people around you if there are any. Embrace 2010s transtrender aesthetics, cut/dye/grow out your hair, wear that outfit, be as loudly and annoyingly queer as possible (if it’s safe). If there’s radfems in your local queer community, and they seem to be genuinely misguided, educate them — if they’re malicious, try to build community away from them and educate others. Make your gender presentation ungovernable. Refuse to declare your AGAB. Don’t make callout posts. Militantly combat exorsexism, transmisandry, transmisogyny wherever you see it. Be a direct threat to the people who want you dead. Keep yourself hidden if you need to. Find community if you can. Know that you owe cis/het society nothing. This is how we survived for thousands of years and it is how we will survive now.

[lumea-art]

Hey, guys! I'd like to address a personal issue which actually concerns everyone in this fandom. Please, read and react somehow🙏 For those on the bojere fanbook server, that's going to be pretty much the same as what you read yesterday. If I'm too direct or accidentally overshare, sorry, keep in mind that I'm autistic

So for quite a long time I felt secretly disliked in the fandom. I am a very anxious person, I hang on every piece of feedback that I get so it bothered me a lot. I wasn't allowed to participate in the Käärijä zine and they never explained why and I almost didn't get in the bojere fanbook as well but at least the mods were kind enough to communicate the issue

So the mods told me yesterday that people felt uncomfortable about me taking part in this and having me on the server. I felt very down the whole day and didn't understand shit until Moko and Due gave me the explanation. The issue was "radfem" in my bio on Twitter. They explained to me how my associating with radfem made them think I was potentially threatening to other people on the server, especially the queer folk. But the thing is I turned out to be quite different. I consider myself to be radfem cause I've had a lot of traumatic experience with men (SA, abusive relationship), I don't want any other women to go through something like I had to experience, I am with women, I'm fighting for our comfort and against the patriarchy. Also I am from Kazakhstan and we have big issues with women's rights here including all kinds of abuse and femicide for which men tend to not get in jail. You might have heard how our ex minister of Economics abused and k*lled his wife and didn't get in jail until the case reached the news. That's all, that's what it means TO ME to be radfem. So I guess this radfem is different to the one you're used to. I am not transphobic and I have never thought my views had anything to do with queer people. I have always been nothing but respectful towards queer people, online or irl. I have nonbinary friends who are comfortable with communicating with me. As a cis person, I may not understand something, but we tend to talk anything through in order to understand each other better, not waiting for any of us get hurt accidentally. So I suggest the same - if you need further clarification, you can ask me questions in reblog or dms and I'll answer. Also I'm open to literature suggestions to get to understand you guys better💕

Also regarding Russian-Ukranian issue in case anyone has a problem with it

Since I'm openly Russian speaking (though being from Kazakhstan and half Ukrainian myself), Ukrainians might have an issue with me and I perfectly understand why so I try not to bother them. However, some of them didn't want to leave me and my friends alone. You might have seen this big Russian-Ukranian fight on twitter in April, mostly taking place in JO fandom. The thing is that (again) people don't dig deep and assume I am pro Russian since I speak Russian and happen to not be able to speak Ukrainian or Kazakh (in Kazakhstan we mostly speak Russian). Me and my Russian speaking friends were bullied, our personal info was leaked without our permission and one of us got threatened to be physically hurt once she arrives to a JO gig we are all going to. Of course I protected my friends and myself, maybe not in the best way possible. Luckily, we were able to talk everything through with the guys and no one means to hurt anyone anymore. I suggested doing commissions for donations and I still do that if you're interested. I am pro Ukrainian and pro Palestinian and genocides suck

If someone doesn't want to communicate with me for whatever reason, just don't, what's the problem. But don't limit a person before clarifying things, I beg you. Please, I really want to be on good terms with everyone. I wish peace to everyone 🙏

[merskrat]

Comic I made out of a tumblr post of mine that went viral. (Christians keep your grubby little hands off if it. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.) this will go into Backbone 8 and I’m trying to get into making more comics with the help of a book that teaches you how to draw clothes.

[cherryvampyre]

letter stamps for zines/posters/etc - first attempt i will trim them more later so they’re more readable. Also this my first time using ink on paper (i used to do stick n pokes) so that’s fun. its very messy and there are now fingerprints & blobs all over my journal

[venusgrl]

Intro post!! ^w^

hii i’m salem!! :3

i’m a lesbian radfem separatist

anti porn, anti religion, anti beauty, gender critical

proud detransitioner :3

｡ ₊°༺❤︎༻°₊ ｡

list of stuff i enjoy:

reading, making zines, noise and punk music, hyper obsessing over bands with less than 100 listeners and only one album, gardening, and painting

fav movies

i won’t only talk about radical feminism on this account, i’ll also post about the punk scene, movies, and gardening!! ^w^ that being said, i’ll talk a lot about being detrans and a fucking dyke LMFAOO

maybe one day i’ll tell the story of how tras almost got me addicted to ketamine 💀

[kittyit]

ms kittyit, i wanna make a radfem collab zine! do you have any advice for me? :)

put out a call for submissions

bother everyone to submit

bother everyone a LOT to submit

put it together

publish digitally or physically

yay you did it :)

[tirfpikachu]

doing some research on making my own tirf zine :] i want to put lots of (respectful) radfem debates within the community, interview trans & detrans radfems and tell their stories, maybe showcase the work of some radfem artists and photographers too!! and i'd love to also include interviews of some tra & terf povs to add diverse opinions on complex topics between the lgbt community and radblr. i might genuinely name it radblr, as cringe as it sounds lmao. or call it tirf with an i. either way this was just a random idea but for funsies i'm gathering some folks in my tirf server who have different sets of skills and just learn more about what it would even look like if it did become a real thing. again, this may or may not end up happening, but at the very least it sounds like a fun thing to play with and learn from. i do want to self-publish my tirf book someday at least initially until i find a publisher who's not afraid of publishing ~controversial~ content or whatever lol. so this could be a nice way to dip my toes into that world y'know? either way it's an exciting thought!

i would want to charge only the price of the publishing cost for the people ordering it online, with the option to pay more to support the zine. i mostly want it to be about community building!! boosting voices that are so often silenced, and showing people the fascinating discussions that can happen between radfems and tras and how we can all try to actually figure shit out instead of endlessly fighting. i also want to show how varied radfem opinions are, and how they aren't always "terfy" the way that tras assume. i would love to have people share the zine within their irl lgbt/leftist community too. and help other radfems make their own zine too!! idk, i really want to start doing more tangible activism <3 i think holding in our hands something about the radfem community we're in could be super empowering!