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Call for Submissions!!

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Call for Submissions!!

In the recent #MeToo activism, there has been little attention to the experiences and struggles of Trans Women and Trans Feminine survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence. This call for submissions is aimed at creating a book anthology of experiences, resiliencies, activisms, and communities of Trans Women, Trans Feminine people, Trans Femme Two Spirits, and (C)AMAB non-binaries. The anthology also intends to center Black survivors, Indigenous survivors, and survivors of color. This project finds itself in the book anthologies The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement. This project carries their legacy by focusing on anti-carceral responses to reporting domestic violence and sexual violence, as well as centering our communities resiliencies. There isn’t a book publisher set yet, but I plan on making pitches when the submissions start coming in. I also hope on paying authors for their submissions.

Here’s a sampling of potential submissions: • Survivor experiences • Examinations of institutional violence • Comics • Resiliency • Frustrations with communities • Community support • Black and Indigenous survivorhood/resiliency • Activist organizing • Poetry

Send submissions and questions to Niamh Timmons via e-mail, [email protected].

#transgirls #girls like us #trans survivors #call for submissions #book call for survivors #trans women #trans feminine #Survivor

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China is putting Uyghur Muslims into Concentration Camps

This is one of the greatest attrocities and oppression taking place in the world today yet still it is one of the least talked about issues. It’s estimated possibly over 2 million Uyghur Muslims have been put into these concentration camps which China calls “re-edcuation camps” and the goals is to wipe out and clean them from their cultural and religious identity. They have built dozens of these camps with fortified walls and barbed wire fences which they hide from the world media.

China sees Islam as an ‘ideological disease’. Many of the people put in these camps don’t make it out alive due to to the harsh living conditions inside. Many leave behind children who are then sent to government run orphanages and are brainwashed from a young age removing their cultural and religious identity.

Uyghur Muslims can be arrested and put in these camps for the smallest of reasons and every step they take is monitored by the authorities. Facial recognition cameras and high tech equipment has been deployed in East Turkestan turning it into a complete surveillance state. This isn’t fantasy or ‘fake news’. This is happening now in East Turkestan. Don’t let history repeat itself. Share and let the world know the truth.

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Oh I am losing my damn mind over some creepy shit rn. I feel like I’m gonna puke

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Just finished a zine. Don’t Stop: A Suicide Attempt Recovery Guide

#zines #trans zines #queer zines #zinester #mental health #recovery #resource guide

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My Zines Reviewed in Maximum Rocknroll

I’ve been trying to find these for a while. And now I finally have them. Look to see what Maximum Rocknroll had to say about three of my zines!

MACROPHAGE #1

$4 / 28 pgs

Perzine by Niamh Timmons, who is a queer, non-binary, disabled transgirl, about the different ways that they try to heal in the face of hemophilia, heartache, and other sources of trauma. (They have other works reviewed in this issue of MRR.) They decided to name this zine after the macrophage, a white blood cell which is indiscriminate in the way in what they eat—they were responsible in helping them heal from having swollen ankles filled with blood, but at the cost of their joint cartilage. This complicated view of healing, which covers the pain they experience as they deal with loneliness, the effects of their disability on others, suicide ideation, and queer relationships. The stories here are often barely related, strung together only through the shared sadness that Timmons experienced. It’s an imperfect zine (which both Timmons and myself find invaluable) but still a valuable one for its presentation of a person’s pain and their ways of coping. (JD)

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RUN AWAY: FAMILY STORIES

$4 / 24 pgs

Perzine by Niamh Timmons, who is a queer, non-binary, disabled transgirl, focusing specifically on transphobia / transmisogyny and how it relates to them. Like many trans people, their relationship with their parents is fraught with tension and complications. They mention an interest in genealogy here, something carried down by their mother. They are curious as to the ways that genealogy flattens out the dynamism of people’s lives. Do they share common experiences with other family members? They don’t know—their parents are often closed off to them, and their family frequently doesn’t understand their identity, frequently asking them to return to their deadname. They do share one common experience—both of Timmons’ parents were runaways of sorts, and Timmons wishes they could escape the abuse and transphobia they experience. There’s no good solution here for Timmons, but they end the zine wishing for something more radical than a chosen family. However, what that looks like is beyond me. (JD)

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TRANS SEXUAL GEOGRAPHIES

$3 / 24 pgs

Perzine from Niamh Timmons, who is a queer, non-binary, disabled transgirl that talks about sex and bodies and how that interplays with their gender. They talk about their exes, how they’ve learned about good sex and experienced bad sex, their traumas and experiences with transphobia in their relationships. They explain the pleasures of all of the new changes that their body has taken on due to hormonal replacement therapy, and the unforeseen ways dysphoria can arise from those changes. Connecting with and relating to your body is hard when you’re trans, and as this zine so thoroughly explains through examples, it is hard to share those parts of you while trying to date others. (JD)

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#trans zines #trans zinesters #queer zines #zine reviews #zines #transgirl #disability

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We have an exciting announcement! Dear Diary Zine Fest is coming February 17th, 2019 at 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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I finally have my Patreon up! You can help support a disabled crazy enby sex-working grad student Transwoman!

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Template for sending emails about Brandon Graham

Feel free to personalize it!

My name is [name here]. I’m sending this email in regards to a member of the comics community, Brandon Graham, that you might work with and/or sell his comics. He has a history of abusive behavior, especially against Transwomen. Included is a link regarding his initial behavior. Since then, he has repeatedly been harassing Carta Monir, a Transwoman of color, who brought up these issues. Instead of trying to be accountable for his actions and listening to complaints against him he has been contacting multiple people, publishers, and groups in the comics community attacking Carta. This is alarming not only for his abusive behavior, but also for the racism and Transmisogyny of his behavior. Brandon Graham, his behavior, and those like it are especially dangerous given the political and social time we live in. I hope after reading this you will reconsider your professional relationship with Graham, whether it be having him at your events or carrying his books.

The article I mentioned:

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/04/brandon-graham/

Thank you for your time,

[name here]

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Thanks, EWF, for linking back to us and adding some great examples!

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I wrote a thing!!! I really like the way this turned out. And I’m super excited about it finally being out!

#transgirls do it better #bathrooms #transgirls #cisgendered

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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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I made this for the zine workshop I lead at the Portland Children’s Museum.

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Behind me is the Neponsit Facility, an abandoned hospital. In front of me is Riis, New York’s only queer beach. The fence is quite literally a line in the sand meant to keep queers out. 

In 1985, Mayor Ed Koch attempted to move 10 patients with HIV/AIDS from Bellevue in Manhattan to the hospital behind me. Local (straight) community members protested. Within days a judge blocked the move to hear their cases - allowing enough time for the patients to die. 

They feared the queer community and the unknown contagion. The city instead moved everyone to a state-sponsored residence run by the openly anti-queer archdiocese to die. Little did they know, the archdiocese was making the AIDS Crisis worse by advocating against safe sex education and condom distribution. Koch called activists who tried to help these growing number of patients “radicals” and “screwballs.” 

Now, the hospital that he was trying to protect will always be touching this queer space, which is more vibrant and alive than ever.

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Fatigue with a chronic illness:

Wake up - I don’t want to get out of bed!

Midday - I need a nap!

Time to actually go to bed - I can’t sleep!

And repeat!

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Without question. No ifs, ands, or buts.

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More from the current project

#zine in progress #work in progress #queer zines #mental health zines

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Starting a new zine project

#mental health zines #work in progress #queer zines