Month: July 2018

Happy Fourth of July, American friends! I hope you have an absolutely lovely day full of glorious fireworks. (Well, the night filled with fireworks, anyway. Hehe.)

It’s time to get our IZM on!

Today’s prompt is:

AmeriZine Day! Explore marginalised voices in America. Buy, share, and read zines about racial justice and zines written by people of colour.

There are two zines that popped into my mind when I read this prompt. One I read quite a while ago, and one I’ve read recently. Today it’s my pleasure to share:

Queer Indigenous Girl is a full-colour perzine that covers topics like introductions, O’Otham culture, reading recommendations, and Se’mana’s experiences living with ADHD.

Full review here.

This Asian American Life is a ½ fold full colour comic about Katie’s life and being an Asian American.

Full review here.

That’s me for today. If you have any recommendations for zines by marginalised voices, please leave them in the comments below.

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List of activities: http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/internationalzinemonth/

Others Joining In :

*Echo Publishing – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com
*Feral Publications – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dA2HTUon0
*You?

Hello, zine friends! How is it going? It’s already nearing the end of Tuesday here in Oz, and I feel like it’s nearing the end of the day on Thursday. Yep, it’s been a busy week already.

The beat goes on with this beautiful month, and it’s time for day 3 of International Zine Month.

Today’s prompt is:

Teach a friend or family member about zines

In previous years, I have held little workshops with friends to introduce them to zines and later to have fun working on zines in ‘workshop’ sessions.

I think most, if not all, of my friends already know about zines now either through my introducing them to zines or from them asking me what I spend so much time doing. Haha. It probably sounds a little sad, but I haven’t really made a lot of new friends here in Murray Bridge, so…

I’ve decided for today to share my YouTube playlist: Zine Goodness

I have recently added a few videos (and am absolutely open to suggestions for more videos to add), so you can check that video list out for tutorials, zine haul videos, and even short documentaries.

Check it out, let me know what you think, and apologies for a bit of a ‘cheat’ day. (This won’t be the last. 😉 )

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List of activities: http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/internationalzinemonth/

Others Joining In :

*Echo Publishing – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com
*Feral Publications – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dA2HTUon0
*You?

Hello, zine friends! I can already tell that this month is going to go by fast as. Hehe.

Today’s prompt is:

Zine Rewind! Re-read your favourite zines.

Favourite zines? All of them? In one day? Eep.

It’s hard to make zine reading decisions when you go throwing around words like ‘favourite’. Haha. However, I figured with it being IZM and all, I would jump in and reread a couple of my favourite zines about zines.

Meta Zine – Review here

Xerography Debt – Review for #34 here

What are you reading? I’d love to know what people’s favourite zines are.

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List of activities: http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/internationalzinemonth/

Others Joining In :

*Echo Publishing –
*You?

Happy International Zine Month! Today is the first day of activities, so let’s get rolling!

Today’s prompt is:

CanaZine Day! Buy, read, or share zines from Canada

Woo! I have loved the list of prompts in the past, of course, but I love that we have a fresh list of new activities for this year. For today’s prompt, I am wrapping myself up nice and warm (winter here in the land of Oz) and enjoying a read of these two zines:

Little Acorns is a series by Canadian zinemaker Maranda Elizabeth. (I reviewed their zine ‘Self-Care for Zinesters’ recently.) I’m not sure what they are about, but my awesome friend LP sent them, and I trust LP’s taste in zines. ^_^

That’s me for today… or is it? Hehe. Don’t forget to let me know if you’re joining in IZM 2018!

List of activities: http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/internationalzinemonth/

Others Joining In:

*Echo Publishing: https://echopublishing.wordpress.com
*You?

Hello, wonderful zine friends!

It is that gorgeous time of the year when we have an entire month to get our zine on and celebrate the lovely handmade bits of magic that are zines. Hehe. Woo!

Even better? Even better?

There is a brand new shiny list of daily activities from Alex Wrekk!

*happy dance*

This is a month I love more and more each year I join in. You can look in the ‘International Zine Month’ category if you’d like to see what I’ve done in past years.

This year I will be posting daily (yep – more posts to come today!) as well as doing my very first (ee!) 24 hour zine challenge.

Something else I like to do with these events is have a running list of people who are joining in. So if you are joining in, let me know where you are posting (blog, Instagram, etc) so I can add your link to the list.

There’s definitely more to come later today. Happy IZM!