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Zine Review: You Don’t Know Me

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You Don’t Know Me
Gemma Flack
A5
http://www.gemmaflack.com/

You Don’t Know Me is a beautiful black and white zine of little words and hand drawn images. While it may be easy for some to breeze through it in a minute or two, it can have a lot more meaning if you let it.

On the fact of it, it’s composed of a few sentences – but they are sentences I have thought thousands of times. I am a woman who has judged and been judged based on appearance only. So, instead of flipping through the zine, I slowed down and really looked at the drawings. Gemma’s drawing is both straight to the point and intricate when you pause a moment to look closer.

*Special note on the back: For each copy of this zine sold, $1 will be donated to IWDA: International Women’s Development Agency, advancing women’s rights in Asia & the Pacific.

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So Here’s The Thing…

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This past weekend, I thought I was having a heart attack. My heart was thudding in my chest up to 125 beats a minute, my jaw hurt, I felt dizzy – and that was all while I was lying in bed. I didn’t go to emergency until the next day (after the chemist sent me to a doctor who sent me to emergency). People say a lot of crap about public medical, but they had me through an EKG, x-ray and in a bed with an IV in my arm in no time.

They gave me something to put under my tongue to take care of the chest pain. The fact the little pill worked implied that something was, in fact, wrong with my heart, but all the tests came back clean but for one that implied I had a virus of some sort running amok.

I got to go home the same day and am scheduled for more than a few ‘fun’ tests to assess whether there’s actually anything wrong with my ticker.

So that’s what I’ve been up to. Not that you came here to read what I’ve been up to. Time for a zine review!

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Crowdfunding Zines?

I recently had the pleasurable experience (sarcasm) of buying ink for my printer. After the experience of posting out DA3 to everyone (not that I am complaining!), I began to think about how I crowdfunded my last two novels. With the help of friends and strangers, I was able to pay for everything from the cover art to the print copies.

I’d never thought about doing it for zines mostly because zines (my zines) don’t cost as much to produce as novels (my novels) do. Looking at Kickstarter, it looks like zine are a ‘done’ thing in crowdfunding.

So, quick question:

How do you feel about crowdfunding zines?

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Call for Submissions: Domination & submission Zine

I’m writing a zine on Dominant / Submissive desires and unpicking abuse. I’m happy to collaborate with anyone, any feedback would be great.

Ever had kinky sex and it’s brought up painful memories of abuse?

Had a partner misunderstand your kinks as you wanting to be demeaned, humiliated, tortured?

Struggle with not being able to find an outlet for your sexuality, been let down by the prospect of getting to let go and felt pushed into not nice territory?

Struggled to align your feminist identity with submissive desires?

Mainly looking for experiences in first person; examples from me and other articles of what I’m looking for below, download this link for more – Abuse and Desire 3 experience (zoom out; meant for skip reading, very muddy stream of consciousness)

Read more: StigmaFreeWorld

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Do you have a call for submissions for your zine? Let me know!

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Bits N’ Bobs

No happy mail for me today, but you need to send mail to receive it…

Anywho, I wanted to a round up sort of post for the day.

For anyone going to the Chicago Zine Fest, there is a DIY reading/after party going on. You can find out more on this Facebook page.

A vegan feminist zine is looking for submissions. Check it out here. With my usual way of doing calls for subs, I don’t have room for everyone, so perhaps more round-ups are in order…

In or around LA? A group of students is organising the Claremont Zinefest on April 25 and they are currently accepting submissions.
More details are here.

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Marching Stars

Marching Stars Distro

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Call for Submissions: Clockpuncher Zine

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I’m working on a zine called Clockpuncher, which is all about finding ways to prioritize creative pursuits when you work an imagination-sucking 9-to-5 job. I’m looking for any submissions that fit the general theme.

Examples of content that would be appropriate:

– Practical tips and tricks for squeezing creative endeavours into your day

– Personal stories and narratives (in any format.. essays, comics, poems, etc.)

– ART. Send me your art.

– Honestly, the zine is about creativity, so I’m not going to stifle yours. Send me whatever floats your boat.

I will send a copy to everyone who contributes. Please submit to adrienne.weatherston@gmail.com by March 22!

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Call for Submissions: New Zine on Male Survivors

abuseLooking for personal experiences or ideas written in first person, to go into a zine by male identified people about unpicking societies conditioning and sexual abuse. All comments, collaborators welcome, email me at tedmullin@hotmail.co.uk

Mock up draft of what the zine could look like with subject ideas I’d like to write about. Male Survivors *Download link of articles I’m interested in, not for publication, I don’t own texts.*

I won’t edit your stories only copy and paste. I’d like 50% to be dedicated to unpicking abuse and learning good consent. But not necessary to include in every text if you feel your story stands alone as valuable experience.

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Zine Review: Updated Report of Observations Which Somehow Seem to Reflect Abstractly on Life (Stat 2)

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Updated Report of Observations Which Somehow Seem to Reflect Abstractly on Life (Stat 2)
Sarah McNeil
A6
https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/SarahMcNeil

Have you ever looked at a zine and wondered why you didn’t think of that? Well played, Sarah McNeil. Well played.

That sounds antagonistic, but it’s really not. I love statistics and graphs, and this zine is filled with them. From pie charts to bar graphs, McNeil has taken subjects from her life and laid them out statistics-addict style. I love, love, love it.

And wish I’d thought of it. But we’ve been over that.

While it might sound like a ‘cute’ sort of zine, there’s actually more than what a glance will tell you. The ‘Junk in My New Apartment’ pie chart and ‘Alcohol Intake’ line graph are amusing. Combine those with the ‘Sexual Preference’ and ‘This Zine’ pie charts start to give you a view of real, complex life. It’s becomes something akin to blogging via statistics. There is a level of vulnerability that I wouldn’t have thought possible through charts and graphs.

There are also a few more… visually amusing line graphs, but I’ll leave you to discover those.

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Bah Humbug

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What’s this? This, my friends, is a visual representation of how busy/distracted/stressed I have been today. You see, I love chocolate. This chocolate is of the Toblerone variety – a particular favourite. So for me to have a bite and actually forget about a piece…

Well, this has never happened in my twenty-some years of life.

I thought I was going to have the pleasure of moving this blog onto its own domain today, but something isn’t working correctly. Alas, here we are to stay for now.

On to the zine review.