fancy-rat:

Calling all rat queens and kings - I need your help!

I’ve been contemplating ideas for a zine about rats - and decided on rat prom! The zine will be comprised of portraits I’ve drawn of rats and their owners. I’ll be drawing rats/owners together, as well as some rats separate.

What I need are some of your awesome pictures of you and your rat, or just your cutey pie ratty - so I can draw you! Everyone who sends in a picture and gets themselves/their rat drawn and featured in the zine, will receive the original artwork (for free) if they purchase the zine once its complete!

You don’t have to dress up yourself/or you rat for ‘prom’ - I’ll probably take some artistic liberties and add some flowers and ribbons and terribly fantastic, gross prom things. BUT if you would like to dress up - PLEEEASE DO!

Please send your pictures to lilyterese@hotmail.com - along with your name & your rats name, and a link to your online presence/email address. This information will be featured on the same page as your portrait in the zine. If you don’t want to include links/emails - that’s fine. :)

I will be contacting all those featured when the zine is complete.

(via effyeahpetrats)

catladysoul:

So there are several feminist publications out there right now — I even contribute to some of them! But none of them are very specifically queer and feminist and talk about fashion, specifically, and not in that ‘groundbreaking’ way that discusses how fashion can be feminist. I know it can be, there are lots of people I know who know it can be, and it informs how we approach feminism and vice versa. I want to bring that discussion to the table. I want to share the stories about how fashion informs feminism and feminism informs fashion and how they help each other out. I want the discussion to move past how problematic the industry can be (because newsflash, we all know it can be, and how it is, and how it needs to change) and talk about how much fucking fun it is. Because how I present myself is fucking subversive. Because how I treat my body is a political statement. Because I am queer and feminist and yeah I like fashion, and it doesn’t make me a lesser queer or a lesser feminist for doing so. 

There is no current publication that speaks about fashion from a feminist point of view that doesn’t consider the industry to be an inherently destructive structure. I think it needs to happen, and I think I can make it happen, even if what I create is really small, and maybe won’t be a huge series. I think I can do it and I think you all can do it too, and we can do it together.

I already have seed funding so this isn’t even a call for donations — I don’t need them at the moment. I just need your stories. Your contributions. Your artwork, your photographs, you — not your money. Do you identify as queer? Do you like fashion? How does it help you and give you power? How does art give you agency as a person? As a feminist? As a queer sea monster? 

If you don’t feel like you’re represented in other mediums, if you want to talk about fashion from a feminist perspective, if you want to talk about wearing stockings as a dude, I don’t care what you talk about, throw your ideas at me, I want to hear them, I want to publish them. This zine will include art, poetry, interviews, photoshoots (if you live in or around NYC we can work on this together!!), articles, anything that can fit. Spill your guts and let’s make this shit happen. Email me: arabelle@fashionpirate.net and let’s work shit out. 

Signal boost please! Luv u ok bye.

Thanks to cloveflowers for this recommendation!

Listening to The Papas as I write this, just to make sure I’m as emotionally volatile as possible.

Not sure if the version of A Feminist Makeupping Manifesto is good enough for me to feel comfortable printing. This shit is, like, my baby, though, so maybe I’ll always feel that way. It’ll never be as good as I want it to be. It’ll never be done.

Maybe it’s better to just go with it, and I can make a better edition later?

I’m just thinking out loud. Feel free to give me advice/not give me advice.

CONFLICTS:

1. I told myself I didn’t have to check my school email until after my doctor’s appointment
2. BUT I GAVE YOU ALL MY SCHOOL EMAIL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS

katydidnot:

dreamstates:

katydidnot & rgr-pop are writing a zine!
it is about the ways that women get pushed out of feminist and radical spaces. Including male anti-rape activists abusing their privilege and being abusive, bad male allies in punk scenes, the mechanisms by which men gain privilege within feminist spaces and then use that privilege to abuse and silence women. 

They especially wanna hear stories from people who were involved in occupy movements and saw silencing/abuse happening to women/queer people/people of color/etc. Or SlutWalk stuff. It doesn’t just have to be about feminist spaces. You don’t have to be woman-identified, either, and you don’t just have to talk about the actions of men.

They are looking for submissions in time for Chicago zinefest so click through to find out more! 

hey thanks for the signal boost!!!!

Hey guys! I’ll still take submissions for a few more days! I have until thursday to staple and everything, but I want them printed by Wednesday.

Please send me a list of all your now-defunct email addresses and aim screenames that you’re willing to disclose. I’m compiling them into a minizine.

The oldest one I’ll be listing is from 2000. I got my first email account at the Pontiac Public Library, on a public access computer, with help from my sister.

For years I’ve been collecting aol/netscape/whatever emails from the backs of late nineties twee, pop punk, emo and girlpop 45s. I will be including those as well.

Feel free to include dates and stories.

eta: just email ‘em to me at
velocity.sound at gmail dot com
(an email I’ve had since about a year after that album came out)

katydidnot:

dreamstates:

katydidnot & rgr-pop are writing a zine!
it is about the ways that women get pushed out of feminist and radical spaces. Including male anti-rape activists abusing their privilege and being abusive, bad male allies in punk scenes, the mechanisms by which men gain privilege within feminist spaces and then use that privilege to abuse and silence women. 

They especially wanna hear stories from people who were involved in occupy movements and saw silencing/abuse happening to women/queer people/people of color/etc. Or SlutWalk stuff. It doesn’t just have to be about feminist spaces. You don’t have to be woman-identified, either, and you don’t just have to talk about the actions of men.

They are looking for submissions in time for Chicago zinefest so click through to find out more! 

hey thanks for the signal boost!!!!

Wow, you said all of those things better than I have been able to.

Thanks everyone who is asking me about submitting to our zine. I’m still having kind of a hard time with my pieces, to be honest, because they’re so emotionally fraught. But it’s coming.

I wanted to specifically request any submissions about the Hugo Schwyzer debacle, though, because as much as I have been talking about him, I’m really not sure I have it in me to write a cohesive piece about it. If anyone has anything they already wrote, even, that would be lovely. Specifically: how did all the bullshit that happened with Schwyzer serve to silence women? Specifically, what kind of tactics did he use to push women out of feminist spaces? What can this tell us about the role of men in the feminist movement? (other than that they make good rat food)