BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chihuahua X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chihuahua BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700405T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2288844:Event:81223 DTSTAMP:20130523T132024Z SUMMARY:Queer Zinester Roadshow DESCRIPTION:At the very end of July 7 queers are going to be reading f rom their zines in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison.\n\n*CHICAGO*\nThur sday, July 30th - 7pm\nUncle Fun Gallery\n1337 W. Belmont\n\n*MILWAUKE E*\nFriday, July 31st - 7pm\nCream City Collectives\n732 E. Clark\n\n* MADISON*\nSaturday, August 1st - 5pm\nOutReach\n600 Williamson St.\n\n ------\nDave Fried is a twenty nine year old queer Jewish man. He has been writing zines since the early '90s and has been putting out Black Carrot since '04. He also plays drums in the queerpunk band Bromance. He enjoys the finer things in life, such as black metal, ice beers, a nd bear porn.\n\nKisha Hope is a fat, queer, black, female-identified individual currently living in Chicago. She started writing zines when she was 15, the first being \"butt fat\". She recently co-wrote a zin e with her partner, Dave (Black Carrot), about their house-buying expe rience (Fort Mortgage).She is currently working on a new zine about he r personal story of child sexual abuse and just finished the first iss ue of A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, LIFE. It's sort of a bi omythography zine about growing up fat, poor, awkward, and black.She c ollects zines about body acceptance, fat girls, queer love, or bikes.\ n\nMilo Miller has been making zines since the late 1990s. Zis two lon gest series are Mutate (1998-2006) and Gendercide. In addition ze's se lf-published SoyBoi - Queer Adventures In My Vegetarian Kitchen, Peula h Shaveh Chayim (Action = Life) and most recently Heavy Mayo. Ze is al so one of the co-founders of QZAP, the Queer Zine Archive Project. Mil o currently lives in Milwaukee with zis partner-in-crime and their pet rock Nigel.\n\nKelly Shortandqueer has been making friends laugh with anecdotes about his life for years. He brings this candid storytellin g style of performance to this queer zine tour, entertaining audiences with his honesty and humor. He has been publishing his zine series, s hortandqueer, since August 2004. He was one of the co-founders of both the Denver Zine Library (which houses over 9,000 zines) and Tranny Ro adshow (a performance art tour with an all transgender cast). He curre ntly lives in Denver and works as the Director of Advocacy for the Col orado Anti-Violence Program.\n\nMax Stein is a writer and unschooling teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. Her current zine, \"The Rainbow Connec tion,\" is about gay Muppeteer Richard Hunt. Previous zines include \" The Long Walk Back to Myself,\" about her fifty-mile walk from Brookly n to Croton-on-Hudson; and \"Mad Love,\" about radical mental health. When not writing or watching Muppets, she is taking absurdly long walk s, practicing gratitude and chasing girls.\n\nJohn Thompson is a queer white/latino/mixed musician, writer, and activist currently living in Chicago. He writes the zine Gone to the Moon, plays drums in the pop- punk sensation Everything is Ruined, and also plays guitar in the quee r punk band Bromance. He is also involved in the Write to Win Collecti ve, which is a prisoner correspondence project in coordination with th e Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois that matches up trans gender, transsexual, queer, and gender non-conforming prisoners to be penpals with similarly identified folks on the outside.\n\nChristopher Wilde is the co-founder of The Queer Zine Archive Project, creator of the zines Abrupt Lane Edge, Wicked Wipeout, and others. For four year s, he reviewed queer zines for Milwaukee based Queer Life News. In Sep tember 2009, he will be an artist in residence at The Anchor Zine Libr ary and Archive in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he'll curate SPEW Fo(u)r th: A Canadian Queer Zine Art Show which will be displayed both there and at The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto.\n\nFor more i nformation visit http://wemakezines.ning.com/events/queer-zinester-roa dshow DTSTART;TZID=America/Chihuahua:20090730T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chihuahua:20090801T190000 CATEGORIES:zine, readings LOCATION:Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Queer Zinesters ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com/files/xQlLl4akMwzNLit7 *XaWKbNhzQxIGNDApnAC7j4QaJqZAPu4WMPYSLdWSFrH*Ze4vsmCLySW0KLBHifWvPP7wW NGwYjdlOfK/QZRFinalPoster.png ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Nico.":h ttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/missnico ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="kelly sh ortandqueer":http://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/kellyshortandqueer ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Kisha:htt p://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Kisha ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Milo:http ://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Milo ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Erin L George":http://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/ErinLGeorge ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Alycia:h ttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Alycia END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR