Em - The World's a Mess Zine/ Lola and the Cartwheels distro

My name is Em and i make 'The World's a Mess and Yr My Only Cure' zine and i also run the Lola and the Cartwheels zine distro.

THE WORLD'S A MESS.....

'The World's a Mess and Yr My Only Cure' is a zine focusing on feminist/queer DIY culture, focusing on inspiration, influences, motivation and celebrating self empowerment!

The zine features interviews with people i and others took and continue to take influence from, it also looks to discover the inspirations of these idols and also a look to the people carving new inspiration into the present and future.

Issue One features submissions from:

Colouring Outside the Lines, Julia Downes of Manifesta Leeds, Dottie's Fake DIY, Enid Crow, Nina Jones - filmmaker, Penny Broadhurst, Toe Curl, Knit and Destroy, Kershona Mayo, Bunny of Wonderleague.co.uk, Calvin Johnson, Lady Rouge, Melissa Ann of She's So Very zine, Daisy Daisy Does, Ste Mc Cabe, Asbo a Gogo girls, Kelly Rose of Pulse zine, Nina Nijsten, Nat and Emily of Fornax Records, Allison Wolfe, Sally Jenkinson, Queer X, Ngombo Chansa Machile of Manifesta Leeds, Jenny Howe of Vile Vile Creatures

You can also buy this zine through the following rad distros!
♥ Manifesta
♥ Lola and the Cartwheels
♥ Dear Soeurs

LOLA AND THE CARTWHEELS...

Lola is for anyone who wants to get together with a group of like-minded ego-free people to have fun, showcase their skills/talents/art and meet new people. We host monthly meetings for people to get together and discuss what they wanna see, wanna do, would like to learn or just to make good friends, really, in our first year we hosted a monthly clubnight called Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases.

The clubnight showcased three/four female oriented or influenced artists followed by a disco with guest DJs and a distro and craft stall.
We basically wanna re-address the gender balance in the Sheffield music scene and also celebrate the many different areas of DIY punk and riot grrrl such as zine workshops, diy DJs and performance art.

We also operate on a not for profit basis, basically aiming to cover the costs of the artists enabling them to spread their word further as well as making sure all of the money we make goes to the bands themselves.

We also run a distro at all our events, get in touch if you wanna add your zine! A full website is coming soon for the Lola and the Cartwheels distro, with zines aplenty, crafts and all kinds of cool things, we'll keep you posted!

CONTACT THROUGH THIS PAGE OR EMAIL:
lolaandthecartwheelssheff@hotmail.co.uk