All Blog Posts Tagged 'community' (7)

Over a year ago I wrote a letter to Microcosm Publishing expressing my concerns with their continuing to involve an abuse perpetrator in their organisation. They never responded to me. This week, there are many more of us writing- united- to Microcosm. This time I hope we’re too loud to be ignored.

Here’s the …

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A few years back I gave my friend Jackie a copy of my first zine, I Am Not The Rain, which I put together with my friend Amber. It’s a zine about a lot of things, mostly about life after experiencing childhood sexual abuse. Jackie was quite excellently awesome and asked Amber and I if she could turn it into a video story. The video also turned out to be quite excellently awesome. I have wanted to get it…

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Olive Stew - the ways try to figure out love.



the ways we get it wrong.



Here is the side of love that is more often seen. The times when we struggle to get it right and fall short.

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Express your interpretation of this concept through photography, illustration, writing in fiction or nonfiction, haiku, painting, collage, comics - hell, I'll even take music if that's how you choose to share it. I would even interview you to get out your story. Or you could… Continue

I have started a zine blog (http://sarahtearex.wordpress.com/) where I originally posted this but as a part of my protest, I wanted to spread the word to the We Make Zines community, so here it is...

 

In my last post I was excitedly nattering about all the zine happenings in my life. Among these was hearing from Microcosm that they wanted to distro a zine of mine. Somehow the background on the founder and collective member Joe…

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Dear friends and fellow members of We Make Zines,



The Freeschool is happy to announce that we are partnering with the above

Nationwide Film and Zine project!

The Freeschool has hosted numerous zine workshops, zine making classes and circulated zines for years as zines represent not only independence from mainstream press but also educational alternatives: people to people…

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The great lure of London has roped me in this Sunday! For any of you interested in coming along, saying hello, picking up or exchanging some zines I will be tucked away at the Resource Centre with my own stall and I will also be running a workshop later in the afternoon. Continue

There is a Junk Drawer display at the “The Opportunity Shop” in Hyde

Park in Chicago.

The shop is a temporary experimental project space. It is located in a former Hollywood Video store that has been totally redone as a community art center.

The Junk Drawer set-up was created almost entirely out of stuff found at

the space: sets of drawer, and display racks that were previously used

for DVD’s. Zines are for sale, and there’s a drawer full of odds and

ends you can… Continue