Oh the infinite wisdom of radical zines. Get your own copy for free right now!
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Moral Revolution
Resistance is Fertile!!! Click here to print your shareable copy of Moral Revolution, a brilliant zine by Kriti Sharma about creating an ethics of love, a livable world, a yes in creation response with each other (based on Sarah Lucia Hoagland’s Lesbian Ethics).
(Printing specifications: Landscape orientation, Double-sided, Flip on the short edge)
Also see this political education agenda for an idea of how to use this magic in your community!
How to Support a Survivor of Sexual Assault (10 Steps)
In 1979 in response to 12 murders of black women in Boston in the space of three months, the Combahee River Collective (mission statement exerpted here…email brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com for an educational full copy) created and self-published a document about violence against black women and created a series of creative artistic public demonstrations affirming the right of all women to live. In 2006 in response to verbal, physical and ideological violence against women of color and sex workers and people who have survived sexual assault in Durham North Carolina, UBUNTU in partnership with Men Against Rape Culture (MARC) created and self-published a document on how to support survivors of sexual violence.
Download it here and use it in your communities! (Printing specifications: Landscape orientation, Double-sided, Flip on the short edge)
Voices from the Friction Lines
As part of the DIY series at Charis Books and More, the oldest feminist bookstore in the Southeast, a half-dozen brilliant activists, thinkers and artists created a zine to respond to the literal and metaphorical drought that our planet, progressive movements, and our bodies are suffering. This zine provides resources towards wholeness, a spell, a word-search, do it yourself interviews for elders and young folks, poetry, a recipie and beautiful artwork. Defying the stories about scarcity all around us, this abundance of joy was created in only 2 hours. Click friction-lines.pdf
for your free copy. Use it in your life, your community, your classroom, etc.
OutLaw Vision: Reclaiming, Truth, Power and Justice For Ourselves
Click here to download OutLaw Vision, a zine about responding to violence without reaffirming the biases of the law created in ONE HOUR (!!!!) by participants in an UBUNTU workshop at the Allied Media Conference. This zine includes strategies for response, examples of how people are organizing for transformative justice, a review of a one woman show, vision maps, an interactive advice column and more!
The Watermelanin Remix
This zine is a compilation of student poems and prose pieces in conversation with Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle. Remixing the poems in main character Gunnar Kaufman’s poetry collection Watermelanin, the students examined their own relationships to racism, gender, family, class, oppression and freedom. This edition also includes literary readings of each poem by fellow students and photos of the poets performing their pieces for an unsuspecting audience of bus-riders. This zine is highly recommended as a teaching tool for any class reading Beatty’s important work.
Such A F**king Problem
This poetry ‘zine created by POMK is a prelude to the website of the same name suchafuckingproblem.blogspot.com. Full of irony, rage and social critique this zine calls out assimilationist pressure, a culture of silence around sexual violence and apathy of all kinds. Download your free copy here:
S.exual E.xperience X.posed
This ‘zine presents a diverse array of sexual experiences from the point of view of female and women-identified individuals. The content of this ‘zine is specifically for grown folks, and the author hopes that this publication will find its way to women’s organizations, rape crisis centers and women’s shelters to send the message that we should all be able to tell our sexual stories without shame! Download your free full color copy to share here:
Double Consciousness
This ‘zine by Michelle Oyeka provides a contemporary exercise in “double-consciousness” a term coined by W.E.B. DuBois’s in 1903 to explain the difficult, but important position of people of african descent in the Americas. Oyeka uses this concept to embrace her experience as the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, immersed in African-American culture and to create an aesthetic in which multiple views are valued. Oyeka’s zine features guest pages by Elisabeth Michel and Stephanie Darand. Download your full color copy here:
Black Leaders: Misleading the Black Community
This ‘zine by Jade Miller critiques the tactics of conservative black leaders and uses the work of figures as varied as Aaron McGruder and Barack Obama to imagine what effective black leadership could look like. This is a useful conversation starter for conversations about the 2008 national and local elections. Download your free copy in full color here!
Infection Confirmed
This ‘zine created by a team of pre-medical students of color seeks to examine and uncover the health disparities experienced by people of color in the United States. Including pieces on the significance of race and genomics in contemporary healthcare, the immigrant heathcare debate as well as disturbing facts and useful remedies, this publication seeks to infect the minds of its readers towards a transformation of the medical field.
Download this handy-dandy self-explanatory zine by Jaime Danehey to learn or teach someone to write in cursive. Hear tell they’re not teaching this in school anymore. Keep writing!
“My Name is Me” and “Keeping It Real” were both created by a multicultural group of women who respond to sexual violence in their everyday work in communities of color in consecutive 90 minute workshops at the CARE Annual Multicultural Gathering. Download these publications and open yourself to the range of knowledge and energy these nurses, rape crisis responders, teachers, filmakers, advocates, students, counselors and activists have shared!
Hope and Vision: The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of Crisis
created at the Miami Workers Center, Miami FL
(Click the title for free download. Printing instructions- Legal sized paper, double-sided, flip on the longedge)
Co/modified Bodies: A Collaborative Zine About Transformation
Created at University of North Carolina, Greensboro
MPressed: The YESPP! We Can Edition
The Gulf Coast Dregs: Waking Up the Community
Created in Pensacola, FL at University of Western Florida
Hello,
My name is Fallon and I’m organizing with other women of color around the Dunbar Gang Rapes and West Virginia Torture/Rape case. Well, I was wondering if you have time to participate in a phone conference on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 9pm/central about organizing to end silences surrounding Megan Williams’ torture and rape in Logan and the gang rape of several Black women in West Palm Beach Florida as well as stories that go unheard because it involves a woman of color such as the Newark imprisonment of the four lesbians for protecting themselves from a male aggressor.
Well, I’ve been circulating a 2 minute movie entitled, “How do you keep a Social Movement Alive.”
http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=E44BFBCE67BF11DC9030000423CF037A
This movie documents the silence surrounding Megan Williams’ torture and rape in Logan and the gang rape of several Black women in West Palm Beach Florida. The purpose of this movie is to document the silences within our relationships, within our homes, within our families, within our communities, within our jobs, within our schools, within our churches, temples, and synagogues, within our governments, and within our world.
We have a blog, but given the organizing we are trying to do, I need to reorganize the blog and use wordpress instead of blogger. This is the current blog,
http://documentthesilence.blogspot.com/
If you can’t do the phone conference would you interested in being apart of the Women of Color Bloggers Breaking the Silences Contingency on the Web which would mean inundating the web with information about Wearing Red Campaign on October 31, 2007 as well as circulating clips and other media trying to inundate the web with stories of violence committed against women of color.
I look forward to connecting with you,
Fallon
You can email me at beboldered@gmail.com.
Hey- I just want to say that finding this made my day! I love the work that UBUNTU is doing so much, and I really love your zines! I stumbled on this trying to google an image of the June Jordan mural in Bed Stuy. I teach Girl Power at the afterschool program ar United For Success, a social justice oriented junior high in Oakland, and I will definitely be using some of the zines with my girls. I’m also a proud INCITE! member. You rock!
this is an amazing collection. thank you.
Thanks a lot, i’am an activist and a rising politician.This is going to help me truely a lot.