DIY feminist zines since 2001
As you could already read in my announcement post, Same Heartbeats #18 was made during the 24 Hour Zine Challenge of Virtual Swansea Zine Fest in May.
I approached the making of this 24 hour zine in a completely hand-made fashion, with a lot of cut & pasting as you can see here: (read on under the photo)
(Don’t) stop the presses! New zine alert!
Same Heartbeats #18 – a new 24-hour-zine
This new issue of Same Heartbeats was created during the 24 hour zine challenge organised by Virtual Swansea Zine Fest 2021 which took place on May 8th. It was an amazing virtual zine weekend and I was very happy to participate and connect with zinesters while we were all working on our publications at home.
(More info about the contents and ordering under the photo)
In a post I wrote a while ago, I mentioned all zines that I’ve made since the Covid-19 lockdown/pandemic started in March 2020 in Belgium. Around the same time that I worked on some of those zines in the beginning of the pandemic, an enthusiastic creative collaboration named “with_drawn” started…
New splitzine by with_drawn:
Planets of Capitalocene, Surplus Humanity, and Revolt / Dancing, Drawing, and Day Dreaming
This split zine was made by the with_drawn collective during the online 24 hour event set up by Brighton Zine Network in July.
The zine discusses topics such as gentrification and the politics of maps. It includes political theory, song lyrics, collages, and drawings.
28 pages, A5, colour cover, b/w inside
How to get a copy of this zine?
The zine can be downloaded and printed for free here. Mail to with_drawn or to me to arrange for a paper copy. The zine is available for donation (+ postage).
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International Zine Month (July) has ended about a week ago. Here is a little summary of things I did. I already posted about the first half of the month here. I didn’t do all the things I set out to do but that’s fine.
STUFF I DID DURING (THE SECOND HALF OF) IZM:
First of all I read a lot of super interesting and amazing zines!
Then onto the zines that were created during IZM:
I printed copies of the zines Confined #1 and 2 (lockdown diary comic zine in two parts):
I continued drawing the IZM diary comic that I will print and publish as Scissors & Chainsaws #2 soon!
Continue reading “IZM 2020 round-up – from making zines to shelfies!”
We’re over half-way in International Zine Month so it’s time for me to look back at the first few weeks. I’ve been neglecting the list of daily IZM prompts a bit but on the zine-making front things are going great! I don’t think I’ve ever made/worked on so many zines (including several collaborations) before in my life… 🙂
Some things I did:
I’m reading zines, of course. I will post photos later of all the zines I read this month.That’s all for now!
Remember this one?
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I’m assembling pages for CuNt & Paste, the first 24 hour zine I ever made, at the first 24 Hour Zine event that took place in Belgium in 2014 (there have been a few more in the following years). On the photos all the pages are laid out so I can put them in the right order and staple them. The zine is about feminist zines and poster art.
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Zines = 2 euro + postage.
Contact me for a copy. Mail to flapper_grrrl@yahoo.co.uk
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One and a half month ago (sorry for the delay in reporting on this), in a youth centre/basement/venue called PLEK in Ghent, while listening to a mix of Team Dresch and the Cardigans, a bunch of zinesters and curious creatives got together to try to make zines in 24 hours…
The event was a collaboration between Girls Go BOOM and ECHO. As part of their month-long residence at PLEK, Girls Go BOOM offered space for a creative zine gathering during which participants could create their own zine. This resulted in the birth of several amazing zines (some finished later). It was a great occasion to see the medium of zines spread even more in the local punk-feminist scene.
The zine I made during the 24 Hour Zine Thing event is called Dirty Lesbian. It’s about lesbophobia (even within some feminist scenes), reclaiming lesbian-feminism, cool dyke heroines / musicians / comics / zines, like & hate lists, and more. It’s at the same time an angry and a silly zine.
Dirty Lesbian features Chainsaw Bunny on the cover, and consists of lots of collages, a comic, and hand-written text.
Dirty Lesbian is A6-size, 32 pages, lavender-coloured cover, recycled paper inside and lavender-coloured mini-poster.
It costs 1 euro + postage or (preferably) trade with similar zine. Mail me for a trade/order.
[I no longer sell this zine to cis men!]
Here are two upcoming zine events I’m doing (with FEL & the 24 Hour Zine Team / Creative Coffee zinesters):
24 hour zine challenge!
During the recent 24 hour (fan)zine workshop at Le Space I made another 24 hour zine (although, as usual, it took me a bit longer than 24 hours to finish it).
It’s called From Spice Girls to Riot Grrrls!
Continue reading “New zine – From Spice Girls to Riot Grrrls”
Echo Zines 