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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Not Enough Fest in NOLA This event is happening in in New Orleans TOMORROW 4/26! Organized by POCZP member Osa Atoe & No More Fiction, Not Enough Fest will be held at The Big Top, 1638 Clio Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. $5-25 sliding scale at 7pm. INFO: http://nomorefiction.tumblr.com/notenough Osa Atoe started Not Enough Fest. Debuting this spring, the fest will feature all brand-new bands fronted by women or queer people. Atoe created Not Enough Fest to further No More Fiction’s mission and goals: supporting all-girl, mixed gender, female-fronted, queer and feminist DIY punk bands locally and nationally (read more here).  No More Fiction began in 2009 to create woman-positive and queer-positive spaces in New Orleans for local DIY bands and for bands on tour. No More Fiction is inspired by the riot grrrl movement and by the existence of Girl Gang Productions a group of queer women who put on queer punk shows and drag shows in New Orleans up until around 2006.  Aside from booking shows, No More Fiction has held workshops open exclusively to women, queers and people of color to encourage their participation in DIY music making.  Want to collaborate? Email: nomorefiction@gmail.com Not Enough Fest would not be happening without the support of Queerspiracy. Look them up & get involved: http://nolaqueers.tumblr.com/ Help spread the word about Not Enough Fest! <3

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Not Enough Fest in NOLA

This event is happening in in New Orleans TOMORROW 4/26! Organized by POCZP member Osa Atoe & No More Fiction, Not Enough Fest will be held at The Big Top, 1638 Clio Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. $5-25 sliding scale at 7pm.

INFO: http://nomorefiction.tumblr.com/notenough

Osa Atoe started Not Enough Fest. Debuting this spring, the fest will feature all brand-new bands fronted by women or queer people.

Atoe created Not Enough Fest to further No More Fiction’s mission and goals: supporting all-girl, mixed gender, female-fronted, queer and feminist DIY punk bands locally and nationally (read more here). 

No More Fiction began in 2009 to create woman-positive and queer-positive spaces in New Orleans for local DIY bands and for bands on tour. No More Fiction is inspired by the riot grrrl movement and by the existence of Girl Gang Productions a group of queer women who put on queer punk shows and drag shows in New Orleans up until around 2006. 

Aside from booking shows, No More Fiction has held workshops open exclusively to women, queers and people of color to encourage their participation in DIY music making. 

Want to collaborate? Email: nomorefiction@gmail.com

Not Enough Fest would not be happening without the support of Queerspiracy. Look them up & get involved: http://nolaqueers.tumblr.com/

Help spread the word about Not Enough Fest! <3

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Sistah to Sistah: A Road Trip Fundraiser to Support Ovarian Psycos

40 hours left to go!

NOLA Bike Project Ladies, Trans and Sissy volunteers gathering donations for the Ovarian Psycos Cycle Brigade to open a bike co-op in Boyle Heights.

Donation link: http://www.indiegogo.com/LTS2OPB

What’s the Deal

The Ovarian Psycos all-womyn of color bike collective is trying to open a community bike shop in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles next year. The Ladies, Trans, & Sissies contingent of the New Orleans Community Bike Project (Plan B) http://bikeproject.org/ is planning a cross-country road trip to raise additional funds, awareness, and support them as they prepare to open the shop. 

Short Summary

Tracey and Alisha, (the sissy contingent), two womyn bike mechanics, will be travelling cross-country in January 2013, visiting bike shops and collectives along the way to gather donations and generate support for the Ovarian Psycos. 

Contributors will receive nifty Ovarian Psycos swag! Buttons! Stickers! T-shirts! Awesomeness! Really! 

The Impact

The Ovarian Psycos are empowering underrepresented communities. By teaching women and trans individuals how to build and repair bikes, a field traditionally dominated by white males, they’re directly challenging racism and patriarchy, and encouraging women to gain autonomy and build community, and mentor other young women. This shop is absolutley necessary and long overdue.

If you can’t contribute money or supplies, you can still help by spreading the word about Ovarian Psycos.

http://www.facebook.com/ovarian.psycos

Message from Tracey Brown:

If 18 people give $10 (which come on we spend money all day on random shit that has the ability to support change i.e. buying booze, ciggs, comics, toys ;), and other randomness) we will have hit our goal! come my POC people, my Allies, my QPOC, my queers, and everything in between! DONATE! 

COMMUNITY: Help us signal boost and if you can make a donation, please do <3 POCZP founder Daniela will be making a donation as well.

Support POC creating culture and active forms of resistance.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Listen to POCZP member Osa Atoe’s new band, NEGATION! They will be making tapes in January.

ABOUT

NEGATION IS FROM NEW ORLEANS.

MEMBERS

Benji (guitar and vox)
Osa (bass and vox)
Rob (drums and vox)

negationisaband.bandcamp.com

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Amistad Research Center at Tulane University

Earlier this week we received a message from Christopher Harter, Director of Library and Reference Services at the Amistad Research Center, part of Tulane University.

Not only has the Amistad Research Center independently promoted the POC Zine Project tour (thank you!!), Christopher informed us that Amistad recently started a POC zine collection!

Here’s what Chrisopher shared via email:

The Amistad Research Center will post something on our Facebook page to help promote the tour. Amistad has started a POC zine collection, which is quite small at this point, but your sites have been very helpful in identifying zines to add.

The Amistad Research Center is an archives/special collections library with a focus on the racial/ethnic history of the U.S., the Civil Rights Movement, race relations, and related topics. Our new zine collection will mirror that collecting scope and we hope to develop a sizeable POC zine collection for many of the reasons you cite on your various websites…difficulty in locating zines of color, lack of representation through distros, zine events, etc.

Your project is off to a great start and I look forward to hearing more about what you are doing. In the meantime, feel free to take a look at Amistad’s website (www.amistadresearchcenter.org), as well as our blog (amistadresearchcenter.blogspot.com) and Facebook page (www.facebook.com/amistadresearchcenter.org).

We are SO EXCITED to hear that the Amistad Research Center has started a poc zine collection! It makes us feel really good that POC Zine Project has - through our own work to meet our mission - helped them in their efforts.

Right now we don’t see any information about their zine archive on the Amistad Research Center website (understandably - it’s new and these things take time!) but we’ll share the latest news about their zine archiving efforts as we receive it.

And maybe :) you’ll be hearing about a partnership between Amistad Research Center and POC Zine Project in the near future … anything is possible! <3

In the meantime, here’s a little more information about Christopher and his work at the Amistad Research Center:

Christopher Harter is a librarian and poet, as well as the founder of Pathwise Press and the editor of the literary magazine, Bathtub Gin.

Here is Christopher’s post from 2011, announcing the new zine collection at the Amistad Research Center.

Here’s a video of Christopher from 2009, presenting information about unearthing Africana collections and providing global access. He was on a panel organized by the Africana Librarians Council, at the 52nd Annual African Studies Association Meeting, in New Orleans. 

POC zinesters: If you are interested in donating some of your zines or learning more about the collection, please contact Christopher Harter at (504) 862-3222 or reference@amistadresearchcenter.org