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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Brown Queen: Latina Voices of the 21st Century

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Our 3-year anniversary is January 20 + we need your help!

Community,

On January 20, 2010, I created the @poczineproject Twitter account and organized a couple of events. That was the start of an experiment in activism and community through materiality that grew into last year’s 14-city Race Riot! tour and the developing Legacy Series.

POCZP is still a 100% DIY, volunteer operation. We are finally at a stage where we can begin collaborating with interns. We are evaluating funding models aligned with our core values and discussing what sustainability for the project will look like after 2013. 

It’s pretty incredible how quickly time can fly when you’re pouring your heart and soul into something you believe in. It doesn’t feel like three years — more like the blink of an eye. And there’s still so much more to be done.

So here’s what we’re asking:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BE INCLUDED IN OUR 2012 RACE RIOT! TOUR ZINE

We want to hear from you! Tell us what you think about the POC Zine Project (Submit here or to daniela@dcapmedia.com).

What about the project speaks to you?

What would you like to see us do in the future? 

If you attended one of our events, describe your experience.

If any of the touring members inspire you in some way, share your experience.

These are just some topics you can write about, but we want to leave it open. 

DEADLINE: February 28, 2013

MORE WAYS TO HELP

1) Support the 2013 Race Riot! tour by contacting us here (or at daniela@dcapmedia.com) and let us know if you’re interested in helping us organize a tour date in your town. We will be traveling through the Southwest (starting in Atlanta) and up the West Coast (ending in Seattle). Final dates TBA soon.

2) Be an intern and/or volunteer. We can offer school credit and accept applications from people who aren’t presently in school. Telecommuting options are available.

3) Make a donation and support our efforts. All funds go toward upcoming event costs and our original zine series. DONATE link via PayPal: http://bit.ly/SHdmyh

Thank you, to all of you who have messaged us in different ways over the years with your zine submissions, questions and offers of support.

A huge thank you to those who have donated their time and resources in both digital and physical realms. You know who you are.

Love and Solidarity,

Daniela

Founder, POC Zine Project

COMMUNITY SUBMISSION: 1001 Black Men — Black Nerds, Afro-Geeks, and Dungeon Masters with Soul

TITLE: 1001 Black Men

CREATOR: Ajuan Mance

RELEASE: 2012

ORIGIN: Oakland, CA (USA)

DESCRIPTION BY AJUAN: 1001 Black Men is a zine that publishes selections from the 1001 Black Men online sketchbook by the artist Ajuan Mance (me), organized by subject. Here’s an excerpt from the artist’s statement, describing the goals of the 1001 Black Men project:

1001 Black Men is a series of drawings inspired by the faces I see in Oakland every day, and by my memories of the family, friends, and neighbors I grew up with out east.  In the poem “Beautiful Black Men,” Nikki Giovanni describes her love for all types of Black men, explaining that, for her, they represent “the same old danger/but a brand new pleasure.” In this series of drawings, I push past entrenched stereotypes to create images of Black men that reflect the wonderful complexity of African American lives—our history so deeply embedded in our present, our celebrations so often tempered by grief and, yes, the pleasure and danger we find in so many of the people, places, and activities that give us joy.

This 8.5” x 11” zine includes both color and grayscale images.

Where to Buy: The zine is available on Etsy.com at the 8-Rock Press Store.

Say Hello: eightrock@ymail.com

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Editor’s Note: A “Community Submission” post results from POC folk submitting their own zine to be featured on the POC Zine Project Tumblr. If you would like to share your zine with the POC Zine Project community, here’s how to do it.

When you submit, feel free to add some background, a description of your work and art and your mission statement. If you just send us the name of your zine, we’ll simply link back to a source for purchasing it and use the language you already have on your site.

As long as the zine was created/co-created by a person of color, we will always share Community Submissions. Enjoy!

COMMUNITY SUBMISSION: The Itinerant Postcard #2

POC zine: The Itinerant Postcard #2

Date: October 2012

POC zinester: Chrysothème A.

Zinester’s description: “The Itinerant Postcard #2” is a 24-page 1/4-sized perzine containing some of my thoughts on language, food, and race; there are Filipino recipes, some Philippine mythology, and illustrations by Edward Gorey.

Keywords: edwardgorey, filipina, filipino, food, mythology, personal, perzine, perzines, pinay, pinoy, race, zine, zines

$1 or trades welcome.

Buy this zine: on Etsy.

You can also send well-concealed cash payment to a snail mail address:

Chrysothème A.

5011 Rolling Meadows

Road Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 USA

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Editor’s Note: A “Community Submission” post results from POC folk submitting their own zine to be featured on the POC Zine Project Tumblr. If you would like to share your zine with the POC Zine Project community, here’s how to do it.

When you submit, feel free to add some background, a description of your work and art and your mission statement. If you just send us the name of your zine, we’ll simply link back to a source for purchasing it and use the language you already have on your site.

As long as the zine was created/co-created by a person of color, we will always share Community Submissions. Enjoy!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SpeakSudan

We are writing to you on behalf of SpeakSudan, an Ontario based,  youth-led organization dedicated to promoting artistic expressions of East African youth in the diaspora, to request your endorsement and help promote our project to your members and communities.

Our mission statement is rooted in an anti-oppression framework that encourages artistic defiance of gender-based violence, racism, ableism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, heteronormativity, classism and other forms of marginalization, oppression and discrimination. We believe that creativity and artistic expression are paths to healing and community building.

Our primary project is to produce a bi-annual SpeakSudan magazine (Zine) that will feature diverse forms of artistic expression (spoken, written, and musical) of Sudanese-Canadian youth, as well as youth of marginalized communities which relate to their experiences. The SpeakSudan Zine will explore questions of war, migration, accessibility, gender-roles, and broader questions of the dual identities and obstacles that African immigrant youth face in their new home of Canada. We aim to provide a safe creative space for youth to express themselves and share their works with others.

Some of these submissions are already featured on our website: www.speaksudan.org, and you can also create a SpeakSudan account on the website to submit pieces and interact with the content on our online Creative Stream at your earliest convenience

We ask that you share our call out for submissions pasted below with your circles and contacts/paste on your social media accounts. We would be happy to circulate information regarding your organization and it’s efforts to our networks:

Call out for Submissions- SpeakSudan: A Creative Exploration of East African Youth in Diaspora

SpeakSudan’s first publication aims to reach out and form a collective voice of opinions, dissenting or not, on East African youth and allies in diaspora. It is an effort to find commonality amongst a large, diverse and tremendously talented group of people. We will attempt to provide a space, physical and emotional to dissect, understand and reflect on our relationship(s) to the continent, both imagined and real. To engage with our personal narratives and our art.

We will explore issues of race, culture, migration, diaspora, belonging, and identity through personal narratives, poetry, short stories, sketches, and other forms of art/expression

If you are a self-identifying East African Youth (ages 16-35) with something to say then we want your voice to join ours in SpeakSudan’s first print Magazine launching in the beginning of 2013.

Please visit our website and click submit in the top left corner to contribute poetry, sketches, photography, short stories, sociopolitical commentary and other creative pieces.

Please keep written submissions under 1500 words and make sure to read and adhere to our submission guidelines and our non discriminatory mission of values.

Complete submission guidelines can be found at:

http://www.speaksudan.org/submission-guidelines

Sincerely,

SpeakSudan Board of Directors

www.speaksudan.org

inquiries@speaksudan.org

facebook.com/speaksudan

twitter.com/speaksudan

youtube.com/speaksudan

Thanks for submitting this! We actually promoted you call for submissions back in September on our own, but this definitely helps remind folks to submit and signal boost.

COMMUNITY: Please continue to help signal boost this call for submissions! <3

Race Riot! Tour Recap: Washington, D.C.! @ St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church on Oct 5, 2012 

Big thanks to Fil (pictured below with Osa) who helped make our show last night at St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. such a success! 

- Setting up

- Anna Vo reads

- Osa Atoe reads

- Mimi Thi Nguyen

- Cristy C. Road reads (in part) about her Aunt Ileana. It was her birthday yesterday!

- Tabling before the bands got started

- Lillie (l) and Natalie (r), attendees. It was their first time at the venue!

- Cristy, tabling at the Race Riot! Mall

- Hand Grenade Job performed first, lovely & haunting tunes

- Daniela and her friend Joanna holding Mimi’s Race Riot #1

- Cristy found a wallet twin!

- Osa and Mimi, kewtie kews

- Osa’s mom reading her comp book of all her Shotgun Seamstress zines <3

- Alex from Mary Christ performs

- Daniela and Mimi

- Osa, Alex from Mary Christ and Cristy

- Mary Christ and Hand Grenade Job

After the show, we wandered around D.C. looking for trouble.

- Mimi in the shadows

- Getting libations at Pharmacy (bar)

- Drummer from Mary Christ (right)

- Cristy and Mimi cuddle

This recap post is a little late because we were doing an event at the University of Maryland earlier today. Tonight we have an event in Baltimore at Brickhaus. Please come by and say hello if you’re in the area!

More:

1) We’re doing a zine about this tour, so if you were part of any of the events, let us know if you want to contribute.

2) We’re doing a national conference in 2014.

3) We love you.

ABOUT POC ZINE PROJECT

POC Zine Project’s mission is to make zines by people of color easy to find, distribute and share - community and activism through materiality. We are touring through 12 cities from Sept 24 - Oct 7.

STAY INFORMED

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All tour dates: http://bit.ly/PeEgaR

TOUR RECAPS ARCHIVE

Oct 7: Death By Audio - Brooklyn

Oct 6: University of Maryland + Brickhaus - College Park and Baltimore

Oct 5: St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church - Washington, D.C.

Oct 4: University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh

Oct 3: Skylab - Columbus

Oct 2: Rachael’s Cafe - Bloomington

Oct 1: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign + UCIMC - Champaign

Sept 30: multikulti - Chicago

Sept 29: University of Michigan + 3rd Death Star - Ann Arbor

Sept 28: The Trumbullplex - Detroit

Sept 27: Ohio University + evening potluck with Cindy Crabb - Athens

Sept 26: Mr. Roboto Project - Pittsburgh

Sept 25: The Wooden Shoe - Philly

Sept 24: 538 Johnson - NYC - Brooklyn

Sept 14 - Wellesley College pre-Race Riot! tour panel