Zines

"This essay demonstrates how two U.S. zines produced from 1990 to 1999 by and for gay men with HIV/AIDS—Diseased Pariah News (DPN) and Infected Faggot Perspectives (IFP)—constitute counterpublics. I demonstrate how DPN and IFP constitute counterpublics through thematization of two important forms of difference—blood status (HIV-positive or HIV-negative), and political ideology. I then specify and elaborate primary modes of corporeal expressivity in the zines—the erotic/sexual and the grotesque—to demonstrate the work that each mode does for the counterpublics."

"Queer youth of color are critical and conscious observers of society. Despite limited representation in research and within mainstream gay media, there exists a legacy of queer youth of color contributing acts of resistance in the form of grassroots organizing, storytelling, music, performance, and revision of kinship networks. This article explores a collaborative project, Flux Zine, as an example of queer youth agency and knowledge production to contribute to a symposium on queeruptions."

"The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is a non-institutional archive housed in the Milwaukee basement of queer activists and zine librarians Milo Miller and Christopher Wilde. It contains over 1,300 pieces of queer media history from zines to posters to comics. Each year QZAP hosts a cohort of summer residents who blend scholarly pursuits with art and activism. In what follows, I document my own residency at QZAP during August 2017 and detail my archival work on 1990s-era feminist and queer self-published minicomics. The rise of zinemaking in the 1990s lead to an explosion of minicomics self-published by women and girls, many of which live alongside the zines housed in QZAP. Two exemplary minicomics, Rachael House's Red Hanky Panky and Amy Ahlstrom's Sticky Crawler, highlight the queer and feminist discourse that played out in the pages of self-published comics during the 1990s."

"Mainstream AIDS activists in the 1980s responded to demonizing and stigmatizing representations of the HIV infected by attempting to “normalize” people living with AIDS. However, some gay men in the 1980s and early 1990s, catalyzed by antigay politics since the late 1970s and overwhelmed by the excessively apocalyptic and overdetermined representations of AIDS in popular media, deliberately embraced the role of sexual and medical pariah, celebrated social anxieties about their public danger as vectors of infection, and repudiated the sympathetically sentimentalizing images of “AIDS victims.” Adopting the rhetoric of punk culture and its forms of self-representation—particularly the punk rock-derived “fanzine” or “'zine”—these “infected faggots” and “diseased pariahs” exposed and celebrated their HIV status and erotic adventurism. "

"Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of Thing, felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993."

"Zines emerged as quintessentially print texts, with paper forming the vulnerable, palpable body of the text. Efforts to digitally archive zines promise to increase access to them and to extend their political projects. Particularly for minoritarian communities, digitization resonates as an urgent process with radical potential. Alongside such possibilities stand concerns about what it means and, particularly, how it feels to transform zines from paper to digital modes. Through engagement with the Queer Zine Archive Project and the POC (People of Color) Zine Project, we argue that transmediation of print zines into digital artifacts is rife with affective dynamics."

Washington Post article on Edythe Eyde.

"Sci-fi writer, illustrator, cat lover and pioneer lesbian ‘zine publisher"

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Washington Post article by Dan Lamothe.

Article by UK-based fan.

Links to scans of all issues of Vice Versa.

Issu - Basic [Top] Surgery Survival Guide is a zine for anyone who is considering, preparing, or taking care of someone for their [top] surgery.

Twitter - Archiving Queer magazines from the 1960s

"marimacha monarca press is a queer and trans people of color creative collective for and by nuestra queer familia based in the southside of Chicago since 2017."

"By Jackie Wang (2009) Origin: Sarasota, FL - Hapa stands for Hawaiian/Asian Pacific Islanders, mixed-race or not. - Source: http://loneberry.wordpress.com/ - keywords: hapa, qtpoc, queer, florida"

"a second collection of radical queer moments..."

Pen Fight is a queer and feminist zine and book shop, and tiny press. Selling zines, radical books, badges, art, and mor

Shotgun Seamstress is a black punk fanzine turned book written, compiled and laid out by hand by Osa Atoe. There are eight full issues of the zine in total. What’s available here are a few of those issues plus a handful of mini-zines or “half issues” that were made in between. Issues 1-8 and 6 1/2 have been compiled into a hardback volume published by Soft Skull Press.

"TransLash tells trans stories to save trans lives. TransLash Zine is a TransLash Media & POC Zine Project collab."