February 2012
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KG's Handy Quarter-Sized Zines Imposition Guide →
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kagey:
I made this imposition guide for myself ages ago when I started making zines so I wouldn’t have to make mock-ups all the time. This links to a 3-page PDF file outlining the scrambly pagination order of 24-page, 32-page, and 40-page quarter-sized zines.
Super helpful for anybody who wants to start making quarter size zines. Thanks KG!
Why Zines?
Hey Zinesters! Send pictures of your zine collection to sassyfrasscircus@gmail.com for inclusion in our pop-up zine library slideshow. Feel free to include responses to the question “why zines?” :D
In case you missed it, I will draw anything you...
What should I draw?
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What should I draw?
If you tell me something to draw I will draw it.
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This is probably a good opportunity to let folks...
We are seeking submissions with a central theme of the cross sections of Jewish and queer and or feminist identity, and how those identities might inform an anti-Zionist or Palestinian-solidarity politic. Some organizing frames include the concept of “doykeit” or “hereness,” diaspora, assimilation, the rhetoric of “self-hate,” decolonization of Judaism, and experiences of queer identity as a...
Anonymous asked: If you do not love Adonai's people the Lord will devour you and you will forever burn in the fiery depts of hell. On the day of Judgement, that is. The day of judgement will come very, very soon. The apocalypse is near, and Obama is the anti-Christ. Either Obama or Ron Paul, whoever hates Israel the most. Read the Bible!!! Heathen...
Anonymous asked: The Chosen people will eat you alive. Also: you have no soul for supporting terrorists.
Tallying Our Truths
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JENNY HENDRIX on Ramona Ausubel, E.C. MCCARTHY on Michael Ondaatje, and JARDINE LIBAIRE on Dinaw Mengestu. Top Hat © Cornel Rubino, 2012
JENNY HENDRIX Lost and Saved Ramona Ausubel No One Is Here Except All of Us Riverhead, February 2012. 336 pp. While Gentiles experience and process the world through the traditional senses, and use memory only as a second-order means of...
The Spirit Was...: RAPPING WITH MARSHA P JOHNSON →
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“Do you have suggestions for people in small towns and cities where there is no STAR?
Start a STAR of their own. I think if transvestites don’t stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.
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I carry my wonder drug with me everywhere I go-a can of Mace. If…
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Attn: D.C. folks and Archivist folks--Seeking help... →
A couch from Henry Rollins mother. A rug from Ian MacKaye’s father… Several massive filling cabinets stuffed with nearly 30 years of fliers for punk shows, activist gatherings, self education workshops, and collective organizing. Hundreds of books, tapes, records, movies, and other relics of the illustrious DC punk and hard core scene. A veritable trove of history from our own...
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transartorialism: epistolary tendencies →
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I got two letters in one day yesterday, from the same person. I tore through them at the kitchen table, then read them again in bed, then re-read them this afternoon before writing a response to them. I added to the response to an envelope already thick with unsent letters—I have a thing about…
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Doykeit Zine Submission Deadline is today! →
Please send me your submissions or email/message me to let me know they are on the way!
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Jewish Stuff: The Corporeal Turn →
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Why, for example, were American anthropologists, many of them Jewish, unable to constitute Jews as an anthropological subject until after the Holocaust? In a word, the answer resides with the Jewish body. American anthropology during the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century was…
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I am watching RuPaul’s Drag Race and getting bummed out by all these fatphobic queens.
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every grindr chat ever
person: what brings you to madison?
me: ph.d. in english lit
person: cool
person: "in the room the women come and go talking of michelangelo"
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The New Inquiry: Precarity and “affective... →
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The word precarity is becoming increasingly fashionable as a way of describing the effects of neoliberal policy. The concept expresses the sense that the state has broken its ideological promise (what Polanyi posited in The Great Transformation) to ameliorate the misery capitalism…
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Who wants to live in Michigan anyway.
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Curiouser Jane: Things I Hate: A List →
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I hate cis people making me feel bad about my body
I hate cis people who get offended by my body
I hate my body having—always—to be a political site
I hate the idea that death is the first step in transition
I hate all the yappie talking heads that push the trans woman body in their 20/20 specials all between commercials for cleaning products, fast food chains, and car...
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See you at the lecture?
Nayan Shah, “Stranger Intimacy, Transience, and Unsettling History” 5:00 p.m. Monday, February 13, 2012 Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall Nayan Shah is associate professor of history at the University California at San Diego. His most recent book is Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West. He is also the author of Contagious Divides:...
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Attention: Followers
Does anyone go to school at UC San Diego or Rutgers and possibly would be willing to talk to me about it?
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Today
I got into a PhD program and then my pet rat died.
