Queer Zine Fest London | 1st December 2013
Space Station Sixty Five 373 Kennington Road, SE11 4PS London 12.00pm – 5.00pm
This year’s Queer Zine Fest London event takes place on Dec 1st at Space Station Sixty-Five queerzinefestlondon@gmail.com and falls on World AIDS Day this year. We’ll have ribbons for sale, talks and workshops on HIV/AIDS in queer zines and more http://www.worldaidsday.org/
QZFL exists to create a space where queer zinesters and queer DIY publishing rules #QZFL2013
Tablees/distros:
Sister Ectoplasma
Queer Zine Archive Project
Howard Hardiman
Cool Schmool
Spill The Zines
Armpits4August
House of Brag
Sex Worker Open University
Simon Murphy
Kirsty Fife
Charlie Taylor
John Trouble
Interactive Monster Unit
LIES Journal
K Anderson
John Lee Bird
Rachael Aggs
Mia Eley
Heather Bandenburg
David Shenton
Milk Records
Shay Briscoe
Melanie Maddison
Echo Zines
Eva Megias
Oyster Knife
Spandex Comix
Robot Unicorn Records
Zsa Zsa Zine
Marching Stars Distro
Vampire Sushi
Rebecca Barnett
Let’s Start a Pussy Riot
CLASH-FREE TALKS & WORKSHOPS (quick view)
12:30 – 1:00pm Seb/Kirsty/Bethany
1:00 – 1:30pm For Books Sake: Queer Lit Heroes
1:30 – 2:00pm David Shenton
2:00 – 2:30pm QZAP.org’s AIDS/HIV Zine Show-and-Tell
3:00 – 3:30 pm Charlotte Cooper’s How To Get Shit Done
3:30 – 4:00pm QZAP.org’s xZINECOREx metadata standard
4:00 – 4:30pm Amnesty Write For Rights greeting card workshop
TALKS:
12:30 – 1:00pm Seb (Cinnamon Buns Fanzine), Kirsty (Hard Femme) and Bethany
We are the weirdos mister! Seb, Kirsty and Bethany use self–publishing to represent non–normative bodies. Zines and blogs have been a way for all three of them to discuss binders, body hair and visible belly outlines.
http://cinnamonbunsfanzine.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HardFemmeZine
http://archedeyebrow.com/about/
1:30 – 2:00pm David Shenton
David became a queer cartoonist by accident, and went on to contribute strips to much of the gay press through the 80s and 90s ¬– beginning with weekly crap camp jokes but eventually having to face up to commenting on truly serious stuff kicked up in the mid 80s: prejudice, HIV/AIDS and Thatcherism. David has been drawing since 1978, and his art has been published in GayNews, Pink Paper, Boyz, The Guardian, Positive Nation and Polari. His talk will cover the early days of QueerComix.
https://www.facebook.com/dscomics2
3:30 – 4:00pm xZINECOREx metadata standard and the move toward a zine union catalog
Milo (QZAP) will talk a bit about the creation of xZINECOREx metadata standard, and the work that zine librarians and archivists (in the U.S. at least) are doing toward creating an online catalog for zines similar to WorldCat.
http://www.qzap.org/v5/index.php
WORKSHOPS:
1:00 – 1:30pm For Books Sake: Queer Lit Heroes
Ayana from For Books’ Sake will be running a zine-making workshop paying tribute to our queer literary heroes. For Books’ Sake is a feminist webzine that celebrates writing for and by independent women, and we will collaboratively create a unique fanzine celebrating queer characters and writers, from Kathy Acker to Dumbledore. Materials will be provided and the finished product will be distributed following the session, through the FBS site and on paper.
2:00 – 2:30pm AIDS/HIV Zine Show-and-Tell
Milo (QZAP.com) will be bringing a selection of zines from the Queer Zine Archive Project that specifically talk about AIDS/HIV in various ways. In this discussion focused workshop, other participants are asked to bring zines related to the AIDS pandemic from their collections and say a little something about their significance. Zines could be prevention oriented, youth focused, political and social, etc. Please feel free to attend, with or without yr own zines. Everyone is welcome!
http://www.qzap.org/v5/index.php
3:00 – 3:30pm Charlotte Cooper’s How To Get Shit Done
Charlotte says: “I have made a zine for people who struggle to get shit done. It’s for the avoiders and procrastinators, the non-finishers, the inert, the moribund, and the people who dwell on fear and anxiety. It’s for everyone but especially for people whose voices are not already well-represented in the world at large. I made the zine because shit by queer, trans and marginal people is necessary. Because I’m not bad at getting shit done, I wanted to share what I know and to learn about other people’s thoughts and habits about getting shit done. How to Get Shit Done is called a workshop but will actually be a small conversation with whoever wants to join in about the things that prevent us from getting shit done, and the things that help. Participants must promise to be gentle with each other.”
4:00 – 4:30pm Amnesty Write For Rights greeting card workshop
Make a DIY greeting card for Amnesty’s Write For Rights campaign. Extend support and solidarity to Ihar Tsikhanyuk from Belarus, a gay drag performer who was physically and verbally abused by the police after he attempted to register the human rights center he works for as an LGBTI organization.
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/160624710775600/
MORE INFO: http://queerzinefestlondon.tumblr.com/
