22 2 / 2013
POC ZINE PROJECT: Scene Report (POC Zine Project edition): L.A. Zine Fest 2013
Here are some moments from our first tabling and panel experience as invited guests at L.A. Zine Fest on February 17, 2013:
1. When we arrived at the Ukrainian Cultural Center and were impressed with the space
2. L.A. collaborator Chula Doula posing with flowers before…
21 2 / 2013
POC ZINE PROJECT: What I learned from ... 'reading all six issues of Shotgun Seamstress'
By Itoro Udofia, Legacy Series Intern
Itoro recently read all six issues of Shotgun Seamstress in a row. Here is what she learned from them:
It’s hard to speak to everything the Shotgun Seamstress zine collection taught me. It really does give you everything: interviews,…
19 2 / 2013
thanks everyone for a fun and engaging issue release party!!
18 2 / 2013
Community,
The second #raceriottour is going down in October of 2013 through twelve more U.S. cities and we want YOU to come with us.
We are looking for the following:
- Guest readers in every city* (you must be a person of color)
- Rotating tour buddies: Join us on the road and participate in 1-3 tour events as a panelist/reader/tabler
- POC (or POC fronted) bands to perform at each #raceriottour event!
- More POC & ally tablers for each city: come to a POCZP event in your town and table for your zine/org/collective/creative project (check out some of the POC artists/merchants who tabled last year) <3
We’re also looking for folks to help us produce #raceriottour fundraiser events between now and September. This might be a good solution for you if you are unable to travel.
Contact poczineproject@gmail.com for more details. Make sure to use “2013 RACE RIOT TOUR” as the email subject.
COMMUNITY QUESTIONS
We’re connecting with people and holding events through the Southwest and West Coast, including (but not limited to) Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle.
If we were to come to your town, what are the POC run/led spaces that have a history of serving communities of color? We are committed to to holding every event on this tour in a POC-affirming space. Tell us in the reblog note or send us a message.
If you’re down to help us organize an event as part of our second Race Riot! tour in YOUR city, let us know!
<3
POC Zine Project
*We will announce the full list of confirmed 2013 #raceriottour cities on February
1415, 2013.ABOUT THE RACE RIOT! TOUR
POC Zine Project held its first Race Riot! Tour in 2012, producing 20 events in 14 U.S. cities, which included speaking engagements at six universities. Click here to view photos from the POC Zine Project: 2012 Race Riot! Tour tour finale at Death By Audio in Brooklyn and access all the tour stop recaps.
We will be taking the Race Riot! Tour through 12 more U.S. cities in 2013. Stay tuned for updates as we work on partnering with POC-affirming orgs overseas. If you are outside the U.S. and want to be a part of our emerging POCZP Global Ambassadors program, email poczineproject@gmail.com.
SUPPORT POC ZINE PROJECT
If everyone in our community gave $1, we would more than meet our fundraising goal for 2013. If you have it to spare, we appreciate your support. All funds go to our 2013 tour, the Legacy Series and the poverty zine series.
DONATE link via PayPal: http://bit.ly/SHdmyh
12 2 / 2013
Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s will be on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art February 23-April 7, 2013. Pump Me Up, is the first exhibition to explore the thriving underground of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s, giving visual form to the raucous energy of graffiti, Go-Go music, and a world-renowned punk and hardcore scene. The exhibit includes ephemera, photos, flyers, posters, records, newspaper clippings, stage clothes, instruments, video loops, and much more, all made largely between 1980 and 1992. The Pump Me Up Party happening on February 22nd (the night before the opening) is sold out. More HERE.
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10 2 / 2013
Just added to the catalog: Butch Nor Femme #7, Hold Tight #1, The Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out #11, Slander #10, The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes #2 + Cheap Toys #10.
All here: http://strangerdangerzines.com/
08 2 / 2013
“YOU PATHOLOGIZE MY EMOTIONS TO INVALIDATE MY REALITY.” / 2012
23 1 / 2013
GWS @ Illinois: A tribute written by Prof. Mimi Thi Nguyen for Profs. Ruth Nicole...
A tribute written by Prof. Mimi Thi Nguyen for Profs. Ruth Nicole Brown and Chamara Jewel Kwakye on the publication of their collection, Wish to Live: A Hip Hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader (Peter Lang, 2012), and read at the book party held December 11, 2012, at the Urbana Civic Center:
Thank…
14 1 / 2013
Teju Cole continues to devastate in 140 characters or less.
ProPublica: Everything we know so far about drone strikes
woah.
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