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Read a F*cking Zine: 50 Zines by Queer People of Color
IN COLLABORATION WITH QZAP.ORG AND BARNARD ZINE LIBRARY
Inspired by this year's International Zine Month activities and Allied Media Conference, POC Zine Project founder Daniela Capistrano collaborated with artist/activist Nia King, Queer Zine Archive Project and Barnard Zine Library to curate a list of 50 zines made by QTPOC (Queer and/or Trans-Identified People of Color).
As QZAP notes on their website, "people of color started the radical queer revolution and kick started the queer zine scene." There are many QTPOC zines on qzap.org, nearly a hundred at Barnard and thousands more out there in the world; and thousands more out there in the world; this list is not meant to represent all zines created by QTPOC. Use it as a rabbit hole of sorts on your path toward discovering more queer zines by people of color.
Inspired by this year's International Zine Month activities and Allied Media Conference, POC Zine Project founder Daniela Capistrano collaborated with artist/activist Nia King, Queer Zine Archive Project and Barnard Zine Library to curate a list of 50 zines made by QTPOC (Queer and/or Trans-Identified People of Color).
As QZAP notes on their website, "people of color started the radical queer revolution and kick started the queer zine scene." There are many QTPOC zines on qzap.org, nearly a hundred at Barnard and thousands more out there in the world; and thousands more out there in the world; this list is not meant to represent all zines created by QTPOC. Use it as a rabbit hole of sorts on your path toward discovering more queer zines by people of color.
II. Inside Nia King's zine collection
POC Zine Project asked artist/activist and prolific QTPOC zinester Nia King to share her thoughts on the significance of zines and some titles from her collection:
Zines were a big part of how I processed being mixed-race when I didn't have a community of mixed folks to talk to. In fact, the reason I moved to Denver is because I went there for Denver Zine Fest in 2006 and met so many zinesters there from interracial families, such as Anna Inazu, Corey Drayton, and Shannon Perez-Darby. Finding mixed community and finding zine community happened all sort of at once for me in Denver, which is a big part of what inspired my relocation. It didn't hurt that I was offered "The Denver Package" by locals. They promised a free bike, a job interview and a first date upon my arrival.
Here are some of the great zines that I read that helped me understand my own identity better, not only as a mixed race person, but as a queer, a punk and a woman of color.
POC Zine Project asked artist/activist and prolific QTPOC zinester Nia King to share her thoughts on the significance of zines and some titles from her collection:
Zines were a big part of how I processed being mixed-race when I didn't have a community of mixed folks to talk to. In fact, the reason I moved to Denver is because I went there for Denver Zine Fest in 2006 and met so many zinesters there from interracial families, such as Anna Inazu, Corey Drayton, and Shannon Perez-Darby. Finding mixed community and finding zine community happened all sort of at once for me in Denver, which is a big part of what inspired my relocation. It didn't hurt that I was offered "The Denver Package" by locals. They promised a free bike, a job interview and a first date upon my arrival.
Here are some of the great zines that I read that helped me understand my own identity better, not only as a mixed race person, but as a queer, a punk and a woman of color.
More:
http://www.autostraddle.com/50-zines-by-queer-people-of-color-184692/
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