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We Create Our Own Selves: A Celebration of Gender Diversity at MHC Community Zine Project

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Back to Trans Week of Visibility 2021

Fri, Mar 26, 2021 12:00 PM –

Fri, Apr 2, 2021 11:55 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Calling All 

ARTISTS - DREAMERS - POETS - ZINESTERS
We need your zines!
Image of the front pages of Slip of the Tongue, a 1996 Zine printed in greyscale. On one side of the image is a woman posing with one hand behind her head. Over her torso are the words "...start flexing your flipper fingers...". On the other side of the page is the title of the issue over a monogram with the initials LBA and a drawing of a group of people. Below the image reads "Volume 1, Issue 1 November 8 1996"Hand-printed image in black ink on white paper. The title reads "Tim Tum." A person with small horns on their head gestures widely, holding in each hand the end of a thread connected to stitches on their chest. A Star of David is drawn on their chest. Beneath that are Hebrew characters and English words reading "A Trans Jew Zine." A zine featuring an image of Mary Woolley, Jeannette Marks, and their dog all sitting on a hill. Text superimposed on the black and white photograph reads "Persistence & Existence, Lesbian Gay, and Bisexual Organizations at Mount Holyoke College. Presented by the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, Curated by Jennie Ochterski, 2015 Zine by Melina Baron-Deutsch"Image of a two page zine spread from the BOOM! 2021 Zine. On one page is a printout of the poem "Toy Boat" by Ocean Vuong. The facing page features a collage of rippling water and pink bouqets of flowers. On the top of the panel, the words

 

DIY Zine Workshop: 

we create our own selves

a celebration of gender diversity at mhc


[See this content in Google Slides]
 

WHO . . .

Open to all members of the MHC community: TGNC students/employees and allies

 

Please do not share materials outside of the MHC community

 

WHY…

For this year’s Trans Week of Visibility, we’d like to get a snapshot of all of the gender diversity present in our Mount Holyoke Community! Let’s make art together to celebrate the ways we embody and express our gender.

  

HOW . . . 
 

STEP 1: EDUCATE

Learn about zines and queer zine history!

 

supplies:

all you need is paper, scissors, and something to write/draw with

 

→ on campus? contact Gabe (hall@mtholyoke.edu) to learn about accessing craft supplies!

 

make a virtual zine! online image editors like Canva can be a great place to make collage-style art. you can also do amazing things in Powerpoint/Keynote.

 

how-to videos:

from Embry O’Leary ‘23 - 2-minute demo video

from Amanda Maciuba (Art Studio):

single-sheet zine demo video

snake/maze zine variations demo video

from Queer Zine Library (UK)

 

zine templates and guides:

find Zine Templates in our Google Folder!

The Public Design Studio - Introduction to Zines and Zine-Making

 

TGNC Zine History:

Queer Zine Archive Project

POC Zine Project

Grrrl Zine Network - grrrl, lady, and transfolk zines

LGBT+ Cultural Heritage - Zines

 

at MHC:

BROWSE the MHC Zine Club Tumblr

PRINT AND FOLD the 2014 Open Gates zine Trans Women Belong at Mount Holyoke

SEE student-curated exhibits on trans students and queer zine culture at MHC from Archives and Special Collections:

Trans Lives at Mount Holyoke College Today - from digital exhibition “Student Activism at Mount Holyoke College”

Queer Zines at MHC: Spectrum zine and Slip of the Tongue - from student-curated exhibit on LGBTQ history at Mount Holyoke: “Persistence and Existence”

HEAR the stories of alums who came before you: LGBTQ Alum Oral History Project from Archives and Special Collections
SEARCH the digital collections and download photographs, printed materials, letters, and more: https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/


STEP 2: CREATE

Make your Zine!

for Trans Week of Visibility, we invite you to consider these prompts through the lens of your experiences with your gender-

 

        * “i am seen” / “we are seen”

        * “we create our own selves”

        * “how i see my gender”

 

. . . you take it from there!

 

[need more ideas? Check out this list of prompts from artist E.V.’s project The Gender Experience (shared with permission)!]


 

STEP 3: DONATE

Share your zines with the campus community!


SUBMIT your zine here by 11:59pm ET on Friday, April 2 to be featured in our community-generated Zine-of-Zines

to be shared via social media in the week following Trans Week of Visibility.

TGNC voices will be centered (submissions can be anonymous)

 

special thanks:

    Amanda Maciuba (Art Studio)

    Andrea Lawlor (English)

    Leslie Fields (Archives and Special Collections)

    Micha Broadnax (Archives and Special Collections)

    Hal Sposato (Counseling Service)

    Percy Child ‘20

    Ymani Francis ‘16

    Melina Baron-Deutsch ‘16

    Embry O’Leary ‘23

 

 Questions?
Gabriel Hall (DEI Office)

hall@mtholyoke.edu 

Adeline Mueller (Music)

amueller@mtholyoke.edu 

 

Visibility encompasses the past, the present, and the future. MHC Archives/Special Collections staff are actively collecting materials and are very interested in talking with current students and documenting your stories. In addition to zines, you can donate photos, narratives of your experiences as a student at MHC during this time, art, or even a letter to your future self. You can find general info about donations on this page and students can always contact the[ir] office  at archives@mtholyoke.edu. 

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