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We Create Our Own Selves: a Zine-Making Workshop for Trans Day of Visibility

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Thu, Mar 31, 2022

7:30 PM – 9 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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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


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WHO . . .

Open to all MHC Students

 

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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 . . . 
 

Learn about zines and queer zine history!

 

supplies:

all you need is paper, scissors, and something to write/draw with-- and we'll provide it!

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