when there's the time
this is what i do sometimes.
original sketch done in class while guest lecturer droned on about the census
SCHOOL: art and lit mag of stuff they don’t teach you
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Submission deadline for the next issue of SCHOOL is January 31, 2011
See submission criteria below.
SCHOOL accepts: Artwork, Poetry, Short stories, Creative non-fiction, Arts essays, Artist Interviews
Started in 2009, SCHOOL is an online art and literature magazine with strong anti-racist, queer and feminist roots. It publishes underrepresented work by emerging and established artists. Submissions are open to anyone.
Copyrights: SCHOOL Magazine reserves nonexclusive electronic rights over accepted works. This means the artist grants SCHOOL the permission to print their work on its website with full credit to the artist. If the work you are submitting has been published previously, please indicate by who and when upon submission.
Artwork Send images in JPEG format in a low resolution (less than 300 dpi) attachment to the editor[at]schoolmagazine. c a . Please submit only three images at a time. In the title of the email, please include name of the artist and that it is an Artwork submission, i.e. “Tina Chin – artwork”. Also, include a short bio (120 words max).
All written submissions: send as Microsoft word document attachments to the editor[at]schoolmagazine . c a
Poetry You can submit up to 8 poems at a time. Each can be up to 100 lines long. If longer, please send your request to the editor[at]schoolmagazine . c a . In the title of the email, please include name of the artist and that it is a poetry submission, i.e. “Tina Chin – poetry”. Also, include a short bio (120 words max).
Short stories, Creative non-fiction, Personal essays, Artist Interviews Please submit only one piece at a time. Prose must be double-spaced in 12-point font and 700 to 5000 words. We are looking for pieces that take thematic and stylistic risks. If your piece is longer, you can contact the editor[at]schoolmagazine . c a about potentially splitting it up into a serial to be published over several editions, bearing the piece is strong enough. In the title of the email, please include name of the artist and if it is either a short story, creative non-fiction or personal essay submission, i.e. “Tina Chin – creative non-fiction”. Also, include a short bio (120 words max).
Unfortunately, due to the current lack of resources SCHOOL cannot give feedback on submitted pieces or pay contributors for published ones.
i. cannot. wait. o. my. god
hey guys! i’m printing the cat zine for trial runs…. it’s almost there! i tell you. here’s a crappy preview of some of the portraits! GAH, i don’t know how i’m going to do the layout or what it’s going to be like. i’m trying to finish it for pervers/cite’s queer between the cover bookfair - August 16th, 2010
this zine is playing with the idea of the labour of pulling out a picture of your kid where you have a folded up peice of paper to show other people your kids. keeping with the same idea, i want to create something to show our cats. really i’m just playing with this idea and that all the queers and trans folk that i know have cats and we treat them like our babies.
from top (l-r): transartorialism’s mimas, tobi’s thurston, onyrclothesline first cat, Gray’s cat,
from bottom (l-r) onyrclothesline other cat, Siobhan’s Potato, Jes’s smeks and Fouronesix Mom’s Bamboo
so all you people who submitted portraits of your kittie, you will receive a copy of the zine and for the rest, i have to figure out cost and stuff but if enough people request i can print some off.
teresa, can you break all this down for me some day do you think? i’d like to know what it says
Just a small excerpt of the excerpt!
“The critique of cultural appropriation is therefore first and foremost a strategy to redress historically established inequities by raising questions about who controls and benefits from cultural resources.”
This is a call for submissions to a Toronto-based Queer of Colour Community Attempts at Conflict Resolution zine (no, that’s not the final title)
As a community, we often deal with conflict by shutting each other out, shutting ourselves out, or just not dealing at all. But, in a community like the Toronto QPOC one, where a lot of us have to, or have the potential to be employed, organize, live with each other, conflicts arising from personal relationships can sometimes complicate our employment, activism and housing options, etc. People outside of the direct conflict are implicated. Friends, lovers, coworkers. Conflicts can become community problems. Not dealing, or even shutting ourselves or each other out isn’t sustainable most of the time. What are your suggestions for working through these kinds of conflicts as a community?
Send in writings of your ideas* for managing conflicts within our queer community of colour.
* to avoid fueling more conflict, we are asking for submissions focusing on solutions, submissions that avoid delving into the details or identifying factors of the conflicts they are addressing
*can come from concepts you didn’t create yourself, as long as you credit their creators and have their permission to reproduce them in your submission
*Don’t have the perfect all-inclusive fool-proof solution? STILL SUBMIT! The thing about a zine (or perhaps series of zines if we get enough submissions) is that there are multiple pieces from different people with different experiences and perspectives. We can help each other fill in the gaps. The important thing is that we start sharing with each other what we’re thinking.
*ideas can be about small scale community involvement i.e. resolutions involving one or two people besides the parties in conflict, medium i.e. resolutions involving a small group of 10 or less people, or large scale community involvement i.e. a specific or series of event(s) or forum(s) etc…or integrated or other strategies you come up with/have heard of
Categories to submit to so far (these can be built upon and expanded):
1) Community solutions for conflict arising from Personal Relationships
some specific examples:
- community action around romantic/sexual relationships conflicts:
- this can be resolutions for conflicts occuring post-relationship
- resolutions for conflicts occuring within relationships
- community action around colleague relationship conflicts:
- resolutions for conflicts between people who work in the same field
- resolutions for conflicts between management and staff, or project coordinators and volunteers or participants
2) Community solutions for conflict arising Between Community-run Organizations
some specific examples:
- resolutions for conflicts between different activist groups
- resolutions for conflicts between community projects competing for funding
…i’m also looking for people interested in working on editing this thing collaboratively with me?! reply or email to aworkingtitle at hotmail dot com if this is you!
1907: watching the riots
something i drew tonight
Kenji
1. How do you describe your ethnic identity?
Nikkei. I just learned this word from Japanese Canadian elders in BC, and then of course, my grandmother was surprised that I didn’t know what it meant when I told her about just learning it. It is to describe Japanese migrants and their descendants, worldwide.
I also describe myself as non-Aboriginal/non-Indigenous.
I used to identify as white as well as a person of colour, but most POC’s and white folk would just look at me funny/disappointed. I’m still unsure about that one.
“ABOUT US:
Thea Lim and Elisha Lim are working on an illustrated documentary about what it’s like to come from mixed backgrounds. We’re doing it because that’s what we are, and if you are too, we’re curious to hear about, write about and draw about you.
Fill up our questionnaire and email it by 1 April 2010 to: hundredpercentmixed@gmail.com”
true. damn.
sweaterves reblogged clingtomymouth:
just found this page randomly, and I know it’s from a long time ago, but it has a cute little writeup for a show that apparently happened last May:
