<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Lee Naught <<a href="mailto:lee@bluestockings.com">lee@bluestockings.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">December 13, 2012 12:31:48 PM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:bluestockings_volunteers@lists.riseup.net">bluestockings_volunteers@lists.riseup.net</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[bluestockings volunteers] Fwd: Mixed-Race Queer & Feminist Zine - Call for Submissions</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:bluestockings_volunteers@lists.riseup.net">bluestockings_volunteers@lists.riseup.net</a>, Lee Naught <<a href="mailto:lee@bluestockings.com">lee@bluestockings.com</a>><br></span></div><br>Hey folks!<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>I'm (again!) passing along this call for submissions for a zine about mixed-race queer & feminist experience. Please read on if it sounds like it's something for you! The deadline is this Saturday, December 15th, but I'm sure we're down to extend the deadline for anyone who needs it -- just shoot us an email (<a href="mailto:mrqfzine@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrqfzine@gmail.com</a>). And please share the call for submissions with anyone you think might be interested!<br>
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<h2><a href="http://mrqfzine.tumblr.com/callforsubmissions" target="_blank">Mixed-Race Queer & Feminist Zine: Call for Submissions</a></h2><p><b>Deadline: December 15th, 2012</b><br><br>Hey,
mixed-race folks, how do you respond when you get asked what you are?
Do you feel at a loss for words when trying to describe your racial,
ethnic, or cultural background? Do you find yourself struggling to
understand where you belong in the context of prominent racial
paradigms? Do you run into a POC-white binary that is reductive,
incomplete, or simply not enough? What does it mean that there often
isn’t an easy answer? And what happens when you add gender, feminism,
and queerness into the mix?<br><span></span><br><span>Hey, queers and
feminists, let’s respond to the lack of representation of mixed-race
folks like us. Yes, we are deeply indebted to the countless beautiful
queers and feminists of color who have demanded to be heard; who fight,
survive, and die on a daily basis. We are indebted to colonized people
and feminists of color around the world and in the states</span><span> </span><span>who
have taught us that black and brown are beautiful; who have shown us
how to act with compassion and love and thoughtful rage in the face of
white supremacist violence. This zine</span><span> </span><span>is a
call to continue this work; to build upon the work of anti-racist and
decolonial literature, given the nuances of our lives as mixed-race
queers and feminists, so often living on stolen land while refusing to
forget the land stolen from our ancestors.</span><br><span></span><br><span>No
doubt, racism against folks of color is fucking real, and those of us
who are mixed race and sometimes or always pass as white are much less
prone to the multiple forms of violence faced by black and brown folks.
However, too often, that’s the end of the conversation. This zine
strives to challenge the narrow conception of POC vs white, a binary
which doesn’t allow space for many folks’ experiences or for more
complex identities (even among POCs and white folks).</span><br><span></span><br><span>As
mixed-raced queers and feminists, we refuse to whitewash our histories.
We refuse to label individuals based solely upon our perceptions of
their skin color or features. Colonialism attempts to whitewash, erase,
assimilate and subjugate through violence and oppression. We refuse to
finish this work. We invite you to collectively participate in this
refusal.</span><span></span><br><span></span><br><b>A Working Definition of Mixed-race:</b><span>
While this may not be the perfect term, we are using it to frame a very
broad set of experiences and identities, which may include tracing all
or part of one’s culture or heritage to brown people and colonized
people, inclusive of all skin tones. This may also include being raised
with multiple cultures or with immigrant experience.</span><br><span></span><br><b>Why Queers & Feminists?</b><span>
Not only are we interested in the ways that mixed-race folks’
identities interact with queerness and feminism, but we also believe
that it is important to prioritize stories from queers and feminists,
whose voices are often marginalized. Moreover, with a topic as broad as
race, we want to anchor our discussions in some common politics. This
anchor is important because it is a big part of how we (the editors)
choose who to organize with, live with, form community with, fuck, and,
in this case, write zines with.</span><br><span></span><br><b>Possible Topics: </b><span>Privilege.
[Not] Passing. Sex, relationships & dating. Conflicting and
conflated identities (especially related to race and queerness,
transness, feminism, class, dis/ability). The POC/white binary. Cultural
appropriation. Structural and institutional oppression. Art, music
& creativity. [Not] Belonging. Cultural estrangement. Immigrant
experiences. Families & histories. Colonizing processes in family,
work, activisms & relationships. Being too brown/not brown enough.
Home. Diaspora. Performing identities. Physical manifestations of race,
and intersection with other forms of identity and presentation.
Preserving and paying respect to heritage & history (eg: interviews,
oral histories, folklore). Remembering</span><span>. </span><span>Tracing
origins and roots. The importance of race/ethnicity/culture to
political formation. Mixed-race community. Food & recipes. Remedies.
Developing new language(s). Race/religion overlap (and exclusion). And
much, much more.</span><br><span></span><br><b>Media and formats: </b><span>Poetry,
prose, essay, visuals (B&W for zine, possibly color online), audio
(for online), interviews, and other formats (pitch them to us!— we’re
good catchers).</span><br><span></span><br><b>Deadline for submissions: </b><span>December 15th, 2012. Submit to mrqfzine [at] gmail [dot] com.</span><br><span></span><br><b>Contact:</b><br><span>mrqfzine [at] gmail [dot] com</span><br>
<a href="http://www.mrqfzine.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">www.mrqfzine.tumblr.com<br></a>(information about the editors is on tumblr)<br>
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