ANTI-VALENTINES DAY RIOT GRRRL COVER BAND SHOW – February 14th
@ Death By Audio (49 S. 2nd St., Brooklyn)
Cover bands playing this year will be Babes in Toyland, Hole, X, Discount, Spitboy, Mika Miko, Heavens to Betsy, and the Frumpies.  Cover charge and time TBA.  Plan on getting there in the early evening as last year’s event sold out!
(Since there was some confusion last year: we are not the organizers of this event. Contact info for the organizers can be found at the link above!)

FEMINIST ZINE FEST- February 25th
1pm – 6pm @ The Brooklyn Commons (388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn)
A day of feminist zinesters, distros and artists.

BROOKLYN ZINE FEST- April 15
11am – 6pm @ Public Assembly (70 N. 6th St, Brooklyn)
A wider range of zinesters and distros from Brooklyn and beyond.

We’ve been carrying Cindy’s “Support” zine (on preventing sexual assault and supporting survivors) as well as “Learning Good Consent”.  Her well-known autobiographical feminist zine “Doris” is really worth checking out, if you haven’t already.

See below for more info and we hope to see you there!

For The Birds Collective & MFA Collective Works present:
a zine reading w/
Cindy Crabb (Doris and Support zines)
Cynthia Schemmer (Habits of Being)
Max Steele (Scorcher)

Tuesday, December 6
@ The New School – 6 E 16th St, Room 1107
8pm // open to the public

Find out more about the readers after the jump!

Cindy Crabb is the author of the long running, autobiographical feminist zine Doris, Her new book The Encyclopedia of Doris has just been released. She has written for numerous books and magazines, including We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, the Utne Reader,Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words, A Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writing From the Girl Zine Revolution, and is featured in the new academic book Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, by Alison Piepmeier. She is the editor of the zines Support, and Learning Good Consent, and is a sexual assault survivor advocate.

Cynthia Ann is a writer and native New Yorker who currently lives in Brooklyn. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a co-founder of the feminist collective For The Birds and has recently released the first issue of an oral history zine called Habits of Being. She has been published in Connotation Press, RE/VISIONIST, Elevate Difference, Drawn and Quarterly, and the For The Birds blog. She has a chapter that she co-wrote on parental loss being published in the forthcoming anthology Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind, due out Fall 2012 on PM Press. She currently works on staff as a nonfiction reader for the Brooklyn literary journal Epiphany. She is also a baker, a musician, and biding her time until she can own many gigantic dogs.

Max Steele is a performer and writer. He has presented work at the New Museum, Deitch Projects, Dixon Place, Envoy Enterprises, PPOW Gallery, and the Queens Museum of Art. In addition to writing the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher, his writing has been featured in Dossier Journal, Spank, Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Fag School, East Village Boys and Birdsong.

December 6 @ The New School
6 E 16th St, Room 1107
8PM // Open to the Public // Donations!
brought to you by MFA Collective Works and The For The Birds Collective

Cindy Crabb is the author of the long running, autobiographical feminist zine Doris, Her new book The Encyclopedia of Doris has just been released. She has written for numerous books and magazines, including We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, the Utne Reader, Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words, A Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writing From the Girl Zine Revolution, and is featured in the new academic book Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, by Alison Piepmeier. She is the editor of the zines Support, and Learning Good Consent, and is a sexual assault survivor advocate.

Cover art this year by the amazing Liz Prince!

1. The Ballad of Tanqueray Beavers - Small Bones
2. The Inevitable - New Creases
3. Friends All Grown - Livid
4. Circles - Daylight Robbery
5. Boy Piss - Weird TV
6. Dead Horses - Very Okay
7. Go Away - Dear Marje
8. Widow’s Walk - These Days
9. No Fun - SPARKLESHIT
10. Repetition - Trophy Wife
11. Complacent Living - nu-kle-er blast suntan
12. Halloween - Cat Vet
13. Shit Explodes - Boneblack
14. Scream So They Have To Hear You - Hot Mess

Thanks again to A Feminist Tea Party and Yulia Tikhonova for including us in the event!

We are also going to be tabling on Sunday, February 6 at Sound Wave, the first of a feminist performance series presented by Permanent Wave at Death by Audio.  There will be music, poetry and art, along with other groups tabling as well.

This is a benefit for the Center Against Domestic Violence in Brooklyn, and the theme of the event is Relationship Violence. Both showgoers and performers will have a chance to engage in activities relating to awareness and activism!

You can find out more about the event and performers at the Facebook invite, by clicking on the flyer below!

HOAX #5
The topic of #5 will be FEMINISM & COMMUNITY
“Hoax is a collaborative zine attempting to bring feminism into everyday life & finding the connections between us despite our differences. it is co-edited by sari (crustyriotqueer.tumblr.com) & rachel (ineffableshe.tumblr.com) and kept alive by numerous contributors and people like you. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of our print zine, please e-mail hoaxzine@gmail.com”

Out of the Box: Queering the Gender Binary is a compilation zine for those of us who don’t fit into neatly organized gender boxes. Find out more information here.

Mujeres de Maiz – ZINE 2011
Calling all creative women of color! In honor of Women, let us publish your expressions in our annual community arts and poetry maga-ZINE! Submissions should be concerned with the following theme:
Soldadera de Amor
(Soldier of Love)

Femme a Barbe #2
Femme a Barbe seeks to promote discussions of identity and desire (mostly) through that stuff that grows (or doesn’t grow) on our faces. Whether you love it, hate it, want it, got rid of it or are trying to grow it….Issue 3 has a particular focus on relationships, romance, and attraction, but go ahead, deviate from that and see if i care.
From Issue 1: “To the Secret Freaks: Come with me! Dare to imagine a world full of women with beards and other gender outlaws, to imagine the possibilities of a feminist cultural politic that rejects the bullshit concern that feminism appear normal, a queer cultural politic that rejects the mainstream gay desire to assimilate and consume. Make a spectacle of yourself. Join the Femme a Barbe insurgency!”

Disabling Fallacies, a zine about misconceptions of disability
Here’s the skinny: I’m making a comp zine about the misconceptions people have faced with regards to their disabilities.
Find out more information here.

Get it Together #2 “What Happens if Something Happens?”
See information on Issue #1 here
Illustration Zine of Mantras and Self-Motivational Phrases seeking submissions of short written pieces on learned experiences of living with illness or supporting those that do.  I’m looking for paragraph or shorter writing, hoping to gain insight into the needs of those with chronic illnesses and the role of radical support systems and community building.  Submissions can be sent to lauren@blackandredeye.com.

Below is an overview of most of the internet and local New York City resources mentioned at the event.  Whether you’re looking for primary sources, international statistics or riot grrrl zines, the links below may be of use to you! If you have more questions or are looking for additional resources, Radical Reference can be contacted here.

ZINES
Zinelibrary.info – a large, searchable archive of a wide range of zines (.pdf’s available for download!)
Queer Zine Archive Project – searchable archive of queer related zines (.pdf’s available for download!)

Physical Archives and Collections
ABC No Rio Zine Library – library of zines at ABC No Rio in the Lower East Side. Open to the public but the zines are not in circulation and may not be removed from the building.
Barnard Library Zine Collection – zine collection at the Barnard College library. Visitors without Barnard library access can contact a zine librarian to make an appointment!
Fales Library and Special Collections – the special collections of the NYU library, soon featuring the Riot Grrrl Collection starting in December 2010! Appointments are necessary but the library is open to all researchers.
Tamiment Library – NYU based center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left. Features archival, print, photograph, film, and oral history collections which are open to the public.
Lesbian Herstory Archives – facility of books, zines, and more on lesbian topics in Brooklyn.

Other Search Engines Online
Directory of Open Access Journals – free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Feminist Art Base – feminist artists and their work, connected with the Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Guttmacher Institute – International research and statistics regarding sexual and reproductive health
PQDT Open – academic dissertations and theses available for free
Woman Stats Project – statistics on the status and safety of women from over 174 countries
Tamiment Library Web Archives – searchable database of periodically captured sites on Labor and the Left

You can find Jenna Freedman’s blog online at jenna.openflows.com along with Kate Angell’s brand new blog at somebodysautobiography.wordpress.com!

Tomorrow’s event starts at 7:30pm and is located at 16 Wilson Avenue in Brooklyn.

More information on those reading at the event after the jump!

***A previous event posted on our blog, Women’s Radical Research at Bluestockings, was postponed until Monday, November 15.***

Stacey Kahn is a graduate of Skidmore College and currently an MFA student in nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence. She’s been published in Epiphany magazine, among other publications. She is the assistant editor at Epiphany and is a contributor to the music site Play Me. She is currently obsessed with rice kripsy treats and the band Pavement. Stacey Kahn is not a descendant of Genghis Khan

Kathleen McIntyre lives in queens and goes to school for social group work.  Since her dad died in 2001 she’s been puzzling over ways that people can help each other heal.  She edits “The Worst,” a compilation zine on grief and loss, releasing Issue 2 this past September.  For fun and survival, she’s in For the Birds feminist collective and she dances whenever she can.

Tim Gomez is from the land of milk and honey, otherwise known as California. He hates newborn babies and Christmas Day. He is also a taco connoisseur. He writes about none of these things.

Cynthia Ann is a writer and native New Yorker who currently lives in Brooklyn and is working on her MFA thesis in creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a co-founder of the feminist collective For The Birds and has recently released the first issue of an oral history zine called Habits of Being. She has been published in Feminist Review, Drawn and Quarterly, and the For The Birds blog. She currently works on staff as a nonfiction reader for the Sarah Lawrence literary journal Lumina as well as the Brooklyn journal Epiphany.

This reading was organized by Cynthia Ann with special thanks to Kate Wadkins.