[ November 16, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_1081" align="aligncenter" width="443" caption="Flier by Daniela Capistrano"][/caption]
We’re so excited for our next event, co-organized with POC Zine Project & Barnard Zine Library on Wednesday, November 16th. You can RSVP on Facebook.
Wednesday, November 16 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Barnard College
307 Milbank Hall (3rd floor)
North end of campus
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
The People of Color (POC) Zine [...]

FTB would like to announce the next event in the Birds of Summer Series: A benefit show to celebrate “The Worst”–a compilation zine exploring contributors’ experiences with grief and loss from radical, D.I.Y., and alternative viewpoints.  The show will help to raise money to cover printing costs for the zine, which has sold nearly 1500 [...]

Announcing For The Birds’ first zine!

So You Want To Start A Feminist Collective: A Flight Plan For Newly-Hatching Flocks
For the Birds’ first zine! Encouraging other people to start their own collectives and projects, For the Birds answers questions about how we started and how we continue to operate as a group.  We address problems we’ve [...]

Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf is collecting submissions for their fourth issue focusing on ‘HEALTH’. Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf is a collection of comics that challenge hetero and gender normative practices in sexuality education. Deadline (at least contact them by) is November 1st so break out your pencils and paper!

The second issue of The Worst, a compilation zine on grief and loss, is finished!  In it, 16 contributors have shared their art, writing, and insight into their experiences dealing with the death of friends, parents, grandparents, partners, children, and fellow organizers.  The authors articulate their thoughts on how grief impacts our sense [...]

It’s that time of year again, folks! This fall is already in full gear judging by the amount of cool projects looking for submissions. Please check out all the different publications below, including subject matter such as addiction and recovery, sexual health, community responses to partner abuse, and body politics.
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Back in April, I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniela Capistrano, Jane-of-all-trades and founding member of the POC Zine Project for an online publication I edit called RE/VISIONIST. As if I hadn’t loved POC Zine Project and Daniela’s mission enough, I learned even more about her/their rich history of activism through the interview. Recently, at [...]

As women and feminists, zine writing has been a crucial part of documenting our personal and political history for almost two decades. So, how excited were we at For The Birds Collective to hear that Kathleen Hanna donated her papers and zines to NYU’s Riot Grrl Archive at Fales Library! Immediately following my reaction “how [...]