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Chicago Zine Fest!!!

Thursday, 08 March 2012 16:43 QZAP
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CZFheadQZAP is proud to be taking part in this year's Chicago Zine Fest.  We'll be actively participating in so many ways it's hard to count.

On Friday, March 9th both Chris and Milo will be reading at the exhibitors reading at 826CHI from 7pm-9pm

On Saturday we'll be tabling with new and older favorite zines, our new buttons and other goodies on the 8th Floor of the Columbia College's Conaway Center.  Chris and Miss Nico will both be leading workshops and participating in panel discussions along with other queer zinesters whose work is archived here at QZAP.  They all look like they're going to be amazing!  If you're able to, please stop by and visit with us!

The Chicago Zine Fest is just the beginning of what is shaping up to be a very busy year for us here at QZAP.  We'll be at various events around the country this year (maybe more than ever before!)  This spring you'll also be able to find collective members at the Midwest Zine Fest in Urbana, IL (April), the Pioneer Valley Zine Fest in Amherst, MA (April), Mondo Homo (Atlanta) and that's just for starters.

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Hopefully we'll see you sometime soon!

Last Updated on Thursday, 08 March 2012 17:10
 

Mid-winter? Bah!

Thursday, 02 February 2012 00:52 QZAP
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5packGood News, Everyone!!!  QZAP got new buttons!  Head over to the QZAP store (to your left) to order one.  We updated the classic "Zinesters" design, and added 3 new ones.  Go us!

Also, as you may have heard, our participation in the SOPA/PIPA black-out was great.  The bills have been stopped (for now, at least) so we can keep on keepin' on with our whole queer zine archiving thing.

January started out great for us, and 2012 is only going to get better.  The newest member of the collective managed to get 17 zines scanned and uploaded in the space of about 6 days.  Thanks, Patricia!

Now we're gearing up for the Chicago Zine Fest at the beginning of March and working on a few other projects, as well.  Stay tuned...

Last Updated on Thursday, 02 February 2012 01:05
 

STOP PIPA

Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:11 Milo
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silencedeathOn Wednesday, January 18, 2012 QZAP will be joining numerous other websites like Wikipedia, Reddit, and BoingBoing by “going dark” in protest of the SOPA and PIPA legislation that is working its way through the United States Congress at the moment.

While SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is temporarily on hold, PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) is of equal worry.  Both bills would have the effect of killing QZAP.  

For the past 8 years our collective has spent countless hours working to preserve queer zines and print ephemera and make them available so that artists, activists, scholars, and enthusiasts can enjoy and learn from the vast, often un-noticed written and printed history created by other queers from around the world.  

We fully recognize that a lot of the material housed in QZAP is “dangerous.”  Some of the zines deal with material that make folks uncomfortable, that challenge the way people think about any number of topics relating to queers and our lives.  While we’re pretty open as individuals and a collective, some of the content in the zines make *us* uncomfortable.  Ultimately, though, free speech and free press doesn’t have to be popular or happy.  It does have to be free, though.  It needs to be seen and heard.  That’s why QZAP exists.

The majority of the zines in our digital archive were not created by QZAP collective members, and are presented under the “Fair Use” provisions of the U.S. Copyright code.  To the best of our ability we give full credit and ownership to the original creators, and actively seek permission from them (when possible) for the documents to be placed online.  A single bogus take-down notice (like the one we received in 2005) could effectively silence all that we and the hundreds of zinesters who have dared to commit themselves to print have worked for.

Please join with us in protecting QZAP and the freedom to speak, write, and publish online without fear of being censored by visiting http://americancensorship.org/

Sincerely,
Chris and Milo on behalf of the Queer Zine Archive Project
Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:20
 
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