It’s been a pretty cold week at QZAP HQ, and seemingly across a lot of North America as well. Since it’s also still February we were thinking some escapist reading was in order. How about a nice perzine about sex, road trips, being in the woods, and bumperstickers? The Incredibly True Adventures of a Kid and His Starship #1 has that.
Seriously! Take Sin Bros. #5 for example. Totally not a drag…
Zines are great. Obviously… but for many different reasons. One of the reasons is that zines can be dangerous. Subvursive. Dirty and devious and delicious. Like The Volcano #3…
The nice folks at Sex Workers Open University in London sent us some zines, including a copy of Trans Rentboys: Love Don’t Pay the Rent in both English and French. You can find them all here.
It’s taken about a year, but we’ve finally made it through the transfer of 400+ zines from our old archive software to the new system at archive.qzap.org. We’re happy to announce that we’re finally adding “new” zines to the digital archive… Starting with S.C.A.B. from 1988.
We are pleased to announce the release of our new QZAP zine From the Punked Out Files of the Queer Zine Archive Project. It is the product of the QZAP 2014 summer residency project. Last summer we invited a number of zine makers, scholars, and archivists to spend time within our physical space, reading and researching. This is the outcome.
Including work by Rachael House, Jude Vachon, Joshua Burford, Elvis Bakaitis and Kelly McElroy, the zine is 60 pages of short articles, comics, cut-n-paste and mad libs. We have copies available for sale.
Want to help QZAP with cataloging?
After you read a zine in our archive, you can fill out the form below and add missing metadata and suggest keywords. These elements are finding aids, and are helpful for everyone trying to explore the archive.
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Got a queer zine you want to donate to us? Please fill out the form below, and include as much info as you can. This will help us to better catalog the zines and make it so that your zine can be found by others.
After you’ve filled out the form, please print a copy of the output (which will also be emailed to you) and include it with the zine. Donations can be sent to:
If you have a larger collection of zines(+15), please contact us! We’re happy to take on whole queer zine collections, but will want to set something special with you.
Zine Donation Form
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As we get closer to our 11th birthday (on November 3rd) we’re pleased to announce that our new digital archive is online. We’ve been working on this for the past two years, and while there are a few kinks to work out, it’s mostly ready-for-prime-time. Because it’s been such a huge undertaking we’ve moved it it it’s own server at archive.qzap.org.
The number of changes is huge, but most importantly (to us, at least) is the way that Archive deals with metadata. For each zine you’ll now be able to click on the elements like place, creator, or keywords to explore other zines in the collection.
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll finish migrating the last of the zines (we’ve gotten 80% of them moved and updated) and start adding new ones.
We’ll be keeping this site running as a blog and calendar, etc. and hopefully updating it with much more frequency.
With many hugs and more queer zines,
– QZAP
QZAP is working with our technology partners at Open Flows to collect rainbow flags for Kouraj in Haiti.
As you celebrate queer/lgbt pride this month, please think about picking up a couple of extra cloth rainbow flags and sending them to us at QZAP. We’ll get them to the awesome folks at Open Flows, and they’ll get them to Kouraj.
QZAP 2935 N. Fratney St. Milwaukee, WI 53212 USA
Let’s help these activists celebrate THEIR strength and pride!
