Transborder Resistance, Resilience, # Revolution
E-zine co-curated by students in TRR#R course at Georgetown University (Spring 2023) and Multimodal Artists from the Offsite Multimodal Archival project
Worlding Sex & Gender
A series of E-Zines exploring issues of sex, gender, and sexuality through an intersectional, transnational, and cross-cultural lens. Curated by MARIANGELA MIHAI and XINLEI SHA.
A critical exploration of one family and the relationships that compose it. A confrontation of mixed-raced marriages and the (sometimes isolating) effects that has on traditional father-daughter and mother-daughter relationships.
Dating apps have expedited the dating process; conveniently delivering potential partners in one swift hand movement, all on a platform that can feel more like a game than dating. But at the center of this critique is a debate over whether dating apps benefit or harm, the consistently unprotected, identifying woman of color.
A late night conversation with queer friends, told through a film photography series.
Told by a man of color and ally of black women, “A Living Hell” provides readers with a look into the destructive ways corporate America works to silence and control the lives, voices, and bodies of black women, forcing them to hide their blackness or only use their blackness as a diversity quota requirement for branding purposes.
At this point in time, technology impedes our everyday. How does social media specifically infect our thought processes and realities?
Through my E-Zine, I aimed to communicate notions regarding identity and the different forms it can approach, such as feeling bifurcated and alienated. I drew/illustrated the works and pages of my E-Zine to highlight the duality between the internal and the external.
In this E-zine, I relate my identity markers - ranging from my gender to sexuality to mental health - to raindrops. Some days, they make my life inconvenient; other days, they make me feel beautifully Andrea.
A poem connecting personal experience with the collective struggles and expectations for (queer) women in America.
A story of a Mixed girl finding her true identity despite the struggles and stereotypes society has placed on her.
Inspired by Spork: A Document of Ambiguity and Acceptance (which pokes fun at strict dichotomies like man/women in our society), Willfully Ignorant touches on a variety of “hard-to-hear” topics, including racism, misogyny, privilege, and homophobia. Centered around the motif of putting the fingers in the ears, Willfully Ignorant pokes fun at examples of willful ignorance in our society and brings light to some of the tough realities that lie within.
A series of anecdotes depicting the process of queer identity formation under ubiquitous heteronormative pressures. How do you transform the messages that plagued you as a kid into a form of growth and self-awareness?
A series of poems that depict the ways in which gender norms stemming from childhood are ingrained onto us leading us to think about how we can take back power in our own life by disrupting false binaries such as feminine and masculine.
I, a young LGBT person, explore my gender and its convolutions using landscapes to showcase the distance from others I feel as a result of it.
BE YOU is a self-help/self-care inspired zine that promotes love and acceptance of one’s being and other human beings, regardless of gender identity or expression. The zine aims to validate those that feel hopeless or frustrated given the gender constructs and transphobia (which even might be internalized) ingrained into culture and society, and encourages all queer, non-binary, trans, and gender nonconforming folk to be themselves, and at the very least, love themselves no matter what the world throws at them.
This is a small collection of different books, shows, music, people, and things that make my life easier. If you need suggestions, take a look.
This E-Zine aims to dismantle the idea of queerness that ties into our physical appearance and stereotypes. This discusses body image from external and internal viewpoints and the way queerness interacts with our other identities and views of ourselves. It is made to feel universal to everyone regardless of body size, race, religion, gender, sexuality, or economic status. I hope that when you read this E-Zine you start to think about your interactions with your own body and body image as it relates to all of your identities and take some time to reflect on how you can help yourself have a more positive body outlook by using positive self-talk while also acknowledging your harmful or destructive thoughts.
"Intersectionality: Black Feminism" seeks to provide knowledge on the relational theory of intersectionality. This E-zine explains how our framework of interlocking identities, which include race, class, sexuality, etc., is at the very core of Black feminism.
Exploring my personal gender identity, the E-Zine revisits vital pivotal moments in my life that have helped mold my unique gender identity where, based on where I am in my life, my feminine or masculine spirit will decide which energy is most necessary to lead with in my environment.
Using the 1967 Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case—a federal ruling that deemed interracial marriages legal in all states—the E-zine draws parallels from the racist pushback to the ruling in 1967 to violence against mixed couples today.
Exploring what it truly means to be a woman in the 21st century and how society’s expectations change our own perception of beauty and femininity.
An E-zine about gender stereotyping in fashion.
“The Woman Rebel” offers a brief history and description of anarcha-feminism. In the anarchist tradition, it provides accessible resources like essays, podcasts, and websites to help readers draw their own conclusions about anarcha-feminism, anarchism, and shortcomings of the movement related to intersectionality as well as to empower readers to take action.
An E-zine about masculinity and identity and how those two things are dictated by who you grow up with and around and how they influence you to act or be. In the end, I want people to realize that only you yourself tell yourself who you are.
E-zine focused on how fashion is and has been used to express and take back autonomy. Three main examples are found in the hijab, pantsuits, and queer fashion.
HOW WE FIGHT introduces three films and tv series that depict the civil rights movement in the United States. These three films describe the movement from three different perspectives, and the characters in the films fight for their rights in distinct ways. It then connects the civil rights in the United States to the state of civil rights movement in East Asia, where tolerance and collectivism are stressed.
This E-zine focuses on the growth of cultural appropriation in the fashion industry. It informs the reader as to what designers are repeating culprits of appropriation, what the most appropriated cultures/races are, what certain articles of clothing/accessories they might be wearing but actually appropriate, the meaning behind these items, and questions to ask before they wear something.
An overview of the many struggles women face in sports that highlights article titles from several news sources.
This is a brief introduction to the fast fashion industry and its social/environmental impacts aims to challenge forms of production and consumption within capitalist society.