[estuarieszine-blog]

The first issue of the zine is finally here!

Estuaries #1: Reconciling the Queer South is now available to read online! 

READ ESTUARIES #1 ON ISSUU

IMPORTANT NOTE: some of the media files (2 audio submissions & 1 video) in the zine are not supported on Issuu, so PLEASE continue to be on the lookout for yer chance to experience the zine in its fullest form! You don’t want to miss it. 

We greatly appreciate y’all’s patience while we finalize the formatting of the zine to allow for a downloadable digital version, a printed version & alternative modes of viewing online! 

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: We are offering access to the first issue of Estuaries through Issuu at the cost of a $5-$10 (or more!!) donation to the Trans Assistance Project, a fund based in Oakland, CA that is collecting donations to assist with funeral services & end-of-life costs for three trans women who lost their lives in the Oakland Ghost Ship fire: Feral Pines, Cash Askew, and Em Bohlka. 

From the TAP website: “Once these items, plus medical care for another trans woman who survived the fire are paid, additional funds will be donated to TAP in Feral’s name. Feral had applied for TAP’s services: funding name and gender markers changes, medical costs, and legal fees for trans people in the United States, so that trans women may survive and thrive.”

Thank you so very much to all the gloriously talented folks who submitted to the first issue of Estuaries, and please be on the lookout for yer chance to download the full version on Etsy!

[anth0philous]

the first issue of the zine is ready, y’all! 

estuaries #1: reconciling the queer south is available in its current form for a limited time on Issuu! please note that although it is “free-to-read” we are asking folks, (whether you access the document or not) to PLEASE donate to the Trans Assistance Project! 

[anth0philous]

CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS TO: 

‘e  s  t  u  a  r  i  e  s  # 1 : reconciling the queer south’

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 22nd!! 

send contributions to: [email protected] 

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the ‘call for submissions’ facebook event!

like Estuaries on facebook here!

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SUBMISSIONS DUE TOMORROW, FRIDAY JULY 22nd!!!!!!

(but since we all know about existing on southern time: one week of rolling submissions will be accepted until Friday, July 30th!)

[anth0philous]

Friday, July 29th****

[anth0philous]

CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS TO: 

‘e  s  t  u  a  r  i  e  s  # 1 : reconciling the queer south’

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 22nd!! 

send contributions to: [email protected] 

*** p l e a s e     s h a r e  ***

the ‘call for submissions’ facebook event!

like Estuaries on facebook here!

[anth0philous]

eSTUARIES: reconciling the queer south issue #1 e s t u a r y : partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water; where the river meets the sea; where fresh & saltwater mix my mama on the south: “what you have to do is put your feet in the stream from an estuary. it’s the softest stuff at the bottom. completely decomposed so it’s like silk.” ************************************************************************* CALLING FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM → ALL Y’ALL SOUTHERN QUEERS! - queers currently livin’ in the south! - southern-reared queer-bos! - queers who have left//come [back] to the south! ************************************************************************* crucially: this zine seeks to hold the voices of the most marginalized southern queer-bos at its center (including but not limited to: qpoc, women, non-westerners, trans*folk, undocumented folk, poor folk, formerly/currently incarcerated folk, folk engaged in transactional sex work) therefore, this zine will always ask: how do experiences of southern queerness touch & bump against / intersect & develop relationally with / move along: race, class, immigration status, generation, region, ability, gender, faith? ************************************************************************* WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE QUEER IN THE SOUTH???????? • who/what/when is on your mind when you talk about being southern? queer? what does it mean to be southern and queer? do these identities exist simultaneously / relationally / inextricably? or are they two ends of a long pole? • how does queerness look / feel / function differently in the south? how do we name / recognize / identify / unpack the qualities of southern queerness that are unique to this region? • how do we access & examine southern queer cultural memory? • what about the south embodies & performs queerness? • how / in what ways do we negotiate & reconcile southern queerness? what do these processes look & feel like? ************************************************************************* CALLING FOR → o prose! (academic essays, autoethnographic work, personal narratives) o poetry! o interviews! o memories & alternative histories! o photos, drawings, comics & other visual artwork! o critiques & celebrations! o recipes! o maps! o manifestos! o collages! o litanies! *please include trigger warnings where appropriate! ************************************************************************ POTENTIAL IDEAS FOR CONTRIBUTION MATERIAL → o what does the queer south look / sound / feel / smell / taste like? o queer identity formation in the south o negotiating feelings of admonishment for the south and recognition of it as home o navigating & subverting the south (for survival?) o trauma / shame / pain / danger in the queer south o to leave or stay put? (what about when leaving ain’t an option?) o (southern queer) desire / love / sex / relationships / friendship / kinship o evidence & examination of thriving / subversive / revolutionary / u-_dystopic / liberatory / sustainable southern queer movement & community ************************************************************************ SUBMISSIONS DUE BY JULY 1ST! to [email protected]

calling out to all my southern queerbo kin!

i implore you to submit to ESTUARIES issue #1: ‘reconciling the queer south’

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please share! submissions due JULY 1st to [email protected]

[lawsoffate]

Tears of frankincense from the Boswellia Sacra tree ~ photography by Cedric Pollet.

[hotsprite]

[pancakesteins]

when u are sad and ur friend asks if u are ok

[shinji--moon-deactivated2017123]

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets and the Sunday salt, ah violin! When I press summer dusks together, it is a month of street accordions and sprinklers laying the dust, small shadows running from me. It is music opening and closing, Italia mia, on Bleecker,ciao, Antonio, and the water-cries of children tearing the rose-coloured sky in streams of paper; it is dusk in the nostrils and the smell of water down littered streets that lead you to no water, and gathering islands and lemons in the mind. There is the Hudson, like the sea aflame. I would undress you in the summer heat, and laugh and dry your damp flesh if you came.

“Bleecker Street, Summer,” Derek Walcott (via budddha)

[rabbitinthemoon-blog]

You cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why it’s beautiful, and before you know it, it’s neither of those things, and you’re standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

Clive Barker  (via milktree)

[wispygirl]

[bluesuicide]

[happyshoujo]

[blankslate]

new acronyms

smao- suffering my ass off sol- suffering out loud rofs- rolling on the floor suffering

[esoteric-honey]

Visit Original Link

[zoomerbro]

Built to Spill - In the Morning

[anth0philous]

the signs and how they're being problematic at ur house party

aries: keeps rearranging your decorations and changing the song

taurus: called the police

gemini: took their clothes off

cancer: locked themselves in your room and no one knows what their problem is

leo: wants to fight everyone

virgo: giving head in the bathroom

libra: trying to sell weed to everyone

scorpio: threw a cigarette butt into the hedge out front and now its on fire

sagittarius: on the fucking roof

capricorn: has to pee every 3 minutes

aquarius: doing lines of cocaine off the kitchen counter

pisces: making out with your dad

[nemfrog]

Plate V. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1909.

[lordslave]

Moebius collaborating with Alejandro Jodorowsky on their first comic together, Les Yeux du Chat (The Eyes of the Cat). It was made to be a gift to staff and friends of Les Humanoïdes Associés.

[jmaydayrva]

Gross but awesome

[petalsails]

“At bottom, there is one fundamental question: Why do we take prison for granted? While a relatively small proportion of the population has ever directly experienced life inside prison, this is not true in poor black and Latino communities. Neither is is true for Native Americans or for certain Asian-American communities. But even among those people, who must regrettably accept prison sentences - especially young people - as an ordinary dimension of community life, it is hardly acceptable to engage in serious public discussion about prison life or radical alternatives to prison. It is as if prison were an inevitable fact of life, like birth and death. On the whole, people tend to take prisons for granted. It is difficult to imagine life without them. At the same time, there is reluctance to face the realities hidden within them, a fear of thinking about what happens inside them. Thus, the prison is present in our lives and, at the same time, it is absent from our lives. To think about this simultaneous presence and absence is to begin to acknowledge the part played by ideology in shaping the way we interact with out social surroundings. We take prisons for granted, but are often afraid to face the realities they produce.”

Angela Davis in Are Prisons Obsolete? (via xprettyxboyx)