Unapologetic zine issue #1 published 1997
ID: two scanned zine pages.
First page is typed and reads:
UNAPOLOGETIC
The Journal of Irresponsible Gender
A tranny at Sister Subverter!
Bitch Hips: Chicago's Trans-fronted punk-rock band!
M2B!
+ Comix, arts + crafts, fiction, & more!
[Bottom-right] image of a stick figure person giving the middle finger with spiky hair and one pantsed leg.
[Left] image of a flaming topped vial with label reading [all caps]: Jo's(?) Mone Shop RX Against Gender Fascism R.N./G.E. '97 Use as necessary
Second page is handwritten and reads:
TransPunk Manifesto
Whereas:
Identity can never depend on anything that can be purchased, and
Individual existence precedes group typology, and
Male and female, masculine and feminine, straight, queer and even transgender are all received conventions and must be examined very closely on an individual basis before being applied, and
even then aren't necessarily always applicable, and
dominant culture has historically used criteria such as "beauty" and "realness" and genital configuration to divide us and turn us against ourselves and each other, and
Medicalized definitions of gender have defined our bodies only as malformed objects in need of correction or replacement.
Therefore, be it resolved that:
We will freely disregard and destroy language and typology when they fail to reflect our realities, and
we will reject any pathologization that alienates us, and
we will always stand by our tranny siblings, even those who are different from us, and
we will respond to our expulsion from non-trans communities with the creation of new trans-communities, and
We will modify and define our bodies and lives however we see fit.
STARE BACK!
STOP @ NOTHING 2 SURVIVE.
Anne, sitting on Jon's(?) bed, 26 Aug 97
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