MIXD: A Mixed-Race Compilation Zine

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MIXD ZINE was featured on CKUT 90.3FM’s In The Motherhood show tonight! *Click the link to listen* The show explores the http://mixedmatchproject.com/, and MIXD Zine talks start at the 35 min. mark! We explore our second issue, responsibility and strategies in mixed-race parenting, raising mixed-race kids, and coming into understandings and celebration of ourselves <3

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MIXD ISSUE #2: HEALING now available to order!  we are so excited to share it with you - A mixed-race compilation zine, MIXD zine is a text & art-based space by & for mixed-race people of colour exploring questions and understandings of mixed-race experience(s), embodiment(s), histories & resistance. - “Healing” is the theme of issue #2, and features writing, visual art, and poetry by 15 mixed-race contributors from across Turtle Island. With this issue, we wanted to explore: - What healing & care has and could look like on an (inter)personal, intergenerational, and ‘community’ basis - Challenging the notion of healing as possible, as mandatory, as having a time limit, as equating to ‘forgive & forget violence’ - The grounding of struggle and resistance as inherent to collective healing processes, within contexts of white supremacy and colonialism, and against systems and institutions of domination: e.g. prisons, the police, the anti-immigration system & the settler colonial state. - Printed on beaut high gloss paper! Covers are printed on beige and shimmery grey card stock (surprise for you~)! #wegotshmancy - price & shipping You might’ve noticed a bit of a price jump. For this issue, we’ve moved beyond the ‘at printing cost’ model in favour of intentionally paying it forward to everyone who helped make this project possible! We are asking for contributions of $7-10 per copy with all profits raised going towards honoraria for contributors, mixd zine collective members for their time and energy, visual artist (Ms.Holmes), and graphic designer (Andira H). If you are Black and / or Indigenous and / or you are a low-income POC and these fund$ aren’t feasible for you - no worries, we’ve got you. Just shoot us a message to talk further. :) xoxo MIXD Zine Collective etsy~ facebook page~ [email protected] for Qs & <3 

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MIXD ISSUE #2: HEALING now available to order!  we are so excited to share it with you - A mixed-race compilation zine, MIXD zine is a text & art-based space by & for mixed-race people of colour exploring questions and understandings of mixed-race experience(s), embodiment(s), histories & resistance. - “Healing” is the theme of issue #2, and features writing, visual art, and poetry by 15 mixed-race contributors from across Turtle Island. With this issue, we wanted to explore: - What healing & care has and could look like on an (inter)personal, intergenerational, and ‘community’ basis - Challenging the notion of healing as possible, as mandatory, as having a time limit, as equating to ‘forgive & forget violence' - The grounding of struggle and resistance as inherent to collective healing processes, within contexts of white supremacy and colonialism, and against systems and institutions of domination: e.g. prisons, the police, the anti-immigration system & the settler colonial state. - Printed on beaut high gloss paper! Covers are printed on beige and shimmery grey card stock (surprise for you~)! #wegotshmancy - price & shipping You might've noticed a bit of a price jump. For this issue, we've moved beyond the 'at printing cost' model in favour of intentionally paying it forward to everyone who helped make this project possible! We are asking for contributions of $7-10 per copy with all profits raised going towards honoraria for contributors, mixd zine collective members for their time and energy, visual artist (Ms.Holmes), and graphic designer (Andira H). If you are Black and / or Indigenous and / or you are a low-income POC and these fund$ aren't feasible for you - no worries, we've got you. Just shoot us a message to talk further. :) xoxo MIXD Zine Collective etsy~ facebook page~ [email protected] for Qs & <3 

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(ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ MIXD zine issue 2 printing day!! ♥u♥ assembling tomorrow ~*~ out so soon!

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Eeeeeee the long-awaited MIXD Zine issue #2: HEALING is going to print by the end of the month!

we are so excited to share it with you. thanks so much to everyone who contributed, helped make this possible, our readers - and thank you for your patience <3

“montreal”, we will be tabling the new issue at Common Aliens: Diaspora in Time’s book fair and closing party this Sunday! we will put up MIXD #2 on our etsy store for online orders v soon :> in the meantime, find us over on facebook for all the updates! xoxoxo Pic & great graphic designin’ by Andira Hernandez 

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thanks so much to everyone who submitted!! (and boosted / shared / gave issue #1 A+ reviews on the cry-worthy scale D:) we will be in touch with you soon - aiming for the end of the month at the latest, and will continue to share updates for everyone of where the project / process is at and (of course) when issue #2 is done! thanks so much again heart emoticon couldn't've / can't do it without ya

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! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ! MIXD #2: HEALING

MIXD zine is a text & art-based space by & for mixed-race people of colour - born out of convos & dialogues surrounding questions / understandings of mixed-race experience(s), embodiment(s), histories & resistance.

“Healing” is the theme of issue #2!

[ some prompts / ideas:]

- what has / could healing & care look like on an (inter)personal, intergenerational, and ‘community’ basis? - challenging the notion of healing as possible, as mandatory, as having a time limit, as equating to ‘forgive & forget (violence)’. - exploring & grounding struggle / resistance as (inherent to) collective healing processes - within contexts of white supremacy & colonialism, & against systems / institutions of domination: e.g. prisons, the police, the anti-immigration system & the settler colonial state.

stumped? need more prompts / ideas for submissions? here’s a full brainstorm list from our initial visioning meeting for MIXD #2!  *DEC 15TH DEADLINE* email submissions to [email protected] !

[mixdzine]

** today is the MIXD #2: Healing submission deadline** (already omgosh)!

send in your writing &/or artwork- along with a short bio if you'd like that included- by midnight tonight (or should i say tues the 15th at 11:59pm) plz! :D if you've already submitted and want to add on a personal bio, email that over to us as well.

we are so so excited to be doing this with you all, and are so stoked to be making these important (n healing) connections / spaces with you. there mayyy have been some major heart squishes and audible "awwwh"s over here reading your sweet messages already, just sayin' <3

[mixdzine]

! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ! MIXD #2: HEALING

MIXD zine is a text & art-based space by & for mixed-race people of colour - born out of convos & dialogues surrounding questions / understandings of mixed-race experience(s), embodiment(s), histories & resistance.

“Healing” is the theme of issue #2!

[ some prompts / ideas:]

- what has / could healing & care look like on an (inter)personal, intergenerational, and ‘community’ basis? - challenging the notion of healing as possible, as mandatory, as having a time limit, as equating to ‘forgive & forget (violence)’. - exploring & grounding struggle / resistance as (inherent to) collective healing processes - within contexts of white supremacy & colonialism, & against systems / institutions of domination: e.g. prisons, the police, the anti-immigration system & the settler colonial state.

stumped? need more prompts / ideas for submissions? here’s a full brainstorm list from our initial visioning meeting for MIXD #2!  *DEC 15TH DEADLINE* email submissions to [email protected] !

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stumped? here are some more prompts / themes-to-explore for submissions!

!! there's one week left to get yr submissions in for MIXD #2: healing !!

here are some prompts / ideas (that came out of our collective visioning meeting) to explore! (*content heads up: anti-blackness, colonialism, trauma, colorism, violence, racism more generally*) - seeking / finding identity & validation - addressing anti-blackness & colorism (at large, and within / as perpetuated by non-black people of colour (NBPOC) and under the "BIPOC community" umbrella / label) - the specific evolution and relationship of colonialism & (geographic / cultural) context in relation to our identities and existence - assimilation - intergenerational trauma - lateral violence & internalized racism (in relation to blackness: "new black" rhetoric / respectability politics / liberalism) - re-tracing histories / not knowing histories - colonialism & slavery - histories of resistance & subversion, (learning from and acknowledging / building relationships with) elders / those before us - the limitations of umbrella terminology / ideology: erasure, flattening of geographies of violence, assumed (and not met) solidarity - being 'other'; inhabiting liminal and often un(der)recognized and un(der)represented spaces / bodies / identities - the limitations of thinking of ourselves (only) in race percentages - how dividing and separating yourself can contribute to seeing ourselves as "not one whole being" and flatten complexities of embodiment and experience - the tendency of flattening race and history complexities in to just "black" - without further examination / without further specificity - mixed race folks / BIPOC (/not) being able to cut ties to toxic people / institutions for various reasons - in relation to safety, access to (vital) resources etc. (ties to white people and / or other non-white people also pulling anti-black, anti-native, colorist shit, being abusive, + )

healing (individual / community) strategies: - healing looks like stopping cycles of violence and destroying institutions & systems of domination and exploitation(!) (exploring & grounding struggle / resistance as (inherent to) collective healing processes - within contexts of white supremacy, anti-blackness, & colonialism, and against systems / institutions of domination: e.g. prisons, the police, the anti-immigration system & the settler colonial state.) - (depleted) capacity (care / exhaustion / being drained - often permanently, with no end in sight / in relation to continual violence & trauma) - awareness as vital to survival - how to approach talks and engaging with heavy [stuff] - the violence & harm that can be perpetuated when these are not consensual. - mental health - (creation of) intentional spaces / relationships / 'community' - emotional labour / making and holding space as care for other BIPOC friends and people in our lives - reaching out / educating in ways that centre our well-being and safety - healing as not (necessarily) being linear or having a time limit - what support looks like, what solidarity looks like, what celebrating & rejoicing in ourselves and each other looks like <3

*NBPOC = non-black people of colour *BIPOC = black (&/or) indigenous (&/or) people of colour fb: https://www.facebook.com/events/161782287504030/ email submissions to [email protected] by DEC. 15th !

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it’s happening! **CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to MIXD zine #2: Healing! **

it’s been a long time comin’ and i’m really excited for this.

shout outs to Elyshia Mcdonald Andi Hernandi​ Lemon Fwee​ for hashing out ideas together / for the real talks / being part of the collective approach to making the second issue of MIXD happen! + everyone who gave feedback on the 1st issue.

**plz share widely**  deadline for submissions is Dec. 15th!

email submissions to [email protected] !

questions? pm me directly or shoot a message to [email protected] as well(!) more info on the project: mixdzine.tumblr.com

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! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ! MIXD #2: HEALING

MIXD zine is a text & art-based space by & for mixed-race people of colour - born out of convos & dialogues surrounding questions / understandings of mixed-race experience(s), embodiment(s), histories & resistance.

“Healing” is the theme of issue #2!

[ some prompts / ideas:]

- what has / could healing & care look like on an (inter)personal, intergenerational, and ‘community’ basis? - challenging the notion of healing as possible, as mandatory, as having a time limit, as equating to 'forgive & forget (violence)’. - exploring & grounding struggle / resistance as (inherent to) collective healing processes - within contexts of white supremacy & colonialism, & against systems / institutions of domination: e.g. prisons, the police, the anti-immigration system & the settler colonial state.

* DEC 15TH DEADLINE* <3 MIXDZINE.tumblr.com <3

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~*~* three weeks left to submit! *~*~

[angryasiangirlsunited]

*HERE IT IS.* A POC space for folks to share their stories–fiction, non fiction, poetry, prose, art, comics, photos–on the unique experience of growing up brown with a white father. This is a compilation where those of us have experienced erasure in so many spaces can speak on what is like to be a person of color, while your father stands on the other side of privilege and patriarchy in a colorist society. Open to all POC with white dads (mixed race, adopted or otherwise). Check out the page for more info and feel free to reach out with questions.

<3

[white-dads-zine]

DANG. So so so stoked and thankful for the support! Honored to be working on a project that resonates with so many folks. Can’t wait for your submissions!

<3

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hey hi ! the facebook event to submit to MIXD[: a mixed race comp zine] #2 is up - it’s public, so feel free to join / invite your friends / mark yr virtual & or paper calendars :> 

[mixdzine]

it's happening! **CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to MIXD zine #2: Healing! **

it's been a long time comin' and i'm really excited for this.

shout outs to Elyshia Mcdonald Andi Hernandi​ Lemon Fwee​ for hashing out ideas together / for the real talks / being part of the collective approach to making the second issue of MIXD happen! + everyone who gave feedback on the 1st issue.

**plz share widely**  deadline for submissions is Dec. 15th!

email submissions to [email protected] !

questions? pm me directly or shoot a message to [email protected] as well(!) more info on the project: mixdzine.tumblr.com

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full text:

! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ! MIXD #2: HEALING

MIXD zine is a text & art-based space by & for mixed-race people of colour - born out of convos & dialogues surrounding questions / understandings of mixed-race experience(s), embodiment(s), histories & resistance.

"Healing" is the theme of issue #2!

[ some prompts / ideas:]

- what has / could healing & care look like on an (inter)personal, intergenerational, and 'community' basis? - challenging the notion of healing as possible, as mandatory, as having a time limit, as equating to 'forgive & forget (violence)'. - exploring & grounding struggle / resistance as (inherent to) collective healing processes - within contexts of white supremacy & colonialism, & against systems / institutions of domination: e.g. prisons, the police, the anti-immigration system & the settler colonial state.

* DEC 15TH DEADLINE* <3 MIXDZINE.tumblr.com <3

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hey mixed-race folks & friends, i wanna start working on the call for submissions for MIXD zine #2 (finally ha)! what topics would you like the read about / explore (more) / have (more) conversations around (through writing and or visual art)??

comment below or feel free to pm me :>

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the 1st issue had a lot of personal narratives / experiences, which were super vulnerable brave n awesome - in this issue i'm hoping that those can be linked to broader Struggle (capital s~ lol) / contexts / nuanced politics, and maybe be laid out in a more structured way.

xo. c.

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envelope making and zine sending is such a good-feeling colder weather thing. newest aesthetic choices include dollarama glitter tape(!) and qt stickers always. / all gold everything forever.

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hey 'Toronto' ! MIXD: a mixed-race compilation zine (#1) will be available at the Toronto Queer Zine Fair this weekend (Saturday, Oct. 4th) !

swing by the Sticks and Stones distro table to pick up copies and say hi :>

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MIXD: what's inside? / detailed table of contents!

(pg.26-27 - blackness, misogynoir and being mixed race by Kesiena Opal)

thanks to everyone who contributed content, who helped make this possible, to rad mixed folks everywhere - you're all so incredible and brave and have endured (and continue to not only endure but to resists! and fight! and remember! and un/re-learn! and collectively heal and love! and imagine new and better worlds / relationships / ways of being!) so much, to a degree that I'm sure I'll never be able to even begin to comprend but that I feel so grateful and humbled to be a part of in this way, in this context / time.

MIXD zine articles & artwork: • intro & original call for submissions • Untitled by Cecile A. • Line in the Sand | La Raya by Pamela Arriera • On being Mixed Purepecha and Mestizo by Fabian Romero • Mask #1, #2, #3 (collage) by Laura Sofía Pérez • Mixed Up: An Examination of Mixed Race Identity, Performance, and Migration [Abridged] by E.S. Harvey • Ain't I black? by Judith Jones • Untitled by Richenda Grazette • Untitled by Lindsay Nixon • Untitled (themes: displacement and internment, dual identity, individulation, Japonism, urban/rural isolation // mixed media) by Harmony Seiko Shenk • blackness, misogynoir and being mixed race by Kesiena Opal • "I Am" by Pamela Arriera • field notes by monica rekas • The Qualms of Racial Ambiguity by Charity A. Aria • a black momma with a white baby asks louis c.k.: my open letter to louis c.k. by Glossolalia Black • apartment blues / book marked / how to drift by Shayne Golosky-Johnson • Open letter to my unknown ancestors by Sasha Simmons • Realizations // Messages to my Young(er) Self by Cinder • nohtâwiy miyo-âcimow by Regina Dentata • Geographies of Forced Displacement, Geographies of Violence (ink drawing) by Cinder • thank you thank you thank yous!

you can grab a copy over here! or shoot an email to [email protected] if you would like give less or more $$, have questions, or online ordering isn't an option for you! xo c