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illesecrita · 5 months

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From 1993 to 1995, [Mirha-Soleil] Ross and partner Xanthra Phillippa MacKay published gendertrash from hell, a quarterly zine which "[gave] a voice to gender queers, who've been discouraged from speaking out & communicating with each other". They managed the zine's publisher, genderpress, which also distributed other transsexual pamphlets and literature, corresponded with local organizations and sold buttons. In standard zine format, gendertrash was a combination of art, poetry, resource lists, serialized fiction, calls to action, classified ads, illustrations and collages and movie reviews. By and for transsexual, transgender and transvestite people, it addressed gender experiences at the individual and societal level and prioritized sex workers, low-income queers, trans people of colour and prisoners. Articles frequently addressed the erasure of transsexuals from lesbian, gay, bi and queer communities and the communities' co-opting of trans identities and issues. Four issues of gendertrash were published, and its run ended in 1995.

(“Dancing Wimmin” by Jeanne B [Mirha-Soleil Ross], from gendertrash issue #1, p. 9)

The Gendertrash from Hell zine issues on archive.org, link also contains the film Gender Troublemakers (1993)

Another link to the first issue (with the others in “related readings”, just below) this time on transreads.org

Wikipedia, genderoutlaws.tumblr.com, lgbtqdigitalcollaboratory.org.

#gendertrash from hell #mirha-soleil ross #xanthra philippa mackay #zines #trans #queer #film #gender troublemakers

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illesecrita · 6 months

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Couple things about me: I haven't been to many concerts, haven't been "used" to going to concerts, and nowadays I rarely feel the true need to see someone live. And right now this is my favourite video and, as shitty as the audio quality is, I'm basically mesmerized by the emotion of it, a combination of the sheer intimacy and closeness to the audience, and the song being what it is. And I'm about to pull a "come to Brazil" in the comments of the official instagram of a band that seems to only tour the us because I want to see them that badly and I want to literally die in the pit. There I said it

#another moment of me being down bad for a band!#but I can't stress enough. even with bands that id argue had a bigger pull on me i didn't feel this need to see them #there's just something about this kind of show i guess. and it's jueves

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illesecrita · 7 months

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