#informational zine

[42-clocks]

💚 a zine on aromanticism 💚

^an informational zine on aromanticism I made for Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week

feel free to share/print!

(pages and image IDs after the break)

Image ID 1: the front and back cover. The front cover reads, “informational zine — Aromantic: What Does That Mean? — by Peter Z.”

there are two simple arrow shapes between lines of the text pointing in opposite directions.

The middle of the page has a long stripe with the colors of the aromantic flag, which extends to the back cover. the back cover side lists what each of the colors represent: green — aromanticism; light green — the aromantic spectrum; white — platonic and aesthetic attraction; gray — gray-romanticism and demi-romanticism; black — the sexuality spectrum.

The back page reads, “more resources!

TAAAP.org

Aro Spec Week.com

gsrc.princeton.edu (SAM)

aromanticism.org (AUREA)

Elizabeth Brake (aromanticism)

Aggressively Aro Spec Tumblr

Aromantic Guide.com”

End text. Two gray silhouettes of lily flowers act as embellishment. End ID 1.

Image ID 2: pages 1 and 2 of the zine.

Page 1: “Aromantic — or just ‘aro’ for short — refers to someone who experiences little to no romantic attraction to anyone — or experiences it in a different way than others. Alloromantic is the opposite — one who does have romantic attraction.” The text is green and dark teal with light green boarders around the sections.

Page 2: small letters says “this might help to understand” and arrow points to the title “Split Attraction Model” — “a way of understanding attraction by separating it into types: sexual, romantic, platonic, alterous, aesthetic, etc.

“Sexual Orientations: bisexual, heterosexual, asexual. Romantic Orientations: biromantic, heteroromantic, aromantic. — sometimes they match, sometimes they don’t! Words like biromantic and heteroromantic commonly refer to both S. O. and R. O.” End ID 2.

Image ID 3: pages 3 and 4.

Page 3: titled “A-spec Community”. Below is a Venn diagram, the left circle labeled “aro”, the right circle “ace”, the overlap space “aro ace”, this is all within a larger circle labeled “a-spec”.

“Aromantic is not the same as Asexual (little to no Sexual Attraction to anyone at all). The identities and communities are related but distinct”

Page 4: titled “Myths” with dark teal flower silhouettes on either side. Myths include “hates all romance, childish “late bloomer”, not LGBTQ+, unemotional, wants to be alone, can’t be in a relationship, afraid of commitment, can’t also be gay/hetero/etc” End ID 3.

Image ID 4: pages 5 and 6.

Page 5: “Are you aro? some common experiences: made up crushes, flirting doesn’t make sense, hard to identify romantic feelings, dating isn’t a priority, don’t like romance heavy media, dating because you’re “supposed to”, rarely if ever “fall in love”, don’t have celebrity crushes. *these are not exclusive to aros though!”

Page 6: the top of the page has the shape of an umbrella, the text inside reads “the Aromantic umbrella”. The body has four microlabel examples;

“Gray-romantic — romantic attraction rarely or weakly.” Next to it is a small rectangular flag with 5 horizontal stripes: green, gray, white, gray, green.

“Demi-romantic — romantic attraction only after a bond has formed.” Rectangular flag with a wide white stripe, narrow green, and wide gray stripe, and a black triangle on the left side.

“Allo-aro — allosexual and aromantic, no romantic attraction, has sexual attraction.” Rectangular flag with even horizontal stripes: green, light green, white, yellow, dark yellow.

“Aro-ace — aromantic and asexual, no romantic or sexual attraction.” Rectangular flag with even stripes: orange, yellow, white, light blue, dark blue. End ID.

[asexualasshat]

I just think that at some point following S3, before S4, Robin brings up the concept of zines. About how she heard of them vaguely, and kinda knows how to get her hands of them, but can’t have them delivered to her house because she’s not ready for the prospect of her parents finding them. So Steve, naturally, offers to have them mailed to his place. It’s not like his parents are home, so it’s a no brainer. And a month or two later, the first zine arrives. He never opens them, saves them for Robin. It delights her. She talks about them with Steve. And months pass. More zines arrive and are mailed back. The events of S4 happens, and Eddie is quite literally dragged out of hell. And everything isn’t fine but it’s okay. And one day Steve is at his place, alone for once, and he’s awfully bored. He’s all up in everyone’s business, yes. But he does not touch private things. And the zines? Those are for Robin. She can share what she likes with him, but they’re for her. Except, he’s terribly horribly bored and for once, he’s alone. And the zine that came in the mail 3 days ago is sitting on his desk. And it can’t hurt to take a little look, right? So he does. And he recognizes some things that Robin had told him about, but other things are new. Perhaps they didn’t resonate with her, so she didn’t feel the need to add them to her already hours long ramblings. But as Steve is reading, something starts to click. And at first it’s just a ‘huh, that’s interesting’ and then it’s a ‘oh shift’ now he’s gone from ‘I’m trying to be a supportive ally to my best friend so I’m gonna educate myself’ directly to “Robin, we need to talk. I read your zine and now I’m kinda gay”

[monstersinthecosmos]

I don't have time to get into this right now and I'm happy to expand on it later when I have a minute to sit down, but: Do not give your money to zines runs by antis.

Do not participate in zines run by antis.

Do not trust people who have never participated in your fandom until they show up trying to make money off of you.

ZINE DRAMA is not ~fandom drama~. Zines are independent small businesses. Any time money is exchanged, you risk sharing your legal name. Any time physical media is purchased to be mailed, you share your home address.

Do not trust antis with your personal information. It is not safe.

I really try not to engage in drama and bullshit on here because I think it's irresponsible and wastes everyones time, but when this type of money and personal safety is involved I think it's absolutely crucial to be aware of it. This is not drama, it's very basic safety.

Especially in this fucking fandom, with its history. There is a reason we have not had zines, and they would know that if they actually spent time here before trying to monetize your work. I say this due to their handling of it and also in case fandom folks around here don't have zine experience and don't know what red flags to look for, since we haven't had any. There is a mature and responsible way to navigate this new territory and this is absolutely not it.

[trustyalt]

i feel bad for not posting as much so sneak peek at fakemon stuff im working on idk why im making an animation before ive even made a ref sheet but oh you know

[sircrocodilezine]

[Contributor Spotlight]

Give it up for our next guest artist, @humans-are-tasty ! 🐊

[iamyelling]

Hi all! I recently came across this zine all about Testosterone by Rena Yehuda. I found it really helpful and informative and also asks some great questions about what research is needed! I found it helpful as someone who recently started taking T, and I also think it can be helpful for people thinking about it, who've been on T for years, or if you know someone who is thinking about it. Just a great resource. Check it out. It's free to download!

The Testosterone Survey Zine is a 60-page community health art project compiling the results of a nearly-400 person survey documenting the experiences of people medically transitioning on testosterone. A seven month labor of love and the only resource of its kind, this zine features analysis and trans-joy illustrations by Rena Yehuda Newman, illuminating the qualitative data of hundreds of transmasculine people.

This zine is a public health art project designed to empower people transitioning on testosterone with knowledge, help us ask vital questions about our bodies and needs, and hopefully, make us all feel a little less alone. This zine was also designed for doctors, educators, therapists, and all those who care for transgender people to learn more about our experiences, struggles, and needs as they relate to medical transition using testosterone.

This zine is always free or donation for download. The information belong to the community.

[violetscarnationszine]

How To Fold A Zine

One of the wonderful parts of mini-zines is that they can be easily created and reproduced by anyone with access to a printer. Here's a guide on how to fold one!

Source:

[fanzines]

'Public Enemy Information' is a zine made by rapper Chuck D in 1987. These images were tweeted out by him in 2019.

[lacefuneral]

excerpts from "Fucking Trans Women" by Mira Bellweather

[toxiccaves]

you know, i want to stay positive and believe that it'll be fine because there's definitely more people in the world that know that pr0sh!pp3r nonsense is used to groom children and is reprehensible. and I know a lotta kids these days know better too, or have people who reach out to them if they don't.

but how many of the kids online that aren't "trendy" or don't post content or lack social skills get completely ignored, or have no one in their online spaces around to help keep them safe? There is so much propaganda and manipulated language being used by these people to groom children and make even adults think it's fine to do, and I just don't know how we can be there to protect every kid who needs it online. it is so repulsive to me how abundant this kinda thing is in every fanbase. all i can think to say is if you see a minor online interacting with it, always try to reach out to keep them safe. maybe take time to talk about it every once in a while.

the way i was publicly preyed upon on this website when i was 14-17 and no one said anything has still left its scars and I don't want any other child to go through that too.

[studentfilm-mhzine]

News.

We are extending our Artist Applications!

And... we are opening Writers Apps, yes, both applications are now open, until Oct 18.

Here's the new schedule!

And...

ARTIST APPS | WRITER APPS

INFO DOC

[broadsandbroadswords]

Hi everyone! Thanks so much for an incredible sale period for Volume 2 of the Broads and Broadswords zine! We had a wonderful turnout, especially for during a bit of a recession, and cannot wait to get the zine printed and into your hands and hard drives.

We have a little bit longer to wait for PayPal to complete the payouts, because PayPal is gonna PayPal, and are anticipating that to be complete by mid-August. At that point, we'll order the hard copies from the printers, and hope to be shipping by mid-September (barring any print issues like we had in V1).

We're so excited to get this zine out, and to make another donation to the Transgender Law Center, which we couldn't have done without all of you. Thanks so much for your support!

[peachdoxie]

By the way, if you have zines (fanzines or otherwise) that you don't want to keep, consider donating them to a library! There are multiple libraries out there with large zine collections that would love to have your old zines! This goes double if they're for smaller fandoms, older, or specially bound in some way.

[omgzineplease]

Zine, Please! Vol. 2: #SwawesomeGreetings is accepting collaborative works!

As you might've heard already, sign-ups for our zine's second issue ''#SwawesomeGreetings'' have already started (Click here for the announcement post) . And as some of you may have noticed, this time we're allowing collaborative works between contributors! So we'd like to make a little post explaining how the collabs work (not to fear, it's as easy as pie, y'all)

How To Sign Up For Collabs

Decide who you will collab with. This can be a friend you know, a mutual, or even someone you find on our discord! Reach out to a creator you want to collab with and see if they'd be down to contribute with you. No worries if not, but hey you won't know 'till you try, right?

You'll each need to sign up separately. This means each member of the collab will have their own sign-up form.

On the sign-up form, include the name and preferred contact information of your collaborator.

And you're all set! All contributors will be contacted the day after sign-ups close. Check-ins will be done separately, but it'd be helpful if you kept each other up to date with any major decisions you each make.

Easy, right? Welp that's all for now, fellas. I'll see ya again next post. Bye!

-Mod Atlas 🧉

[sircrocodilezine]

[Pre-orders Open in 3 WEEKS]

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[aye-of-newt]

silco canonically supports using his child's chosen name. silco trans ally confirmed.