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Title: Zines Explore Transgender Culture Beyond Stereotypes
Post by: LostInTime on December 19, 2006, 08:43:32 AM
Post by: LostInTime on December 19, 2006, 08:43:32 AM
Link (http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/44986/)
Fortunately, another rapidly growing sector of the media is stepping up to broaden and complicate the picture: print zines. A huge range of publications are devoted to trans issues, each of which may include editorials, poetry, art, fiction, interviews, even musical compositions. Trans-focused zines have been steadily multiplying in recent years.
Why? As public interest in gender variance increases, it's important to show that it's about people -- not simply newsworthy phenomena -- said Red Durkin, who produces four zine series and tours with the ->-bleeped-<- Roadshow, a traveling group of performers, artists, and writers.
Fortunately, another rapidly growing sector of the media is stepping up to broaden and complicate the picture: print zines. A huge range of publications are devoted to trans issues, each of which may include editorials, poetry, art, fiction, interviews, even musical compositions. Trans-focused zines have been steadily multiplying in recent years.
Why? As public interest in gender variance increases, it's important to show that it's about people -- not simply newsworthy phenomena -- said Red Durkin, who produces four zine series and tours with the ->-bleeped-<- Roadshow, a traveling group of performers, artists, and writers.