Been buying a lot of things from Housmans recently. It was nice to pop by the 'zine box and see #5 of Athemaura on front display!
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More zine making activity recently!
Creativity and culture and politics are central to my life and inform my ways of living, and that shouldn't be attacked as wrong or odd, and it certainly oughtn't to be viewed as selfish or lazy, either, that makes no sense! So this was my way of vocalising about me not being conventional and not appreciating assumptions/conventions being imposed on me. I also broach labels/labelling and to have/have not and what feels to me like 'comparison culture'. The seventh issue of my perzine, Athemaura, is finished, and I have printed a few copies.
I might actually change the binding, in keeping with my every-issue-every-cover-is-different approach. I will shortly be putting it for sale on my Etsy. This issue covers my personal highlights of 2012, many of which are zine-related successes, like tabling for the first time, giving a zine talk, hosting an event, but also I have written about my job, new friendships, newspaper coverage for the community garden project I was involved in. All decorated in cut and paste style, presented in A5 landscape-read format. This is a mini zine, so costs less to buy than normal sized issues. Just a little mention of my most recent 'zines. Issues 5 and 6 of Athemuara were made in the latter part of 2012. Here are some descriptions. Issue #5 of my personal zine/perzine Athemaura has a colour cover (with a baby fox on!), featuring personal writing on how much I love library work, feeling more comfortable/content with myself/life as I get older, thoughts on image, keeping a memory box, quick vegetarian recipes, concern for closure of so many independent shops/cafes/pubs and libraries I am fond of, secret green spaces of London, favourite happy moments, recently loved music, and more. It is decorated lovingly with collage style. Issue #6 of Athemaura features thoughts on hosting my first zine event, zine community, Stuart Hall zine library in London, visiting Karl Marx Memorial Library, charity shops as places of treasure, collecting zines/fanzines and cataloguing them (and wanting to start my own zine library!), and more, all lovingly made with collages of pictures/images. This issue's front cover is yellow and reversible - choose from stars and butterflies! I keep my prices as low as I can. Cheaper to buy through me direct - in person, or via post or Paypal. But I do have a selection of my 'zines on Etsy too. If you don't know of my 'zine - Athemaura was started by me in 2008. Personal writing has always been important to me. I had stopped making 'zines for some time, but since the London 'Zine Symposium began in 2005, and since discovering distros online such as Marching Stars, I fell in love with the creative process all over again. I never feel I can subscribe to a set style of 'zine, nor with content, and I am assertive about making this 'zine truly my own way regardless of trends and formats that quite often dominate the more widely covered/available zines and zine culture that seem to set definitions of how a 'zine ought to be. Some themes I regularly write about are campaigning for libraries, vegetarianism, nature, discrimination/prejudice in various forms, and female perspectives. Each issue, I take a different creative approach to the front cover; the 'zine is also not presented in a standard way, being that it is A5 sized but the text is to be read landscape rather than portrait. |
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