International Girl Gang Underground

Aimée Argote of Des Ark on the labor of DIY & playing in a band

Read more at the Des Ark blog!

i was reared in the DIY scene, which empowers us to believe that with a little bit of bravery we can pretty much make this world as beautiful as we want. we can take care to build something that sustains our communities by bringing the focus back to the act of creating, the process, rather than the product…

…i think this band has provided legitimate proof that you can be a queer ass freak, a woman, a feminist, a survivor, you can be all of these things—fearlessly—& still find your voice.

Thanks to our friend Rachel Rubino (of Bridge & Tunnel) for sharing this with us!

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I just published an outdated call for donations from OOMK (One of My Kind) zine because I was so excited to find it in our submissions inbox. I took IGGU over to England this past March, and collaborated with the women behind OOMK to organize a Feminist Tea in London.

A bit about OOMK:

One of My Kind is a highly visual, handcrafted small-press publication. Our content largely pivots upon the imaginations, creativity and spirituality of women.

While OOMK welcomes contributions from women of diverse ethnic and spiritual backgrounds we are especially keen to be inclusive of Muslim women.

Visually, we are explorative and have a dreamy aesthetic. We use tactile paper, hand illustrated embellishments, collage and lomography.

We are Sofia Niazi, Sabba Khan and Rose Nordin.

Check out OOMK ONLINE or IN PRINT.

2 weeks ago 0 Notes

OOMK Zine

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OOMK zine is nearly here but we need a little help to get it on its way! Featuring the work of 25 women OOMK is set to be a highly visual small press publication. The zine explores the imaginations, creativity and spirituality of women and our first issue is packed with activist and feminist work from a range of different women.

We’re really keen to share the thoughts of young active, creative women, especially Muslim women, like ourselves, who don’t really get heard. We’ve finished putting issue 1 together and its looking great, but we need to raise £800 to get 300 copies printed. We’ve set up this fundraising page to help us reach our target: http://www.pleasefund.us/projects/oomk-zine. OOMK is a submissions based zine and future issues will be open to all to submit work! Please help spread the word!

www.oomk.net

https://www.facebook.com/oomkZine

https://twitter.com/oomkzine

xx

2 weeks ago 0 Notes

rock-n-roll-cosmology asked: Is this page still active?

We’ve been on hiatus for awhile for personal reasons. To see what we’ve been up to lately, check out our Facebook page!

Thanks for asking, though, and we’re getting back to our ask box, and more tumbl-in’, right now!

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[ photo taken at the unveiling of the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collection ]

OMG. Girl Gang. We just checked our ask box and there are so many amazing messages from you that we haven’t been getting. Mega apologies. We hear you. And we love you.

2 weeks ago 1 Notes

Rookie Mag: Rock of Ages

girlganggigvolume:

Girl Gang Gig Volume is featured in this great article about booking all ages shows in Rookie Mag! Thanks to Anna Fitzpatrick for including us.

10 months ago 7 Notes

EXTENDED DEADLINE: DONATE TO THE CLITFEST SILENT AUCTION, DUE JUNE 24

clitfestnb:

clitfestnb:

Extended Deadline!! June 24th! We are in need of artists for our silent auction! Paintings, photography, needlework, decoupage! Make it queer, make it safe, make it fat, make it hairy! All proceeds go to Women Aware!! If you are local jersey folk and can not make it to the post office I will PICK IT UP AT. YO. HOUSE!!
EMAIL ME! laurendgil@gmail.com Let’s brainstorm!
~Lauren

ALSO PLEASE REBLOG THIS, WE NEED TO GET THE WORD OUT!

This is only a few days away!

12 months ago 11 Notes

3 days left to donate artwork to CLIT Fest New Brunswick’s silent auction.

clitfestnb:

Hey y’all! Don’t forget, if you want to get involved by donating your art to the silent auction you have five (yes 5!) days to let us know!! Contact Lauren or Marissa at clitfesthubcity@gmail.com

1 year ago 19 Notes

Support your local GIRL GANG.

(Source: girlgangzine, via emtothethird)

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SUBMIT TO GIRLGANGUNDERGROUND.ORG

So here we are, girlgangunderground.org is now officially ours again. As Stacy mentioned a little while ago, we are undergoing major changes here at IGGU, and we want your input.

We are looking for a few good writers / artists (of ALL kinds) / list-makers / reviewers / et cetera. Yes, this means YOU! In the spirit of zine-ing, you need no “official” experience, but of course we’d like to see samples from your personal zines or blogs on IGGU-related topics.

For a bit about what we’re looking for, here’s the original call for submissions:

International Girl Gang Underground is going to exist largely on the internet for the near future. While we’ll be getting all of the print material from Issue 1 transferred here, we are accepting brand new content online. There is a submit tab that you can use, as well, please e-mail us (girlgangunderground at gmail dot com) if you’d like to contribute regularly. We’ll be getting in touch with past contributors to the physical zine in the coming weeks.

We are super excited for the future, and for you to join the Gang!

With love & solidarity,
Kate Wadkins
Editor in Chief

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