What is a zine?

A zine is a do-it-ourselves,publication. It is an independently published pamphlet or booklet that is used to spread ideas, messages, and voices. It is what we make it!

Check out this link for more info on zines: http://grrrlzines.net/about.htm,

Why are we making a Texas Queer Youth Zine?

• To create a mosaic vision of what WE want Texas to be for queer youth
• To share the changes we want to see in our schools and communities
• To create a platform for queer youth around the state to connect, unite, share experiences, combat isolation, and exchange activist tools and resources
• To compile and amplify the voices and stories of Texas' amazing queer youth, and increase visibility of the diversity within our communities

Who should submit?

If you identify as queer, questioning, trans, genderqueer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, allied, or anything in between, and you are a youth in Texas, make your voice heard!

If you are a part of a high school or middle school GSA club, your club can submit something together, or you can submit something as a member of your club.

We welcome all of the experiences and identities that exist within Texas' queer youth communities, especially voices of queer youth of color, trans and gender-nonconforming youth, queer youth with disabilities, queer immigrant youth, and queer youth from low-income backgrounds.

What should we submit?

Zines are free-form publications. They include everything from collage to poetry, cartoons to rants, how to's to manifestos, stories to chants to.... whatever you can dream up. Tell us something about you, about your community, or about making change. Share tools, ideas, visions that will be useful to other youth. Express yourself in whatever way feels most powerful or real to you!

We'll even be accepting audio, to publish in an online version -- so feel free to send your voice along, too.

Where do we send our submissions?

By email to zine@texasgsa.org, or by snail mail to Texas GSA Network, Re: Zine, 909 E. 49 1/2 Street, Austin, TX 78751.

Include the following information:

• Your name (if you don't feel comfortable publishing your name, let us know if there is another name you would like your submission published under or if you would like it published anonymously)
• Your age
• Your hometown
• Your mailing address (only if its safe for us to send a final copy of the zine there)

• If you are in a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance or Gender & Sexuality Alliance club), what is the name of your school?
• One place in your town or city where you would like to see the zine distributed, once it is finished (think coffee shops, bookstores, art spaces, youth spaces, community centers).

PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS BY FEBRUARY 15, 2012

For more information, go to www.texasqueeryouthzine.weebly.com!