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Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison get to play Midwest hostesses to 7 touring queer zinesters. Demos represented among the authors are the jewsies, fat black females, gender neutral pronounzes, bi-racial musicians, and of course my gayz. I’m loving that in the age of dying print publications, the purveyors of tangible, DIY magazines are forced to make their product even MORE special than they already are. It’s a testament to the art form of collectible archives, whether for the bathroom or coffee table, this is sure to be a unique and valuable tour, hopefully the first of more. Dates and venues below, full roster bios after the jump.

*CHICAGO*
Thursday, July 30th – 7pm
Uncle Fun Gallery
1337 W. Belmont

*MILWAUKEE*
Friday, July 31st – 7pm
Cream City Collectives
732 E. Clark

*MADISON*
Saturday, August 1st – 5pm
OutReach
600 Williamson St.

Dave Fried is a twenty nine year old queer Jewish man. He has been
writing zines since the early ’90s and has been putting out Black
Carrot since ’04. He also plays drums in the queerpunk band Bromance.
He enjoys the finer things in life, such as black metal, ice beers,
and bear porn.

Kisha Hope is a fat, queer, black, female-identified individual
currently living in Chicago. She started writing zines when she was
15, the first being “butt fat”. She recently co-wrote a zine with her
partner, Dave (Black Carrot), about their house-buying experience
(Fort Mortgage).She is currently working on a new zine about her
personal story of child sexual abuse and just finished the first issue
of A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, LIFE. It’s sort of a
biomythography zine about growing up fat, poor, awkward, and black.She
collects zines about body acceptance, fat girls, queer love, or bikes.

Milo Miller has been making zines since the late 1990s. Zis two
longest series are Mutate (1998-2006) and Gendercide. In addition ze’s
self-published SoyBoi – Queer Adventures In My Vegetarian Kitchen,
Peulah Shaveh Chayim (Action = Life) and most recently Heavy Mayo. Ze
is also one of the co-founders of QZAP, the Queer Zine Archive
Project. Milo currently lives in Milwaukee with zis partner-in-crime
and their pet rock Nigel.

Kelly Shortandqueer has been making friends laugh with anecdotes about
his life for years. He brings this candid storytelling style of
performance to this queer zine tour, entertaining audiences with his
honesty and humor. He has been publishing his zine series,
shortandqueer, since August 2004. He was one of the co-founders of
both the Denver Zine Library (which houses over 9,000 zines) and
Tranny Roadshow (a performance art tour with an all transgender cast).
He currently lives in Denver and works as the Director of Advocacy for
the Colorado Anti-Violence Program.

Jessica Max Stein is a writer and unschooling teacher living in
Brooklyn, NY. Her current zine, “The Rainbow Connection,” is about gay
Muppeteer Richard Hunt. Previous zines include “The Long Walk Back to
Myself,” about her fifty-mile walk from Brooklyn to Croton-on-Hudson;
and “Mad Love,” about radical mental health. When not writing or
watching Muppets, she is taking absurdly long walks, practicing
gratitude and chasing girls.

John Thompson is a queer white/latino/mixed musician, writer, and
activist currently living in Chicago. He writes the zine Gone to the
Moon, plays drums in the pop-punk sensation Everything is Ruined, and
also plays guitar in the queer punk band Bromance. He is also involved
in the Write to Win Collective, which is a prisoner correspondence
project in coordination with the Transformative Justice Law Project of
Illinois that matches up transgender, transsexual, queer, and gender
non-conforming prisoners to be penpals with similarly identified folks
on the outside.

Christopher Wilde is the co-founder of The Queer Zine Archive Project,
creator of the zines Abrupt Lane Edge, Wicked Wipeout, and others. For
four years, he reviewed queer zines for Milwaukee based Queer Life
News. In September 2009, he will be an artist in residence at The
Anchor Zine Library and Archive in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he’ll
curate SPEW Fo(u)rth: A Canadian Queer Zine Art Show which will be
displayed both there and at The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in
Toronto.

http://www.qzap.org