MODERN VENUS [PREVIEW]

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a collaborative zine




modern venus modern venus is a cross-zine collaborative project on love, loss, and relationships in the digital era. as modern venus touches on themes of sexual identity and liberation, all profits for this zine go directly to the funding of planned parenthood here in the united states. this project is also run through the creative zine coalition (CZC), a philanthropic, non-profit zine community dedicated to creating a connected community of independent publications while also using art as a tool for activism. thank you to all the incredible creatives who have helped bring this zine from the screen to the page - their dedication, artistry, and tenacity to this project is what truly encapsulates what modern venus is all about.

editor-in-chief + art director czc co-founders contributors

savannah eden bradley shelby brown + savannah eden bradley alex comeau kaitlin browne

adele lukusa lauren hunt lua portugal chloĂŤ lalonde zoie harmon hannah adelle zerkalou payge stanley

kreena taluban elodie graf kari lau simone timol lizzy yarwood cia mangat cecelia connelly anna skahill

www.creativezinecoalition.com


contents 05

PERFECT VIOLET 10

WITHIN MY OWN HEAD 14

HARD CANDY 24

GENERATIONAL SYNTHETIC 28

SELF-LOVE 32

RAFFY 61

PARTY GIRL photo by lua portugal


a playlist for sometimes / by your side / to be alone with you / mi negrita / where do you go to (my lovely) / just like honey / this must be the place / heaven's on fire / how can i tell him / step / if she wants me / fade into you / space song / from eden / 01


a poem by lizzy yarwood

Two peeps meet say sweet things maybe they’ll be the other’s baby blush to say they met on bumble bramble thorns because we’ve sworn to ourselves for centuries that spontaneous meets are the foundations of love from which fountains of romance spout for a mo can we go to the dire straits of dumb dates where I leave feeling grim and glum forced conversations clots of casual sexism never ever wanting to kiss this is taking the piss sticking my neck out can make me sick it’s not always a laughing matter matey mating dating hating

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photo by lua portugal

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piece by zoie harmon

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by shelby brown

Everyone deserves some type of love,

It's like you need someone to take all of that from

companionship, reassurance, closure, etc. and

you so they feel the affects of the overflow and

when you have all those things to offer, it becomes

can hold it, hopefully carefully, because who

overwhelming as to who you choose to give it to--

knows, you may be one of the many or few

like you just want to give it all away already but

people who genuinely wants the best and the

you're still cautious and conscious of who you

greatest for someone you find a deep interest in,

choose to give it all to because it's still definitely

for the someone you think is totally worth it, but

treasurable, precious and special, especially

only if it's reciprocated-- it's best when it's

coming from someone like you-- someone who's

reciprocated-- nothing is more beautiful than the

lonesome but maintains wholesome and is working

deepest and best of feelings and intentions being

to keep it that way, so they have the ability to fall

a two way street-- and it's actually kind of

for someone but remain standing-- their ground--

difficult to vocalize your wishes and hopes when

like-- in selfishness, you just want to make someone

people don’t know what you're capable of the

feel important because those few times-- enough

things you plan to pursue, especially when it's a

to count on one hand-- that you felt important, it

side you don't like to expose or don't really think

felt riveting, it felt worth it, sweet, gracious, pure,

it's necessary to expose, especially to people

filling, etc.-- it's not a means of bragging but

who don’t need to worry about it-- so you do

acknowledging your good qualities in such a

welcome everything with open arms, an open

sensitive but overplayed subject-- and this is also

mind and an open heart because you want

where you tell yourself to hold back knowing how

someone to get a sense of who you are in that

you have mixed emotions and lost control of

way, what you have to offer, what you can do,

wearing your heart on your fucking sleeve-- defying

how you act, think, feel, speak, and all that lies in

the modern day view of love and it's signs and

between-- and you can't and won't force yourself

qualifications, you continue to love the way you

into someone's liking (changing yourself for

naturally and purely do, no classes or sweet talk

someone) -- find someone who will admire ,

required-- it's all you.

adore, and appreciate you deeply-- I fucking know, I know you crave it

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"black love" - piece by adele lukusa

so bad and even when you think you've found it, patience and time will always benefit you.

With a life that you're living it's essential to meet and come across a ton of people, because we fill the voids and spaces of this planet so we come across and interact with one another, and to come across one person of the many you've faced, and find something special in them is certainly beautiful and to want affection, attention, appreciation, admiration, love, care, and all that quintessential shit is perfectly okay to want and crave and feel and have as if we are all here for a while and so why not connect with someone deeply in the midst of literally everything-- plus, actually you may not be able to control it, to handle it, to stop yourself so your mind controls it‌

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piece by zoie harmon


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