ALL OF MY FRIENDSHIPS ARE ONLINE NOW. ALL OF THE ART IS ONLINE NOW. ALL OF OUR LIVES ARE ONLINE NOW.
But it’s okay !
Communities are online :) Creation is online :)
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And this zine is also online ! :)
Showcasing the things the QTPOC community has been working on in quarantine.
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CONTRIBUTORS:
Wil Arends @WW1L
India Chudnow @INDIA.ROSE and Josh Globke @JOSH_ZWEI
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Mikaela Figueroa @MAMACITA.MIKA
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Myra Khan @EXISTENTIALISTQUEEN
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Michael Marting @NOISEMEAN
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Vic Perez-Carranza @DIVINE_THEMININE
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Brennan Richards @BRENNAN_RICHARDS
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Harshini Venkatachalam @HXRSHINI
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Mary Violet @MARYYVIOLETT
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Melenie D. Warner @MELENIEDALES
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Elli Danowski-Underiner @CITRUS_BOY
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Wil Arends @WW1L
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India Chudnow @INDIA.ROSE and Josh Globke @JOSH ZWEI
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India Chudnow @INDIA.ROSE and Josh Globke @JOSH_ZWEI
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India Chudnow @INDIA.ROSE and Josh Globke @JOSH ZWEI
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India Chudnow @INDIA.ROSE and Josh Globke @JOSH_ZWEI
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India Chudnow @INDIA.ROSE and Josh Globke @JOSH ZWEI
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Elli Danowski-Underiner @CITRUS_BOY_
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Elli Danowski-Underiner @CITRUS_BOY_
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Mikaela Figueroa @MAMACITA.MIKA
MUS TACHE DRABBLE “Am I doing this? Why am I doing this?” I asked this mainly to myself but also to my group of friends barely awake on our Discord voice call. Snip. Snip. Snip. One of my friends sniffed. “Performance art?” I rolled another string of glue residue from my arm and tossed it aside. Of the many things quarantine brought, I didn’t think that me bent over my bathroom vanity with a disheveled tuft of hair from an old Halloween wig, a barely functional hot glue gun, and an old dollar store gag mustache prop would have been one of the scenes from my life. But it was and here I was, effectively giving the gag mustache plastic surgery so as to make it look
more realistic and less like a flattened clump of yarn. So far, the surgery was going well. As I inevitably burnt my fingertips with the glue and singed the cheap wig fibers, my thoughts couldn’t help but wander as I giggled yet again at the 2am theatrics. Was this an attempt to get back into costuming? Was it, as my
friend suggested, simply a wacky art piece for the sake of art? Was it simply the least “productive” thing I could find to do? Was it my attempt at gaining control over something, anything in my increasingly out -of-control life? CYBERNETIC FAM JULY 2020
Well? Why was I thinking about any of this anyways? It was just a bit of fun and a little gag mustache. A damn perfect gag mustache.
Myra Khan @EXISTENTIALISTQUEEN
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Michael Marting @NOISEMEAN
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Michael Marting @NOISEMEAN
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A SPRING MORNING. MY MOM GLANCING UP AT THE FLOWERING YUCCA SAID SHE REMEMBERED HER MOTHER, NOW PASSED, ONCE SAID WHILE VISITING OUR HOME THAT YOU COULD EAT THE FLOWERS, SAUTEED WITH OIL AND A LITTLE SALT. MY MOM SAID SHE HAD NEVER HAD THIS DISH AND WASN’T SURE HOW IT WAS MADE.
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I DID RESEARCH. FLOR DE IZOTE, OR FLOR DE YUCA. AN INDIGENOUS COOKING INGREDIENT, THE NATIONAL FLOWER OF EL SALVADOR. EATEN IN THE SOUTHERN REGIONS OF THE “”NEW WORLD””. I WATCHED WOMEN ON YOUTUBE, CASUALMENTE PLATICAN WHILE CLEANING THE FLOWERS. I CRIED THINKING, THE INTERNET IS NOW MY GRANDMOTHER. I WATCHED THESE BROWN WOMEN OF ALL AGES, HANDS ADEPT FROM REPETITION, TEACHING ME WHAT MY OWN NANA COULD NOT BEFORE SHE WAS AFFLICTED WITH FORGETFULNESS AND AGE. 13
Vic Perez-Carranza @DIVINETHEMININE
I TRIED TO CLEAN MY FLORES THE SAME WAY, BUT MY HANDS WERE CLUMSY. REMINDED ME OF WHEN MY MOM AND I TRY TRY TRY TO MAKE TORTILLAS. SHE ALWAYS SAYS HER MOM KNEW HOW TO MAKE THEM JUST RIGHT. BUT NOW THAT KNOWLEDGE IS LOST FOREVER. HERE’S TO HOPING MI CULTURA PUEDE SOBREVIVIR IN CYBERSPACE. SOPITA CON FLOR DE IZOTE:
BOIL DRIED CHILES (ANCHO Y PASILLA) IN ENOUGH WATER TO COVER FIFTEEN OR SO MINUTES.
SAUTEE ONIONS, GARLIC, BELL PEPPERS, TOMATOES ON LOW HEAT UNTIL ONIONS ARE CLEAR. BLEND WITH CHILES AND CHILE WATER TO MAKE SOUP BASE.
DICE POTATOES, ADD TO LARGE OLLA WITH BLENDED SOUP BASE.
ADD SPICES (CUMIN, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, OREGANO, PAPRIKA, CAYENNE} AND COOK UNTIL POTATOES ARE SOFT.
ADD FLOR DE IZOTE LAST, COOK UNTIL TENDER.
SERVE OVER RICE.
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Vic Perez-Carranza @DIVINETHEMININE
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Brennan Richards @BRENNAN_RICHARDS
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Harshini Venkatacham @HXRSHINI
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Mary Violet @MARYYVIOLETT
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Mary Violet @MARYYVIOLETT
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Melenie D. Warner @MELENIEDALES
THANKS FOR COMING. THANKS FOR CONTRIBUTING.
SEE YOU ALL NEXT TIME.
<3 ABRAZOS, CYBER FAM
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