zine Contributors

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This zine is a collaboration of BIPOCs living in the diaspora, including those displaced from their ancestral homes to colonial land (settlers and those living in the belly of the beast AKA the UK) and those displaced even while still in their ancestral home. As our experience with our connections to land varies greatly there isn’t a simple way to sum us up. The zine, however, was devised and printed by Good Night Out Vancouver so we’re including their Land Acknowledgement:

 We carry out our work on the occupied and unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh people. As a feminist anti-violence project and as settlers, we are committed to unpacking the links between colonialism and all forms of violence and oppression, as well as making space in our work to call attention to the continuing colonial Genocide that is non-consensual land occupation and resource extraction, and the ongoing and unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and 2Spirit people (MMIWG2S). 

Steve Radford

Steve Radford is a survivor of the opioid crisis in Vancouver and recovered from Hep C. He was homelessness of more than 20 years. With the help of Vancouver Native Housing he found housing and got on methadone. He has now moved back to Edmonton, Alberta, where he has weaned himself off methadone and now has a renovation company and work truck with his best friend, who also came from the streets of East Van. They also help care for his elderly parents.

Jael de la Luz

Jael de la Luz (she/her) is a writer, editor, book lover and craft maker activist (Fanzines and Collages). Her approach from intersectional feminism, anti-racist practices and non-binary knowledge, nourishes her work and workshops. She is part of the Spanish Reading Book Club in The Feminist Library. She writes “Militancias” on Feminopraxis, a Mexican online magazine for migrant, binary and women of colour from the global south.

In*ter*is*land Collective

In*ter*is*land Collective is a queer, tagata Moana (Pacific, Oceanic people) arts/creative/activist group based in London, UK and Aotearoa (New Zealand). We seek to connect and collaborate with our communities across the vast moana that all of our moku (island) call home. We prioritise tagata Moana world views, philosophies and knowledge - we believe our art and cultural practices can be a vehicle to dismantle systems of oppression and reimagine liberated futures.

Cynthia Rodríguez Juárez

Cynthia Rodríguez Juárez is a British-Mexican writer, poet, artist and performer living and working in liminal states. Her debut poetry collection, Meanwhile, was published in 2020 by Burning Eye Books.

For more work, writings, and videos, visit cynthiarodriguez.org

Varsha,Okong’o and Ava

Varsha, Okong’o and Ava are a group of creatives focused on feminism and social justice. Their educational roots are in Squamish, BC, where they studied the nexus of their individual academic and artistic passions at Quest University Canada. As recent alumni, they are now exploring ways to turn their activism and art into full-time careers.

www.varshagill.com www.ava-music.net www.instagram.com/okongokinyanju

Maya Bhardwaj

Maya Bhardwaj (she/they) is a community organiser, facilitator, trainer, researcher, musician, and artist. She is originally from Detroit and Bangalore but has scattered her heart across Bombay, New York, Mexico City, and now London, where she has been based for the past year at SOAS, studying queer activism in the South Asian diaspora in solidarity with Black liberation in the UK and the US. IG / twitter: @mbhardwaj

Jon Bellebono

Jon Bellebono is a London-based queer Asian community organiser and writer, as well as a fashionista receptionist by day. They’re interested in trans and queer Southeast Asian identities, the connection between queerness and grief, femmeness, reality tv, and a lot more -and love facilitating spaces, content and conversations surrounding these topics.

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Lillie Aissa

Lillie Aissa is a 20-year-old French-Tunisian creative based in London, UK and Lancaster. Exploring the personal, political and spiritual, Lillie dabbles in uni work, filmmaking, writing and creating music. Instagram @forestfemmme

Sunitha

Sunitha (she/they) is a genderqueer pansexual South Asian person living in the UK missing the queer nightlife of the pre-pandemic world and hoping it’ll be a space of inclusion in the future. Blogs about her lived experience of mental health illnesses during Covid-19 and has spent a lot of this pandemic time, focusing on activism particularly on the rights of undocumented and insecure migrants. In her downtime, she loves to catch up with friends on the phone and now in real life, read books and sometimes just sleep the day away.