In our final episode, Zoe Thompson talks about how the fabulous sweet-thang zine draws on a long history of print activism from the riot girrrl movement to the Race Today Collective 🎙️

We loved recording this one!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts
liberatinghistories.org/podcast-series…

Such a pleasure chatting with the Liberating Histories team! So excited for this episode to be out - go have a listen! 🎧🎙

More than 600 visitors joined the Bodleian’s annual Zine Fair at Weston Library on Saturday 24 February!

Blackwell Hall was full of discussion, making, selling and sharing.

Pictured: sweet-thang zine

The 2024 #BodZineFair is this Saturday!

Enjoy:
- an intro by Adam Smyth (Prof. English Lit. University of Oxford)
- sinθ magazine 🏔️ issue #30 out now! readings
- work by Rose Nordin (@oomkzine Rabbits Road Press)
- an Onyx & sweet-thang zine workshop (booking only)

Full programme 👇
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/zine-fair

Opps Board 🗓 Ever wanted to make your own zine? Join The Photography Foundation as they invite sweet-thang zine for a workshop all about using zines and collective manifestos as a tool for community building! > bit.ly/3SAsOQ3

Opps Board 📣 Do you thrive behind-the-scenes in creative environments? Southbank Centre is offering new creatives the chance to go backstage with their fully funded, FREE, entry-level training course in technical production! > bit.ly/3TwPdzH

We just had our latest and greatest (well we think so) workshop in collaboration with Centrepoint. Today we were joined by zine artist and founder of sweet-thang zine, Zoe Thompson who showed us how to use zine making to create a poetry anthology. 💫⏳️💫⏳️

#findyourelement

reference library at sweet-thang zine workshop. thank you so much to Zoe for hosting and curating this space. so much inspiration here for community resistance & revolution

We Did It.
A thank you to all who supported on this journey. To those that have shown love and even those who haven't. We have done what we said we'd do, achieved our goal and made #HERstory this #BlackHistoryMonth

📣Upcoming Event: Where Do We Go From Here: The State and Future of Black Feminist Politics - An Intergenerational Conversation w/ DemitaFrazier

🗓️Wed., Nov. 8th
⏱️6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET
📍Zoom
🔗 bit.ly/DemitaFrazier

This event is in collaboration w/ Haymarket Books.

🔑 This week, we’re highlighting curatorial roles, grants and more, with opportunities from Kurt Geiger, Creative Access, Whitechapel Gallery, arebyte, UP Projects, Without Walls, Blast Theory, The Marketing Academy Foundation, Grand Plan Fund and Oriel Myrddin Gallery! bit.ly/46Z9jpY

Looking to speak to a Black elder from the Windrush generation about activist burnout, how it’s changed shape over the years & how it continues to change as we age (health/pensions/retirement etc) RTs + reccs appreciated 🫶🏾 #journorequest PressPlugs EDITORIELLE We Are Black Journos

📣Upcoming Event:

Join us for Black Feminist Writers and Palestine 🇵🇸

🗓️Sunday, October 22
⏰5:30 PM ET/2:30 PM PT
📍Zoom
🔗bit.ly/BlackFeminists…

Featuring: Clarissa Brooks, Angela Y. Davis, 🖤, & Jaimee Swift.

We made a compilation zine with a bunch of wonderful contributors - the theme was how do we find joy as PoC/Global Majority/Black/Brown people?

The result is this zine, which will be on sale at the Fest on Saturday! 10am-4pm, People's History Museum!

Now that the strikes are over I can finally say,
My 1st TV series Dreaming Whilst Black IS OUT ON SHOWTIME !!!!!

Co-presenting at the 'In the Shadow of Empire? Situating Black British Writing' Conference this Saturday at the London Met Archives. Lorraine Anim-Addo and I will discuss the life narratives of Black British Educators, drawing from our research. See you there 😉✍️🏿 #SBBW2023

does anyone have any zine recs? I really love the concept of sweet-thang zine and would like to know about others.

📣 PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN CALL! Want to see your photo on billboards across London?

We're inviting Tate Collective to respond to the A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern with their own photography!

Find out more here 👇

bit.ly/3Lh4ks2

So excited to be representing Peaks of Colour as part of this beautiful programme of events and forever grateful to be in Healing Justice Ldn’s orbit 💫🪐🌘🌜