Queer Zest Zine Fest

I would like to run the Subconscious Art Exploration workshop at the Queer Zine Fest as a way to offer a healing experience and specifically have participants process and understand their identities and roles in our community through artwork.
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I have a meditative guided workshop called "Subconscious Art Exploration." The workshop is based on an art therapy practice called which is world-renowned for helping participants create art from their subconscious to process stuck emotions, resolve traumas, and learn about themselves.
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The Subconscious Art Exploration with Thalo Blue is live!

youtu.be/WIhK9vJ2xcc
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A queer and neurodivergent-psychologically disabled, Em is the DREAM Coordinator and the founder of DREAM-U Zine, a monthly publication that promotes disability cultural centers, paid opportunities, representation in media, and other topics.
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DREAM is a national organization designed to serve as an online virtual disability cultural center for disabled students who want to connect with other disabled students. DREAM also supports college/university student organizations that focus on disability representation and advocacy.
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beyond her disabilities, she identifies as a cisgender woman on the aroace spectrum and a first-generation, low-income university student. She also serves in DREAM as the Submission and Accessibility Coordinator for the DREAM-U Zine.
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It was founded by Jessica King, a diversely neurodivergent, chronically ill, and disabled disability activist who specializes in disability culture, disability justice, accessibility, and ableism.
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White Dove Disability Advocacy is a recently developed human-centered, community-driven, grassroots-modeled organization that prioritizes disability empowerment through projects and programs furthering advocacy efforts in disability culture, justice, and access.
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The Accessibility in Zine Making workshop is available to watch on YouTube!

youtu.be/Ddz2kwGsV2I
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tonight I (mod shroom) will be joining in on the @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social elevator pitch session and talking about our zine! if you're participating in QZZF and want to see me brandish zines around, the opportunity is nearly upon us!

(the session starts at 8pm EST! it'll also be recorded.)

Thank you so much @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social for hosting the love and to the participants who listened to me talking about my work !!!!!!! It was so exciting and fun for me and AAAAAAAAH !!!!!!!! So good !!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you 🥰🙏🏻💖💕

We will then move onto 'making' and sharing our zines and comic projects and some follow up resources on 'finishing' the zines even after the workshop ends!"
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The first part of the workshop will start with introducing some relevant comic works to get some insights. This will be followed by a brainstorming and doodling session with some prompts to start thinking about their own zines / comic projects about Queerness and Food.
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Because food is inherently both deeply personal and political, it sits at the intersection of so much discourse on power, gender, labour, caste, necessity, luxury and care.

The workshop participants will be sent some helpful reading material to get their juices going beforehand.
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Food and stories involving it are a great medium for storytelling about NeuroQueerness because of the care, labour, love, appreciation, politics and power expressed through food.
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The workshop addresses queerness that is not restricted to one’s gender or sexuality, but the broader understanding and use of the word as a verb to mean something that is subversive, at odds with everything around it, against the grain.
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The "A Spoonful of Queers" workshop recording is now live!

youtu.be/XBhzRsV6KWI

A comic / Zine workshop about weaving personal narratives around food and neuroqueerness, weaving in the personal with the political.
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10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Meg Humphrey
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Mikoto
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
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The Copier & Beyond with Laura Chenault
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

Riot Collective
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
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Queer Horror with Mysto Press
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Amanda Hamilton
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
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Samantha Puc
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

Elevator Pitch #3
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM EDT

✨ Sunday, September 28, 2025 ✨

Solarpunk with Meeni Levi
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

Hidden Vale
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The Queer Zest Zine Fest final weekend is filled with zesty queerness! Come meet the zinesters, hear their stories, shop from them. Allies welcome.


✨ Saturday, September 27, 2025 ✨

Kelci Crawford
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Oneironaut 17
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
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An illustration with a drawing of myself looking towards the viewer giving a thumbs up in front of an old style pc with Rita and Josey on the screen. Text reads "Carch me and my work online at Queer Zest Zine Fest all September long"

Hey friends! Till the end of September, catch me at @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social! My shop linked on their page where comics & zines are available to see

Make sure to check out all the other vendors and the great programming they have going on all month ^_^

www.queerzestzinefest.com/yuki-clarke/

(Sticker) Suffering Artist Series - Hikarii's Ko-fi Shop Stickers (most) artists can relate to! We all suffer from self doubt and value in our work, right? I drew these hoping to capture and share how someti...

Did you guys know? I'm a tabler at the @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social going on all this month! Come join for FREE panels all related to making zines and being in the zine space! Check out my link here: www.queerzestzinefest.com/hikarii/

I just listed one of my popular stickers on my ko-fi!

Visit The Conspiracy Board's Shop! I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

You can find my writing zines on my ko-fi page, and you can see some more of my work in my vendor channel on the @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social server!

ko-fi.com/theconspirac...

Photo of the World Beyond the Veil transmasc zine bundle with overlaid text: "Sale! Everything discounted." Underneath is another photo of the same bundle, but on a trans pride flag and without the text overlay blocking the view.

Light text on dark background reading: "Just five days left. Transmasc horror. WorldBeyond.Carrd.co."

A pair of keychains with the "local cryptid" label on them, showing a person with moth antennae and spooky eyes on one side, and a more innocent looking facial expression on the other side. The original illustration is on the right.

there's just five days left of @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social and five days left to pick up a copy of our transmasc horror zine!

for the countdown, let's enjoy some merch! here's a fan fav: our local cryptid 3" keychains. they're in every bundle~!

worldbeyondzine.bigcartel.com

#bsnm #QueerMarket

Looking forward to running this virtual panel on queer horror and healing for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social tomorrow @1—2PM EST!

A poster for my live streaming event in which my mascot is holding a pen and a nib pen while jumping in the air and looking mischievously at the spectator. The poster contains the title of the event as well as the date (28/09/2025) and hour (3PM ET) of my event !

PING PING FIRST NEWSLETTER IS UP💃 ! I hope it was fun 💕.

I’m gonna go live on the 28/09 at 3pm ET for a good drawing session together on zoom, organized by @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social ✍️🎨🥰🥰🥰🥰

To not miss the live, you can join my newsletter: hokaguteatime.kit.com/b85d4b9288 !

#zines #fanzines

Lite brite art of Frankenstein with a trans pride shirt on. Digitally added text reads: "The zine of choice for transgender Frankenstein truthers (the man or the monster!) WorldBeyondZine.BigCartel.com"

i know many transmascs have seen themselves reflected in horror--

we made our zine so that reflection could be more than just reading between the lines!

we're selling leftovers during @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social

so support trans voices today @
WorldBeyondZine.BigCartel.com

#QueerMarket #bsnm

✨Sunday, September 21 ✨

Julie Setele Vendor
12:00 – 1:00pm EDT

How to Make Stickers at Home with Hikarii
2:00 – 3:00pm EDT

Zine Librarians Panel with Julie Setele
4:00 – 5:00pm EDT

oneironaut17 Vendor
6:00 – 7:00pm EDT

Stab Binding with Laura Chenault
8:00 – 9:30pm EDT
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✨ Another zesty weekend filled with queer workshops and zinesters! ✨

✨Saturday, September 20 ✨
A Spoonful of Queers with Jyotsna
9:00 – 11:30am EDT

Tosin Jerugba Vendor
1:00 – 2:00pm EDT

Eve Gordon Vendor
3:00 – 4:00pm EDT

CK Vendor
7:00 – 8:00pm EDT


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Saturday!
@queerzestzinefest.bsky.social