Zines
Zines are self-published works, generally produced for a small audience and non-commercial purposes. They are often used as forms of personal and political expression by marginalized people and communities, including queer people and feminists.[1]
Nonbinary gender in zines
In 1999, a zinester named Micah Bazant created TimTum: A Trans Jew Zine, taking for their title a word used in early rabbinic literature for people of unclear/hidden sex. Noting that "timtum" accumulated pejorative uses over time, including "stupid" and "ineffectual" in Yiddish, Micah intervenes with their own definition, "a sexy, smart, creative, productive Jewish genderqueer".[2] Micah also addresses the binary gender expectations of the reader, imploring them to "Please see me beyond gender. Please know that I don't fit into this stupid fucking system. Please remind me that there have always been people like me. Creatures who are not 'men' or 'women'".[2]
Works Cited
- ↑ Fife, Kirsty (2019). "Not for you? Ethical implications of archiving zines". Punk & Post Punk. 8 (2): 227–242. doi:10.1386/punk.8.2.227_1. S2CID 199233569 – via EBSCOhost.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bazant, Micah. TimTum - A Trans Jew Zine. 1999. Accessed October 22 2024 via Queer Zine Archive Project. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/408
