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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]]".<ref name=":0">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</ref> 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'".<ref name=":0" /> | In a 1998 zine titled ''Lucky Star,'' Witch Baby/Jessica Max Stein asserts that-- despite Stein's use of he/him pronouns for God-- God "doesn't fit into that narrow binary conception of things". Stein also includes a "completely true genderqueer Brooklyn Hannukkah story", about meeting a stranger with a pleasing and androgynous voice.<ref>Stein, Jessica Max, writing as Witch Baby. ''Lucky Star.'' Queer Zine Archive Project. Created December 1998. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/175</ref> | ||
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]]".<ref name=":0">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</ref> 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'".<ref name=":0" /> | |||
In another zine from 1999, ''Mutate'' (issue 2), creator Milo Miller uses [[ze/hir]] pronouns for a person they dated and bemoans the lack of recent, high-quality zines for "kweer kids of all genders".<ref>Miller, Milo. Mutate issue 2. Published 1999. Accessed via Queer Zine Archive Project. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/166</ref> | In another zine from 1999, ''Mutate'' (issue 2), creator Milo Miller uses [[ze/hir]] pronouns for a person they dated and bemoans the lack of recent, high-quality zines for "kweer kids of all genders".<ref>Miller, Milo. Mutate issue 2. Published 1999. Accessed via Queer Zine Archive Project. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/166</ref> | ||