Launch of 2nd Issue of AQSAzine Dec 4th. We expect you there!

We've been working on the new issue for the past year and finally it is really to be launched. If you're in Toronto join us!

Profile This! A night of art and activism by young Muslim women and trans people.


Dec 4th, 6 - 8 pm
Art Gallery of Ontario
Anne Tannenbaum Gallery School
317 Dundas Street West Toronto

Join us at Profile This! the launch of AQSAzine Issue #2 Immigration/Migration & Sex/Love/Marriage
& Making Noise! Muslim women and trans people video project

With the the launch of Jasmine Magazine's 1st Issue - the first Palestinian Magazine in Toronto!

A FREE event hosted in partnership with The AGO Youth Council

Showcasing videos, visual art, readings by Muslim artists including Azza Abbaro, Golie, Sahar Rizi, Samira Mohyeddin, Shadi Eskandani and Shara Mohammed
and
Musical performances by
Farheen Beg & Arun Chaudhuri www.myspace.com/farheenmusic
Tanya Jacobs www.myspace.com/tanyamjacobs

With Silk Screening and Zine Making Workshops

This event is part of the 16 Days to THRIVE! Challenging VIolence Against Racialized Women and Our Communities http://bit.ly/3c0YSx

For more information on AqsaZine,
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Or e-mail. aqsazine@gmail.com

AQSAZINE is a grassroots zine for 16-35 year old women and trans people who identify as Muslim. It is a creative avenue to express ourselves, share our experiences, and connect with others.

Making Noise! is an exciting hands-on media arts training that addresses the invisibility and negative portrayals of young Muslim women and trans people in the media, supported by the Urban Alliance on Race Relations.

With thanks to our generous funders: ArtReach Toronto, Freedonia Foundation, Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children, Ontario Women's Directorate and the Urban Alliance on Race Relations

Call for Submissions AQSAZINE ISSUE 2! Let's Talk about Sex and Immigration Baby!

Dear friends, lovers, sisters, allies, revolutionaries, haters and everyone in between.

Submit and spread the word about the AQSAZINE Double Issue on Immigration/Migration and Love/Sex/Marriage. Deadline for submissions May 15th 2009.

Submit if:

*Immigration and Migration: If you feel like a minority wherever you go…if your heart longs for somewhere you’ve never been but that’s burnt into your memory…If all your parents ever talk about is “back home”...If you spend your life trying to find your place… if your physical home is occupied, forgotten, or far away… if your life consists of various checkpoints, “visas in yo’ name”, lawyer consultations, applications, rejections… If you’ve been expelled, deported, refugized, rendered illegal, or erased by your “non-status”… If you’ve found a new "home away from home" that is warm, welcoming and REAL…If you’re searching for “home”—the place and the meaning…If you’ve found home in a person, community, people or state of mind… if you’ve found strength in your displacement…If you were never really given the choice…your expression is welcome here


*Love/Sex/Marriage: If you ever wonder what order the three words should come in, but often have no choice in the matter…If you believe in any or all of them and know Islam gives you the right to enjoy, even savor them… If you feel like you’ve failed your parents...If sex has been scary and filled with guilt for way too long…If you’ve stained your sheets and now you wonder what’s next?... if you have forbidden loves…if your body is someone else’s battleground…if you have (or think you have) been sexually assaulted…if fear, sex, and guilt have been twisted in your heart for far too long… if you risk so much of yourself and your safety to express love…if wherever you turn people try to marry to you off to a “handsome doctor/lawyer/engineer”…If your heart is in the right place, but your mind and body wonder……If you’ve asked many questions to which there were no answers...your expression is welcome here

Types of Submissions: Stories (fiction or non fiction); Poetry; Artwork, Photography, Visuals; media reviews; Articles, profiles, interviews; Self help booklets, tip sheets, flyers and pamphlets; Any other form of personal art or writing

Confidentiality: Submissions will not be reprinted without the author's permission. You can use your first and/or last name, a pen name, or even remain completely anonymous. We want you to feel safe in making a contribution. Send us your submissions, questions, resources, information aqsazine@gmail.com

Peace, love and hugs

AQSAZINE TEAM

AQSAZINE Issue# 1 Launch - Be there!!

Come Celebrate Resistance and Self Defense at the Launch of the Premiere issue of AQSA Zine

We're holding a launch party for the zine on Thursday Feb 27th from 7 - 9 at the Toronto Women's Bookstore located at 73 Habord Street.

Join us for a night of readings, spoken word, poetry by Muslim women in Toronto and beyond from the forthcoming AQSAZINE Issue #1: resistance and self defense.

Artists include: Shadi Eskandani, Rosina Kazi, Golie and many more.

Please note that the use of camera, audio and/or visual recording devices will not be permitted during the launch. 

If you want a copy of the zine but cannot make the launch - contact us at aqsazine@gmail.com, we'll hook you up. 

Donations are welcomed, proceeds will be used for forthcoming AQSAZINE issues. We regret that the bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.