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Introducing the Sapphic Zines Vol. 2 contributors!

Sapphic Zines Vol. 2: Celebrate! is dedicated to women, festivities, and sharing joy with women. Meet our wonderful lineup of artists, writers, and designers below:

🎉Artists 🎉

Aadorah (Twitter | IG | FB) || Alice (Twitter | IG) || Anh Le (Twitter | IG) || Arys Dungca (Twitter | Tumblr) || Catherine Suh (Twitter | IG) || Cerylune (Twitter | Tumblr | DA) || Choo (Twitter | Tumblr) || Eunnie (Twitter | Tumblr | IG) || ** Fabs (Twitter | Tumblr | IG | FB) || * Fiona Marchbank (Twitter | Tumblr | IG) || FlohGna (Twitter | IG) || Jade Zhang (Twitter | Tumblr | IG) || Learielle (Twitter | Tumblr) || Lory Sa (Tumblr | IG) || Malta (Twitter | Tumblr | IG) || Marlo Musa (Tumblr | IG) || ** Monwinvo (Twitter | IG) || ** Morie Clark (Tumblr | IG) || Ohwelladays (IG) || Parientou (Twitter | Tumblr | IG) || Pi and Teloka (Twitter | Twitter) || Prinsomnia (Twitter | Tumblr | IG) || RonyaValentine (Twitter | Tumblr) || Sarah Wieske (IG) || Telênia Albuquerque (Twitter | Tumblr) || Wiktoria Jednacz (wikinoodles) (Twitter | IG)

* cover artist ** merch artist

🎊Writers 🎊

Alex Siple (Twitter | IG) || Aya (Twitter | AO3) || Gon (Tumblr | AO3) || Mary Woodard (Twitter | IG) || Nellsie (Twitter | Tumblr) || Notallbees (Twitter | AO3)

🎂Mods 🎂

Jess (Twitter | Tumblr) || Lau (Twitter) || Slumber (Twitter | AO3)

I’m just now finding out Anne Frank was bi??? OMG

Yeah okay, those edits were made by her dad, a cishet person - and also her dad, a Holocaust survivor, who would have been brutally aware that when the diary was first published in freakin’ 1947, had he included anything which people could use to demonize his daughter or tar her as some kind of “pervert”, it would prevent the message he was trying to send about the horrors of the Holocaust and the heroism of his daughter from being properly understood and accepted the way he hoped.

That isn’t fair. It isn’t just. But it is reality. If Otto Frank had let this be included in the published version, there’s a large chance the homophobic backlash would have prevented the book from reaching the audience it did and spreading the message it needed to. It was NINETEEN. FORTY. SEVEN. The Holocaust had ended TWO YEARS AGO. The acceptance of LGBT identities was basically nonexistent. Otto Frank made a decision based on the time and place he was living in, about what the world at that time was and wasn’t ready to accept. 

Let me say this as bluntly as I can - I am a bisexual Jewish girl and I would have made the same decision Otto Frank did. Making sure Anne Frank was unambiguously seen as sympathic and heroic was more important. Making sure people weren’t sidetracked from the main issue of the Holocaust was more important. He shouldn’t have had to make that decision, without doubt. Anne Frank’s sexuality (however she would have identified in modern terms) shouldn’t be considered relevant to her status as a hero or a sympathetic victim. But in 1947, it undoubtedly would have been.

Otto Frank survived Auschwitz and lost his entire family (a wife and two teenage daughters) to the horrors of the Holocaust. He hoped that publishing his daughter’s diary would spread awareness and sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust. If he had to make sacrifices to do that - well frankly, so fucking be it. I don’t know who alive today has the right to judge him. 

Let’s also look at this thread from a queer Jewish person who brings up the fact that ANNE FRANK EDITED HER DIARY HERSELF

on ao3

A bit too late for Pride month, but anyway :3

Thank you for reminding me to draw the preciousness that is GaIruka and I’m still so glad to see @hexadecimal00 (wrote seriously adorable fic) and others have added to the tiny ship since I last poked around properly! Great appreciation for all fellows in this wholesome little ship <3

It is that month again :3

so hey fun fact for anyone who wants queer history trivia: the first disco in Seattle was opened in 1973 and was a gay bar called “shelly’s leg” and it was named after a dancer named shelly who lost her leg in a confetti cannon accident and used the insurance/lawsuit settlement money to open a gay disco.

a) This is such a fantastic story that I wouldn’t care if it were made up, except that

b) upon further research, it does appear to be true. 

A little sketch comic about how bisexuality is totally cool and good and not bad.

The format is cliché!  I know.  But it makes it easy to talk about things I want to talk about.  Thanks for reading!

(I shouldn’t have to say this, but since a lot of people wanted to educate me on twitter: The words listed in panel seven [yes even in the parentheticals!] are just examples of how often acceptable language around gender and sexuality changes.  They are not lists of synonymous words, and many of them are now considered unacceptable.  That’s why they’re on the list. That’s what the list IS. I know.)