Issue one of Aotearoa anarchist men's zine now out! (pdf)

[Yuda]

From The Kitchen: Issue one of Aotearoa anarchist men's zine now out!

In what is perhaps a first for Aotearoa Pakeha anarchists (please let us know if that isn't the case) 'From the Kitchen' is a zine devoted to the discussion of anarchist mens relationship/response to the feminist movement(s) and our own sexist behaviour. The zine isn't about pointing fingers but instead is done in the style of critical self-reflection by the authors about sexism in their own lives.

Topics in the first issue include:

Me(n) and Pornography
Slugs in the Sandpit - The Gendered politics of the garden
Meat Robots Unite
Some thoughts on masculinity, authoritarianism and emotional intelligence
What is to be done- some reflections on current sexism in the anarchist movement.

If you want to get you hands on a copy (I know you do!) then try the Freedom Shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Cherry Bomb Comics in Tamaki-makau-rau/Auckland, Black Star Books in Otepoti/Dunedin, or if you are outside of the main centres then through Katipo Books
link. You can also download a pdf version of the zine from: here.
The zine is 26 A4 Square pages with a screen printed cover.

It is hoped that the zine will be on going so if you want to contribute to the next one or help distribute this one then contact menshuizine (at) katipo.net.nz

[Francois Tremblay]

It's always so ironic that the first thing people do when they profess to fight against sexism, is to jump on fixed and immutable gender identities as the starting point. It's pretty much like affirmative action liberals professing to be against racism.

[Yarrow]

i didn't think they were, druid. what do you mean?

sounds like a good zine. reading now...

edit: why did you make it square? it's hard enough trying to utilise (mainly US) pdfs as it is!

[Marja]

I think one of my friends might find this worth reading. However, it seems that page 5 was misprinted.

[Yuda]

Francois Tremblay,
It is usually considered good form to actually read before you critique, but anyway considering the majority of the writers would consider themselves white and generally hetrosexual and that this zine is about self reflection where would you consider we start?

Yarrow,
We decided to go for something a wee bit different than the usual A5 folded pamphlet (there was even talk in the beginning of recording as spoken word then pressing it to vinyl), We didn't get enough submissions for an A4 folded and a couple of other local publications have recently come out in a similar format (imminent rebellion #9 and Rivet) - Rivet was the first and was based it's layout originally on the wobblies graphic novel.

Marja,
Not sure what's up with page 5 mine looks fine, some people have had issues on Mac's with pages with text flowing around images, but there's no images on that page so dunno what the problem is. could you explain it a bit further?

[Marja]

There are cartoons on page 5 and several other pages. And that's where the text is screwed up on my Mac.

[Yarrow]

haven't actually finished it yet- new jorge luis borges book stealing all my attention- but i really like it. keep up the good.