Aghh Zine

03/09/2024

Round of applause to our last round of Issue 02 “Bl00d” contributors. Thank you for celebrating these amazing people with us!

We hope this issue reminds us all to look at each other with kindness and respect, as we are all experiencing living in this world together.

🩸 Have you got your copy yet? - https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1601200306/aghh-zine-issue-02-blood-feminism-self

Sofia Paci
Painter, Italy. Born in 1998. Master graduate in Contemporary Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata.

Switch / Mx Altan Fairheart
Healthcare professional, massage therapist, parent, punk, musician, singer, chef, cyclist, rollerskater, jujitsu roller, community face, ki****er, stick'n'poker just doing her best.

Taryn Everdeen
Split between the cities of Norwich and Paris, Taryn Everdeen is a musician and documentary filmmaker studying at the School of Decorative Arts. She spends her time performing at open mics, organising concerts, and making films about people.

Theo Lord
Theodore is a multi media artist and academic combining political and historical study with writing, drag, textiles and doll making.

TJmov
TJmov is a North East based creative specialising in Film, Photography, Motion Graphics and Design.

V Teo
Visual artist thriving beyond the binary. My work explores gender, bodies, places and love. My aim is to make the unseen seen and bring more wholesomeness into this world through my photographic practice.

Zamzo
Zamzo (they/them) is a Black trans illustrator based in brighton, busy bringing Black trans utopias to life.

01/09/2024

We are approaching the end of Issue 02 “Bl00d” contributors spotlight with only one post left!

We really hope this issue of Aghh! Zine helps you to feel heard and might even help you heal or process some wounds. Because that is one of the pillars of our publication, a safe space where to feel seen and represented. Let us know in the comments if that is the case!

🩸Give some love to the 7th round of contributors:

Pooja Patel
Writing has been part and parcel of my life since a young child in Malaysia. What I truly admire is how we're able to express our individuality through words and stand out for our differences.

Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma is a visual artist exploring global emotions through photography. Intrigued by photo stories, he captures abstract beauty, positivity in nature, and the interplay between dreams and reality.

Rini Alphonsa Joseph
I am a 28 year old artist, ceramicist, writer and art teacher. I work with various media and intertwine themes of nature, ancestry and memory.

Riyad Zine
Riyad Zine (they/he) is a writer and musician whose work explores the intersection of being disabled q***r and mixed race.

Salomée Lou
Salomée Lou (she/her) is a bilingual poetess based in Brighton but originally from Provence. Salomée's favourite themes to explore are emotions lost in translation, transmission, and anything related to sisterhood, and witchcraft.

Sara Hogg
I am a mixed media artist. I work intuitively allowing myself to be drawn into the marks I make and colours I choose. Often faces appear and I honour that.

Shilpa Sachdeva
Shilpa Sachdeva, an educator and mentor, empowers teachers and change-makers through storytelling, working with children in creative arts and learning while sharing her knowledge and passion for writing.

31/08/2024

Another round of contributors is here! 🩸As we are reaching the final three Issue 02 “Bl00d” spotlight posts, we feel really grateful for all these artists who trusted us with their work.

We have met so many talented people through our zine issues and created a supportive and growing community that we hope you, on the other side of the screen, can also feel part of.

🩸 Send some love and follow the work of:

MXYM
MXYM is a musician, producing their work in a high speed collision of avant-garde, goth and glam rock.

mzii
mzii lives a simple life out in the sticks near Brighton, cultivating love for life and life for love, playing and dancing and singing.

Natasha Gilbert
Natasha (she/they) writes poetry and music about the duality between the tremendous beauty and immense struggle of navigating life as a q***r, disabled creative from a working class background. .gilbert

Nisha Whittingham
Abstract artist and author specialising in poetry and acrylic/oil painting. My work explores the human experience through an ekphrastic style, blending art and poetry for a unique creative finish.

Nizlyn
Nizlyn is a New York-based artist who suffers from a chronic illness. She has shown her masochism-inspired pieces internationally across the US and UK.

Nuria Castro
Nuria Castro (she/her) is a Galician visual artist based in Brighton. Through her artistic practice, she mainly explores topics like home, safe spaces, family and belonging.

Petra Kroon
Petra Kroon is a lens-based artist living in Amsterdam. Graduated in 2022 at the Royal Academy of Art, her thesis Silenced womb handles the age-old taboo on menopause and the effect on representation.

Phoenix McCallum
I consider myself a political reactionary artist with a particular fascination for large, unsettling multimedia sculptures. Bodily autonomy and women*s rights lie at the core of my art. .official.toothfairy

30/08/2024

🐠We are heading down to Hastings for our first time tabling at Hastings Book Festival

We’re so excited to be joining forces with the talented Reanna Valentine to share -and sell - our wonderful publications. This fair is taking place on the first Saturday of this year’s Hastings Book Festival.

📚We especially love how the festival works closely with the local creative community, and they have a lot of events going on. Definitely worth checking it out!

✨Come see us, buy our books and have a chat on:
🍤Saturday 14 Sept 2024,
🐟From 11:00 – 16:00
🌊The Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Rd, Hastings TN34 1DT
💸FREE Entry

***rbooks ***rartists *x

23/08/2024

Only a few weeks left until we print our next issue.

🩸In the meantime, say hello and follow our issue 02 “Bl0od”🩸 contributors as we re-introduce them 😘

🩸Themes explored in our second issue include astrology, ancestry, dysphoria, abortion + more.

Lacey Blutmark
Plants are vampires! Fact.

Lucy Cork
Lucy Cork is an intersectional feminist writing about the complex network of duties, relationships and roles that define our past and present.

Lucy Le Brocq
Lucy Le Brocq is a photographer/artist based in Brighton. They explore the ideals and norms around constructed society and have been documenting the q***r and trans community for 7 years.
📸 by from “.bonds.” photo series.

Lucy Lernelius
Lucy Lernelius is a bis*xual poet, author and researcher, who explores the intricacies of self, body, and human dynamics in her work.

Lydia Durnall
Lydia Durnall (b.1998) is a Welsh contemporary artist, creating colourful works that explore themes of love, gender & s*x with a sense of humour. / www.lydiadurnall.com

Martha Gutiérrez
Martha Gutiérrez is a Mexican anthropologist and photographer. She is currently living in Madrid. She is a street and n**e photographer. She is interested in documenting the intimate as well as everyday life.

Michelle
“When thinking about blood a few things popped up in my mind one being is all blood red? And why do we say the royals have blue blood?....” Part of submission.

MNamug
MNamug (she/her) is a Brighton based writer, poet, radio host, artist and photographer and Aghh! zine co-founder. Her work has been featured in sweet-thang zine, Riot Soup, ONCA, Brighton and Writing Our Legacy.

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14/08/2024

This post is halfway through our re-introduction of our issue 02: Bl0od contributors 🩸 Our second issue came at a time where conflict is ongoing and blo0d is being shed around the world. It leads us to wonder whose bloood is precious? And whose can be spilled without repercussions?

Themes explored also include menstruation, self-h*rm, needles, pregnancy + more.

🩸🩸Please follow & show love to our fourth round of contributors:

Inês Pissarro
Inês is a life model, performer and creative. She’s always looking for new challenges and playing with different mediums to explore her creativity. 📸 by BN1 Portraits

Jamesy Ochs
Jamesy Ochs is Bronx born Nuyorican living in Golden Q***r California. intuitive flow based mixed media artist , photographer and Editor. using art as a tool for healing and fighting respectively.

Jordan Friend
Jordan is a Poet and Performer in their late 20s who enjoys exploring themes of Q***rness, self acceptance and s*xuality in their writing. They really hope you enjoy it!

Julia Barczewska
Artist from Poland, student at University of Arts in Poznan. Living best life, mostly in my head, floating freely through all these vibrant colours.

Katrina Nzegwu
Katrina Nzegwu is a London-based artist, writer and freelance curator. / .art.ina.nzegwu

Kharis Madahar
Kharis is a modern day alchemist. Teaching the spiritual sciences and holding space. Passing the baton of ancient teaching through the oral tradition. .epiphany

Kim Angelica Head
Multi-award winning filmmaker and teacher based in Brighton.
📸 by from “.bonds.” photo series.

Kim Detore
Kim is a female writer who cannot afford to be ignorant in the Philippines. Fascinated by stories from all walks of life, she believes we become immortal through storytelling. .detorekim

04/08/2024

01/08/2024

Before Issue 03, we wanted to re-introduce all 62 contributors of Aghh! Zine Issue 02 “Blo0d.” This multifaceted zine has serious and sensitive topics as well as joyous and uplifting interpretations of the theme of “Blo0d.”

🩸Please give love to our first lot of contributors: 🩸

Anonymous
Model for photography by Martha Gutiérrez

Alfie Sheppard
Alfie, neurodivergent and nonbinary, psychologically-informed and primarily visual artist, explores songwriting in these works. Navigating a bloodline of trauma, processing caregiver challenges, and working toward self-acceptance and post-traumatic growth.

Ana Topoleanu
"I am a Romanian Mexican photographer. Image-making has always been my primary means of expressing my thoughts. Taking film photographs has become my therapy, my universal language, and my favorite craft."

Anarchic Astro
Alex is a young astrologer. They use astrology to access a q***rer relationship with the animate world and perhaps figure out a future that they feel like they can exist in.

Anna Lesnick
Anna Lesnick is a composer and author based in Orlando, Florida. She is currently double majoring in music and English at the University of Central Florida.

Anya Millard-Nash
Anya Millard-Nash is a Brighton-based visual artist who likes to make work that is playful and provocative.

AR
Andi Rhys is the creator of AvoidR zines, aspiring novelist, and film enthusiast. They are passionate about media that explores themes of yearning, despair, all consuming love, and reincarnation.

Artie Carden
Artie is a q***r, nonbinary and multiply disabled artist. They focus their work on upcycling old materials into something new with a political edge. Libra Sun & Moon, Cancer Rising, Scorpio Stellium. .is.arty

22/06/2024

This week we went around town restocking our zines with our favourite bookshops 📚📚

😗You can find both our Aghh! Zine Issue 01 “Celebrating Body Hair” and Aghh! Zine Issue 02 “Blood” at the next to their till amongst other local authors.

😚And you can find Aghh! Zine Issue 02 “Blood” at ***rybtn along with other great zine makers like or .

If you live in Brighton or come to visit, please get a copy of our zines in these lovely spaces instead of in our Etsy!
😊 Support your local and indie bookshops 😊

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20/06/2024

17/06/2024

Brighton Book Festival starts tomorrow 😍

26/05/2024

Check out this great callout by Brighton Youth Centre (BYC) 🥰

22/05/2024

We are excited to be part of a special workshop, along with the amazing Tough Cookie Mag at The Feminist Bookshop on Wednesday 5th June, hosted by the brilliant Liberating Histories.

Liberating Histories tells the stories of the Women’s Liberation Movement through UK feminist magazines and connects these stories to women’s activism today.

In this interactive workshop, we’ll be thinking about the distinctive form of the zine, its relation to feminist activism and the role of print zines in the digital age. We’ll look at a range of feminist zines and magazines from the 1970s and 1980s including Spare Rib, Sappho, Red Rag, Shocking Pink, Mukti and Scarlet Women to reflect on questions such as:

- How does the form of the zine/magazine shape feminist debate?
- and What, if anything, distinguishes the debates of the Women’s Liberation Movement from contemporary feminist debates?

✂️All materials are included along with drinks and snacks.

Find more details and ticket info https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thefeministbookshop/1232312

💗 See you there!

17/05/2024

Are you an emerging author of adult prose fiction keen to get your writing seen? Then join our emerging authors showcase!

As part of this year's Brighton Book Festival, we're inviting emerging authors across genres to pitch us their idea and read a short extract in less than five minutes to a panel, including bestselling author Dorothy Koomson and Publicity Director for Oneworld Publishers Kate Appleton, and more.

The winning author will be offered a one-to-one mentoring session with Dorothy Koomson and other goodies. There will also be an opportunity to network over coffee and cake after the event.

Applications are open until midnight 11:59 pm on Sunday 26 May, 2024.

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cx7b_RrEDcYCy3XgT0hahvUWTMJ5C0L9-7r2Ynrmeps/viewform?edit_requested=true

Brighton Book Festival Writing South Future

06/05/2024

🤩We are heading back to Southend on Friday for the second part of our residency at GRRRL ZINE FAIR 🤩 Right in time for the Grrrl Zine Fair and we are so excited to have a stall and show you the creations we have been working on as part of the residency!

✂️Come along on Saturday the 11th of May at from 1-6pm (the first hour is for quiet access needs) and main doors are 2-8pm.⁣ Check out the amazing line up:

📚𝗭𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿 Line up⁣:
Aghh! Zine Aghh Zine
sweet-thang zine sweet-thang zine
Sticky Fingers Publishing
Cuntry Living Cuntry Living Zine
Look Deeper
Brownies Brownies L Vers
hate zine Hate
Grrrl In Print
emo diary
THIIIRD Thiiird Magazine
Eye Junk Eyejunk
Imposter Monster Zines
Aether Magazine Aether Magazine
FEM Press FEM ZINE
George Grace Gibson George Grace Gibson
Autists & Their Animals

🎶𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰⁣ by
(acoustic)
Ellie Bleach



𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀
🎀 Tatty Devine Charm Bracelet Making (Tickets £15, bookable via Eventbrite)⁣
🗒️ Riso Printing with Damien Robinson ft .kit (Tickets donation basis bookable via Eventbrite)⁣
🎨 Screen Printing with Charlotte Hamilton Sugar Storm Studio(Drop-In, no booking necessary)⁣
✂️ Zine making with Fiona Quadri (Drop-In, no booking necessary)⁣

And a 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸⁣ from 2.30 - 3.30pm⁣
‘Southend As A Place To Start Stuff’⁣ with Aisha Shaibu-Lenoir Andy Downes Art & The Little Known Studio Emma Edmondson The Other MA - TOMA and Dearcurves. The talk will be BSL interpreted but not recorded.

🌮There will also be Vegan & Vegetarian food by Stoked + 1942 Streetfood⁣, Live Portrait Drawings by Daisy Kate, Grrrl Zine Library installation and reading space, a welfare space by The Welfare Lot and Art Exhibition by Grrrl Zine Resident Artists 2024.

🥳Head to GRRRL ZINE FAIR account to grab yourself a free ticket and for more details about the fair. 🥳

See you Saturday!!😍

03/05/2024

Since creating the zine our calendar is packed with cool creative events. We really enjoy supporting the local artistic scene and we believe in the importance of doing so. We take these opportunities to network, meet new people and spread the world about our zine and our amazing contributors!

We visited Phoebe Wingrove amazing photo exhibition about Vaginismus at Phoenix Art Space. With mesmerising abstract images printed in fabric, it felt like being inside the body and you could really feel the pain vaginismus causes. Really looking forward to where Phoebe’s will take it next!

We attended a really interesting zine-making workshop with author Micha Frazer-Carroll at ONCA exploring the politics of mental health. Micha talked to us about her book “Mad World: The Politics Of Mental Health” and the radical history of zine-making in the context of mental health. This helped us reflect and think more critically about the ways we look at mental health and how society approaches it.

We saw Ultimate Tigerfrog (A collaboration between Reanna Valentine and Sekinue) perform for the first time and it was INCREDIBLE! It was an improv show with spoken word meets harp with background visuals by Aoife drawnfromtheether at The Rose Hill. We cried so much at the back of the room. After Ultimate Tigerfrog left the stage we were absorbed by Aoife’s visuals and music inspired by texture, nature and psychedelia.

We saw Short Rands “a collection of short films by contemporary South African filmmakers with themes ranging from fashion, archival q***r love, dark satire, the illusory reality of the internet” curated by Robyn Phillips & Anna Sephton at Fabrica gallery.

Reigning Women coincided with International Women’s Day and what a treat for us to see the 4 powerful and talented women in one night Scarlett Fae Sylvia Mwenzee AFLO. the poet, Kymara and Mally at The Old Market.

We finally went to CULT MILK Collage Club on a Monday evening and we had such a great time. Our inner competitive artists kicked in as soon as we knew there was a piece at the end of the evening for the most-voted collage and MNamug was one of the winners!

The lovely Zula Rabikowska and Vera Hadzhiyska Photography came down to Brighton to talk about their photography practice for a Brighton Photo Fringe event. It was so interesting to hear more about their projects and their collaboration together - they are both such an inspiration!

The opening of Devil's D**e Network exhibition at the The Ledward Centre on Q***r Feminist Joy organised by Claire BesselVessel was such a heartwarming event with Ahana performing an acoustic set.

We love the Writers Development Day South East Dance organised by Creative Future and Writers' & Artists' Yearbook. We learned so much about the writing and publishing world that day.

Pop us in the comments with any recommendations of things to do in Brighton and the surroundings in the following months!

29/04/2024

Find us, Aghh! Zine alongside Writing Our Legacy + other amazing BIPOC businesses at Black Brighton Market this Saturday! 😍

We'll be upstairs at The Actors kicking off Brighton Fringe2024!

With two rooms of small BIPOC businesses from 12-6pm - come along and show your support and say hello, maybe even purchase something unique! FREE ENTRY!

+ an Open Mic, a Raffle and a performance from Mally - creator, poet, spoken word artist!

🗓️Saturday 4th May 12-6pm
➡️ 12-6pm Market stalls open - two rooms of small businesses ☺️❤️
🕑2pm Open Mic - secure your spot via https://linktr.ee/blackbrightonmarket
🎙️3:30pm Headline performance from MALLY
🎖️4pm Raffle
📍The Actors pub, 4 Prince's Street, Brighton BN2 1RD
🎟️ FREE ENTRY! Donations are welcome on Eventbrite listing and Go Fund Me page found here: https://linktr.ee/blackbrightonmarket

May the 4th be with us!!

❤️ Graphics by Jade Hylton

19/04/2024

Only two days left of the RTS Zines zine pop up, exhibition and zine library at the Fishing Quarter Gallery

🦑 OPEN TODAY & TOMORROW 11AM- 6PM!

Find us there with other local zines + other UK + international zines.

😍 After party from 7pm, Sat 20th April 2024 at the Black Dove, BN2 1PA

✨RTS ZINE ARE RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITIES:
T4K, Jollof Café and Brighton Migrant Solidarity❤️

The creatives involved: Aghh Zine BesselVessel Nuria Castro Music Photography Writing Our Legacy Florxl Zine Devil's D**e Network Bedsit Games .photography .dan .riches + more!!

11/04/2024

🎉NEXT WEEK!! RTS Zines presents a week of spectacular zine related loveliness down at the Fishing Quarter Gallery on Brighton Beach. Open every day for zine browsing, buying, swapping and socialising.

Come and chat zines with us, or just flick through them in silence if that's more your thing.

On Saturday 20th April is an afternoon Zine fair at the gallery, and there will be an evening party from 7pm at the Black Dove Brighton BN2 1PA !

😍We are excited to be selling Aghh! Zine issue 01 and Issue 02 at this pop-up. Come along and see loads of other amazing zines and zinesters.

📚Pop up zine distro, exhibition and zine library

DATES: Tuesday 16 April - Saturday 20 April

✂️ LOCATION: Fishing Quarter Gallery, 201 Kings Road Arches, Brighton, England BN1 1NB

📚 TIMES: 11AM- 6PM

✂️TICKETS: FREE!!

✨RTS ZINE ARE RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITIES:
Thousand 4 £1000, Jollof Café, and Brighton Migrant Solidarity❤️

07/04/2024

📢We are back to The Ledward Centre in less than a week for their Q***r Makers Market 💕 It’s been more than a year since our first market there and we have one issue more for you all to add to your libraries!

😊Come along and say hi!
📆Saturday 13th of April
⌚️11 am - 5pm
At The Ledward Centre

📸Photo 2 is from our first market there on the 18th February 2023
Photo 4 is from the market on 17th June 2023
It’s so fun to see how our stall changed with the years and also our hairstyles 😍

***rmarket ***rmakers

05/04/2024

🎼Tell us your favourite songs by emerging artists! 🎼

🎤We are putting together a one-hour radio show for Platform B (Platform B) on Friday 12th April. We are looking for songs from upcoming and lesser-known contemporary musicians and underrepresented artists, local and internationally.

🦎Ideally, the songs will be on Spotify but we can also use a mp3 file, as we understand that not everyone will be on this streaming platform.

🥁Let us know in the comments!

🎧On Friday 12th March at 6pm - 7pm we will be live on Platform B

👂🏼👂🏿LISTEN LIVE: People living in Brighton & Hove can tune in on 105.5FM or DAB and anyone can listen in via Platform B website platformb.org.uk or on the TuneIn app.
https://www.platformb.org.uk/

02/04/2024

01/04/2024

Back to reality after our amazing residency at 🪰 Continue reading to see what we got up to last week ❤️‍🔥

🍒Reposted from :
This week we hosted our 2nd ever Grrrl Zine Residency with and and I can’t believe it’s over already 🥹💗 5 days and 6 nights with the incredible and who were invited down to explore the newly catalogued Grrrl Zine Library, make and think and research and plot ahead of our Zine Fair in May where we’ll be showing our outcomes ✨👍✂️ Thanks so much for for the funding to be able to programme this week and important development time 💗⁣
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We also have our wonderful online residents- more on them in a bit!! ⁣
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🌴We started with a lovely meal on the monday and a beach walk, I also gave some historical context to the area and the art scene in Southend. ⁣
🌴Tuesday we intro’d the residents to the newly catalogued Zine Library and had a sneak peak at the-in-progress website, had a risograph workshop and made a collaborative poster 😇⁣
🌴Wednesday we had making and reading time in the library, visited to see , Ess*x legends, new show ‘Principle Boy’ which was stunning! The film club The White Bus cinema were also showing the 1960s film Victim at the studio. ⁣
🌴Thursday we had one to one tutorials with founder and iconic nuisance of southend councillers , developing ideas for the 11th May Zine Fair ✨ ⁣
🌴Friday we made a collaborative zine which i’m excited to share soon and had a lush evening meal before saying goodbye Saturday morn! ⁣
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For now have a look at the behind the scenes while we finish making our collaborative publication and art works that will be on display at Grrrl Zine Fair 2024 on 11th May at The Old Waterworks, Southend 💗💗💗⁣
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Photos v much a collaborative effort!!

24/03/2024

This is the reminder you need it to send us your submission 😍

There’s only one week left to send us your work for our Issue 03 “Pleasure”.

We received 58 submissions as for now and they are AMAZING! But we are still looking for some more:
✒️Speculative fiction, fiction and short stories
📸Photographs
🎨Mixed media, collage and sculpture
🧣Textile artists
🎭Performances
🎥Multimedia, film and video
🎶Music and playlists

🥸This theme is open to everyone who has NOT previously been a contributor to our first issue or second issue. We are looking for new voices and perspectives for our zine. We encourage voices from the Global South / Q***r community / BIPOC folks and other marginalised groups.

☀️We encourage you to think creatively, reflect on the teme from a new perspective, outside the box and/or from a critical, political, non-mainstream point of view. And most of all HAVE FUN!☀️

💰Will you get paid for your submission(s)?
Unfortunately, we cannot currently offer money for submissions. But we will be giving each person a free copy of the zine, which features your work

Head to the link in bio to access the Google Form where you can see all the info and submit!! You can also DM’s if you have any questions ☺️

Can’t wait to see all your submissions 😇