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Coco Riot featured in Bitch Magazine

January 19, 2012 • Team Shameless

Friend, artist and big supporter of Shameless, Coco Riot, has been featured in Bitch magazine for their amazing art! We are so proud to work with you and to call you a friend, Coco!

A queer hispanic migrant artist, Coco Riot believes that art is not a tool for social change but social change itself. In their work Coco Riot loves exploring the multiple social possibilities of drawing and language through installation, animation film, print media, graphic novels, comics and in-site drawing exhibitions. The topics that fuel their inspiration range from queer politics, social and personal memories, living in different languages and the experience of migration, to Coco’s desire for bright colours and the love for poetry and repetitive patterns. In their work, Coco Riot uses personal experiences as metaphors to talk about social and political experiences experiences.

Check out the feature here.
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2011: A Shameless Retrospective

December 20, 2011 • Team Shameless

What a year! People say that every year as they bid the previous one adieu but 2011 has been full of world events that have shocked and touched us. Worry is one of the words that comes to mind when we think about 2011. From worry over the economy to fretting about our political climate, it’s clear the past year was fraught with events that, despite the fast pace of our lives, has caused us to pause and reflect. However, many events have given us lots of reason to hope and to be proud.

Here are just a few of the events and items of the past year that have caught the attention of some of your Shameless team members. We throw it to you to leave links, comments and discussion-starters in the comment section.

In keeping with the themes of the three print issues Shameless released this year, we offer you some jumping-off points:

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Music in 2011

Wild Flag (self-titled album): One of Rolling Stone’s best albums of the year, including former members of Sleater Kinney, Mary Timony (ex-riot grrrl bands). [Co-founder Nicole Cohen says: “I am obsessed with this album; so so so good.”]

On a Mission, Katy B: A major breakthrough in the dubstep music genre, as it crossed over into pop consciousness. A UK release. [Web director Julia Horel can’t stop listening to it.]

What music did you love this year?

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Politics in 2011:

The Northern Ontario Indigenous community of Attawapiskat declared a state of emergency in light of a housing and supply crisis … and no one came. Help has since been slow in coming and has been mostly inappropriate and inadequate. This is a humanitarian crisis, but it’s also political because it has occurred due to colonial government policies.

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‘Tis the Season to Get Shameless!

December 5, 2011 • Team Shameless

We’re offering all kinds of holiday deals this year!

For the entire month of December, each new or renewed 1-year subscription is only $12($20 for U.S. subscribers). That’s more than 40% off of the newsstand price! Buy one for someone you love, or practice some self-love and renew your own subscription now.

What’s that, you say? Our super cute tote bags have caught your eye? Why not go for our sweet tote bag holiday deal? For $20, we’re offering a 1-year subscription and a tote bag ($30 for U.S. subscribers). We’ll even wrap it for you, if that’s your thing. Just let us know when ordering.

If it’s back issues you’re after, buy three back issues at full price and get a free tote! You can spread the Shameless love everywhere you go, snow or sun, rain or shine.

For the ultimate gift that keeps on giving, sign up for the Hall of Shameless. For the next month, all new members of the Hall of Shameless get a free tote bag and a Shameless button. That’s in addition to free entry to all of our events as well as an ongoing subscription.

Shameless has got everything you need to start the new year on the right track – news, views, politics, music and more, all fitting neatly between the front and back covers of every issue. Skip the mall, and go for the gold.
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Have Something to Say About Shameless?

October 24, 2011 • Team Shameless

Attention readers: Want to connect with others and influence what goes into this magazine?

Here is your chance to get involved! Shameless is creating a Community Advisory Board that will meet three or four times a year to discuss the magazine. What are your favourite articles or sections? What’s just not working? What’s missing?

If you’re highschool-aged, live in the Greater Toronto Area and can commit to serving on the board for a minimum of one year, send a note to kcmiller@shamelessmag.com, telling us why you want to be on the board! Also, if you work with you and want more information about this opportunity, please feel free to contact our Community Liaison, Kate-Christine Miller at kcmiller@shamelessmag.com and she can send along hand-outs and answer any questions!

Do you live somewhere else in Canada or the USA? We’re exploring options for how we can have conversations with teens across Canada and the USA. Please write us a note telling us why you want to be involved, where you live and whether you have regular access to email and a computer!

In keeping with Shameless’s mandate to foster space for all voices, applicants are encouraged to identify groups they belong to that they consider underrepresented, including trans, Indigenous, person of colour, LGBTQQ2SI, immigrant, person with a disability, or others. Shameless welcomes all applicants and will create our board based on fostering discussion and meaningful input from a broad range of interests.
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Shameless at Canzine on Sunday!

October 20, 2011 • Team Shameless

A sample of our super cool Shameless merch.

On Sunday, Shameless will be at Canzine, Toronto’s biggest-ever, giant zine and alt-culture fest! We’ll be selling our brand new tote bags and buttons, as well as super cheap back issues, subscriptions and tickets to our screening of the documentary Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour, a Shameless fundraiser on Nov. 2 at the Project Booth (tickets also available online).

Come say hello to our editors and pick up some Shameless swag!

Sunday, Oct. 23
1-7 pm
918 Bathurst St.
Event and interview with Leanne Prain, author of Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery

September 26, 2011 • Team Shameless

Hoopla, by the co-author of 2009’s bestselling Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti, showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it’s never gone before, in an astonishing, full-colour display of embroidered art. Hoopla rebels against the quaint and familiar embroidery motifs of flowers and swashes, and focuses instead on innovative stitch artists who specialize in unusual, guerrilla-style patterns such as needlepoint nipple doilies and a ransom note pillow; it demonstrates that modern embroidery artists are as sharp as the needles with which they work. - Arsenal Pulp Press

(Arsenal)

Leanne Prain, author of Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery, took some time out from preparing for her Toronto launch/”stitch n’ bitch” (Tuesday, September 27 at 7pm at Type Books, 883 Queen St. West) to answer a few questions for Shameless about her book and subversive crafting.

Shameless: Can you explain what the subtitle of your book, “The Art of Unexpected Embroidery,” means for those who have never heard of this before?

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Word on the Street Toronto: SUNDAY!

September 23, 2011 • Team Shameless

Just in time for Word on the Street, check out these awesome Shameless mag buttons and union-made totes.

Totebags will sell for $12/each. Buttons are $1/each or $10/set of twelve.

Be sure to visit our booth (#132) in Queen’s Park on Sunday from 11am-6pm to pick up our new merch, and score some awesome deals on the magazine!

See you there!
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Shameless is hiring!

August 30, 2011 • Team Shameless

Shameless magazine, a Canadian independent, feminist voice for young women and trans youth, is hiring a Web Co-Director, Content Manager. Are you devoted to grassroots publishing? Do you have a commitment to anti-oppression and inclusive feminist politics? Do you have some time to volunteer and a vision for Shameless? Then we need you.

We are looking for a smart, sassy, shameless person to work as our Web Co-Director, Content Manager. Read on to find out what we’re looking for…

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Summer update: Join the Hall of Shameless!

August 25, 2011 • Team Shameless

It’s been a great summer for Shameless! We had a really fun launch for issue 17 with lots of awesome bands like Phoenix Pagliacci and Spitfist, and the amazing comedian Mae Martin, and a great yard sale last week that brought out a lot of cool people from the neighbourhood to support the magazine and find some great deals.

We’re looking forward to the Fall, when we launch our fantastic new issue on politics, featuring stories on the many ways we can engage in politics, whether it be voting, running for office, getting involved in your community or being an activist. We look particularly at the politics of Indigenous sovereignty, and women and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. We’ve also got a how-to guide to sewing your own book bag, plus tips on finding the coolest plus-sized shops on the continent.

Being a part of Shameless is fun, and we encourage you to get involved, whether it’s through sending us feedback, contributing to the mag or the blog, or signing up for a subscription. We need your help to keep publishing, and one special way you can help is to join the Hall of Shameless!

For as little as $5 per month, you can help us to continue to put Shameless in the hands of young women and trans youth across the country.

As a Hall of Shameless member, you will receive an ongoing subscription to Shameless and free entry to all of our events. More importantly, you will be an integral part of ensuring that Shameless will keep publishing the bold, critical content readers have come to know and love, and will continue to bring a much-needed voice to young women and trans youth across Canada.

You can sign up here.

Don’t take our word for it. See what others have to say:

“As a teenage activist, Shameless was a space where I actually got to see and be inspired by other young feminists. As a twenty something activist - I still find inspiration in the pages of Shameless and pass it on to people whenever I can!”
— Kaley Kennedy, former editorial collective member, Hall Of Shameless member and student activist

“[Shameless] deals with real issues —important stuff — not how to flirt… this is a magazine for real girls.” 
— Shannon, 14, Regina, Saskatchewan

We hope you’ve had a great summer too. Stay tuned for Issue #18 and more amazing Shameless events.
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Shameless thoughts on SlutWalk

June 21, 2011 • Team Shameless

On Sunday, April 3, 2011, women gathered en masse at Queen’s Park before marching to Toronto Police Headquarters on College Street in a protest that’s been called everything from inspired and exceptional to ignorant and exclusive: SlutWalk.

If you still haven’t heard about it, please visit the official website for the Toronto walk and/or check out some of the news media’s coverage here (G&M), here (The Star), or here (CBC).

Essentially, in response to a police officer’s comment that if women don’t want to be raped, they shouldn’t dress like sluts, SlutWalk was born. Since the first walk happened in Toronto, SlutWalks have sprung up and taken place internationally (for a SlutWalk near you, look here).

SlutWalk is positioned as a protest to take back the word “slut” from its traditional use as a degrading, misogynist slur and reclaim it as an empowering self-imposed label denoting pride and power over one’s sexuality. Simultaneously the Walk calls attention to the police and media’s consistent victim blaming and ignorance of the culture of violence we live in, winning it well deserved attention and inspiring numerous, also well deserved critiques:
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