We’re thrilled to announce that we have another new blogger! Tiina Johns is going to be writing our Monday comics column and we’re super excited.
A little bit about Tiina:
Tiina Johns lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia where she plays music with the Stolen Minks and sells comic books at Strange Adventures Comic Shop. She has given talks about ladies, queer folks and comics at the Anchor Archive Zine Library, on Halifax’s campus and community radio station, CKDU, and at Dalhousie and St. Mary’s Universities. Tiina is currently conducting a scientific experiment to see how many projects she can take on before her head explodes.
This year, Shameless Magazine is a proud sponsor of Inside Out’s Queer Youth Digital Video project. In the days leading up to the Inside Out festival, Shameless will be posting trailers of some of the films on offer at the festival that may be of interest to our readers.
On Saturday May 17 at 1:00 p.m. Inside Out brings a children’s television classic to a whole new generation with the free family screening of Free to Be … You & Me.
Free to Be… You and Me is a record album and illustrated songbook for children, first released in November 1972, and later in 1974 as a television special, featuring songs and stories from celebrities. Using poetry, songs, and sketches, the basic concept was to salute values such as individuality, tolerance, and happiness with one’s identity; a major thematic message is that anyone, whether a boy or a girl, can achieve anything one wants.
This year, Shameless Magazine is a proud sponsor of The Queer Youth Digital Video Project, a series of workshops by Inside Out and Charles Street Video that teaches young people everything from development to editing to final post-production all in a queer-positive environment. Initiated in 1998, the Queer Youth Digital Video Project chooses a small group of youth to make a short video for the Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. The final videos are premiered at the Inside Out Festival in May.
Nine talented, enthusiastic young people with something to say have spent the winter learning the A to Zs of no-budget filmmaking. Each participant brings style, humour, creativity and a unique perspective to the screen in this stellar series of short videos. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Project, several of Toronto’s best and brightest film and video makers showed their support by acting as mentors for these up-and-coming artists throughout the process. Proudly co-presented for a decade by Inside Out and Charles Street Video, this program is at the heart of the queer Canadian film community!
In the days leading up to the Inside Out festival, Shameless will be posting trailers of some of the films on offer at the festival that may be of interest to our readers. First up is Waterlillies (France, 2007), Céline Sciamma’s impressive feature debut: a raw, darkly funny story of three teenage girls taking their first awkward steps into an adult world. Catch it Monday, May 19 at 7:30pm at the ROM.
The ideal candidate will: 1) understand and be passionate about the values of Shameless Magazine. 2) have some familiarity with online writing and the feminist (or progressive) blogosphere 3) have a background as a writer or blogger and strong editing skills 4) be very well organized and able to manage a team of volunteer bloggers 5) Have some interest in and knowledge of our broad array of topics including politics, pop culture, independent arts, reproductive rights, gender and sexuality, violence against women, media criticism, size acceptance, and the intersectionality of feminism with race, class, sexuality and ability.
If you’re interested, click here and take look at what we’re looking for.
I just joined the Shameless blogging team and wanted to introduce myself briefly before I start posting.
I’m a freelance journalist living in Toronto. I moved here this January from Edinburgh, Scotland (the only place on Earth where the weather is worse than in Canada), where I grew up. Since I got here, I’ve been writing for Xtra, a biweekly queer magazine, and blogging for Torontoist.
I wish Shameless had been around when I was a teenager, and I am extremely excited to be a part of it.
Every so often, we reach out to Shameless Blog readers for support. As you know, we’re a small grassroots volunteer organization that relies entirely on reader support. Every little bit helps - Did you know that if every person who reads this blog in a single day gave us just one dollar we’d be able to afford to mail a new issue of the mag out to all of our subscribers? One dollar from every reader means one third of our printing costs would be covered. One dollar also means we can do our best to pay our fantastic writers a fair wage for their work.
Our fantastic web editor, Thea Lim, is stepping down and leaving town to pursue her many talents. She will be sorely missed and very difficult to replace, but we thought we’d give it a try… Shameless needs a new Web Editor! Shameless Magazine, Canada’s independent, feminist voice for teens and young women, is looking for a new web editor to help manage and grow our busy, lively blog.(more inside…)
This week is officially the last week to get your submissions in for our Shameless Anthology (set for publication with Tightrope Books in spring 2009. We’re still on the hunt for great content, so if you haven’t already done so, send us your best work and make sure it’s postmarked for Friday!
I have to give a shout-out to the lovely women at Octopus Books. I did a reading there over the weekend with (the fantastic) Zoe Whittall and the book geek in me was blown away over what a great little bookstore it is. If you’re in Ottawa, it’s certainly worth a visit—they specialize in books on Feminist Politics, Political Action, Race Issues, Environmental Politics, and so much more. You can find them at 116 Third Ave.
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