Art is a struggle between the personal voice and language, with its apparatuses of culture and ideologies, and art mediums with their genre laws—the human voice trying to outshout a roaring waterfall. Art is a sneak attack while the giant sleeps, a sleight of hands when the giant is awake [;] moving so quickly [,] they can do their deed before the giant swats them.
Our survival depends on being creative.
-Gloria Anzaldúa, “Haciendo caras, una entrada," The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Reader
Our survival depends on being creative.
-Gloria Anzaldúa, “Haciendo caras, una entrada," The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Reader
GlitterWurst Zine Distro
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View a sample of All In Your Head issue #2: Impairment here:
https://issuu.com/glitterwurstzines/docs/aiyh_complete Read a review of All In Your Head issue #3: (A)sexuality, Intimacy, and Identity here: https://kaylarosenzines.com/tag/all-in-your-head/ |
Sam founded GlitterWurst Zine Distro in 2014, a DIY zine collective that elevates the artistry of LGBTQIA+ disabled and neurodivergent creatives, and currently serves as the head zine artist/layout artist. To date, GlitterWurst Distro has published over seven issues of the collab zine, All in Your Head: Queerness, Neurodiversity, and Disability (since 2015) and two issues of FAT ASS: Fat Queer and Trans Activist Zine (since 2017). Other zine titles Sam created include: Trans Media Revolution Mini Zine, Queer Crip Media Revolution, SNAPSHOTS, and RoundRough/ThickThin perzine. Sam's work asserts that a "good artist"/"good writer" is a deeply classist, racist, sexist, ableist concept that must be transformed to expand our artistry and social justice praxis. Sam's zines appear in many notable zine archives such as Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP), Barnard College, Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC), Indiana University, Hampshire College, Marriott Library Collection and more.
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Mixed Media Art Samples
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In their spare time, Sam enjoys tinkering with bold patterns, acrylic paints, textiles, cut-n-paste collage, lost and found junk, and whatever else interests them. Common themes in Sam's art include: gendered embodiment, chronic illness, queerness, trans identity, queer ecologies, and art-as-activism. 
Top Left: "Like Glass," mixed medium (acrylic, recycled clear glass, orange and blue costume rhinestones, aluminum keys, nylon, latex), 2014.
Top Right: "Training Bra," mixed medium (acrylic, cotton, plastic flowers, brass locks, aluminum-alloy safety pins), 2014. Middle Left: "Fat Self Portrait," watercolor, 2019. Middle Right: "Power to the People," embroidery, 2015. Bottom: Sample Images from the Queer Cat Tarot Deck (forthcoming, 2020). |
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