Another world is possible, especially with youth leading the way! Inspired by the youth I work with, I felt compelled to uplift the voices of youth of color by making the next issue of Muchacha Fanzine "Liberation Youth" entirely dedicated to them. I wholeheartedly believe that being accomplices in youth liberation starts with passing the mic and listening to our youth along with the unique challenges that face them including: • police/ICE/border patrol violence • environmental racism • the school-to-prison pipeline • anti-LGBTQ discrimination • reproductive justice • ableism • ageism • gun violence • youth mass incarceration • sexual assault • poverty • fatphobia • bullying • substance abuse • gentrification & more! As an entirely self-funded fanzine, I need your support to publish Muchacha Fanzine's "Liberation Youth." I humbly ask you to consider pledging any amount of your choosing. Patreon makes it super easy (and affordable!) to support creators like me and you can change the amount of your pledge or cancel your subscription at any time. Every single pledge amount ($1, $3, $5+) will help make a difference so that I can build a safe media platform for youth of color to share their voices. Your pledge supports our youth in being catalysts for positive social change. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for using your torch to help light theirs.

If you want to do honor in supporting our youth of color, donate as little as $1/month for full access to every publication, showcase, workshop, and exclusive unfiltered content: https://www.patreon.com/muchachafanzine

In Fierce & Radical Love, Daisy Salinas xo❤️

(if you are a youth of color interested in submitting, check out submission guidelines here.) 

YES! 🙏🏾 Support indigenous, brown, and black artists by donating to Muchacha Fanzine's Patreon here!

📣 CALL OUT! So excited to present: "Black and Brown Punk Fest," a festival aimed at uniting punks of color across Texas. This is a paid gig & spots are filling quickly so spread the word to anyone who may be interested!

i am excited to announce the launch of muchacha fanzine’s patreon fundraiser! For nearly a decade - my blood, sweat, and tears has gone into my greatest passion in life: zine-making!

but i imagine a future for muchacha fanzine. a future where we can thrive - not just merely survive. a future where we can continue to publish zines about issues that matter to us. a future where we can continue to cultivate radical spaces and collaboratively work together. a future where women of color creatives are granted opportunities for our work as creators of culture. But this future can't happen without the help of the community [any amount that you can spare will mean everything to us!]

we’re ready to commit to our goals and grow as a publication – check out what we have planned for 2018. if muchacha fanzine has spoken to you or added value to your life in any way, we hope that you will consider being part of this journey! ✨💕✊🏾

While the U.S. and Israel celebrate the US embassy opening in occupied Jerusalem, 43 Palestinians have been murdered & 2k wounded by Israeli forces using America weapons. This is a war crime funded by the U.S. that is a result of decades of murder and oppression of the Palestinian people. Tens of thousands are still in protest as the world silently watches. We need to WAKE. THE. FUCK. UP. (📸: @fortunadivineytrixx)

"Xingonas in the Pit!" is an upcoming all-ages San Antonio-based decolonial feminist punk fest aimed at celebrating mujer and nonbinary artists of color! 

(Flyer art by @juanydiego)

📣 SAN ANTONIO PUNK BAND “FRIJOLERA RIOT” DRUMMER WANTED! 📣

*If you are interested in auditioning please email FrijoleraRiot@gmail.com* We are interested in a drummer who is: 1. anywhere from beginner to expert level 2. identifies as feminist 3. available to practice once a week in San Antonio, TX

ABOUT FROJOLERA RIOT ¡La Lucha Continua! Frijolera Riot is a San Antonio-based feminist punk band here to remind you that if YOU MESS WITH ONE BEAN, YOU MESS WITH THE WHOLE POT! ✊🏽

Influences: Alice Bag, The Bags, X-Ray Spex, Downtown Boys, Kumbia Queers, Fea, Generacion Suicida, Jessy Bulbo, Selena, Jenni Rivera, Spitboy, War of Icaza, Ojos, Los Plugz, Las Vulpess, Anarkadas, Electroduendes, The Brat, Fuck U Pay Us, Los Crudos, The Breathing Light, Le Butcherettes, Death, The Slits, Au Pairs, Black Flag, Siouxsie Sioux, X, Crass, Lydia Lunch, The Fall, Bad Brains, Flipper, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Lunachicks, Babes in Toyland, Hole, Tribe 8, Bikini Kill, Heavens to Betsy, Emily’s Sassy Lime, Bratmobile, 7 Year Bitch.

SIGNAL BOOST! 

(art by Alex Ramirez, flyer by Daisy Salinas)

📣 MUCHACHA FANZINE CLOSING UP SHOP!

I will be closing my etsy shop next week for a while to focus on my mental health. In the meantime, all 13 of my zines plus new buttons & stickers are for sale (including my limited time grab bags!) Now is the time to stock up if you still haven’t had a chance to check out my zine. With the holidays around the corner, they can also make for dope gifts for all your radical friends & fam!

All support beginning now until the end of the week will be so I can make it to Warrior Roots, a grassroots POC-led direct action training camp happening this upcoming weekend in San Antonio. Would greatly appreciate any and all support to make it to this much needed healing space! 

Queer & trans liberation to everyone, including those that don't have the privilege to come out without risk to their safety. We see you and you matter. 💖 🎨: @felixdeon

Bros: fall back, take a seat, & be reminded that the future belongs to indigenous women (& all BIPOC). 🔪

📣 San Antonio community or any & all folks able to travel, come check out the FIRST EVER 🌌San Anto Zine Fest🌌 this Saturday 10/7!! You do not want to miss this important event filled with so many poderosx af chingonx zinesters, independent publishers, & DIY artists. Yours truly will be tabling - hope to catch y'all there!!! 😘

“#TheOriginalPunks”

Muchacha Fanzine introduces the "#TheOriginalPunks," a revolutionary series soon-to-be zine celebrating badass revolutionary women of color in history!

Though "punk" is often characterized as a loud, aggressive, & anti-authoritarian form of rock music that was born in the 1970's, it instantaneously took on the form of a political identity that has an infinite number of interpretations.

Punk culture and DIY culture have never & will never be synonymous with whiteness, maleness, or straightness though. For me, punk is resistance in the flesh after centuries of invasion, colonization, & multi-generational rape. For me, punk is the answer to surviving insurmountable odds. For me, my ancestors passed down my punkera spirit so that I could continue the resistance that is already in my blood.

In the spirit of all things DIY, it is important to recognize the ways that women of color revolutionaries have dedicated their lives fighting on the frontline for our liberation & have been "doing it themselves" before punk or DIY culture was even a thing.

As women of color, we should be reminded that our tenacity and fierceness in the face of relentless struggle is born from the revolutionary women of color that came before us. We owe it to them to keep their stories & contributions to history alive. As the backbone of la lucha, revolutionary women of color have been and will always be: "The Original Punks."

True American hero & martyr Heather Heyer was the woman murdered by a Nazi in Charlottesville. Thank you for sacrificing your life in the fight against white supremacist terror. Heather's last words on Facebook were: "if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Rest in Power Sister, you will never be forgotten. ✊

Dear CIS Allies,

We know that Trump's transphobia is opening the flood gates of hate even further. We know that blood is on his hands and on the hands of everyone that supports this scum of the Earth. But we must also be aware that we benefit from a cisnormative system so if we are not using our privilege to dismantle it, then the blood is on our hands too. 

Remember that our silence is complacency and we must recognize that our silence is a matter of life and death. 

With school around the corner, this is a reminder to not allow the history textbooks have you go & discredit revolutionary heroes that fought & died for your rights. It's important to educate yourself & others about COINTELPRO, an FBI government-sponsored series of covert, and often illegal, projects aimed at spying on, infiltrating, discrediting, disrupting & destroying leftist political organizations & leaders they deemed "subversive" including the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Civil Rights organizations, the Brown Berets, the Young Lords, the American Indian Movement, women’s liberation groups, LGBT activists, & anti-Vietnam war organizers.

"COINTELPRO used informants, agent provocateurs, infiltrators, legal and illegal wiretaps, break-ins, false correspondence, and “bad-jacketing,” which was the act of making a legitimate member of a group appear to be a collaborator with the state. Psychological warfare included calling the parents of young civil rights activists to inform them that their children had been murdered or kidnapped. FBI agents worked with journalists to plant stories in order to discredit leadership and organizations. Across the country, the Bureau collaborated with local police to repress targeted groups. Sharing resources & intelligence, activists were arrested, fired from jobs, expelled from schools and lost business contracts. COINTELPRO even used switchboard operators and postal workers to spy on citizens, with or without court order... The effectiveness of COINTELPRO was overwhelming. Many organizations were destabilized with arrests, raids, break-ins, & killings. The most famous raid of the Panthers occurred in December 1969 in Chicago when a 14-man police raiding party killed two Panthers, Fred Hampton &  Mark Clark. Several other Panthers were injured in the pre-dawn attack. Nationally, the Panthers insisted that the FBI and local police were involved in a conspiracy to destroy them. Hoover denied it. The magnitude of these coordinated activities, however, were not known until the 1976 congressional hearings." -Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar