Archiving Anything That Moves

After being locked out of the archive email for roughly a billion years (due to its original creator having deleted their means of contact), I got help regaining access. So sorry to everyone who only got crickets after emailing us, we weren’t ignoring you! I will carve out the time to go through everything.

Transcription for Issue #1 is currently underway. Better late than never. For now I will just be typing the text precisely how it was typed in the magazine, down to the typos.

Regarding #2: I know many people have reached out about helping with this process! At this exact moment I lack the mental bandwidth to personally delegate this task, but after I finish No. 1 & get to reviewing the old emails I will reassess, since I’m certainly doing this in the least optimized way possible lol. I’m also finding image descriptions are not my strong suit, and will likely appreciate eventual assistance with those and other accessibility improvements.

Bear with me with other timelines and future organizing—due to the busyness or drop-outs of other previously more-involved members, I am effectively running this by myself right now. You are always free to submit your own transcriptions if you have completed any independently; you don’t need our permission!

(And yes, I definitely plan to use a better sharing format than Google Docs once the transcriptions are actually done. Our Carrd now includes the scanned issues uploaded to Internet Archive)

More to come.

Translations are welcome!

I also apologize to those still following this blog attentively for updates—the majority of the team is extensively occupied with personal life affairs & subsequently (at least for me) difficult to get in contact with, so not much new has been happening our end.

I hopefully will be able to pick up the reins a bit in terms of transcription in the not too far future (I am still homeless trying to find housing, so bear with me here).

Hi! As far as volunteering, anyone is welcome to submit transcriptions of any of the issues and we will review it and credit you for transcribing! You can see what we've already got/what's in progress on this page.

As for donations, we don’t have any collective fund for the archive, so below I have listed a few tumblr friends in need and a few organizations local to some members that are always in need of donations!

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(PLEASE NOTE: If you choose to reblog any of these posts, be mindful of OPs requests, such as not tagging, etc.)

mediumkravitz (LINK)

theerealcowboy (LINK)

bizhiki (LINK)

stemmonade (LINK)

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MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION - Midwest Access Coalition (MAC) is a practical abortion fund that helps people traveling to, from, and within the Midwest to access a safe, legal abortion.

BLACK TRANS FEMME ARTIST COLLECTIVE - BTFA is a community-based arts organization that builds community and mobilizes resources to support Black trans femme artists.

SWOP BROOKLYN - a 100% volunteer-run Peer-led organization dedicated to supporting New York sex workers in need.

BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE - the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ Center located on the South Side of Chicago, dedicated to creating and providing affirming, culturally competent, for-us by-us resources, programming, and services for LGBTQ+ individuals on the South and West sides of the city.

Anybody is welcome to transcribe issues on their own time and submit them to the blog if they wish. Issues that are already transcribed or are in the process of completion are listed in our carrd.

Hey anon! I think the magazine might be a good place to start, just click the link in our pinned post, there are a lot of articles on bisexuality and gender in there. If you're looking for more recent resources, I can find some for you too.

a YouTube channel I recommend is verilybitchie

also not to recommend one of our own mods but Kravitz writes articles on bisexuality that might be useful to you. He's Kravitz M. on medium and I recommend this article as a good start bc it's one of my favourites

Hi anon! I don’t think my personal opinion matters that much when it comes to archiving ATM. I’m here to preserve a vibrant piece of bisexual history—not to broadcast my opinions on slur reclamation and slang. If “byke” is a part of bi history, then I’m all for it!

-Tony

byke was a pretty common term and ive come across it in other bi books etc, so it wasnt a word coined by atm i dont think. honestly i think the word byke is totally fine and i defend its usage

- Brodie

I feel like you can make many cheesy bisexual jokes with it. I lack further opinion.

The first issue (dubbed the “premier issue” on the cover) was actually published in 1991. I assume the original ATM manifesto, prior to magazine publication, was written in 1990 (the short version most people are familiar with is on the ATM website), but every single issue of the mag has a longer version of that manifesto on the inside cover (with a slight edit from 1993 onward).

We assume the 1990 date refers to the year the publication was founded rather than the year the first issue was released.