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SUNKENCORE DEBUT ERA

First event of sunkencore - zines, stickers, prints, and trauma processing 💥 We hope to see you there 🎤

CONG XEROXOGRAPHY FA CAI!  When? February 17, 2024 Where? Sikat Studio, Tomas Morato, QC

SEPTEMBER 11th 2018

truths about ourselves

حقائق عن أنفسنا 

Stupid Love!

Valentine’s Day is not only a day for love but also a day for releasing new zines!

On February 14, Magpies launched and distributed “Stupid Love”, a zine named after the popular Salbakuta love song. One hundred and forty three (143!) copies were given out personally by the members during the Feb Fair season in the UPLB Freedom Park to people from all walks of life: student, couples, the young, the elderly, jeepney drivers, vendors manning the food stalls, etc. For Magpies, this project was an experiment of collaborating not with artists, but with the audience, and with the local printing shops and photocopying centers that we as zinesters and university students have grown to love: copies of the zine were left at Star, RMS, and KW&E centers for people to photocopy their own zines, if you just ask for “readings from SEC 69 by Prof. Roque.”

The “Stupid Love” is a zine stylized in Riot Grrl! aesthetics that discusses criticisms directed at institutions such as the state, the award-giving bodies, the mainstream media, etc. The presentation of these criticisms are laden with pop appeal as seen in the examples of “The Men We Love”, a bedroom pin-it poster collage of ‘problematic’ male figures; a fictionalized Tinder profile and chat conversation with the infamous Mocha Uson jilting a date; a newsprint style word search that includes the words of the year; a rephrasing of Filipino proverbs and Panatang Makabayan that adds a comical tone; an annotation of the lyrics of “Stupid Love” and its relations to societal issues; and lastly, a manifesto done in the tradition of the Riot Grrrl! angst and lovelorn fervor that details a staunch declaration against the lies and gimmicks of a “stupid love.”

"my short skirt", a poem by even ensler, from the vagina monologues. 

artwork done by me. 

"my short skirt is not an invitation

a provocation 

an indication  that I want it  or give it  or that I hook.     My short skirt  is not begging for it  it does not want you  to rip it off me  or pull it down.     My short skirt  is not a legal reason  for raping me  although it has been before  it will not hold up  in the new court.     My short skirt, believe it or not  has nothing to do with you.     My short skirt  is about discovering  the power of my lower calves  about cool autumn air traveling  up my inner thighs  about allowing everything I see  or pass or feel to live inside.     My short skirt is not proof  that I am stupid  or undecided  or a malleable little girl.     My short skirt is my defiance  I will not let you make me afraid  My short skirt is not showing off  this is who I am  before you made me cover it  or tone it down.  Get used to it.     My short skirt is happiness  I can feel myself on the ground.  I am here. I am hot.     My short skirt is a liberation  flag in the women's army  I declare these streets, any streets  my vagina's country.     My short skirt  is turquoise water  with swimming colored fish  a summer festival  in the starry dark  a bird calling  a train arriving in a foreign town  my short skirt is a wild spin  a full breath  a tango dip  my short skirt is  initiation  appreciation  excitation.     But mainly my short skirt  and everything under it  is Mine.  Mine.  Mine. "