Reassess Yr Weapons
Continuing the fantastic job that Manifesta's original zine, Assess Your Weapons started, the re-launched Reassess Your Weapons offers the space for us to make our individual voices heard in all their unique splendour.
Collating contributions from a wide-ranging group of individuals, and containing text, photography, cartoons, art work and beyond, RAYW offers an area for our unbound creativity to be shared with a wider community.
First and foremost the zine is collaborative action -- it wouldn't be what it is, or as important, without each and every contributed article.
Check the Manifesta message board for updates on future issues, and information on any collaborative, collective articles being planned.
How To Get Involved
The zine is open to anybody to contribute to.
Issues are published as and when enough articles are submitted to create a zine-sized amount of work.
Send anything and everything you wish to contribute (within reason!!), either by email to: reassessyrweapons@manifesta.co.uk or post articles, work, words, art etc. (in A5 format) to: 12 Gypsy Wood Close, Leeds, LS15 9DY.
Here's to filling many more issues with as much of our insight, lives and creativities as possible!
Back Issues... All issues are available from the Manifesta Distro.
Past Issues
RAYW 1 (April '05)
- Dick For A Day
- Apathy is this generation's angst
- Interview with Alison Mosshart of The Kills
- Sexual Abuse organisations in Leeds
- + much more
RAYW 2 (July '05)
- Homophobia in schools
- I'm not a feminist, but…
- Notes on spunk
- Retrospective interviewing of Sleater-Kinney
- Reflections on the 7/7 terrorist attacks
- Nobody ever told me…
- + more
RAYW 3 (Nov '05)
- Discussion of The Davinci Code
- One individual's account of Manifesta's history
- Queer sexual health
- Collective thoughts on Confidence
- Melt Banana review
- Interview with Partyline & Spider and the Webs
- +more
RAYW 4 (March '06)
- Collective thoughts and advice on BurnOut
- Meeting & making links with cultural producers from other countries
- Who's Charity?
- Adventures in Tracting
- Friendship
- Photography & illustration
- + much more
RAYW 5 (July '06)
- Collective thoughts on harassment.
- Making ideas public
- Sleater-Kinney review
- Interview with Lex of the PostQueer Project
- Illustrations galore
- Plus much more
RAYW 6 (November '06)
Comes with a free "Reassess Your Weapons" badge! (While supplies last)
- Myth-busting special, busting myths about: getting your tits out, rape prevention, sodomy, peer pressure, men & feminism, big cocks, and love
- Excert from clit rocket #5
- Adventures in menstruating
- An interview with "The Grates"
- An interview with Kate Bornstein (acclaimed gender writer)
- Reclaiming respect
- Suggestions for further reading
- Plus more
RAYW 7 (Upcoming - Due in August 07)
This issue will feature a collaborative discussion on Community, Collectivity and Communication. Feel free to contribute your voice by submitting an article!