<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please circulate widely.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (UCIMC) is hosting the Barf Zine! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>The Barf Zine Tour @ the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center </b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<b>Sat. April 26th, 2014 | 2pm-4pm</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>202 S. Broadway Ave. Urbana 61801</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>About the Barf Zine Tour</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">The </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Barf</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Zine</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> is making its way across the Midwest to bring you rarely discussed blunt analysis, and personal anecdotes about body image, food, eating disorders, and radical identities! </span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">For far too long activists, communists, anarchists, feminists, and queers have turned a blind eye to issues of body dysphoria, fatphobia, and eating disorders. Our insistence that these problems exist only in the normative culture silences the very real comrades, friends, lovers in our community who struggle daily.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Barf</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Zine</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> is an anthology of personal narratives from the people in these diverse communities that are tired of being quiet. We are speaking out, and we want you to listen!</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">As an extra special treat, the </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Barf</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Zine</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Tour</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> is pleased to welcome </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">zine</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> contributor Gus Allis and her short, one woman play entitled “I Thought Fat Girls Were Supposed to be Funny?” along for the ride. Through an intense, darkly funny, brutal monologue, Allis addresses the audience and forces them to examine the effects of fatphobia on one woman's life.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></b><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">More About Presenters<br></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Kate Pleuss has acted in, co-produced and directed plays with Insurgent Theatre from 2008 to 2013. She likes working on DIY projects that have a point and get to it. She works with prisoners in Ohio and enjoys writing short stories every once in a while. Kate grew up with cats and chickens in WI and now lives in an itsy bitsy commune in Columbus Ohio. </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Gus Allis is a writer, performer, and storyteller based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Specializing in brutal, blunt prose, she enjoys changing minds and opening hearts through emotional oversharing, TMI-filled monologues, and mythological metaphors. When she was 5 years old, she cut off all the eyelashes on one of her eyes because she wanted to see if it would make half her face look like a boy. It didn't.</span><br>
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