Hey so I have 4 boxes of original TOS Star Trek slash zines (the slash that started it all, from the 60′s-70′s, when people would type slash up on a word processor, print it out, bind them by hand, and mail them out to fans on mailing lists, LIKE THESE ARE ARCHEOLOGICALLY FASCINATING) that I don’t have space for when I move.
I’d love for someone to use these for academic purposes, like writing about the origins of slash fiction, studies of sexuality/erotica, female sexuality (this was something mostly women did in secret, for free, that was the grandmother of things like Ao3 and Fanfiction.net,) etc.
Would anyone want these? I’m selling them basically just for the shipping price. I don’t want them to end up in the trash somewhere or in the backroom of a Goodwill forever.
Please share/reblog to anyone you know who could use em!! The pictures below are only a fourth of what I have.
The OP has been contacted about this, but, for others who are interested, the OTW’s Open Doors manages a Special Collections project with the University of Iowa Libraries called the Fan Culture Preservation Project. The collection includes zines, fannish flyers, paper memorabilia, con programs, and other hard copy fanworks and fannish documents. They’re always happy to get new contributions, so if you have anything lying around in a box somewhere that you’re not sure what to do with, go check it out.
I am so grateful that we can all work together to preserve fan history. -Colleen
Guys I literally immediately thought THAT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA THING because I got to go and visit with @saosmash and @teztime last year because they have several issues of the zine that Sao’s late mom did back in the 70s. We went in on a day that special collections weren’t usually open, but they put together a box for us and we got to go through and laugh and scan them so Sao could have this piece of history that was both her fandom and her mother. It was beautiful and so wonderful that someone had saved these things. Some of the issues Sao and her family still have copies of, but there were ones that had been lost to the family over the years and she’d never seen.
Stuff like this is so important.
Thank you so much for sharing this story. It made me tear up.
Waiting for Winter 