Kicking off the monthly Collaboration Lunches! (Speakers Info Below + more forthcoming)
Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 12-2 PM (Virtual)
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KdaOja6xQQuQwfedTOmNIQ
Join OPIRG Provincial and our local chapters as we kick off the year with connection, storytelling, and creativity.
What’s Happening?
OPIRG Provincial invites you to our virtual Zine and Archive Project (ZAP) launch event
This event will kick off our Zine and Archive Project (ZAP), a project designed to collect and share zines, OPIRG publications, and creative works created by, with, and for our local PIRGs and community networks. These zines and publications hold generations of radical thought and remain ungoverned by popular media. Through our ZAP launch, we aim to honour and preserve these histories while using zines and publications as tools to reject mass media machines.
We’re also excited to support and uplift Dis-Orientation, Rad Frosh, and Alt Frosh weeks across Ontario PIRGS. These weeks promote activism and organizing through workshops, events, and activities that challenge the traditional university experience and connect students to grassroots movements.
In addition, this virtual launch is one way OPIRG Provincial is offering space to celebrate the important work happening at our local chapters. Whether you’re a longtime OPIRG member, a new student, or a community organizer, this event is for you!
What to Expect:
- Launch of the Zine and Archive Project (ZAP)
- Hear from local Chapters about particular Zines or publications they’ve created
- Spotlight on PIRG-led DisOrientation, Rad Frosh, and Alt Frosh programming
- Info on OPIRG Provincial’s 2025-2026 Collaboration Lunches
- Expand your network of rad folks doing rad things!
How to Join:
RSVP via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KdaOja6xQQuQwfedTOmNIQ
Questions or accessibility requests? Email opirgprovcoordinator@gmail.com
Do you have materials you’d like to add to the Zine Archive Project (ZAP)?
Submit it through this form: ZAP Submission Form
Access info:
- No specific topic or preparations needed
- Safer space policy guidelines in place
- Zoom automatic closed captions
- Breaks at any time as needed!
Speakers Info:
Aaron El Sabrout (he/him) is a transgender alien currently living on unceded Haldimand Tract Territory (Haudenosaunee, Michi Saagig Anishinaabe, Attawondaron). He is originally from Cairo, Egypt. He makes comics, art, poetry, and video games, all of which are weird and trans and to do with plants somehow.
His work has been published in We Want it All: A Radical Anthology of Trans Poetics, featured in the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, and he is a recurring contributor to T! zine. His games and zines can be found at https://toreachpoise.itch.io. As you read this he is likely out dreaming of mushrooms or planting seeds for liberation.
Omorowa Eguakun (she/they)- Omorowa is the Volunteer Programming and Community Engagement Coordinator for OPIRG Guelph – she enjoys supporting students and community members in their advocacy and skill development when it comes to organizing and activism! As part of her work at OPIRG Guelph for the past four years, she has taken over the airwaves of RadiOPIRG on CFRU 93.3FM, a radio program that interviews activists, rad people and community events in Guelph and beyond.
Kerry Duncan (they/them) loves zines, and incorporates them into their life and work wherever possible – whether it teaching folks how to make a photo mini zine birthday card, publishing local lists of resources, or working along community partners and activists to publish anthologies, Kerry has seen firsthand how zines allow for art and activism to work together to share ideas and build collective abundance.
In their work at OPIRG Brock, they have also published a range of community zines and resources, such as the DisOrientation Guide to Niagara and the Coming Out Monologues V.2, and the Animal Activist Calendar. They also host zine-making workshops and have actively supported Action Groups like the Willow Arts Community Niagara Reproductive Justice by creating and publishing their own zines!
Angela (Andie) Demarse (she/he) is an LSPIRG-Brantford staff member. He drew inspiration for Gender Euphoria from gender-punk curiosity, nature, wildness, poetry, queerness, weirdness, self-acceptance and Jungian psychology.
Andie co-envisioned & co-created Gender Euphoria with V Pereira (they/them), with the intention of creating a celebratory space for genderqueer folks.
Emily Green (she/her) is a queer Jewish activist, community organizer, and crafty tinkerer. She works as the Programming and Volunteer Coordinator with OPIRG at York University.
Emily has been a zine enthusiast for a long time and is excited to share!
