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Leira Zamzam
@leirazamzam.bsky.social
50 followers 110 following 110 posts
Mop of hair pretending to be a person (they/them) Genderfluid 🏳️‍🌈✨😘
Previously in games and animation, currently artin' it up solo.
Figuring out my artistic voice one day at a time

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November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The zine account is sooo close to 500 followers 🌀 ooohhh you want to check out this queer zine and follow the account ooohhh 🌀
taplingzines.bsky.social Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · Oct 12
We're tired of LGBTQ+ content being censored.

Tired of people pretending that being queer or trans is a new "fad", and not something that’s existed, perfectly naturally, for as long as people have been around.

Check out our mission, and join us in fighting censorship. 🏳️‍🌈
⬇️
Rainbow stripes with a white text box over it, and an image below of a person holding the intersectional pride flag over their back. The text box reads: "As a team of two trans (Sapling is nonbinary and Felix is two-spirit!) husbands, we’ve felt exhausted online lately, with censorship closing in on us all. Queer content is being banned, restricted, under fire, and we’re sick of it. So we’re creating something offline, a physical art book, a collaborative community project. Something to give us all hope. Something to connect us through our many cultures, all across the world. With our first zine, “We’ve Always Been Here,” we aim to show just this: that we’ve always been a part of history, and we’ll always be a part of the future too." Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and an image below of two Black men getting close, with one kissing the other on the cheek. The text box reads: "'We’ve Always Been Here' focuses on the 'unseen' queer history of the world. There’s plenty of names we all know of real people who have made their mark: Marsha P. Johnson, Alan Turing, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, and many, many more. But what about those that didn’t ‘go down in history’? What about the woman down the street from your great grandmother, who lived with her ‘best friend’ for decades until she passed? What about the medieval king who kept his lover secret his whole life? What about the cowboys who used the wide, open ranges with no one else around to keep their relationships a secret?" Rainbow stripes with a white textbox, and below are three circular images of two Korean women walking together, two African men laughing as they talk, and two Indian women chatting and laughing. The text box reads: "Our zine focuses on this, on the everyday people that no one knew about, that no one wrote about. The people that modern society wants to pretend never existed. LGBTQ+ people just living their lives, throughout all of history and all of the world. We want to show one simple thing to the world with this collaborative zine: We’ve always been here. And we always will be." Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and below is a colorful image from a pride parade, with rainbow flags waving high into the sky. The text box reads: "How to support our mission. Share us on social media! @TaplingZines on BlueSky, Instagram, and Tumblr. Join our email list! Sign up form at taplingzines.carrd.co And tell all your friends!"
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Let's start some artist intros! 🥳

For We’ve Always Been Here, Hortensjjja ( @hortensjjja.bsky.social ) will be illustrating two queer men in Polish folk costumes, with both trans and disability representation, as they celebrate the first day of Spring to capture the symbolism of transition.
An art piece by Hortensjjja of two masculine characters leaning in for a kiss, with a colorful banner across the top that says "We've Always Been Here." In the bottom right is a small box that says "Page artist."
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Ida ( @tujiux.bsky.social ) is bringing sapphic love into this zine with two vibrant Peking Opera singers absolutely enamored with each other! Peking is the prior name for modern-day Beijing. Expect some gorgeous fashion with this illustration!

#ArtZine #QueerArt #Beijing #SapphicArt
A digital illustration of a feminine knight with long black hair in front of a vulture. There's a colorful banner across the top that says "We've Always Been Here" and a small box at the bottom that says "Page artist."
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Our first merch artist for We’ve Always Been Here is Lisondraws ( @lisondraws.bsky.social )! They will be making a limited edition sticker sheet representing LGBTQ+ symbols of the 1800s, along with some trans lesbian representation.

#Trans #TransFem #QueerArt #ArtZine #QueerZine
A photo of a sticker sheet of Ace Attorney characters in pastel colors, with each sticker made to look like a postage stamp. The colorful banner across the top of the image says "We've Always Been Here" and the white box at the bottom says "Merch artist."
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Xoma ( @xoma-arc.bsky.social ) plans to paint two women sitting on a sandstone temple or city walls, set in the ancient Arab world, overlooking the desert at sunset as they lean in to kiss.

#QueerZines #ArtZines #Zines #ZineProject
A digital illustration of several people flying on the backs of bird-like creatures over a desert, their faces obscured by masks. On the top is a colorful banner that says, "We've Always Been Here", and in the bottom left is a text box that says "Page artist."
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I'm so happy to be a part of this project! Can't wait to see all the other great ideas!
taplingzines.bsky.social Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 6d
Xoma ( @xoma-arc.bsky.social ) plans to paint two women sitting on a sandstone temple or city walls, set in the ancient Arab world, overlooking the desert at sunset as they lean in to kiss.

#QueerZines #ArtZines #Zines #ZineProject
A digital illustration of several people flying on the backs of bird-like creatures over a desert, their faces obscured by masks. On the top is a colorful banner that says, "We've Always Been Here", and in the bottom left is a text box that says "Page artist."
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Get ready for some gay cowboys with Matthew Spencer's ( @mspencerdraws.bsky.social ) upcoming illustration, featuring two POC cowboys riding across an open landscape, painted with stunning traditional media.

#ArtZine #Cowboys #QueerArt #QueerZine #Zines #TraditionalArt #TraditionalArtist
A traditional illustration of multiple fantasy characters and animals with various rainbow motifs on clothing, accessories, and other decorations. A white box at the top says "Page artist" and a rainbow banner on the bottom says "We've Always Been Here."
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Meg Hyland ( @womenof1000.bsky.social ) will be illustrating pre-colonial Ecuadorian queer history, focusing on the Tolita culture of 350 BC to 400 AD, with her stunning colored pencil skills!

#Ecuador #Indigenous #QueerHistory #QueerZine #LGBTQZine #TraditionalArt
A colored pencil art piece of an older Indigenous woman wrapped in a blanket, sitting by a fire at night as she looks up at the stars. At the top is a white box that says "Page Artist" and on the bottom is a colorful banner that says "We've Always Been Here."
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Jan Falk ( @thistlearts.bsky.social ) is planning to bring us a European, Rococo-style piece, with some Achillean and gender-nonconforming representation. Expect decorations like silk, taffeta, powdered wigs, and other fashion of the time!

#Rococo #QueerArt #QueerZine #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory
A digital illustration of Hans and Henry from Kingdom Come: Deliverance, standing surrounded by foliage while posed cozily together. The top of the image says "Page artist" in a white box, and a colorful banner across the bottom says "We've Always Been Here."
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Wenn ( @windwenn.bsky.social ) will be depicting Western European medieval cow- or goatherds, peacefully being themselves, showing how queer people throughout history have always been able to find safe spaces in nature.

#ZineProject #Zines #ArtZines #LGBTQArt #QueerArt
Fanart of Witch Hat Atelier, with Qifrey, a white-haired male witch kneeling on the ground, and Olruggio, a black-haired male witch crouched over him, gently holding him while Qifrey hides his face behind a handful of flowers. At the top is a colorful banner that says "We've Always Been Here" and at the bottom is a small white box that says "Page artist."
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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taplingzines.bsky.social
We're tired of LGBTQ+ content being censored.

Tired of people pretending that being queer or trans is a new "fad", and not something that’s existed, perfectly naturally, for as long as people have been around.

Check out our mission, and join us in fighting censorship. 🏳️‍🌈
⬇️
Rainbow stripes with a white text box over it, and an image below of a person holding the intersectional pride flag over their back. The text box reads: "As a team of two trans (Sapling is nonbinary and Felix is two-spirit!) husbands, we’ve felt exhausted online lately, with censorship closing in on us all. Queer content is being banned, restricted, under fire, and we’re sick of it. So we’re creating something offline, a physical art book, a collaborative community project. Something to give us all hope. Something to connect us through our many cultures, all across the world. With our first zine, “We’ve Always Been Here,” we aim to show just this: that we’ve always been a part of history, and we’ll always be a part of the future too." Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and an image below of two Black men getting close, with one kissing the other on the cheek. The text box reads: "'We’ve Always Been Here' focuses on the 'unseen' queer history of the world. There’s plenty of names we all know of real people who have made their mark: Marsha P. Johnson, Alan Turing, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, and many, many more. But what about those that didn’t ‘go down in history’? What about the woman down the street from your great grandmother, who lived with her ‘best friend’ for decades until she passed? What about the medieval king who kept his lover secret his whole life? What about the cowboys who used the wide, open ranges with no one else around to keep their relationships a secret?" Rainbow stripes with a white textbox, and below are three circular images of two Korean women walking together, two African men laughing as they talk, and two Indian women chatting and laughing. The text box reads: "Our zine focuses on this, on the everyday people that no one knew about, that no one wrote about. The people that modern society wants to pretend never existed. LGBTQ+ people just living their lives, throughout all of history and all of the world. We want to show one simple thing to the world with this collaborative zine: We’ve always been here. And we always will be." Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and below is a colorful image from a pride parade, with rainbow flags waving high into the sky. The text box reads: "How to support our mission. Share us on social media! @TaplingZines on BlueSky, Instagram, and Tumblr. Join our email list! Sign up form at taplingzines.carrd.co And tell all your friends!"
October 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Outfits
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Painted a tewlip
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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She loves paper bag nest
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Where my neurodivergence peaks the most is my apparent inability to remember that I already own cumin. Then I'm out and about and I'm like "aww I ran out of that little container of cumin I need to buy more" forgetting about the SEVERAL LARGE JARS I ALREADY HAVE
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Here's the new painting, The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right.

(So named because I was obsessively replaying the new Lisa O'Neil song as I began painting it, and it felt right)
A 38 by 24 inch oil painting on canvas depicts a big, pink, wavy stratocumulus cloud rising above a small soccer field. A tiny figure in a raincoat stares at the cloud, a small dog rushes towards us. Some of the trees along the field are turning red or orange.
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Me after every social interaction
Arthur, from the hit PBS show of the same name, sits at a grand piano, covering his eyes with his hands and crying saying “I must have made at least fifty mistakes”
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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What I've been making lately. Sculpture has felt a lot more playful for me these days.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Favorite flowers🌿
#EmmrichVolkarin
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Feels right to share this illustration while I enjoy Trans Pride day in Seattle. 😌

#oc #ocsky #art #trans
June 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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The original funky fellows that made me wanna try painting on panel are finalllyyyy mounted and framed. Very pleased with how 3 Dimensional the whole look is!

#art #artsky #painting
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Jiggling them around a bit so you can see the shinnnyyyyyy
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Trying out some art with collage elements. It was a lot fussier than I imagined but I'm absolutely gonna try it again

#art #artsky #traditionalart
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Framed another baddie

#art #artsky
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM