"No thank you!" in collage letters. "Why do you need to see my face? Why do you assume I would be smiling for you? Why do you feel entitled to my body? Why is your comfort more important than my health?" handwritten in cursive, then lower on the page: "(Would you ask a man the same thing?)". On the right, a cutout photo of a person with their long hair covering their face, and they're holding their face in their hands.

"My bare face wouldn't tell you much more than a respirator mask does anyway. I promise you I do not emote in the way you expect. My facial expressions would not solve any of the mystery. I have resting sad face. That is my neutral face. I'm not that mysterious at all. You could just listen to me. You don't need my whole face." Cutout drawings of KN95 duckbill masks are at the top left and bottom right of the page.

"There's good in mystery. I think it adds something. A MASK TELLS ME A LOT MORE THAN A FACE CAN. I don't always read faces very well. And they betray us most of the time. A mask is intentional. It shows some values and ideas that we share. It says "PROTECT ME", it says "I PROTECT US", it says"I GET IT", it says "SOLIDARITY", it says "I TRUST SCIENCE", it says "I CARE". My smile would only tell you that you made me uncomfortable enough to prompt an attempt to appease you in hopes you'd leave me alone." On the left page, a picture of a blonde woman whose lower half of the face is hidden from the angle of the picture by a hat.

"From old men telling me to "SMILE!" when I was trying to be an emo teenager, to now other queer women asking me why won't I take my mask off at crowded events, cause it would be so much better to "show my smile", it's just always been about people feeling entitled to you when they view you as inferior to them." Starkittyzines Oct 2025

fait pendant le #maskuptober de doodlesbycharlie

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Images are pages of a minizine. Title page "Covid and masks are a conspiracy", and in smaller text "omg?? by whom??". A doodle of a character wearing a black cloak, a black mask, with black hair.

"You've seen them. Those people who STILL wear masks. On buses, trains, planes. At grocery stores. At the gym, even! If you ask them WHY, they'll say: COVID. But we all know that's over. So, WHY?" Doodles show 4 characters, one is the one on the cover, wearing their mask. The other three are not wearing masks. They're all standing in front of a bus stop.

"Think about it... What ELSE do masks do other than filter air? They cover your face... Good if you have something to hide... Like teeth... They're a physical barrier from the sun... If other people wear a mask, it keeps you from smelling their breath... Like if they just ate... Garlic... WHO would this benefit? Who would start such a scheme?" Doodles show three characters, including the masked character, sitting on the bus.

#maskuptober zine n°1
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