Gender no Jutsu

A free, digital zine to celebrate the queer gender expressions in the Naruto verse. May it be Kakashi undergoing his transition, intersex Tobirama improving medical care for intersex people, Minato doing drag, Haku defying the traditional roles of binary gender or Tsunade inventing HRT, gender has many shapes! Dattebayo!

What's next?

Time for some awesome creativity to happen! Creation period

About

About this zine
Gender no Jutsu: The Naruto Genderfuckery Zine is a free and digital zine about gender expressions in the Narutoverse. We aim for content centered around gender in all its variations. This can be trans Kakashi undergoing transition, intersex Tobirama working on improving the conditions for intersex people, Minato doing drag, Haku defying traditional roles of binary gender, Tsunade inventing HRT or even cis Sakura embracing her gender and toying with it. The zine will contain all sorts of works centered around the wide ranging topic of gender, may it be cis, trans, nonbinary, agender or inter.What is allowed and what not
This will be a pro-ship zine, meaning that there might be content some might find inapproriate due to falling unter the dead dove label. As a rule of thumbs the zine allows any content that is also allowed on ao3, any and all works will be tagged properly with warnings and positive tags.All works have to be centered around gender as a topic. This does not mean, that either the creator or the character has to be a tian person, because cis people are also allowed to toy around with gender and deserve a little HRT as a treat. Gender is for all, not only the cool people ^^ Drag is allowed as well, since it is a form of art, that works with gender.All characters from both Naruto and Naruto Shippuden (anime and manga) are allowed as well as all ships and all villages (not only Konoha). However, we won't accept works centered around Boruto characters and timeline.The works are allowed to portrait queermisia under the condition that it has consequences. This can be for example by showing the physical and mental consequences for the misstreated person or letting the perpetrator experience the backlash for their shitty behaviour. However, deadnaming of either the contributors or the characters is not allowed. If you want to include the topic of deadnames, please avoid writing out the deadname.Genderbend is not allowed. If you want to give a character another gender than in canon, then please portrait them as tian (more on that in the FAQ), since this zine aims for marginalized gender representations and the specific struggles and joys coming with it.The zine will contain both nsfw and sfw content and all content will be tagged properly.Contributor requirements
Writer:
2-8k _(+-10%)
any prose
We look for a maximum of 10 writers
Artists:
size single page: 8.3" x 11.7" / 210mm x 297mm / 2480px x 3508px
double page spread art: 11.7" x 16.6" / 297mm x 420mm / 3508px x 4961px
at least 300DPI
RGB colorspectrum (exact profile doesn't matter)
full background and shading
for comic artists: 2 - 8 single pages or 1 - 4 double pages with either BW lineart or flat coloring/reduced shading, no fully shaded background needed

FAQ

What is a zine?
Zine is short for magazine and describes a form of amateur magazines, that go back as far as the 1930s. Zines are often a way for subcultures to spread their specific content, especially before the rise of the internet. Examples are sff zines, zines from and about the punk subculture and fandom specific zines (for example Spirk slash zines in the Star Trek community). Read more in the Fanlore Wiki.What does tian mean?
tian stands for trans, intersex, agender and nonbinary and is an umbrella term for all those people, who aren't endocis. This zine aims to portrait as many marginalized gender expressions as possible, tho that of course depends entirely on our contributors and their pitches.What's with inter and endo?
Intersex or short inter people are people whose innate sex characteristics don't fit normative medical or social ideas for female and male bodies. This can be due to a variation in the XY/XX chromosome set, a high testosterone level for people assigned female at birth, genitalia who aren't clearly female or male following a medical definition of the terms and so on. Intersex has many variations. Inter people can identify as cis or trans, it's up for them, how they want to describe themselves.Endo is the opposite, meaning those people whose innate sex characteristics do fit normative medical or social ideas for female and male bodies.How can I contribute?
We look for brave people to help us mod the zine as well as writer, page, comic, spot and merch artists. Check our schedule to see, when the applications for each role open.Will there be a physical zine?
No. We plan to make this zine digital only.Is this zine for profit or for a charity?
No. The zine will be completely FREE.Will this zine be sfw?
We will have a zine with both a sfw and a nsfw section.Due to this we only allow mods & contributors, who are 18+! If you lie about your age and we find out, we'll kick you out faster than you can say "dattebayo".What kind of work will be included in the zine?
We will have fanfics, page and spot art, comics and digital merch (profile pics and headers, wallpapers for desktop and phone, printable bookmarks and potentially more).Oh no, I'm endocis. Can I still work with you?
Very sorry to hear that, but yes, of course you can!Do I have to put my chosen character(s) under the gender lasergun and trans their gender?
Appart from this being a very funny and entertaining thing to do it is not neccessary to write any character as tian. Of course we encourage it, but we also believe, that gender is a topic that affects all people, tian as well as endocis. Still, we want a focus of marginalized gender expressions. Therefore genderbend is not wanted for this zine.Is both Naruto and Boruto content allowed?
No Boruto, we only want content from Naruto and Naruto Shippuden (manga and anime, including all filler episodes). Potential movie content is allowed as long as it plays during the Naruto and Naruto Shippuden timeline.What about ships? And villages?
All ships are allowed. This zine's content is not Konoha exclusive. Hashirama and Madara might have invented the village system but they don't hold the patent on gender.I think content XY is problematic and should not be featured in the zine!
Please be chill about any kink, dead dove and pairing or other content, even if it might be your personal squick. If you still can't be chill about it, then this zine is quite probably not for you and we ask you to simply not engage further with it.Will there be tags?
Yes, we will do our utmost to tag all works properly with warnings (such as gore, character deaths, queermisia and more) and positive tags (such as the type of AU, gender euphoria, found family and more).So, AUs are allowed?
Absolutely! Any and all AUs are allowed, time travel, fix it, Modern AU and more! However, we won't have crossovers with other fandoms.What else is expected of me as a contributor?
We're glad you asked! Therefore we've put together a complete contributor guideline, where you find all the infos for the application process, descriptions of all the roles we want to fill, and all the informations you need once the creation period has beginn. Click here for the contributor guideline.