Cyberbully is a hybrid of space and showcase; a texture of thinking that forms when sincerity meets the speed and spite of being online. We came up here, which means we know performance when we see it.
Cyberbully is a reading series for writers who aren't always interested in being palatable.
This is a reading series for writers who aren't interested in being palatable. For work that has absorbed the internet — its cruelty, its intimacy, its compulsive oversharing — and come out the other side with something to say. We're not interested in digital as metaphor. We're interested in what it actually did to us.Every event is live. Bodies in a room. That friction is the point — because the work we platform lives online but was always meant to land somewhere real, somewhere it can make people uncomfortable in person rather than just in a tab they'll close.
Transgression here isn't a brand. It's a standard. We ask: does this writing take a risk that could hurt the writer? Does it implicate the reader? Does it know exactly what it's doing and do it anyway? If yes, you're in the right place.
Cyberbully is for the people who got called too much, too online, too raw. Turns out that was the job description.
Cyberbully aims to bridge the gap between creatives,
and, if you like what you see there and have something you want to share as well, please don't hesitate to read the submission guidelines and do so! as a free community project, the lainzine is what people make of it, with those people being anyone at all who feels some sort of affiliation with lain and the many things the name has come to mean. so don't feel like your work or ideas don't belong just because they differ a bit from what's been in past zines. we're all connected, after all :P
if you have any questions (or just feel like saying hello), either shoot an
email at lainzine@protonmail.com or stop by #lainzine on
lainchan!
here are a few links to interesting people, then:
https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.fr/
go look at them instead!