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Zine Library Index
- Work
- Care Work
- Physical Health
- Female Health
- Male Health
- Trans & Intersex Health
- Self Defence
- Mental Health
- Physical Health
- Care Work
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Page Index
- Self-care
- Greif & Loss
- Care work
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Self-Care
Love Yourself, Babe – Buy or Download
a zine about self care. Featuring articles about self love, living on a minimum wage part-time job, self harm, learning to love yourself, journaling and more.
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These Tiny Infinite Things: An Inquiry into Names and Re-naming – Buy or Download
a book of 18 interviews / a collection of conversations with people about names and renaming: why people change their names, how name connects to identity and the cultures the people are connected to, and so much more. It’s super interesting.
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Safe Home #1: Thoughts and Stories about home and friendship by Sarah – Buy or Download
A new zine by Sarah of Tazewell’s… This issues is about finding a way to make a Safe Home in Philladelphia, after growing up in one that wasn’t. about how scary it was to move to a city, trying to find ways to fit in or find people to relate to, working as a professional balloon artist and dating girls. “May be the safest homes are communities based on mutual support and respect…” finding a life that she never knew she could want because she didn’t know it existed. – Cindy Crabb
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Quiet Riot: aka: The Shy Sober Kid Zine by Fabian – Buy or Download
A compilation of stories from people about shyness, anxiety, being sober, and finding ways to cultivate joy and confidence, self-awareness, and more. – Cindy Crabb
i really believe that i was set up to be awkward. being an immigrant brown kid in the u.s. is isolating and i have learned to navigate the tiring hyper-visibility and invisibility that comes with being who i am. i learned early on to code switch on some fronts like school and with my friends parents. but when it came to peers i didn’t get the memo and i was left with my internalization of hyper-visibility and invisibility to fall back on. what this meant that i was either incredibly quiet and hard to get to know or loud and lacking tact. there was little gray area for me growing up…
the thing about getting sober is that it doesn’t solve the problems or issues that we had when we were drinking. getting sober didn’t get rid of racism for instance. i still deal with that shit on the daily but what it did what it gave me time to figure my shit out. i mean think about the hours and hours occupied either drunk or hungover, now that i don’t have that i have time for other shit. but the downside to all that is that it gives me time to think about my past and all the things i could do differently. also being sober means that there is no out of having the hard feelings they come regardless of how much we try to run from them. for me my first two years of sobriety meant confronting my discomfort with my awkwardness.
From ‘thoughts on being an awkward sober brown queer’ in Quiet Riot aka the shy sober kid zine available at Left Bank Books in Seattle and available to read at the zine library in Halifax, Nova Scotia. email riotbrrrlzines@riseup.net if you want a copy
xx fabian
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Secondhand Emotion: a zine about love, anxiety, gender, race, and feelings by Fabian – Buy or Download
Beautifully written zine about romantic love — “a cultural exploration of why women are encouraged to have anxiety aabout love…” This zine talks about her childhood and the lack of positive models of romantic relationships, the culture’s fear and fetishization of black women’s sexuality, tryikng to maintain a desecualized image — women’s friendship, internalized racism, trying to de-center men’s approval and emotions, POC radical fashion, and so much more!
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How to Sleep by Neik Glasshouse – Buy or Download
In June 2014, I wrote a 32+ page zine called How To Sleep. I’ll send it to your for free if you want it! It was handmade with love and I hope you enjoy it.
You can also read the whole zine below! If you like what you see, consider getting the zine because there are some special things in it that can not be expressed the same here online.
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A Practical Guide to Fighting Monsters: winning against the enemies of your heart and your head. by Sarah Sawyers-Lovett
Drawings and facts about some of the misters that live in all of our minds, and some tips on banishing them. A very playful take on dealing with our insecurities and bad habits.
16 pages halfsize. B&W
I love this zine. Each page is a funny picture of a monster, what it does, what it’s weakness is, and a quote. Like Blue Phunk, N. Sentient, Toady Brownnoser, Vex Tantrum. Super funny and good way to identify problematic self tendencies and how to combat them with humor.- Cindy Crabb
Keep Track: Pocket Calender
This is my little calender and pocket organizer! Cute drawings! Fits in your pocket! There are two pages for each month, with four blank pages with little drawings for taking notes and making lists.
The calender part has blank spots for you to fill in the dates, so that you can start at any time, but if you want me to fill it in, I will.
Issue #6 includes my attempt to investigate the traces of anxiety, depression, suicide, and alcoholism in my family’s history as well as my own difficulties with these issues. Eight sections discuss: the secrecy surrounding my family’s history of suicides, a recent suicide in my family, my issues with anxiety and pushing emotions aside, my reoccuring suicidal thoughts and how my identities intersect with them, talking with a fellow queer/trans friend struggling with suicide, assessing my tumultuous relationship with alcohol and deciding to become consciously sober, what I can do to manage and deal with things, and what I plan to do in the future. There is a trigger warning for the zine relating to depression, anxiety, suicide, self-harm, alcoholism, sexual assault, and abuse – please take care of yerself before you read this. It is intense. Extremely text heavy, B&W, 1/4 size, 46 pages. $3 US / $4 international (includes shipping), or trade! [February 2012]
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Issue #8 is about memory loss, queer(y)ing growth, and teen advice.
When working on a piece for Hoax #9: Feminisms and Vulnerabilities, I initially intended to take the queer advice framework of writing to one’s theoretical teen self and flip it on its head by creating a fictionalized direct dialogue with my ten-years-younger self. After taking much time investigating different ways to enact this, I scrapped the idea altogether—I had a lot of internal dialogue about why I didn’t want to follow the queer advice road much traveled and realized that I couldn’t give voice to myself in the past because I was almost totally estranged from my memories and feelings from that time period. In this zine, which is a much-expanded version of the piece featured in Hoax #9, I discuss the complications I have seemingly always had with remembering things, reconceptualizing the past to more adequately place myself in the future, and ideas to share with non-normative teens and young adults for navigating tough situations.
B&W, 1/2 size, 24 pages, & text heavy.
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Issue #10 is about internalized homophobia, waiting for friendships to form, coping with abusive relationships, using men as “beards” and dating them to access social spaces and to survive in a heterosexist small-town environment, survivorship, and using anger as a means of self-sufficiency. [November 2014]
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Neither Doll Houses nor Tree Houses: On Living Outside of the Gender Binary
Finished in under 24 hours for the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest, this zine focuses on the ups and downs of finding myself outside of the gender binary and attempts to both de- and re-construct various questions about my own gender as well as gender in general. Three separate sections discuss feeling pushed out of femininity, how masculinity is viewed as inherent and femininity is viewed as a fictitious performance, how striving for the “perfect balance” of two genders is not plausible nor an adequate solution, acceptance or tolerance (or neither) that I feel in specific spaces, how my radical friends misgender and disrespect me more often than my non-radical ones, the (non-) accessibility of queer jargon and language, how coming out has garnered me the most intense gender assumptions yet, dealing with friends who don’t “get it”, my desire to validate my own identity without stepping on the identity of others, and checking white privilege. March 2012. 32 pgs, ½ size, B&W. $2-3 or trade.
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Thou Shalt Not Talk about the White Boys’ Club: Challenging the Unwritten Rules of Punk
Touted as being a home for society’s rejects, outcasts, and ‘alternative’ political stances, punk unfortunately often ends up reinforcing oppressive mindsets and ideals by setting up numerous unwritten rules for dress, behavior, personal choices, identifications, and so much more. This zine aims to direct conscious attention to the nuances of being a marginalized person, namely a woman, queer person, or POC, in the punk community. Includes questions intended to incite dialogue among readers and their friends as well as a short list of recommended resources concerning marginalized experiences in punk. B&W, 34 pages, & text heavy.
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Greif and loss
The Worst #3 – A Compilation Zine on Grief and Loss
This issue contains pieces from 22 contributors exploring radical, DIY, activist and community responses to grief and loss. It includes submissions exploring loss due to suicide and violence, complicated and disenfranchised grief, loss of siblings, parents, friends, and mentors, and anticipation of a loss during prolonged illness. Also includes an interview with a social center about their memorial altar, tips for how to write about the tuff stuff, and a resource list. 76 1/2 legal pages with handprinted cover.
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The Worst: A Compilation Zine on Grief and Loss: Issue 2
A new issue of this beautiful zine, thick and full of stories and articles about grief and dealing with death.
I read it a month ago, and I can’t remember for sure, but it seemed like this one had more stories from people who were a little older and had more time/distance from the deaths they were writing about, where as the first issue seemed more immediate. Both are so useful! Both have a wide variety of stories.
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Care Work
Harlot, RN by Megan Honor
Megan, a queer radical feminist who identifies herself as white, middle-class and college-educated; writes about working as a registered nurse. She considers how her radical politics simultaneously clash and agree with nursing practices, getting involved with her labor union, favorite plants, and herbal medication.
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- Care
- How the hell did I end up here?
- Pressure ulcers
- Coworkers
- I do fucked up things
- Getting involved with the union
- Family support
- Having time to talk
- Queer at work
- Patient satisfaction
- I caused a pressure ulcer
- This really exists?!
- Patients, drugs, and hard times
- Plants I love
- I lie and say I don’t have regrets.
I love Megan and I love this zine. – Cindy Crabb
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Plunder #3.5 / Confessions of an SHS worker by Sandy and Elsie
“It’s a hard time to be someone who works in homelesness services. Public housing is systematically run down to force people out of the system. New public housing being built doesn’t keep up with population growth in NSW, let alone refleccting that private rental is becoming increasingly unaffordable, or that there are tens of thousands on the waiting list…”
Plunder #3 was a zine by Sandy about their experiences working in the community housing sector in Melbourne. This reissue is a split with Elsie, a community housing worker from Sydney, who responds to Sandy’s points and adds their own stories.
A6, 80 pages, b/w photocopy.
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Activist Journeys 