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Alex Wrekk/ Brainscan
Name: Alex Wrekk
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afrogenderqueer
Name: Toi Scott
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Description: Toi is an ordinary superhero from Texas who is a gender non-conforming author, playwright, spoken word artist, storyteller, journalist, healer, medicine maker, health advocate, food justice activist, anti-oppression organizer, workshop facilitator and curriculum developer. They also are a QPOC/POC (queer/people of color) community builder.
They have published academic papers on race, gender, healing and illness and have been published in People of Color Organize!, Racialicious, the Scavenger, Wild Gender.com, Examiner.com, Black Girl Dangerous and various other media outlets and publications.
Their current writings include Notes from an Afro-Genderqueer 1 and 2- two collections of blogs and articles concerning the intersections of race, gender, and organizing as a queer person of color; zines Philosophactivist 1 and 2; a planetary chapbook trilogy: Venus, Saturn and Mars; and two brown, radical, genderqueer plays and novels called The Genderqueer Files: La Qolectiv@ and Resistencia: Sangre.
Toi’s writings are a discourse on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, ability and organizing as a gender non-conforming, queer person of color at the intersection of marginalized identities.
Over the past ten years, they have decided to ignore society’s norms, crush boxes, rip off labels, and just BE and he invites you to join them on their journey for TRUTH and reality.
Amber Dearest / Fight Boredom Distro
Name: Amber Dearest
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Description: Zines by queers, feminists, anarchists. Focusing on addiction and recovery, gender, friendship, and more. Perzines to make you feel hopeful
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Bad Mouth
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Description: Art workshops and zines for discussion around personal politics and radical identities.
Beast Grrl
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Description: Beast Grrl is a small magazine containing short essays and writings along with art concerning women’s rights and other important social issues. It was founded by three girls who live in Baltimore Every issue features art from people all over, and produced in Baltimore, MD.
Billie Rain
Name: Billie Rain (William Maria Rain / Erika Reinstein)
Email: billierain.com/contact-me
Description: billie is a disabled writer, activist and filmmaker. years of chronic illness and a rare tumor condition have given hir an amazing sense of groundedness, connection and self-advocacy that fuel hir passion to bring truth, in all it’s pain and glory, to audiences everywhere.
BloomerZine
Name: Ben Barker
Email: Etsy contact
Description: Emo communism basically.
Brian J. Solem / Brianna Dearest
Name: Brianna
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Description: Motor City Kitty is a long-running perzine from Ohio that discusses trauma, recovery, sobriety & more. Recent issues of the zine focus on her life adventures- such as touring the east coast alone via Megabus, and striving to live an ideal life, despite having to navigate her way through complicated relationships and struggling with mental illness. The zine is made cut and paste style, with typewritten text juxtaposed alongside Brianna’s own illustrations.
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Comet Crowbar / infecticitis
Name: Comet Crowbar
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Chronic Pain zine
Website: chronicpainzine.blogspot.co.uk
Name: Claire and Meredith
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ClaireUrb
Name: Claire Urbanski
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Clementine Morrigan
Name: Clementine Morrigan
Email: clementinemorrigan.com/contact/
Description: I am available for speaking, performances, screenings of my film, tarot readings and facilitation of workshops on writing, zine making, accessibility, sexuality, complicating polyamory, tarot, witchcraft and other topics. Please use this form for inquiries into booking me for your event or for any other reason. Please be patient with me as I sometimes take a little bit to respond.
Catherine Elms
Name: Catherine Elms
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Description: Catherine Elms is an unsigned singer/songwriter and pianist, whose music combines heavy rock, dark cabaret, emotionally-charged melodies and impassioned lyrics. A self-taught non-classical pianist, Catherine’s raw and evocative playing style lies directly between the brash power of PJ Harvey and the baroque pop-rock of 1990s Tori Amos. Her music possesses a dark intensity with softly defined edges: both introspective and spirited. Described as “dramatic” (Buzz Magazine), “adventurous” (The Flux), “fragile and fierce” (Off The Radar), and “haunting” (South Wales Evening Post), Catherine is a rising artist in the South Wales music scene driven ever forward by a growing loyal fanbase.
Charlotte Cooper
Name: Charlotte Cooper
Email: charlottecooper.net/contact
Description: I have been making small homemade publications since the early 1990s, by myself, with friends and loves, with collectives, as a contributor. I am interested in text-heavy queer zines and things which dare to say the unsayable.
Cheyenne Neckmonster
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Cindy Crabb
Name: Cindy Crabb
Email: for business inquires only
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Description: I do not answer person emails. Please please please do not send me emails unless it is necessary. I only have dial-up internet where I live, and computers give me a headache. Write me.
Cinnamon Buns Fanzine
Name: Sebastian Fierce
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Description: It is a queer trans-faggy body positive zine called CINNAMON BUNS that features all sorts of smoking hot babes and slamming food recipes.
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Deafula
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Dean Spade
Name: Dean Spade
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Dysphoria Collective
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electrichaos
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Description: hi! i make stuff.
Dig Deep
Name: Heather
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Enola Dismay
Name: Enola Dismay
Email: coldbrood.tumblr.com/ask
Description: The nation vicariously lives through “No Gods No Mattresses” Enola Dismay, squatting at home, touring with friends and traveling alone, dictating the journey as a woman armed with the power of consent and self-love.
Emma / Dig it Distro & Press
Name: Emma
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Description: emma is a cynical dyke trash girl. she started dig it a couple years ago just as a small press, but it was too much to handle alone and it seemed kinda immature anyways. things that mean a lot to her are insurrectionary transfeminism, mutual aid, solidarity as action, destroying whiteness, riding freight trains, hobo culture and purple eyeliner. she is a recovered addict & alcoholic, and mentally ill with chronic pain; a proper hostile queer. she has been a literature nerd since she was a wee lass.
Erick Lyle / SCAM
Name: Erick Lyle
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Erin Fae
Name: Erin Fae
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ella funt
Name: Ciara Xyerra
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Description: ciara xyerra has been writing zines for the better part of two decades. she started as a young teenager, when she wrote ludicrously long zines about her vaguely-formed neophyte feminist observations & hilarious family antics. she is amazed & disturbed to still be in contact with some of the folks who suffered through that dark period. after taking a zine hiatus, organizing the first bowling green zine conference in 1999, & moving to portland, oregon, she launched a far superior zine called “a renegade’s handbook to love & sabotage”. it was also absurdly long & ran for five issues, recounting her adventures in feminist collectives, helping unionize powell’s books, dating schmoes, mental & reproductive health, & discovering anarcha-feminism.
Ellie June Navidson
Name: Ellie June Navidson
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Everyday Magic
Name: Finn Cunningham
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Fabians Writing
Name: fabian romero
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Description: indigenous immigrant queer boi writer.
Fucked zine
Name: Kristy, Anna, Hannah, Tasha & Tristan
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Description: A queer- and feminist-led zine and workshop project discussing topics like the asexual/ aromantic spectrums, mental health and disability, race, polyamory and non-monogamy, sobriety, consent, compulsory sexuality, sex work, and their relationship to queerness and sex-positive feminisms.
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Generation Five
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Geoff
Name: Geoff
Email: livingnotexisting.org/contact
Description: geoff is a mixed race gender queer of filipinx descent as a settler living on colonized land known as toronto, turtle island, traditionally land of the haudenosaunee, mississaugas of the new credit, huron-wendat and other indigenous peoples. they are an activist, grassroots community organizer and writer. they identify as a sober addict in recovery. geoff is a graduate of the social service worker program at george brown college. recently, they completed their undergraduate degree at the university of toronto, majoring in equity and sexual diversity studies. they wish to politicize their experiences with substance use and sobriety while unravelling the limited representation of the addicted body.
Ghost Lungs
Name: Em Rose
Email: http://spectralprojection.tumblr.com/ask
Description: midwestern expat with kentucky roots living on the east coast. i mostly care about queer readings of pop country songs & trying not to be a terrible person.
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Homomilitia
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Hysteria Collective
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Jeana Harris / Boise Zine Distro
Name: Jeana Harris
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jacobvjoyce
Name: Jacob V Joyce
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Description: I draw strength and inspiration from African theology, environmental activism and histories of Decolonial Resistance. Working along side LGBTQ groups, religious choirs, homeless shelters and youth centers I have run a variety of workshops and residencies.
In short, I create crossroads where activism and art intersect
Jacq Applebee
Name: Jacq Applebee
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Judith Arcana
Name: Judith Arcana
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Janebill: Keesha and Joanie and JANE
Written by Judith Arcana, one of the members of the JANE collective that provided abortions when they were illegal, this is a short play set in the near future, when Roe v. Wade is overturned. A group of women trying to figure out what to do invites JANE members to discuss ideas, memories, and strategies. A great starting point for our own discussions about what to do about the increasing limitations on abortion access. – Cindy Crabb
Jonas
Name: Jonas
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Description: Artwork, Fiction and zine updates by Jonas
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Kate Angell / PiscesMoonPress
Name: Kate Angell
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kate larson
Website: teamkate.com
Name: Kate Larson
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Description: personal zine about living with chronic illness & making sense of this weird world along the way
Katie Bennett
Name: Katie Bennett
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Khristina Acosta / No Shame Distro
Name: Khristina Acosta
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Description: Khristina Acosta is the co-founder of No Shame Distro, a people of color collective that promotes zine writers and artists of color. She is the author of the zines Birthday Party and What to Keep / What to Give Away. These zines explore the topics of healthy relationships with other’s and one’s own sexualities, assimilation and the loss of language, and being a person of color in the punk world. She was additionally an organizer of Clitfest New Brunswick in 2012. Khristina currently resides in Philadephia, although she can be found traveling to multiple cities throughout the East Coast and Canada.
Kirsty Winters
Name: Kirsty Winters
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Kisha
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L.B. Briggs
Name: L. B. Briggs
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Description: LB is a tenured Chicago Public School teacher, singing drummer, proud union member, artist, and award-winning dancer at weddings. She has been writing zines with embarrassing details since the age of 13. Each zine documents one year of teaching high school with all the mistakes, failures and tiny successes.
Lindsy Draws
Name: Lindsay Draws
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Description: The name of my shop and blog is taken from a line in the song Sawdust and Diamonds by Joanna Newsom. She sings about “a little white dove made with love; made with glue, a glove and some plyers”. Having always produced things for the love of making them, I felt an affinity with the unnamed protagonist who made that little white dove.
I am a self-taught diy craftswoman from the Midwest of the US currently living in the East End of London. I never could narrow down what kind of art I wanted to make, which is why I never went to art school. Instead, I decided I could teach myself to do lots of different creative processes and enjoy the freedom it gives me to explore new things all the time.
For my print based work, I combine radical and oral history as well as social justice issues with illustration and design. I’m currently working on a long-term oral history zine project with my family to uncover the life of my uncle who died when I was a teenager.
I make functional pottery that incorporates various foraged materials, from volcanic Icelandic sand to clays that I dig myself. I see these vessels as a physical record of my travels – or just restorative day trips from London – with each pot having its own unique story to tell.
I’m also training to become a joiner and am loving working with wood, a new medium for me. You can read more about most of the work I do on my blog.
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Matt Gauck
Name: Matt Gauck
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Description: I ride my bicycle really long distances. I draw even more. I care about being responsible to the earth in a variety of ways. If I could get away with it, I’d just print one patch that read “please think harder”, with a drawing of me spitting on / pooping on / farting near a building reading “Every Corporation on the Planet”. Here’s proof that I draw things:
I draw all the art myself for my patches, and those containing photos have been manipulated by me to work for printing. Halftones rule! Therefore, all the art on these patches is mine, and if you’d like to use it, I would greatly appreciate an email. Thank you!
I also write a zine about the wacky travel situations called “next stop adventure”. Keep it D.I.Y.! Thank you for supporting independent art! If you have any questions, comments, or ANYTHING SERIOUSLY please email me, I’m completely serious when I promise I will respond to anything you throw at me. Well, anything genuine, that is. I can also do handstands reasonably well.
Michelle / BusyWeekends
Name: Michelle
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Description: I write stories about my life, the world I know, and the lessons I’ve learned.
I’ve been a zine person since middle school 2010. I found out about zines in middle school and bought a few here and there throughout the next decade (plus a few years), but I never really understood what zines were or that there was an entire culture bubbling under those words. In early 2010, I made my first zine, and I finally grasped the depth of what it means to be a zine person. Since then, I have written too many zines and read hundreds.
I used to write Letters to My Therapist but now mainly people find me when they’re looking for Creativity for Introverts. I also wrote Self-Care for Creatives. I tend to focus much of my writing on encouraging creativity and inspiring others; however, I do have a perzine or two up my sleeves.
I will never stop writing.
Busy Weekends serves as a creative playground, an outlet for things like little projects, ideas, wonderful stuff I’ve found, and mail. You can find me on Etsy where I sell zines, kits, and other small projects.
I live in Alexandria, VA, which is just outside of DC. I only have to walk 5 minutes to see Maryland, DC, and VA in one glance. I keep up with rent and food working in content management at a university. I love my job. I’m also studying Distance Education part time, which unfortunately takes a lot of energy away from creating things for my shop, but I’m very much enjoying it.
Maranda Elizabeth
Name: Maranda Elizabeth
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Description: I’m a writer zinester femme solitary witch! High school dropout, identical twin, recovering alcoholic! I have borderline personality disorder, complex-PTSD, & fibromyalgia! I’m disabled & I use a cane! INFP! I’m 30 & my pronoun is they! I have two books & lots of zines! I’m a Libra Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Gemini Rising, & Aquarius Midheaven!
Maxx / Reverse Cougar Years
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The Miniskirt
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Mend My Dress
Name: Neelybat Chestnut
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Description: Neely has been writing her zine, “Mend My Dress,” for just over ten years and has traveled the country teaching zine workshops. When not working on press business or writing she works in Seattle’s largest tourist trap. She also collects vintage toys, and sings in the punk/metal band Ire Adrift. Her best friends are a white and black spotted rabbit, an old grey kitty and a black and tan chihuahua.
Milo / Dig it Distro & Press
Name: Milo
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Description: milo is a white, genderqueer, mentally ill zinester who has been writing self-indulgent bullshit since they were, like, five. they also write about radical mental/emotional health, self-care, poly lyfe, working in the beauty industry, and sobriety. body mods, cutting hair, pups, the ocean, rad politics, dismantling all of the -isms, and sody pop are some of their favorite things. they’re the person-in-charge of distro stuff around here, so send them your zines n art pls. xoxo
Megan Twiddy/ Eliza Agar Press
Name: Megan Twiddy
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Description: “One does not always stay intact.” – JB
Eliza Agar Press started with the publication of Hate Letters, an attempt to re-centre victims’ perspectives on the abuse(s) committed upon them.
Eliza Agar was a woman who performed vital services for women outside the law in the 1930s and 1940s. She was falsely imprisoned and maligned. She sought to improve the conditions of working class women, and disregarded the potentially devastating costs to her own safety from the state.
Eliza Agar Press seek to empower marginalised perspectives, and give voice to victim/survivors. We publish zines on feminism, mental health and abuse from our queer, working-class perspective. We are not always intact, but we stick together.
MEOW Magazine
Name: tutor Andrew Baker and third year illustrators Eileen Kwan and Abi Moulder.
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Description: Meow magazine is a magazine produced by illustration students at Middlesex University on a different theme every four weeks. We welcome all submissions so get drawing!
Monsters Inc
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Isy / Morgan Muffel
Name: Isy
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Mythologising Me
Name: Ingrid
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Description: Leftwing, intersectional feminist, late 20’s, from the UK.
I write zines, ride bikes, and eat vegan.
Oh, also I co-organise Northwest Zinefest, check it out!
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Native American Feminist Musings
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neik glasshouse
Name: neik glasshouse
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Description: my name is neik glasshouse and i love anything that has to do with sleep, the brain, the cosmos, and my black dwarf cat that goes with me everywhere i go. i also love laughing, polaroids, the oxford comma, and spicy foods. “If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them.”
Nichole
Name: Nichole
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Description: Formerly called Fiction and Not, I sell perzines primarily of the mental health and slice of life variety. I am up for equal trades that can include not only zines but other handmade goods. If you have questions about anything in the shop, send a message!
Name: Nyxia Grey
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Description: I am a fierce feminist zinester and collage artist. My work focuses on self-advocacy, reproductive rights, sexual consent, equality, relationship boundaries, grief, feelings of belonging/home, body politics, and eating disorder recovery.
Website: skinnedheart.tumblr.com/
Name: Nyky Gomez
Email: skinnedheart.tumblr.com/ask
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Name: James Franco Seth Rogen Linda Cardellini Jason Segel
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Description: The Norseman is a zine about the awesome Freaks and Geeks.
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Website: oceancapewell.tumblr.com/
Name: Ocean Capewell
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Description: ocean capewell used to get in trouble for answering the phone rudely when she was in the middle of writing a story. her parents’ friends were horrified at the snarled, “what??!!”, not knowing what they were interrupting, not knowing how hard it is to get started again when you’re interrupted in the midst of inspiration. now she has a cell phone and lives alone, and misses being so completely wrapped up in writing that nothing came before it. she is trying to get back to that pure place: seven years old & writing in notebooks until her hand was sore, going so fast, trying to get it all down.
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Philly Survivor Support Collective
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Name: Seleena Laverne Daye, Em Ledger
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Description: A positive collective zine featuring real experiences of growing up or identifying as working class
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The Queer Working Class Zine Project
Name: the queers
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Description: WCQ is a zine series about being queer and working class, and how those things (and others) intersect. WCQ #1 debuted at Queer Zine Fest London 2013.
Radical Sex NY & Support New York
Name: Rudy Loewe
Email: with subject line ‘Work: (your message)’, and some details about what you’re interested in.
Description: Rudy Loewe is a visual artist, facilitator and storyteller who works primarily in comic and zine format. They explore themes such as gender, sexuality, race, trauma and mental health.
Rudy is interested in how certain narratives and histories can be made more accessible. They often work with library and archive collections to create their work.
They/ them pronouns.
Rudy is currently available for work including custom illustrations, murals, and teaching sessions.
Website: sweetcandydistro.weebly.com
Name: Sage
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Description: My name is Sage and I am a 36-year-old independent artist. I enjoy creating mixed media art, writing zines, making one inch buttons, painting, sewing and using my print gocco on most materials that I can get my hands on. I also adore my vintage typewriter because it very useful in the making of my zines! I’m the mama to awesome kids who also love to make zines & mixed media art.
I write the zines Tattooed Memoirs, Hard Knox, and Marked For Life & edit the comp zine, FAT-TASTIC! I have been running an online distro for almost 8 years called Sweet Candy Distro, which carries a variety of zines and handmade items.
Website: punkjoanofarc.com
Name: Sarah Sawyers-Lovett
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Description: Sarah was born in Tazewell, Virginia. She isn’t offended if you haven’t heard of it. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife and their hedgehog, where she makes balloon animals for money. Sarah enjoys pickles, punks and coffee. She writes zines and blogs and you can find more of her work at punkjoanofarc.com . Sarah’s first book, Everybody Else’s Girl, was published in 2013 by Sweet Candy Press. Her long running zine, Tazewell’s Favorite Eccentric, will be anthologized in book form later this year by Mend My Dress Press. Her current zine is called Safe Home, and she is the editor of the compzines “Dangerous Damsels” and “The Worth of Water.”
Website: wemakezines.ning.com/profile/SariofHoax
Name: Sari
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Details: I am a 28 year old queer & non-binary person and I go by they/them/their pronouns. I am into trans feminism, Harry Potter nerdery (proud Hufflepuff!), playing with makeup, reading, writing letters, traveling, learning things, music, making awesome vegan food, being around animals, and DIY. For paid work, I am a domestic violence services advocate and have been in the field for 2 years. I have two main zine projects and a couple of one-shot zines. I am the co-creator and editor of Hoax, I also have written a perzine series called you’ve got a friend in pennsylvania.
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The Propaganda Maker
Short story (fiction) by the amazing Suzy Subways. Suzy is a really good writer. This story I don’t exactly know how to descibe – it is about a person who is basically imprisioned, living in a part of a bridge with someone who makes propaganda. Sometimes she gets out – turning into rat and sneeking out. The whole story is kind of creepy and really intriguing and seems like it’s symolic for various policial and emotional and realtional things.- Cindy Crabb
Name: Sarah Beth
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Description: I’m a 30 something girl, living in Coventry in the West Midlands (UK)
I live with my partner Joe and our cat – Cabaret.
I’m a zinester and write a perzine called ellipsis. It’s mainly about growing up, figuring stuff out, learning to be happy and other assorted trials, tribulations and joys.
Name: Stacey-Marie Piotrowski
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Description: Stacey-Marie Piotrowski grew up in Pittsburgh PA and spent some time alternating between academia and the open road, living in Chicago and New Orleans before accidentally settling in Athens GA and obtaining her BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia in 2012. Her concert portraits in particular have been used by a number of bands for promotional purposes both online and in print. She is also a writer and has been a sporadic contributor to the zine community for over a decade, currently publishing a literary nonfiction zine called Phases of the Moon.
Name: Adrian Fynch
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Description: I try to live life creatively in as many aspects as possible. In trying to overcome the struggle for art over life, I’ve decided to simply combine them into a single entity.
Here I lay out the artifacts of this experiment for your whimsical enjoyment.
Name: Sophie Crow
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Description: For my whole adult life I have found sex incredibly interesting.
Not unusual I know.
But I don’t just mean I like fucking. I find everything around sex interesting, from porn to sex science, from art to sexual politics.
This site will act as a hub to all my projects that explore sex: art, blogging, reviews and opinions.
You will find that my sexuality is very broad, I am interested in all genders, I’m in an open relationship, I’m kinky and perverse and transgressive.
Be warned.
Name: We are Sofia Niazi, Rose Nordin, Heiba Lamara and Sabba Khan.
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Description: One of My Kind (oomk) is a highly visual, handcrafted small-press publication. Our content largely pivots upon the imaginations, creativity and spirituality of women.
OOMK is present in print, online and in creative events and workshops. For more information about OOMK visit our press page. If you’d like to submit articles or artwork to oomk.net or OOMK Zine please visit our submissions page.
OOMK is based in South Kilburn Studios in North London.
Name: Kari Tervo
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Description: Greetings, yo! Sweet Mayhem Zinery offers artisanal humor, unusual adventures, and miscellaneous and random. Experience the delectable chaos of Sweet Mayhem Zinery!
Name: Kandy and Seleena
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Description: Sugar Paper was started in 2006 when Kandy had the idea of wanting to create a zine with easy to follow and fun craft projects to do. She enlisted the help of Seleena, a seasoned zine maker and then Sugar Paper; 20 things to make and do was born.
Now much more than a zine, it’s a way of life. From workshops, to craft kits, events and collaborations. It’s much more than just craft, it’s art, music, popular culture and everything in between.
It’s the most badass craft gang that every glue gun toting gal and guy wants to be part of.
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Synchronise Witches Press + Zine Distro
Name: Cherry Styles
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Description: a zine distro specialising in US titles + experimental writing by women, based in Manchester UK. Home of the Chapess zine!
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Description: Zines about being femme, queer and disabled, anarcho-feminism, mental health, relationships and lots more.
Website: http://www.etsy.com/shop/StunnedLungs
Name: Tara Jay
Email: Tara Jay
Description: Tara Jay writes the poetry zine Stunned Lungs and perzine titled Blackout. They tend to write about depression and anxiety, poverty and class, gender, abuse, memory, animals. They live in Columbus, OH.
Website: abeautifulbodyproject.org
Name: Trish Segundo
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Description: I am a mother and an organic farmer in rural missouri. The tiger stripes project came about because of my need to heal my relationship with my body. It came about because of a strong need to share with others around body shame and, together, learn how to heal. The project exists in the physical form of a zine – a small self-published magazine full of photos, my writings, and interviews with other women.
Takru Dearest/ Vampire Sushi Distro
Name: Takru Dearest
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Description: hello, i am tukru dearest. i’m a 33 year old finnish immigrant / ex-pat living in medway in kent, south eastern england. i’ve been here for about 12 years, came to study photography and kinda never left. oops. i kinda fell in love with a local boy and besides, i didn’t really have much to go home to. besides getting all my crap back to finland just didn’t seem like worth the effort. i do sometimes wonder what things would be like if i’d gone back / never left but ifs and but(t)s and coconuts.
by day i work very part time in a little photoshop in the local shopping center and take all the passport photos and process people’s holiday etc snaps and put their old videos on to dvd and generally resurrect the past in some form everyday. woo. i much prefer it to my old job (selling toys on ebay for a local independent toy shop and putting up with constant bullshit from someone i had to share the office with. now i just put up with the occasional bullshit with the occasional arsehole customer.) and it’s kinda relevant to my degree (BA in photography) even if it’s just part time and minimum wage. (though i’m always looking for something else because i’m sick of retail)
by night i’m a zinester extraordinaire and a distro mistress. i mainly write a perzine called your pretty face is going straight to hell, and i run a little zine distro called vampire sushi distro. those are my main loves ♥ i’ve been making zines for 15+ years, ever since i first read about riot grrrl and, throught that, zines on the internets back in my mid-to-late teens. i made my first (maybe first two or three even?) without actually having seen a zine in real life cos those were the days before paypal and i had to go all the way to helsinki to get my hands on foreign currency to send off as payment. my first few efforts were mostly full of flowery fiction, as i didn’t really have much life experience to write about (at least as far as i thought back then) i had a few years off while at uni, but i started writing your pretty face in 2006 after a graduated, though i’d wanted to start again in my 3rd year when i rekindled my love for zines and even ended up doing my dissertation on perzines, but didn’t really have the time to work on a zine on top of my final work. as i write this, i’ve done about 22 issues of pretty face and about 30 odd zines all together over the years. and i still think i could do more. i dont think i’ll ever do enough in my opinion.
i do a lot of knitting and crocheting because at heart i’m a big old grandma ♥ i also try my hand at all sorts of other crafty things but never finish thing. i draw sometimes, and occasionally i sell those drawings. i also try to play bass in a band but it’s seems harder to get things going that you’d think. since my old band sean bean death scene went on hiatus and never came back i’ve hard at least 3 false starts on new bands and i’ve got something starting again but there were more false starts but we are hopefully figuring it out and will finally be ok to play probably in the new year (stupid working in retail in december) i’m also fat babe and i love fashion but i’m also always broke. i finally got a sewing machine last year but i haven’t managed to make myself anything yet because i’m terrified i will just waste my charity shopped fabric because some pattern i got on the sale doesn’t fit me right or i fuck it up.
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