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| I Dreamed I Was Assertive #12 |
| Celia busts out another handwritten issue that invited us into her personal life as a rad 37 year-old mother. She shares memories of her grandmother, makes a list of things she wants to do before she turns 38, and puts a positive spin on life when witnessing an aggressive mother on the train. Oh! And a brownie recipe for your reading and eating pleasure! |
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| I Dreamed I Was Assertive #9 |
| Celia gives us a really descriptive account of giving birth to her son, Emiliano, and the new fears associated with being a mother. And then a few months later she is faced with the unexpected death of her father. She also includes her patented reading log that makes me think I should start turning pages as fast as she does. |
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| If I Could Live in Hope: Sexual Abuse and Survival |
| Kisha (of Terrible, Horrible..) bravely accounts her sexual abuse as a child and how it has affected everything from her current relationships, interaction with her family members, and her own self-perceptions. She learns to stop blaming herself after living for many years in silence and writes this zine as a way to boldly declare that it was NOT her fault. *****This zine might be triggering***** |
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| Intovert #6 |
| Nicole opens her heart in this issue to discuss the emotionally raw experience of losing her baby nephew to SIDS. It took a long time for Nicole to be able to write about such taxing experiences as supporting her family, attending his funeral, and thinking about having a child of her own. This was a brave zine to write and hopefully helpful for those who have tragically lost loved ones. |
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| Keep Loving Keep Fighting #8 |
| Sadly, this is the last issue of one of my all time favorite zines! Hope eventually leaves her love New Orleans, and her zine must remain with the city that inspired and abused her for so long. Hope writes about Post Traumatic Stress issues that erupt every time it rains heavily due to the trauma she endured during Hurricane Katrina. There are frustrations, the loss of lives, the fear, but also the possibilities of life, love, and the ability to never give up. I always find Hope's zines so inspiring and this last issue is no exception. I am very grateful for Hope's writing, and I will truly miss this zine. |
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| Kiss Off #13 |
| Trying to get to know friends. Trying to get to know towns. Trying to get to know lovers. Sometimes coming up short and sometimes hitting the mark, Chris takes us on a journey through his life over the past year or years. It doesn't even matter. Each story is fluid, bridging the gap between finding community and trying to find yourself. Each snippet shows us whiskey rattled punk shows, radio programs, broken bikes, a trip to South Africa and broken hearts. All compiled seamlessly into a well-written piece of art. |
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| Learning Good Consent |
| Compiled from various sources and writers such as Cindy's Support zine, "Let's Talk About Consent" by Hysteria Collective, "Survivors Guide to Sex" by Staci Haines, and Philly Stands Up! Learning Good Consent discusses verbal consent, why verbal consent is important in creating and maintaining healthy sexual relationships, and how to facilitate discussion about verbal consent. (Thanks to Jami for the description!) |
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| Letters I Will Never Send To You #2 |
| This zine is a real gem to look at and read! You can see that Morgan painstakingly constructed every age with found photos, old postcards, fortunes, scraps of paper, recipes, handwritten confessions and even locks of hair! It is like walking through a maze of her life, learning about her pack pain, ice cream choices, and birthday wishes. |
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| Letters I Will Never Send To You #5 |
| Morgan presents another mishmash of artistry and storytelling. Handwritten, typewritten, found notes, forgotten family photos and random ephemera, this zine tells the story of Morgan's bout with the swine flu, going of a cruise with her mom, the fascination with her teeth and the strange happenings during the Saturday nights of her childhood. |
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| List #13 |
| Ramsey details the highs and lows of her new life in Chicago with a series of assorted lists. Each list takes us further into her world as a newly-heartbroken-vegan-nanny-Baltimore-transplant. This is about forging a home in a new and sometimes cold (in temperature and attitude) city and finding ways to overcome heart ache. Nice drawings and just plain cute! |
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| Loose Lips Sink Ships |
| Sarah May (Of These Here are Crazy Times) compiled a list of all 69 people she has kissed over the course of her lifetime. From devastating breakups, to kisses after bar bathroom pukes, she attempts to get over her religious guilt that hampered her sexuality for so long. Nicely written with awesome packaging as well! |
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| Love Letters to Monsters #1/ Up the Logic Punks! #1 |
| Wait, wait, wait...are you serious? Puzzles and a rad zine...all in one?! Holy crap! Ciara confounds us all with her ability to write honest and emotional material for her first issue of Love Letters to Monsters. She deals with a lot, from the death of a parent to the misdiagnosis of a serious mental illness. But on top of that she combines it with Up the Logic Punks!, her zine of all home made logic puzzles that make us bite our pencils in intellectual frustration. I don't know how she does it but I hope that she never stops! Get this! |
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| Love Letters to Monsters #2 |
| Growing older but staying fierce, Ciara has once again put together sweet-ass zine! This issue is jammed pack with stories about her abortion experience, a monogamous radical relationship, letting go of youthful know-it-all attitudes and critiquing the cult of consent. Everyone of Ciara's zines are crammed full of text and thoughtful personal analysis of pertinent issues. And each cover is beautifully hand colored. Oh, yeah! |
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| Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out #9 |
| Our favorite zine librarian is back! With her yearly review of books and happenings in her life. There is an article about attending a family bat mitzvah, attending the international zine library conference and Jenna's examination of her sexuality, including an explicit dream of Jenna giving it to Russell Crowe. Ha! |
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| Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout-out #8 |
| Jenna is the awesome zine librarian at the Barnard College library. Thus, she reads a ton of books and zines enough to make anyone feel jealous. The zine comes with a pull out reading log for 2008, with detailed reviews of books. Jenna also shares the story of losing her beloved cat, debates over gay marriage (and not just the "wrong vs. right" but more on the complicated level of if marriage is assimilationist and ruining the queer activist agenda), and recounting the fears of getting a biopsy to check for breast cancer. Literary and personal! |
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