small zine
PALS: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship zine (print)
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This is a 56-page quarter-letter size zine I wrote about why I think friendship is so important, what friendship might be able to teach us about building a better…
Five Friendship Fantasies (print)
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Five cozy, yearning short stories about how nice it would be to be around other people, sharing meals and conversation, written in the depths of the early pandemic, but…
A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks – TransFighters Oakland
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“A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks offers strategies based in lived experience, ranging from using body language and creating safety in…
First Protocols of Queer Goetia – Contagion Press
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A small, powerful set of mythopoetic instructions for working with the queer dead, composed after the overlapping underground worlds of the Bay Area lost thirty-six of their people in…
Queer Space Communism – An Illustrated Manifesto – Milo
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A 16-page full-colour quarter-letter manifesto about how “rainbow capitalism won’t save us, but queer space communism just might”
Montreal postcards – Anna Jay
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Four postcards with images of four Montreal neighbourhoods (St-Henri, Verdun, the Centre-Sud, and Hochelaga) by local artist Anna Jay. The prints are images created using a Polaroid emulsion lift…
Beyond “Don’t Work for Free!”: Tips on how to protect yourself as an artist and honor your creative gifts – Christina Tran
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“Beyond Don’t Work for Free is a zine full of tips about how to protect yourself as an artist AND honor your creative gifts. The zine shares ways to…
The Late Night Copies Press Tiny Guide to Booklet Layout – India Johnson
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An 8-page, quarter-letter-size, full-colour guide with extremely helpful tips for laying out zines! If you’ve ever looked in despair at your computer wondering how to organize the pages of…
Bootch, Please – Milo
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A 16-page quarter-letter sized zine celebrating kombucha, tepache, and shrub, various members of the exciting world of DIY fermented beverages, with recipes!
Why? Why Make Zines in Times of Strife (and calm?) – Milo
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Presented in “cute listicle form”, nine reasons to make zines, in both good times and bad. 16 pages, quarter-letter size.
from doom to bloom: shifting my perspective on growing older – Emily T
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“This zine grew out of a journal entry around the time of an upcoming birthday. As a young adult growing into my later 20s, I grappled with the feelings…
Death, too: a mini memoir on losing a friend to suicide, and being the alive one – Emily T
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“In September of 2020, I lost a friend – he is gone forever. This zine, the most sparingly designed of all my works (100% only text), shares this experience….
Great News! I Have Bipolar! – Emily T
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“I made this zine shortly after receiving my diagnosis of bipolar disorder (II). This zine bursts with the unexpected joy of diagnosis, the process of learning to understand myself,…
lakes aren’t always blue: on self-compassion in tough times – Craft or DIY
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“a quick illustrated mini zine pep talk that includes a few reminders and tips for being kind to yourself when you’re going through a rough time”
burnout protection mini zine + worksheet – Craft or DIY
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“protection from burnout: a workaholic’s guide to taking a fucking break helpful little reminders to notice when you’re headed towards burnout + a double sided worksheet to help you…
let’s hear it for love! – Craft or DIY
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“let’s hear it for love! a mini zine ode to various types of love: friend love, queerplatonic love, queer love, self love, polyamorous love, t4t love 🙂 monogamous romantic…
Metasnax – Milo
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“What are meta snacks? They’re a myth. Vaporware. The silly ramblings of an enby with too much time to daydream about weird food. Most importantly, as of this writing,…
Dear Mama: A Letter from Michael to Mama by Armistead Maupin – Milo
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An excerpt from Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, with Milo’s reflections on their history with the text, and the meaning it holds for them. 16 pages, quarter-letter size.
On feeling like I can’t make art anymore (and finding out maybe it’s all in my head) – Emily T
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“This was the first zine I made after a long-lasting creative block. That feeling of having “nothing” to make, no ideas – this zine was proof to myself that…
everybody wants a pen pal but nobody wants to BE a pen pal, ya know? – Craft or DIY
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“everybody wants a pen pal but nobody wants to BE a pen pal, ya know? a quick illustrated mini zine (2.75×4.25″) on how to be a pen pal.” comes…
FTM Horndogs – Rena Yehuda Newman
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Somewhere in the reaches of the internet lies an extremely horny facebook group for transmasculine folks looking to get laid. Equal parts sexy and archival, this zine seeks to…