what is sheer spite press?
Sheer Spite Press was founded in 2024 in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal to publish and distribute useful, generous, personal, political, funny, heart-filled works.
about me:
Hi, I’m Lee! I started Sheer Spite Press.
I’ve been making zines for over a decade, and also ran a local zine distro in several Ottawa businesses for a couple of years, as well as co-organizing and co-running the Ottawa Zine Fair.
I started the press because I realized that I like helping other people get their work out even more than I like making my own stuff, and because I want to share the knowledge, experience, and relationships I’ve built through my own experience with DIY self-publishing.
I’m a white settler in Tiohtià:ke // Mooniyang // Montreal, originally from unceded Algonquin land. I’m trans. As someone whose mental and physical capacity varies a lot, my values and understanding of the world are deeply shaped by disability justice, and I aim to live and work in solidarity with those who are more impacted than I am by ableism and other intersecting forms of structural violence.