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I'm very excited to announce Null & Void, the zine that

wrdnrd & I have done talking about our experiences of gender & sort of... growing out of gender, or losing it, or something!

It's 38 half-sized pages of very text-heavy stuff & available for $2.06 plus postage to wherever you are here at Crabby Media. (There's also a full description & cover image there.)

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wrdnrd does Cipher zine; I used to do Sisu zine & No History, No Self but have done neither in years. Um, hi, zineland.)

We're also looking for distros in Europe (outside of the UK -- those are easy to find!) that might be good places to send the zine -- please let me know if you have any suggestions!

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littlebutfierce

It's such a tired cliche to spout something about how you haven't read any good zines in forever & back in the day things were different, etc. etc. Though the truth is, I've been drifting away from zines for a while now & I feel like part of that is that fewer of the types of zines I love are being produced -- that's partly because other zinesters I know are also sort of drifting away, so they're not making zines either!

I like political perzines: intersectional, not laden w/straight-up academic essays or anything like that. Got any recs?

I've been flipping through some zines I got at a zine fest here in London a few months ago & feel v. underwhelmed. Maybe I'm just missing some awesome ones?

wrdnrd

I'll break the ice with an awkward promo post.

My most recent zine came out 18 months ago, but i haven't really promoted it anywhere and so it still feels new to me. I do Cipher zine, the most recent of which is #2. The table of contents is:

poem
prologue
the (not so) invisible piano
dance of the potato dumpling fairy
Cinderella takes herself to the ball
wordnerdery! — apparatus
poems
food of my people: vepro-knedlo-zelo (minus vepro)
student, interrupted
epilogue a: enjambment
epilogue b: finis
poem

You can read an excerpt at my website. It's about $2 and, since i also run a distro, is only available in the Crabby Media store. Cipher #1 is also still in print and available.

Oh, um, and yes, i also run (with

raanve) Crabby Media, which is a distro, an information hub, and a discussion forum for all things zine-related. As a distro, we specialize in "Resource materials for zinemakers and D.I.Y. publishers — zines about zines and zine-making techniques, zine history, zine culture and community." Crabby Media is based in Seattle, so you may have seen me tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium or at Short Run.

wrdnrd

Welcome to Zines (not mags)! This community is for all kinds of discussion about (paper) zines, whether they be SF fanzines, punk zines, political zines, perzines, cookzines, critzines, and so on and so on. This community is not the place for discussion about glossy magazines (hence "not mags"), nor is it the place for discussion of e-zines -- unless it's a magazine or an e-zine about (paper) zines.

Why is "paper" in parentheses in that 1st paragraph? While the community's focus is driven by our old-school preference for paper zines, we also realize that these days the idea of a traditional paper zine may be more in theory than in practice sometimes. For example, your SF fanzine may be a paper zine in spirit, but in practice it's actually a PDF at eFanzines.com. All conversation about zines that are paper either in practice or in spirit is perfectly welcome!

Other than the focus on (paper) zines, the sky's (almost) the limit on zine-related posts around here -- ask questions, promote your project, point out interesting zine news, share your favorite resource. Just a few guidelines for now:

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