sheer spite press

Grief Castle, a zine printed on blue paper, with an illustration showing a pair of eyes looking out from a dark jagged hole in a crumbling brick wall. the zine is shown against a background of pink lined paper, with text reading "sheerspite.ca: ships from canada to anywhere but the US" and "sheerspite.bigcartel.com: ships from the US to anywhere"

our newest publication:

Bug Cru's GRIEF CASTLE, "24 pages of silly, absurd & sombre art, games, words, prompts, spirit work & madness" that it captures how living through grief feels.

🇨🇦: sheerspite.ca/product/grie...
🇺🇸: sheerspite.bigcartel.com/product/grie...
sheerspite.ca/product/grie...

On a pink speckled background, the text “Zines and Literatura de Cordels / Exploring the multi-national history of zines and paradoxes in self-publishing / with Tosin Jerugba” appears in black font, along with the workshop details in the caption above. In the bottom right corner, a person with dark brown skin and short springy hair holds a neon green zine, with photos of a few other colorful zines on the left.

In a pink rectangle, on a pink speckled background, the workshop description in the caption above appears, with a smattering of colourful zines below, including one titled “Lesbian Love bomber,” and another titled “Colour Theory in Yoruba.”

so excited for this!

“Zines and Literatura de Cordels: Exploring the multi-national history of zines and paradoxes in self-publishing,” facilitated by Tosin Jerugba
📅 March 25, 6pm ET
💲 PWYC
💻 On Zoom with closed captions and ASL interpretation
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Grief Castle, a zine printed on blue paper, with an illustration showing a pair of eyes looking out from a dark jagged hole in a crumbling brick wall. the zine is shown against a background of pink lined paper, with text reading "sheerspite.ca: ships from canada to anywhere but the US" and "sheerspite.bigcartel.com: ships from the US to anywhere"

our newest publication:

Bug Cru's GRIEF CASTLE, "24 pages of silly, absurd & sombre art, games, words, prompts, spirit work & madness" that it captures how living through grief feels.

🇨🇦: sheerspite.ca/product/grie...
🇺🇸: sheerspite.bigcartel.com/product/grie...
sheerspite.ca/product/grie...

On a pink speckled background, the text “Zines and Literatura de Cordels / Exploring the multi-national history of zines and paradoxes in self-publishing / with Tosin Jerugba” appears in black font, along with the workshop details in the caption above. In the bottom right corner, a person with dark brown skin and short springy hair holds a neon green zine, with photos of a few other colorful zines on the left.

In a pink rectangle, on a pink speckled background, the workshop description in the caption above appears, with a smattering of colourful zines below, including one titled “Lesbian Love bomber,” and another titled “Colour Theory in Yoruba.”

so excited for this!

“Zines and Literatura de Cordels: Exploring the multi-national history of zines and paradoxes in self-publishing,” facilitated by Tosin Jerugba
📅 March 25, 6pm ET
💲 PWYC
💻 On Zoom with closed captions and ASL interpretation
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Había grabado un pequeño vídeo pasando las páginas de un catálogo de Letraset del año 1985, pero no consigo subirlo a bsky.
@andressanchis.bsky.social este es el catálogo que te he comentado alguna vez, y que ya te había enseñado en alguna foto.

Escalate the War on AIDS - ACT-UP Chicago

The AIDS War is a Just War

Money for AIDS Not for War

The AIDS War is a just war - ACT-UP Chicago

Woke up thinking about this sticker folio from ACT-UP Chicago circa 1990ish.

archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...

#actup #actupfightback #nowar #fightaids

The Dazzle of Day — Molly Gloss

Oh I have no idea, I wouldn't be into that either! This is the one I was thinking of: www.mollygloss.com/the-dazzle-o...

sheer spite is pretty terrible at making money but sometimes ok at moving money to other people, and i feel grateful for the opportunity to do so.

text reading "$1700 to writers in gaza" with an image of four zines by authors in gaza

did some math and figured out sheer spite was able to move just over $1,700 last year to the three Gaza-based writers we distribute:
sheerspite.ca/product-tag/...

Prairieland ICE shooting trial jury gets closer look at 'antifa' materials defendants owned Anti-fascism, anarchy and the abolition of ICE were common themes in literature and paraphernalia investigators found in the defendants' homes and cars.

“Zines are really like this little atomic unit of freedom of the press with simple pamphlets that you just pass around. It begs the question of whether the prosecution believes that we should have a First Amendment in the first place” #ZinesAreNotACrime
—Lydia Koza, wife of defendant Autumn Hill

They also allege that the box contained six incendiary zines, which you can get here to help pay for Des' defense.

detritusbooks.com/des

Have you read Molly Gloss' books? I really like them for this!

Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism — Yes, You! Yes, Now (digital) - sheer spite press Grounded in Jewish anarchist ethics, this is a thoughtful collection of 20 ways to work against fascism, with an emphasis on building community connections and tending to our own...

You can download the zine, “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism — Yes, You! Yes, Now” by Cindy Barukh Milstein here: sheerspite.ca/product/dont... @sheerspite.bsky.social 5/9

When I'm chatting w people at my table I as much as possible ask them if they also make zines, bc it is fun to hear about things people make, or help them feel empowered to make stuff if they don't, & the amount of people in the last few years who say they heard about zines in a college class is 📈

Lesbian Hand Lettering Zine — Erin Moore Five Fonts Inspired by Lesbian Hand Lettering Risograph and screenprint 5.5x8.5”2022 Download the fonts here.

A lovely project with some sick fonts you can download: emoore.design/Lesbian-Hand...

‘A teaching tool for safety, for survival, for justice’: How Baltimore artists are using zines to organize On an early morning in September, federal immigration agents knocked on the door of Baltimore resident M.T., looking for someone who did not live there. Instead of opening the door for ICE, another re...

baltimorebeat.com/a-teaching-t...

Hey everyone, I'm working on a grant application for a long overdue update of the Canadian Cartoonists Database, a database of comics creators who have lived and worked within the boundary of the land referred to as Canada. www.canadacomicsol.org/comic-book-r... cont'd....

Resharing my free-to-use picture resource list👇

(A wheel with four quadrants. The top left quadrant is red, and is marked "ANGER, Betrayal by Legit authority" In this quadrant are the words: Rage Vengeful Resentful Contempt/Disgust Disillusioned/cynical Mistrustful Disappointed Helpless Disbelief. The top right quadrant is blue and labeled "GUILT/SHAME, personal transgression" and includes the words Specific guilt Regret Remorse / Humiliated Self-contempt Self-loathing Self-disgust Shame. The bottom left quadrant is green and labelled "DISGUST Witnessing excessive violence, death, immoral acts" and includes the words, Outrage Indignation Rage non-Specific-guilt Sorrow/sadness Abhorrent Nauseated/Sickened Revolted/Repugnant Appalled/Disgusted Helpless/Overwhelmed HorrifiedHorrified. The bottom right quadrant is yellow, is labelled, "DISORIENTED, Unavoidable irresolvable moral conflict" and includes the words, Helpless/Powerless Confused/Uncertain Perplexed Futility Non-specific guilt/Failure Disillusioned/Cynical Apathetic Surreal/Meaningless/Absurd Hopeless/Despair Global resentment/Bitter Tragic remorse Lost Empty.)

The essay includes this excellent diagram

ohh... yes... so scrungly

can't wait to read it! 🔥

💖 Trans Pessimism 1: When Your Body is Not Your Own 💖

is back in stock with an updated cover! creative nonfiction about the constraints of gender and perception, from 2019.

Just got my Public Lending Right money from Canada Council. And for the firs time ever, it's pretty good money ($1500). This is thanks to you taking my books out at the library. Keep doing it! And do it for your favourite authors! Even if you don't read the books!!

Little Ghosts Books Workshop Space Little Ghosts Books horror bookstore & community hub is looking to expand its space by renovating our back garage into a studio to host our workshops, book clubs, and author events.

Can we help our pals @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social expand their programming and build a fabulous workshop?

crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

this is so profoundly impressive! i wish you could also pay yourself but i fully understand how much money there isn't in cool zine projects 💜

!! so cool!

every day we wake up to new confirmations that reclaiming the means of production is how we get free. make pasta, make zines; make paintings and gardens and fresh bread and friendships. make a future you can hold in your own uncommodified hands.

3 Issues of Non-Conformist zine from the mid-80s
freedomhasnobounds.com/zines/non-co...

The new Zine of the Gay post is up!

We've got a cohort of students who will be updating the QZAP blog this semester. They'll be exploring zines from our collections and writing about them every week or so. To start us off, Erica is taking on Some Boys Bleed

gittings.qzap.org/i-knew-a-boy...