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Race Revolt #2 'Race Revolt aims to start dialogue about race in alternative and activist communities, with a feminist, queer and diy focus' weight = 10 stars £2.00
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Reassess Your Weapons #8
Description from Melanie who sends me this wonderful zine: "Reassess Your Weapons is the zine created by the Manifesta feminist/queer collective in Leeds, UK. This issue features great articles and artwork, on amongst other topics, the million women rise march; being a trans ally; components of a drumkit; unemployment; the commonplace leeds; greenham common; renminbi interview; diy community; plus a huge big section on finding your independence."
weight = 8 stars £1.25
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Reassess Your Weapons #9
Description from Melanie who sends me this wonderful zine: "The 9th issue of Reassess Your Weapons; a collaborative zine from the feminist/queer collective 'Manifesta' based in Leeds, UK (www.myspace.com/manifestaleeds www.manifesta.co.uk)
This issue features: weight = 9 stars £1.50
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Riot-GRRRLife #1 *description coming soon* weight = 3 stars £1.00
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Riot-GRRRLife #2 *description coming soon* weight = 5 stars £1.00
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Riot-GRRRLife #3 *description coming soon* weight = 5 stars £1.00
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Screaming In Public #1
Cazz's description (which I can't improve on!):
weight = 15 stars £1.25
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Sinking Hearts #1 If I had randomly received this in the mail one day it would easily be one of my absolute favourite zines. The fact that it’s by one of my best friends really is not making me biased (even if she doesn’t believe that). Reasons why you want to read this zine: Firstly, it has one of the nicest cut/paste layouts I have seen in a while. Secondly it’s stuffed (yes, I know it’s short, but the writing is tiny!) with cute/interesting/serious pieces on t-shirt surgery advice, things she loves, “dear models”, thoughts on being bisexual, nostalgia of being 15 and favourite lyrics. Thirdly, I’m not sure there is a thirdly… what more does a perzine need than a great layout and great content?? I can’t wait for the second issue! weight = 2 stars £0.40
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Smelling Trees
Description by Fliss - thank you! The first thing I did with Smelling Trees fanzine is smell it! Mmm, scent of fresh ink and favourite comics. ST is a creative writing fanzine - the design is somewhere between an arty diary and a small-press literary magazine. There are short stories galore, including the adventures of a dream traveller, and an outsider's experience of planet earth, and a project called "Lovely Heads", which is a monolgue pondering on things cerebral.
The zine is adorned with arrays of snippets of words and curious photographic imagery, giving the zine a professional magazine-like artistic atmosphere. This zine has so much depth content-wise that it's nice to dip into every now and then carefully rather than race through in one sitting.
weight = 3 stars £1.00
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Subtext #4
Description from www.subtextmagazine.co.uk:
- Rock and Roll: a revolution we can dance to weight = 12 stars £3.50
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Subtext #5
Description from www.subtextmagazine.co.uk:
- Are Women Priceless? Bride price in Tanzania weight = 13 stars £3.50
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Subtext #6
Description from www.subtextmagazine.co.uk:
- Talking With Teens: Josephine Middleton talks to Bee, her 12 year old daughter, about feminism weight = 12 stars £3.50
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Telegram Ma’am #9 Maranda’s zine is definitely the most personal zine I think I’ve read of hers yet. It’s mostly an honest reflection of an overdose and a subsequent stay on a mental health ward. She reflects on the day to day routine, food, wanting to escape (her life, not the ward), group therapy and spending a night in a homeless shelter. Other pieces include her experiences tabling at her first Canzine (a big Canadian zine event) and two short stories. Perhaps they were dreams though? weight = 7 stars £1.00
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Telegram Ma’am #10
In the intro Maranda describes this issue as “mostly about all the places I have lived in this year, and my last days in Guelph before coming back to my hometown of Lindsay”. She writes about her hopes for and the reality of renting a room from a 97 year old lady, moving in with a boy a week after they met, going busking (for fun!) with a friend and why she has now returned to her small hometown and is looking forward to the future there. It’s nice to read such honesty about facing up to both ones successes and failures. Price has gone up 25p as postage from Canada is craaaazy and it was costing me more to receive them than I was selling them at! It's definitely worth the extra 25p though!
weight = 2 stars £1.25
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Telegram Ma’am #13
Description by Fliss - thank you! This is the first of Maranda's Telegram Ma'am zines that I’ve read, and on this issue's basis, it seems a delve into older issues would be satisfying too. This zine has its own context, it’s just I feel I’ve been missing out all this time on those dozen others! And it's a nicely concise read.
weight = 1 star £1.25
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Truckface #12 *description coming soon* weight = 5 stars £1.50
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With Arms Outstretched
Description from Melanie who conducted the interviews: "With Arms Outstretched is a zine packed with interviews from Lex McQuilkin (PostQueer Project), Kate Bornstein (Gender theorist and activist extraordinaire!), Carla Bozulich (Ex- Geraldine Fibbers. Evangelista & Scarnella), Moe Bowstern (Xtra Tuf zine), Tui & Melissa (Cherry Bomb Comics), Madigan Shive (Bonfire Madigan, Tattle Tale), David Lester (Mecca Normal), Nan Turner (Schwervon!), Debi Withers (Feminist Activist Forum) + art contributions from Fly, and Mirabai."
weight = 10 stars £1.75
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Your Pretty Face Is Going Straight To Hell #2 I’m a little stuck as to how to describe this zine. If you like part typewriter, part handwritten perzines with the perfect mix of writing and collage style art, you’re going to love this. So what does Turku actually write about? Well… mostly about her life, and how she is living with her boyfriend at his parents house, and how their bed is dying, and how she misses cooking, and how she’s looking for a job, and how she misses Finland, and so much more. She also includes some vegan recipes, zine recommendations and a page of “things that I thinks is good & nice”. It’s just all lovely and perziney. I was left smiling on the inside (and probably the outside too). weight = 3 stars £1.00
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Your Pretty Face Is Going Straight To Hell #3
Description by Fliss - thank you! Tukru lets us into her personal world. There's a diary-like feel to 'Your Pretty Face...' where Tukru writes intimately about her life - this issue it's about surviving on part time wages, finally landing a council flat to live in, putting on an art exhibition, her passion for photography... She also includes articles on issues such as women and weight, sizes in clothes shops, relationships, commitment... and there are some really lovely sweet and savoury recipes too. It's all in a dinky pocket-sized A6 format, lovingly hand-written, and adorned with photography, collage, drawings, cartoons, and typewritten faces.
weight = 3 stars £1.50
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Your Pretty Face Is Going Straight To Hell #4 *description coming soon* weight = 3 stars £1.50
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The Zine Directory Zine featuring details of a multitude of UK and International zines. Zines cover genres including music, art, personal, feminism. Both small photocopied zines to larger professionally printed independent magazines. Also included is a list (and information about) current UK distros. It’s great that Jane has taken the time to compile this information as the result is this fantastic zine resource! weight = 6 stars £1.25
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