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(DIR) Post #AScqjx7kvHkgkXDHkm by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-01T14:43:55Z
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This is the thread for my #FunADay for the month of February. It's called #ZineADay or, "geriatric distroist speedreads the hits." I'll be shooting to read a zine each day and posting a short review of it in the thread! #FunADay2023 LFG
(DIR) Post #AScqjxmWTiMUmyHqIS by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-01T16:05:35Z
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OK, starting with a banger? This was a very important early influence for me—especially the last section, which probably saved me from suicidal depression as a teen. On the whole I think it still stands up, some sections are a snooze but almost every line is pull-quote-able.Briefly—we live in capitalist hell, and our ability to imagine different ways of living or struggling are limited by this vantage, and so we gotta do small breaks with reality to open up space for those changes. It warns of the dangers of mass movement, recuperation and armed struggle. As someone who came up at a time of relatively low struggle/high repression, this all sat well with me. I wonder if still feels relevant to people now with the increase in popular mass movement. Unfortunately, no mention that there are people who are already living more in conflict than the assumed comfy-bored reader in europe/NA. I think there's a generous read that people whose lives inherently conflict more with the existant (the imprisoned/enslaved, colonized, racialized, gendered) have an important and possibly clearer perspective on struggling and living differently, but the authors certainly don't make that explicit. 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ /5 daggers
(DIR) Post #AScqjyFEkxKYE1im3M by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-02T14:59:05Z
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"Occupy" was a very very weird time, but this zine is something very worthwhile that came out of it. Holy shit, it's so good. I was VERY overdue for a reread. Thank you to the multiple friends who suggested I add it to the pile! I don't get the sense that this text is very widely read (or at least distributed) in Canada, but it definitely should be—the critiques of how non-profit structures pacify rebellion could be read onto Canadian gov't grants, funding, student groups, etc. Maybe the title makes it seem too place-specific to be relevant to folks here? The examples given all stem from a specific context but it's so well-written that I don't think a reader who was unfamiliar with that context would feel lost. Ten years after its release, the type of identity-flattening antioppressive discourse the zine critiques has become mainstream–meanwhile the state continues its murderous death-march, and white supremacists organize with impunity. The first paragraphs outline a call toward autonomous organizing, which the last ten years have shown us some very powerful and uncompromisingly radical examples of. :orb: :orb: :orb: :orb: :orb: /5 orbs #FunADay
(DIR) Post #AScqjyxC7WUaQMHsZM by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-04T01:04:53Z
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I saved this one especially for today, because it's VERY cold and I was VERY sad about having to go to work–I knew I would be excited to come home to this short, sweet, FUCK WORK zine. And it did not disappoint! Building off of the situationist ne travaillez jamais shit that was my bread and butter when i was a bb, with an infinitely more interesting and generative LA/mexican- (american)/immigrant perspective that was missing from a lot of the white-euro stuff I was into during that time. As someone who tends toward workaholism and literally cannot take a nap, I am always overdue for a little slap in the face to remind me what's what. I have alway really admired the stuff from LA ONDA I've sporadically come across over the years (not much made it to the MW). I remember some really nice zines with risograph-printed full-bleed insert pages, ooohlala. I learned from the back cover that LA ONDA is defunct (this edition is courtesy of haters cafe) but I still kinda want to two-colour #riso print these adorable covers! Another cool design note–this edition has two video stills at the beginning and end, with acompanying QR codes that take you to media referenced in the text. Delightful! 🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵/5 saguaros!!#FunADay
(DIR) Post #AScqjzdNagEiXC1ZK4 by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-04T16:32:35Z
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So bummed for my very-stressed-out younger self that this zine didn't exist back then! There have been a few decent zines about security culture put out in the last few years, but I havent paid much attention to what's out there because I felt like I had "already learned this stuff" "the hard way." Foolish, I know, but thats part of why I'm doing this #FunADay (if not for me, at least to get ideas of things I can recommend or put on a table!) Its critical to talk about security culture conceptually, as it encourages strategic thinking and threat modeling, not dogmatic, one-size-fits-all prescriptions–this zine threads the needle really nicely, presenting concepts but also crucially grounding them in real-world examples and yes, offering some tips for security practices. Really appreciated the argument for centering prisons and policing no matter what the struggle is "about"! Crucial! Its easy for repression to make us feel devastatingly helpless and I think the warm fuzzy vibes and cuuute bunny illustrations are well-deployed here.🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇/5 mischevious buns!
(DIR) Post #AScqjzz0IHX9cG8q1o by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-02T15:33:07Z
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So as not to eat up my precious 1312 character limit on my #ZineADay reviews, I am gonna keep editing this post with links to the texts that I am reading, in case anyone wants to check them out. #FunADay 1: At Daggers Drawn – https://archive.org/details/AtDaggersDrawn_315/at-daggers-drawn-IMPOSED/2: Who is Oakland? – https://archive.org/details/WhoIsOakland3: But we have to, so we do it real slow – https://haters.noblogs.org/files/2021/08/Half-Page-But-We-Have-To-Updated.pdf4: Confidence. Courage. Connection. Trust.: A proposal for Security Culture – https://archive.org/download/confidence-courage-connection-trust/confidence-courage-connection-trust.pdf5: How Fast It All Blows Up: Some lessons from the 2001 Cincinnati Riots (if anyone is holding an imposed PDF of this please let me know!) – https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/claustrophobia-collective-how-fast-it-all-blows-up6: Social War, Antisocial Tension – https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/distro-josep-gardenyes-social-war-antisocial-tension7: Riotous Incognitx #2 – https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/post/2017/09/09/riotous-incognitx-2-a-queer-insurrectionary-anarchist-vegan-straight-edge-zin/8: Cometbus #54 – no pdf online :(9: Black Armed Joy – https://haters.noblogs.org/files/2023/02/Black-Armed-Joy-wre.pdf10: Youth Liberation Now #4 – https://fillerpgh.wordpress.com/2023/02/07/zine-youth-liberation-now-issue-4/11. Against Innocence: Race, Gender and the Politics of Safety – https://oplopanaxpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/against-innocence.pdf (& en français! https://breakdown.noblogs.org/files/2021/04/Document-1.pdf)12. Practical Abolition from the Inside Out – https://north-shore.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/practical-abolition.pdf
(DIR) Post #AScqk0R0c9w317FCgC by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-05T21:13:15Z
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This zine contains three essays which offer perspectives on the 2001 riots in Cincinnati, OH after the murder of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas by police after he was pulled over for driving while black. Another super formative zine for me, and I was stoked to revisit it (although I couldn't find a PDF of this particular cover, which is burned in my head–scamming the colour covers for these always took extra work but it was worth it!) The counterinsurgency tatics used by the police, state, NPIC and organized white supremacists to quell and recuperate black revolt and to try and prevent meaningful solidarity between radicals of different races and classes will be super familiar to most readers in 2023. At this point a lot more anarchists in the US (and to some degree in Canada) have experience engaging with this type of revolt, but this is still a really interesting artifact and worth reading. It doesn't shy away from frank talk about uncomfortable experiences around participating in these protests as a white person, and pushes nonblack anarchists to keep reflecting on how to respectfully and meaningfully relate to these types of struggles. :acab: :acab: :acab: :acab: /5 #FunADay
(DIR) Post #AScqk140HB7wy3ULSa by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-06T20:30:58Z
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As far as zines go, I'm usually more interested in ones that I could keep stocked in my nefarious trenchcoat, in case I want to slide up to a disgrunteled-seeming person, pass them a relevant zine, and whisper "have you considered... anarchy?"This is not one of those! It's dense, deep winter, low-point reflection type stuff that meanders all over the place and talks about a bunch of stuff from the Anarchist milieu in Spain that I'm not familiar with. It's candy for dorks like me who have spent too much (but never enough) time thinking about meta-questions of being anarchists in the world, situating ourselves in terrains of struggle and wondering what is the best thing to do. Truly the perfect #FunADay zine. I love it even though I don't agree with everything–but it's not the kind of text that demands my total agreement.Is it a good zine though? I found myself wondering if this is the best format for seasoned anarchists to consume dense texts. So I did an experiment and read part of it out in the world, while I was running errands. Maybe to my surprise, it was much nicer than reading it in a browser.I'd put it on my table at a very niche anarchist event, but not in my trenchcoat. :anarchism: :anarchism: :anarchism: :anarchism: :anarchism: /5
(DIR) Post #AScqk1fa1TBWqb4M1w by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-07T14:43:25Z
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Yesterday was a big reading and thinking day so I wanted to take it kinda easy today. Found this in the zine pile and was like, "wow this is oddly specific and directed exactly toward me, looks fun!"Now THIS is a trenchcoat zine–its short, its earnest, theres really ugly but also sort of cool graphics that are a mix of like FTP-era bad insurrecto design (huge nostalgia points for me) mashed up with varsity letter hardcore aesthetic (which I also love). The content is exactly what it says on the cover. "Some notes on insurrectionary anarchism" from KKA, which i kinda zoned out for... Its fine, it's a classic. Then theres a short essay from an anarchist POC about claiming straight edge after growing up in the hood, and watching the drug war keep people in their community in cycles of poverty and immiseration. It also laments the lack of support for folks struggling with addiction or trying to resist intoxication culture in the anarchist scene. Super short, super impactful essay, I thought it was great. The last page lists some anarchist prisoner addresses and a short thing about why its important to write to prisoners and best practices (fuck yeah!!!!). Would love to pick something like this up at a punk show. #funADay:xvx: :xvx: :xvx: :xvx: /5
(DIR) Post #AScqk2JzbDVkrvyd1M by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-08T20:19:27Z
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I only managed to get my hands on a few scattered zines in high school, but most of my exposure to punk, zine culture, traveling and photocopie scams came from a generous older friend gifting me "Despite Everything" for my 15th?? Birthday. I struggled to read the tiny handwriting on weirdly formatted pages, and the stuff he wrote about was so alien to my suburban midwest life that it might have well been written in another language...but I wanted to learn! So I devoured it over and over.I hadn't read this issue, or any Cometbus past the 90s-00s. The plot: Green Day invited Aaron to come on tour to Thailand, Singapore, HK and Japan with them...so yeah, the title is a little misleading (he thought they were going to mainland China but the dates ended up getting cancelled.) It's almost 100 pages of musings on authenticity, fame, punk, male friendship, the tension between traveling rough and luxe, foreignness, etc. Candy for my cooped-up brain, and I felt genuinely transported by reading this today. I think you could take a cynical read on this as the band inviting Aaron along as a grab at authenticity, but the relationships between all of them are authentically weird and complex–and he doesn't shy away from writing about them in gory detail.☕ ☕ ☕ /5#FunADay
(DIR) Post #AScqk2qFfHJcTz4OIq by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-09T21:59:31Z
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I've been super curious about this zine since I saw it pop up. Incredible title! Also I love this cover, another beaut from haters café."What would an insurrectionary anarchist position thoroughly rooted in black radicalism and black revolt mean? How does the current white insurrectionary anarchist milieu fail? How can Black revolutionaries extend the insurrection?" Fuck yes. This is a very powerful and provocative text, with enough blistering critiques to go around (and have seconds). I'm extremely stoked on the conversations that this and other black anarchist texts seem to be opening up in the last few years –building on aspects of the black radical tradition in the states and drawing inspiration from anticolonial struggles all over the world, while cutting a way forward through so much murk and recuperation of the last few years with an insurrectionary flame. Haters Café also posted a few responses to the piece, and those have been great to read–if part of the goal of the piece is to facilitate these conversations among black anarchists (and hopefully among nonblack anarchists), it's working. For my part, I'm gonna be marinating on this one for a bit while perusing responses and the absolutely stacked recommended reading page. 🔥🔥🔥🔥/5, recommend.#FunADay
(DIR) Post #AScqk3Xr3AC4fDTDGa by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-11T01:26:36Z
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Holy shit. This was me the entire time I was reading this 🥺🥺🥺 but like, not in a patronizing way! This zine is sooooo sick. Its really thoughtful and hopeful and angry and critical and has a really cool diy vibe. Its written by and towards kids/teenagers but I recommend it for anyone if you need a little boost of hope. Equal parts anarchy for youths and youth lib for anarchists. My favourite part was the spread about how awesome and nice riding the subway is and how public transit can be a means of youth liberation (although not currently equitable or perfect by any means). I printed out a copy on a whim after I remembered seeing @Filler_PGH post it a few days ago. I worked all day and then troubleshot my printer and this was such a sweet treat for a day when i didnt have a ton of time or energy for #FunADay. I will definitely be keeping a few copies on hand the next time I'm tabling!🚇🚇🚇🚇🚇/5
(DIR) Post #AScqk4Q5nVZxNQqWo4 by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-12T02:39:38Z
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I reached for this today because it seemed like a topical reread vis-à-vis some IRL conversations I've been around. Especially appreciated the section where she talks about how easily white womanhood/feminism can be recuperated and wielded as a justification for the expansion of racist violence, prisons, and policing: "At the same time that the State was asserting itself as the protector of (white) women, the US saw the massive expansion of prisons and the criminalization of Blackness. It could be argued that the State and the media opportunistically seized on the energy of the feminist movement and appropriated feminist rhetoric to establish the racialized Penal State while simultaneously controlling the movement of women (by promoting the idea that public space was inherently threatening to women)." This zine is chock full of smart perspectives backed up by a wealth of well-deployed citations.I know she's an academic but I really wish this text was like...one notch less academic. Regardless, I still distro it and have pushed it on lot of people, and it's definitely an all-timer as far as zines go.:acabkitty: :acabkitty: :acabkitty: :acabkitty: :acabkitty: / 5#FunADay
(DIR) Post #AScqk5Gud7pW1FYi8W by SAFEBoulder@kolektiva.social
2023-02-12T06:04:35Z
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@peoplelikedogs this is on our table right now 😎
(DIR) Post #AScqk5nWfruxeOokyG by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-12T22:08:09Z
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I read/skimmed like 8 zines today cause I'm trying to fill out my distro for some upcoming events, and I'm a bit fried. Most of them were actually pretty meh, but THIS ONE is really cool, so I'm gonna keep it posi and review it for my #FunADay.This is a very practical breakdown of one anarchist group in Hamilton, Ontario's approach to solidarity organizing with people inside the city's jail. Its pretty short and goes through exactly what the group does to support prisoners, and why they do it. There are detailed step by step instructions for supporting a hunger strike from the outside, and discussion of struggles around maintaining contact with inside organizers, limiting the scope of the project so it doesnt get unmanageable, and avoiding recuperation. These actions are very reproduceable–I think that a small group of anarchists anywhere in north america could easily read this zine, talk about it with some friends, and undertake a similar project. I really like this format and how it demystifies the impossibly large and (sometimes) nebulous anarchist value of "prisoner solidarity," and goes beyond the typical suggestions of writing letters and going to demos (which are also very important and good!!!) 📳📳📳📳📳/5
(DIR) Post #AWxMUsnn0Wg9ydBflY by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-14T01:48:40Z
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Absolutely just didn't fucking feel like it today, so I reached for something short and familiar and affirming of that feeling. I made this zine as a present to myself a few years ago and try to keep it close at heart. I have a hard time saying no sometimes; it's important to remember that refusal can be generative as well (sup nihilists 🖤). Either way, the reread has inspired me that I should probably do a reprint, if only so I can leave them scattered around or give them out like candy. But not today. 🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️/5 #FunADay(Linking the text here instead of my master thread, in case you need to read it: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2017/04/no)
(DIR) Post #AWxMUwDQJfxyZ0Cgdc by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-15T03:10:52Z
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OK, halfway through #FunADay. Gotta be honest I am getting a little tired–I actually picked this zine because its kinda short and I got a late start today, but it ended up making me feel energized because it is pretty interesting. I've read this before, but it's been about...15 years.It's an interview with three new left + lesbian political prisoners, and covers a range of topics including why queers should stand in solidarity with other movements/oppressed people, not get fucking recuperated, AIDS, organizing in prison, and being gaaaaaaaay. Per an old-ass website via wayback, it seems like the interview took place in 1991 and was published in Arm The Spirit, but the zine version I have is definitely designed to be sent into prison (its missing the introduction about all the subjects' crimes and politics and stuff, which I read about on wikipedia). It's interesting to be reading this now and feeling relatively secure enough with myself and my politics that I can take from it what's good and prescient (lots of stuff), and not have a total knee-jerk reaction and get hung up on the anti-imperialist/armed struggle politics and some outdated language. I probably wouldn't table this zine, but I still think it's super worth reading.👩❤️👩 👩❤️👩 👩❤️👩 👩❤️👩 /5
(DIR) Post #AWxMUxSLhfV2PaC7Xc by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-15T15:34:59Z
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Kinda pleasantly surprised at how well this zine held up. The middle sections feel pretty anchored in a specific time and place, and I wonder how much they'd resonate with a first-time reader today... but hoooo boy they make sense to me. The beginning and ending sections offer a pretty solid analysis though, and overall some smart takes about how the popular models of dealing with assault from within anarchist "communities" (which the zine rightly and relatively non-judgementally names as largely white- and middle-class-dominated youth cultures) are wildly inadequate and mostly serve to reinforce existing power structures.I found the use of gender-neutral language in this zine to be really effective–it opens up space and doesn't feel like it's watering down or obscuring the existance of real dynamics. In fact, the zine doesn't shy from naming certain dynamics and is bookended by crucial reminders that interpersonal violence is a tool which has long been used to maintain white supremacy and colonialism.Sad to say this was a bit of a topical choice this morning (nothing bad happening to me, just some stuff on my mind), but it helped clear my thoughts a bit. 🦷🦷🦷🦷/5
(DIR) Post #AWxMUykosTruR9qNyC by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-16T20:44:30Z
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Its a twofer today, since these are basically the same and written by the same person. My search for Zines to table at a hardcore fest this weekend continues; idk if either of these exactly fit the bill, but they're both pretty good. TALFUW is directed more toward anarchist/activist scenes whereas MEIABS is for a queer audience but leans more punk, and I'm nearly certain is older. TALFUW is definitely more in-depth in its analysis and also contains a postscript that addresses almost everything I took issue with about it. All that said, i think what I'm really looking for in a zine about straight edge/sobriety in 2023 is a strong focus on harm reduction and breaking down stigma around substance use. Certainly these two zines are quite posi and nom-shamey about it, but the drug war is killing too many fucking people, and I think building in that approach when we talk about this stuff is literally a matter of life or death. (TALFUW does mention this in the postscript, but even that update is over 10 years old i think–the problem is a different scale now). Still, would recommend either for anyone who wants to think about their relationship to substance use or how to make their scene more inclusive.✖️✖️✖️/5#FunADay
(DIR) Post #AWxMUzaZm3Gj1g3ids by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-19T03:49:28Z
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Wasnt able to read, but I tabled at a show.
(DIR) Post #AWxMV0PGjZonYtmCem by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-19T04:09:30Z
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This zine is still so good, jeeeez. I just read it while hiding in a corner at a show and even though its been ages, I felt memories flooding back at certain passages and the way he describes the visceral horrors of prison and the hoplessnes of cutting out prison like a cancer on current society–its essential to its functioning!!! The whole things gotta go!! This is the best Bonanno IMO because its transcribed from a talk and its more conversational and a fun read.Maybe I've said this too many times already this month, but this zine might've been the most influential on my politics of anything else that I read when I was young. Its of a time and place lacks any discussion of race and prisons/policing which is critical to a north american context–def should be read and distroed alongside other things which provide that context! 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌/5#FunADay
(DIR) Post #AWxMV1VgdCXuz5mqIa by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-19T20:07:07Z
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Like everything I've read by Tawinikay, this piece is razor sharp and uncompromising, but simultaneously nuanced and very approachable. Of course you have a blistering critique of reconciliation, how at its root it serves to fortify the project of the canadian state, and breaking down the difference between reconciliation and decolonization. But she also manages to give possibly one of the best crash-courses in anarchy 101 I've ever read. This zine is also an awesome demonstration of what it looks like to honour different aspects of one's identity, heritage, and political convictions. Its so sick. I hope its in French and if not someone translate it. I want it on my table from now on. Americans, you should still read it, dont zone out when it starts talking about Canada stuff, just push through. Its really, really good. :anarchism: :anarchism: :anarchism: :anarchism: :anarchism: /5
(DIR) Post #AWxMV2y5D6r3VS52CO by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-21T00:55:20Z
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I'd read this article online around when it came out, but I couldn't help myself printing out this zine-formatted version when I was perusing Haters Cafe pre-#funADay. I'm feeling a bit squishy today so I decided to indulge the comfort-read–Sophie's writing always makes me feel like I'm floating in a body-temp pool of feelings and smart ideas that are just enough above my little nonacademic head to keep me interested. In this piece they explore what it would mean to take the jokey portmanteau "momrade" seriously and weaves through their own processing of their (estranged) mum's death with ideas of family abolition and comradely care. As is their MO, they heavily credit and cite black, indigenous, and queer feminists when discussing subversions of family and kinship; the bibliography is absolutely stacked. Per my own ambivalent-toward-crunchy relationship with my own biofam and specifically my mother, there was a lot to relate to in here. I also remembered that someday after I'm done with all these zines I get to read books again and I'm excited to check out their latest. 🦂🦂🦂/5
(DIR) Post #AWxMV4J2EhCzeitHUm by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-22T01:01:20Z
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I found this while looking through the big zine milkcrate (probably picked up from the bookfair) and it looked interesting so I threw it in my #funADay pile. There wasnt any publisher information or date or anything; internet searching revealed that it was put out by something called 1312 Press out of Seattle, which I'd never heard of, but they seem to have a solid selection of original and non-original zines, including lots of anti-colonial and punk content.The pieces in this zine are great on their own–it features Yannick Giovanni Marshall, William C Anderson, Zoé Samudzi, Vicky Osterweil and "we still outside collective," a black affinity group. I'd read most of these essays, and they're definitely all really worth reading! But, as far as the zine goes, i really wish there was like... even a few intro sentences about who put it out and in what context (even a year!) My best guess is that it was thrown together hastily during the riots in 2020 as an attempt to get black anarchist and pro-looting perspectives into the hands of more people during a moment where that was clearly needed. More of a good reminder to myself to always include some context when putting out texts!↙️↙️↙️/5
(DIR) Post #AWxMV5AD2zk8JdlkNU by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-23T02:14:19Z
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I've been staring at the computer all day with a giant deadline looming, a sick partner and a really cranky cat, so I really wanted something short and comforting and transporting. This is my friend @toxophylum 's nature-themed perzine–she's a bat scientist, general nature freak, and all around extremely badass person. I also grabbed this randomly from the big milkcrate before #funADay started. The zine contains photos, essays and poems from multiple contributors but my favourite part was getting to read about when her and her friend tried to bike to south america from Michigan, a story I've heard bits and pieces about during various hangs. Spoiler alert, they did make it all the way to Chile but not on their bikes–but reading about wacky hitchhiking and camping mishaps and that moment where you are soooooo close to getting to the ocean that you can feel and smell it.... Ughhh. Its february and we're about to get 20 more cm of snow, and I want to be biking in the woods and smelling the ocean and this zine took me there.🦇🦇🦇🦇/5
(DIR) Post #AWxMV6EV4WlldEmghk by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-23T14:55:21Z
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As the title suggests, this zine offers a crash course in the history of antiracist skinhead culture, starting from the black roots of punk, the multiracial working class scenes in the 60's and antiracist movements within the subculture that exist up to the present. It's a decent intro and jumps around a bit, but probably most people who really care about this stuff have read a whole book or two on it.Aside from the history being interesting, I think there's a really good point made in this zine that is mentioned in both its essays: the media, by giving a platform to and spectaularizing white supremacist skinheads, effectively invented a culture which was then able to spread. We've obviously seen this same thing happen on a larger scale now! I think even if you don't care about punk, there are important lessons here, and I think it speaks to the value of keeping (sub)cultural and youth spaces explicitly political, where people who have been around longer or who have more clout are actively talking about and opposing racism, xenophobia, homo/transphobia and sexism. This does happen, especially in certain corners of the scene here in Montreal, but I think we can and should do more! :af: :af: :af: :af: /5
(DIR) Post #AWxMV78ViHZYQwzQ0W by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-25T03:50:04Z
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Ok I barely squeezed this one in today, I am whopped. Gonna try to be really intentional with the reviews the next few days since i'll be off work finally, but tbh i just grabbed this from the top of the pile because its short and i had been vaguely avoiding it. I did want to reread for distro possibilities, but its pretty much how I remembered, which is...ok. It says some good things, it says some other things that I'm not so sure about and will have to come back to, but its hard to tell even because the writing style is quite busted. I obviously have some kinda soft spot for/was literally birthed from the flowery garbled 00s insurrecto style, but for where i'm at rn (geographically and otherwise) deciding what to distro often comes down to stuff that is clearly and well-written, because its a given that at least half the people reading any text arent gonna be reading it in their first language, and I know how I feel about reading nonsense in my second language (I simply will not). As far as other stuff I've read even in the last few days, I think both Locked Up and Against Innocence make many of the same points about breaking with prison society, guilt, politics, etc, and much more simply and compellingly. ⛏️⛏️/5, cranky tired scale#FunADay
(DIR) Post #AWxMV8ul6NlDwsZSqm by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-25T15:47:48Z
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My jaw is on the floor, this text fucking knocks it out of the park. I'm so glad I saved this for a day where I could take my time, and I will definitely be digesting for a while and probably coming back to it. The initial premise of the piece is a response to Aragorn!'s "Locating an indigenous anarchism," positing that there *shouldnt* be an "indigenous anarchism," because of the impossibility of fully squaring these two things, even if there are strong connections. It doesn't shy away from these tensions but digs in. It dunks on many people and ideas. It goes hard for articulating anarchism as anti-political which, while often aspirational in practice, makes my heart flutter. Like Tawinikay's "autonomously and with conviction," (which is cited), it gives us a nuanced and fleshed out idea of what anarchy could be, from within an indigenous perpsective. It doesnt care if I liked it, but I really did.⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️/5 #funADay
(DIR) Post #AWxMVASTMWK4jjLu2S by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-26T16:26:44Z
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Having seen but never bothered to read these little lexicon pamphlets before, I decided it was a good way to sneak in more zines and started in on the pile… “hm these seem decent. This POWER one has a good roast on conspiratorial thinking. Maybe I should see if the GENDER one is in French, this might be good for tabling. Oh cool, the COLONIALISM one is by that person who did that really interesting interview on the Final Straw recently. WHITE SUPREMACY, ok... mmm not wild about this ANARCHISM one but it’s ok, it’s just not my vibe…. what’s next. SOCIETY? Oh, huh, this seems ... the paper and layout are different. Oh. Oh it’s very different. Wolfi? Novatore??” LOL. I got GOT by these bootleg versions, probably exactly as intended, which in itself is sort of delightful. I did unfortunately have to shut it down when the ATTACK pamphlet stopped quoting Bonanno and started in on like 6 pages of ITS, womp womp. I’ve been mostly holding back my VERY STRONG design opinions in these reviews, but for fucks sake, you cannot print a zine with yellow text (the antisocial version at least had the sense to print the body text in black, the colour of total negation and also the best contrast).How to rate... Inside of me there are 🐺 🐺 /5#FunADay
(DIR) Post #AWxMVBpYGCNUzb9qeO by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-27T21:06:01Z
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This is a very good and also very devastating zine about the violence of gender, the violence of prison, and how those things interact with each other (specifically through the experiences and observations of an anarchist transwoman who has done time in both men's and women's prisons in Canada). I read it a year or two ago but I've been wanting to come back to it a lot lately because of thinking about the various legal threats to trans peoples' existance coming out of the states rn – while what's critiqued in this zine is a sort of inversion of that issue (legally enshrined trans rights in Canadian law), I think the bottom line is still very relevant: whatever "rights" the state can afford us it can just as easily take away, no matter what provisional crumbs we're given we have to keep pushing for more, and nothing short of the destruction of this prison society will actually allow us the freedom to "be ourselves."🍰 🍰 🍰 🍰 🍰 /5#funADay
(DIR) Post #AWxMVDNcV1DvnY6ZOK by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-02-28T19:52:08Z
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I'm not crying on the métro YOU'RE crying on the métro!!! This zine was written as a collaboration between two lovers as a way of processing their separation by detention and then deportation. Its really beautiful and really sad and sweet and it reminds me of how tenuous my relationships have felt at various moments. "Our relationships are dangerous when they are the sun and water to our own seeds of rebellion. It is up to us to transform our relationships into weapons and use them to create the space we need to experience freedom in the ruins of domination and exploitation; where there can be no threat of prison or deportation." 💔💔💔💔💔/5#funADay
(DIR) Post #AWxMVEzaVLBknasPD6 by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-03-02T00:46:29Z
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Psssshhhht I couldn't find the zine "Chronotope" online, but I did find a really funny reference to it in the introduction to a glossy photo magazine 😂
(DIR) Post #AWxMVGMJQKxb2MW4Gm by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-03-02T00:47:09Z
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"perhaps a student project" LOL clearly did not actually read the zine.