Posts by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
(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 #AWxMQayvJzX5Y8LoBs by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-06-22T17:13:33Z
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Was trying to figure out why there's a picture of a TV on this bike box and realized its a galaxy-brain move on the part of the bike company to get shippers to actually handle it carefully 😭
(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 #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 #AYhTfB4tzAPDGlLpXk by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-08-13T20:34:34Z
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THE NOD first show :PunkFelix: #gigEnCours
(DIR) Post #Ac3BWZoh79f0cI7HKy by peoplelikedogs@438punk.house
2023-11-22T02:15:03Z
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Darned some socks! Never done it before. The only yarn I had on hand was too thick so I kinda knew it was gonna be a little bit dumpy but it was a low-stakes project and I feel like I started getting the hang of it a bit by the last patch.