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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 3d

YUM!!! Saba is my favorite 🤩🐟

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 3d

I totally did it to myself. And also, it's all love... I'll get to see some of my favorite folks.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know what to say about this, as I get ready to head to my 3rd zine tabling event in a month tomorrow, other than @sheerspite.bsky.social nails it.

As both an attendee and organizer of zine, zinelibrary and rad events, there is so much for us to do still to make the days-of awesome for all.

sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 3d

Every zine fest is a miracle and a labour of love, but here are some things that I have experienced that make for a zine fair that is especially nice to table at:
sheerspite.ca/five-things-...

Five things zine fairs do that I love - sheer spite press

Hello! I’ve been thinking about zine fairs (and book fairs, small press fairs, and other places where people stand behind a table and sell you little booklets). I’ve tabled...

sheerspite.ca

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Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️💜🎹 @sophiously.com · 3d

I don’t think I know too many people here who are local to me, but I’m really excited about this so I’m putting it here

We now officially have a Baton Rouge #Zine Club!!!!

A place/time to hang out and make #zines, share zines, and meet other folks doing the same 💜💜

batonrougezineclub.com

Baton Rouge Zine Club – let's make zines!

batonrougezineclub.com

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 3d

we call it a Twin Spin... and also, I wonder if you could use iTunes rating system and smart playlists to make a weighted one where that's more likely to happen?

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 3d

We have a Sandy Berman file in the archive at QZAP, which includes correspondence and a copy of a petition to add "Anal Fisting" as a subject heading to LOC.

He also moderated the panel where I met my ZFF @zinelib.bsky.social 20+ years ago, and I'm forever thankful to both. 💖

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 4d

On this day where librarians consider the closing of Baker & Taylor, I would like to remind you that Sandy Berman still walks this earth and today is his birthday.

www.sanfordberman.org

Welcome to the Sanford Berman website devoted to the work of librarian Sanford Berman who created an innovative, radical and inclusive catalog which used terms we use when looking for information instead of the 19th century language of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Berman worked for the Hennepin County library from 1973 until 1999. Sandy continues to create subject headings and works for political and social justice.

www.sanfordberman.org

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 4d

check out the fantastic array of workshops being offered this month during the Midwest Queer + Trans Zine Fest and Conference!

you can register for my collage zine workshop at wipmpls.com/workshops — free + in-person in the MCBA Bindery! materials are provided! space limited to 10 participants!

flyer with red risograph ink
mzqtf
midwest queer trans zine fest + conference

free public workshops held during the zine fest at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Ave S #100, Minneapolis, MN 55415

Saturday Oct 18 at 12 noon
Mapping the Interior: Abstract One-Sheet Collage
Zines with allison anne
Register at www.wipmpls.com/workshops

Saturday Oct 18 at 2pm
Communal Collage: Creating a Collective
Chapbook with Peter Guy Witzig
Register at www.wipmpls.com/workshops

Saturday Oct 18 at 4pm
Cut and Pace: Comix with Val Thomas
No advance registration required, just show up! 15 seats.

Sunday Oct 19 at 1pm
Let's Make Some Zines! With Xiomar Luna
No advance registration required, just show up! 15 seats

Sunday Oct 19 at 3pm
intuitive journaling with folasade
No advance registration required, just show up! 15 seats

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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 4d

Through the generous giving of an anonymous donor via the Tides Foundation, we will receive a $15,000 matching grant to help us open our new archive. So we need YOU to help us raise our goal of $15,000 to meet the match!

Visit: invisiblehistory.org/support

Through the generous giving of an anonymous donor via the Tides Foundation, we will receive a $15,000 matching grant to cover the costs of moving our at-risk collections to our new home location. So we need YOU to help us raise our goal of $15,000 to meet the match!

Visit: invisiblehistory.org/support

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 5d

just finished up another incredible book with my queer book club! gonna be making a lot of zines inspired by this one for sure. #booksky #queerart #zines #history

Elliott's hand is holding a paperback copy of Larry Mitchell's queer masterpiece, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions. The cover is bright red with black curly text and a surreal illustration of some beautiful faggots at the top of the cover.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 7d

fuck yeah!!

elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 8d

hey friends, did you know that you can find my zines and stickers at South Street Art Mart in Philly? and that it's an awesome shop owned by two queer ladies? well now you know so go check it out either in person or online. 😘

southstreetartmart.com/collections/...

Elliott Junkyard

The South Street Art Mart is a queer woman owned handmade retail shop located in the heart of Philly's #SouthStreet shopping district. With DIY roots and punk sensibility, the Art Mart is home to prod...

southstreetartmart.com

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 7d

Looking forward to the AI garbage backlash that results in hand-written, hand-drawn, grainy photocopies like the best punk zines of the 80s.

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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project @qzap.bsky.social · 9d

We will be tabling at Beet Street in Milwaukee this Saturday from 1pm - 7pm-ish.

This street festival is organized and hosted by our friends at Cactus Club, and looks like it's going to be rad as fuck.

Details here:
www.visitmilwaukee.org/event/beet-s...

Image is a psychedelic ameboid frame with purple, green and pink flowers and over a black and white image of two male sailors kissing each other.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 9d

Probably still black, as that will best fit my Smiths/Depeche Mode/New Order cassette collection

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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 10d

Zines. Potlucks. Punk shows in parks. Someone cute writing their phone number on your hand. The kids crave authentic moments unmediated by big tech.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 10d

So I'm stoked to give this a listen over the next couple of weeks and see how it holds up.

*Microserfs also played a pretty big role in how I think about building better worlds through pop culture, technology, and chosen or logical family, and I think we don't talk about it often enough.

Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 10d

I haven't read the original edition in over a decade, and since it took place in CompuServe/AOL/IRC style chatspace I had relegated it to "cute-and-sexy CyberNostalgia" like the movie Hackers and Doug Copeland's Microserfs*.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 10d

This novel literally changed my whole life when I first I read it in 1998. It introduced some advanced concepts of gender to me, and got me thinking about my own. Introduced neopronouns, inspired me to start publishing Mutate (1999-2008), which in turn has led me to being an enby zinester at age 51.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 10d

I just discovered that there's a new, updated for the modern era audio version of Nearly Roadkill available on Hoopla, and I'm so excited!

www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/ne...

hoopla | audiobooks, music, video, comics & ebooks

hoopla has over half a million audiobooks, ebooks, picture books, comics, movies, television shows, and music albums! We make them easy to access on a wide range of browsers, streaming devices and eve...

www.hoopladigital.com

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 10d

And in a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, MY copy arrived yesterday with a generous bag of buttons as well. Oops 😏

Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social · 11d

My copy arrived today with a generous amount of buttons too!! 🥰

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 17d

We mean this in the least threatening way possible...but SOME OF YOU BITCHES HAVE A MAILBOX TO CHECK NEXT WEEK

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 11d

Incredible!!! Have you made MetaS’mores yet? Where the graham crackers are replace with S’mores Pop-Tarts? I wrote a zine about that

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 11d

Mazel Tov!!! 🙌

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 11d

If they aren't online then they can't be exposed to the most evil of social contagions, teh trans, which will only lead to antifa communism, so, yeah, protect those children, I say!

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 12d

Have you been to the shop that’s two doors west of Lost World of Wonder in the same strip as American Science and Surplus? It’s weird and fun… I got the 3rd Gayest Ken ™ there…

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.bsky.social · 14d

SATURDAY, SEPT 27: Lower East Side volunteer-run arts organization ABC No Rio is having its inaugural #zine fair in Bushwick, #Brooklyn, at Mayday Space, 176 St. Nicholas Ave. FREE! With "stacked schedule," 12 noon to 10PM. Masks required first 2 hours. www.abcnorio.org/events/abc-n... #zines #NYC

Screenshot of an Instagram post by ABC No Rio about its ABC No Rio Zine Fair, Sept 27th: "Here's what's going on! Workshops. Discussions. Tattoos. Screen printing. Food Not Bombs. Puppets."

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 13d

recently paused submissions for the press and distro because i am pretty maxed out and also? i already stock 87 print zines and 37 digital zines and i feel like that's plenty. you may buy some if you like

sheerspite.ca/shop/

a vast, colourful array of zines, screenshotted from sheerspite.ca

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