Alana Storm
@alanastorm.bsky.social
of a certain age; clocky broad; after much consternation, a writer
found in TRANSPlants, Pile Press, Lilac Peril, and PDX
Makes zines
i use this machine to share work and I try to not discourse in public.
https://gliff.org
https://linktr.ee/alanaxstorm
found in TRANSPlants, Pile Press, Lilac Peril, and PDX
Makes zines
i use this machine to share work and I try to not discourse in public.
https://gliff.org
https://linktr.ee/alanaxstorm
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Alana Storm
@alanastorm.bsky.social
· May 10
New zine is out! "Fucking Cis Men: stunted trans desire in the waning days of generation x". This started as cruising disaster stories from the early 90s and turned into something about putting the past down. Free download and purchase info here: gliff.org/posts/zine-f...
I've been filling a lot of gaps in my reading in the past few years. Something that strikes me about Schulman is how, in the circles I moved in decades ago, we all knew the facts of what she tends to write about, but looking back it's embarrassing how surface level and vain that understanding was.
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I've been filling a lot of gaps in my reading in the past few years. Something that strikes me about Schulman is how, in the circles I moved in decades ago, we all knew the facts of what she tends to write about, but looking back it's embarrassing how surface level and vain that understanding was.
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I wrote about sheer spite's sliding scale pricing, and some thoughts on the economics of running a very small press:
sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...
sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...
on sliding scale zine pricing, and the economics of running a tiny press - sheer spite press
Pricing creative work is notoriously difficult. I find it especially so for zines. In running Sheer Spite, two things that are important to me are supporting people in making...
sheerspite.ca
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wrote about sheer spite's sliding scale pricing, and some thoughts on the economics of running a very small press:
sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...
sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...
someday someone will ask Sandy Stern and Allan Moyle who wrote the eat me beat me lady's poems and the world will be a slightly richer place for it
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
someday someone will ask Sandy Stern and Allan Moyle who wrote the eat me beat me lady's poems and the world will be a slightly richer place for it
they say we were something/in those formative years
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
they say we were something/in those formative years
Portland people -- I'm checking this out for the first time tonight. Say hello!
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Portland people -- I'm checking this out for the first time tonight. Say hello!
the precise moment you realize the recyclables are tumbling into the already filled with food scraps compost bin while, simultaneously, a passing car of young men cat calls your new tits and you muter quietly to yourself -- welcome to womanhood.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 AM
the precise moment you realize the recyclables are tumbling into the already filled with food scraps compost bin while, simultaneously, a passing car of young men cat calls your new tits and you muter quietly to yourself -- welcome to womanhood.
back on someone’s bullshit
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
back on someone’s bullshit
reading old squatter/train-hopping blogs and having another round with the "what does it mean to live free" brain worms
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
reading old squatter/train-hopping blogs and having another round with the "what does it mean to live free" brain worms
if you want a picture of the future, imagine a neti pot irrigating your sinuses, forever
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
if you want a picture of the future, imagine a neti pot irrigating your sinuses, forever
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Once again asking! Small press especially welcome. This is for a series of mini reviews in the spring issue of a journal
People in the know - what trans horror is coming out in 2026? Besides Persona
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Once again asking! Small press especially welcome. This is for a series of mini reviews in the spring issue of a journal
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FUCK!!!!! ALASKA AIR TOOK THE SUBPOP LOGO OFF THE DUDE’S TSHIRT ON THE LATEST SAFETY CARD
SEATTLE’S CULTURAL SUPREMACY IS BEING WATERED DOWN! Unacceptable.
SEATTLE’S CULTURAL SUPREMACY IS BEING WATERED DOWN! Unacceptable.
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
FUCK!!!!! ALASKA AIR TOOK THE SUBPOP LOGO OFF THE DUDE’S TSHIRT ON THE LATEST SAFETY CARD
SEATTLE’S CULTURAL SUPREMACY IS BEING WATERED DOWN! Unacceptable.
SEATTLE’S CULTURAL SUPREMACY IS BEING WATERED DOWN! Unacceptable.
My first time tabling at @pdx_zines went great -- moved around 75% of what I printed, saw friends, and met a bunch of new people including folks collecting for libraries.
Also, I'm beyond amused that the zine that sold best was the one with a 2009 era blown out thirst trap for a cover.
Also, I'm beyond amused that the zine that sold best was the one with a 2009 era blown out thirst trap for a cover.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My first time tabling at @pdx_zines went great -- moved around 75% of what I printed, saw friends, and met a bunch of new people including folks collecting for libraries.
Also, I'm beyond amused that the zine that sold best was the one with a 2009 era blown out thirst trap for a cover.
Also, I'm beyond amused that the zine that sold best was the one with a 2009 era blown out thirst trap for a cover.
See you Sunday at the Portland Zine Symposium. PSU Smith Ballroom, 11am - 5pm.
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
See you Sunday at the Portland Zine Symposium. PSU Smith Ballroom, 11am - 5pm.
still on my bullshit
November 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
still on my bullshit
ask me about my gender affirming hand surgery
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
ask me about my gender affirming hand surgery
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the most expensive part of transition is actually all the books
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
the most expensive part of transition is actually all the books
I've got a small poem in the latest Trans Survivors zine from Forge -- cheap as in free download!
Alana Storm's "Frontier Discovery" explores the way our understandings of ourselves shift with age - ways that our perspectives can become more expansive. Read the full poem in Issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine: Aging and Growth, at forge.tips/zine @alanastorm.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I've got a small poem in the latest Trans Survivors zine from Forge -- cheap as in free download!
May Joe Carter’s ghost smile upon you all.
November 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
May Joe Carter’s ghost smile upon you all.
thinking a lot about how the first Pokémon generation is about to enter their birding years
October 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
thinking a lot about how the first Pokémon generation is about to enter their birding years
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Who are your favorite Seattle trans writers, artists, and musicians I don't know about?
October 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Who are your favorite Seattle trans writers, artists, and musicians I don't know about?
low key wish "crawling decades old trans/queer web content" was a job and not just a therapeutic practice
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
low key wish "crawling decades old trans/queer web content" was a job and not just a therapeutic practice
still soaking in aging punks, a lost new york city that probably never was, and paths not taken
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
still soaking in aging punks, a lost new york city that probably never was, and paths not taken
I don’t have many hard held beliefs left, but “when friends ask you for help moving, help them move” is one of them.
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I don’t have many hard held beliefs left, but “when friends ask you for help moving, help them move” is one of them.
the slow awkward realization that most gen-x counter cultural spaces were just mental health affinity groups where people drank a little too much
October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
the slow awkward realization that most gen-x counter cultural spaces were just mental health affinity groups where people drank a little too much