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Kawai Shen
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Read me and weep

she/her; if I like you, you can call me sir

http://www.kawaishen.com
I'll be tabling online, hope to see you there! ✨💻
We are launching the 2025 edition of the ZINE COOP Virtual Party in December, and we are looking for zine friends who want to exhibit their zines and participate. Whether you are a first-time zine maker or a veteran artist collective, all are welcome to apply! 🥰

Apply: airtable.com/appxoXiTT0nn...
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Peak liberal ytness is the readiness to grant human rights and qualities to non-human entities like robots, animals, ecosystems, corporations, fictional monsters, etc, while expressing a deep ambivalence (if not outright resistance and hostility) to doing the same for other humans.
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Always Crashing Reading and Performance Series / Chicago / 13 Dec 2025, 7pm / Comfort Station, 2579 Milwaukee / See you there
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Metonymy Press is one of my all time favourite presses. You can preorder their two new anthologies and at the same time help support them: gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...
Preorder SHARP PINK CLAWS & support queer lit
We’re excited to publish two new anthologies that showcase work from some of our brilliant authors but we need some extra help getting there! As you all know, things have been hard for small publisher...
gogetfunding.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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What could be better on a winter’s day than the cosy warmth of community?? 🫂

Come visit Hajar, @thecommonpress.bsky.social, @peoplesletters.bsky.social + more @ the Tower Hamlets BOOK SALE!

❄️📚🧵💎📓🪡🧶✨
Sat 6 Dec, 10am–2pm

Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
277 Bancroft Road
London E1 4DQ
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices

A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Art by @mxmorgan.com

All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You can pick up Broccoli's magazines, books and decks now at 20% off with the code "snowflakes," including Broccoli Issue 20, ft a piece I wrote on cyberweed 💿🌿 broccolimag.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I miss getting lost with you.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Free Tampopo screening at the JFT 🍜🥚👄📽️ deets in 🔗 tr.jpf.go.jp/event/tampopo/
Tampopo (film screening)
Join us for a screening of the "ramen Western" TAMPOPO (1985), on Tuesday Nov 25, 5:30 PM, at the JFT Event Hall.
tr.jpf.go.jp
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
After the initial shock of ❄️ in Toronto, we're back to our regular 🌧️ - sharing a list of seasonal stormy films to enjoy while you shelter from the rain ☔ inthemoodmag.substack.com/p/are-you-st...
#15: Are You Still Watching? Movies for a rainy day 🌧️
Wallow in the year's moodiest month with a curated watchlist by In The Mood contributor Kawai Shen
inthemoodmag.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I am wearing my finest velvets. I am rich and plush to thr touch like a great, luxurious teddy bear. If you don't come out you will be missing out on a once in a lifetime tactile experience
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🪩🪩 tomorrow, in fact 🪩🪩
💿 join us on the auspicious date of 11/11 for the next TRACK CHANGES ft. a very auspicious lineup:

@ginabird.bsky.social (Philly) + Ryan Skrabalak (Kingston, NY)!

it’s giving cosmic alignment, it’s giving big admiration, it’s giving we do not dream of labor

🎟️ track-changes-november.eventbrite.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Finally picked up Deciem's Avestan (conceived by the late founder of The Ordinary, Brandon Truaxe). So many have compared this to the CdGs (it's woody, earthy, spicy, starchy so fair) - to me it's also like a pre-Othertopia Aesop. Excellent projection and quality for the price. #fragrancesky #sotd
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Scene report: Zine Dump was larger I expected (probably bc it was mostly 1/2 tables), a good mix of dif zine types, lots of Gaza fundraising, most ppl still 😷 after end of mandatory mask hour. Venue is accessible - it was crowded but looked roomy enough to navigate with mobility aids.
Braved the snow to see Zine Dump ❄️❄️❄️❄️
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Iran is one of the world's most water stressed nations. Shortages have driven protests for years; now there are talks of evacuating cities, relocating the capital.

Below, photos of Zayandeh Rood, the "life-giver" river of Esfahan.

No words for this level of loss.
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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We are launching the 2025 edition of the ZINE COOP Virtual Party in December, and we are looking for zine friends who want to exhibit their zines and participate. Whether you are a first-time zine maker or a veteran artist collective, all are welcome to apply! 🥰

Apply: airtable.com/appxoXiTT0nn...
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"After a decade inside this industry, I no longer see the goal as survival within it. The goal is transformation—building structures that mirror the ethics of the art we publish."
The Quiet Collapse: On the End of Literary Infrastructure
As strikes, censorship, and corporate monopolies reshape how words move through the world, what remains of publishing when even imagination is being privatized?
substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Nimbys can't keep us down lol 🍕🍕🍕
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Spent some of last month in a remote cabin, watching stars and telling tall tales by the fire while coyotes around us laughed in the dark
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Welcome November guest editor - C.C. O’HANLON!!! @ccohanlon.bsky.social

JOURNEYS

Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media.

Sendx
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...
NOVEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is C.C. O’HANLON!!! THEME/S: JOURNEYS
Burning House Press are excited to welcome C.C. O’HANLON as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today C.C. will take over editorship of Burning House Pre…
burninghousepress.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hoping someone translates this timely book into English 👀 www.full-stop.net/2025/08/18/r...
The Porno President – Bruna Kalil Othero
“Tits or ass?” Othero’s novel urges us to consider this question in today’s political landscape
www.full-stop.net
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM