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sheer spite press
@sheerspite.bsky.social
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small press + zine distro!
Tiohtià:ke // Montréal
transsexual-run // anti-ableist // pro-🇵🇸
https://sheerspite.ca/
https://sheerspite.bigcartel.com/
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · Jan 28
Some of the dream topics I'd love for sheer spite to be able to publish work about: please pitch me at [email protected]!
Some dream topics I’d especially like to publish work about: - Memoirs and other writing by elders, especially but not exclusively 2SLGBTQ+ and/or disabled elders and people with histories of resistance, organizing, and activism. - Reprints and anthologies of older zines, esp centering around queerness, transness, disability, fat liberation, anti-racism, and organizing. - Friendship & how to place it closer to the centre of life. What it looks like to plan deeply and intertwine lives with your friends. - Reflections on communal & non-normative living arrangements like communes, cohousing, co-ops, land projects, punk houses, squats, etc, other non-Eurocentric and/or non-heteronormative ways of setting up a home and a life. - Special Topics In Organizing + Counterculture: 1960s/70s radical leftist bank robberies, informants in social movements, cross-movement solidarity work - Food, especially autobiographical, political, or reflective writing centring on food and eating and their place in life, especially in connection with any of the other topics on this list. - Survival and preparedness from an anti-individualist, anti-ableist perspective - Complicated and messy perspectives on disability, body difference, fatness, Madness, plurality, sickness, etc - Death & end of life care & planning - Experiences of incarceration and other forms of institutionalization - Quakerism!
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nolore.bsky.social
Just got my Public Lending Right money from Canada Council. And for the firs time ever, it's pretty good money ($1500). This is thanks to you taking my books out at the library. Keep doing it! And do it for your favourite authors! Even if you don't read the books!!
February 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
Can we help our pals @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social expand their programming and build a fabulous workshop?

crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...
Little Ghosts Books Workshop Space
Little Ghosts Books horror bookstore & community hub is looking to expand its space by renovating our back garage into a studio to host our workshops, book clubs, and author events.
crowdfundr.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
every day we wake up to new confirmations that reclaiming the means of production is how we get free. make pasta, make zines; make paintings and gardens and fresh bread and friendships. make a future you can hold in your own uncommodified hands.
February 4, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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mikeeidle.bsky.social
3 Issues of Non-Conformist zine from the mid-80s
freedomhasnobounds.com/zines/non-co...
February 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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qzap.bsky.social
The new Zine of the Gay post is up!

We've got a cohort of students who will be updating the QZAP blog this semester. They'll be exploring zines from our collections and writing about them every week or so. To start us off, Erica is taking on Some Boys Bleed

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I Knew a Boy who Bled - QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
Trigger Warning for mentions of suicide attempts Some Boys Bleed is a zine written by Samb about his experience with dysphoria and how he eventually overcame it. The zine seeks to help other trans peo...
gittings.qzap.org
January 30, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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alyssafavreau.bsky.social
She's baaaa-aaack...
sheerspite.bsky.social sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 16d
Sheer Spite's latest book, "Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke", by @alyssafavreau.bsky.social 💘

Canada: sheerspite.ca/product/tryi...
US: sheerspite.bigcartel.com/product/tryi...
Or have your local bookstore order it in!
The book "Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke", by Alyssa Favreau. The cover image is of an abstracted painting of a person in a hospital bed, by Hakim Kasir. The book is shown against a background of pink notepaper. Text surrounding the book reads "she's back - sheerspite.ca (ships from canada to anywhere but the US - sheerspite.bigcartel.com (ships from the US to anywhere)"
January 29, 2026 at 4:53 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
Sheer Spite's latest book, "Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke", by @alyssafavreau.bsky.social 💘

Canada: sheerspite.ca/product/tryi...
US: sheerspite.bigcartel.com/product/tryi...
Or have your local bookstore order it in!
The book "Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke", by Alyssa Favreau. The cover image is of an abstracted painting of a person in a hospital bed, by Hakim Kasir. The book is shown against a background of pink notepaper. Text surrounding the book reads "she's back - sheerspite.ca (ships from canada to anywhere but the US - sheerspite.bigcartel.com (ships from the US to anywhere)"
January 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
If you don't like what's on offer, make your own thing. I really wish more people would do this.
January 28, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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sheerspite.bsky.social
I wrote about how and why to run an in-person zine distro, something I did and enjoyed from about 2012-2016.

I recommend it! tbh it's a lot easier and more fun than running a distro via an online store.
sheerspite.ca/running-an-i...
running an in-person zine distro - sheer spite press
Sheer Spite isn’t my first time running a zine-selling operation: from about 2012 to 2016, I ran a couple of zine racks in person in Ottawa, where I was...
sheerspite.ca
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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miloblue.bsky.social
Y'all!!! If you're not in the U.S. you should jump on this Mystery Zine Pack deal from @sheerspite.bsky.social.

💙💙💙
sheerspite.bsky.social sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 22d
🧹 Doing some housecleaning!

There are a bunch of zines that I only have 1 or 2 copies left of, & I’m moving soon, so I'm offering an extremely limited run of surprise boxes with as many zines as I can fit into a flat-rate shipping box (~25-30! kind of a bonkers deal!)
sheerspite.ca/product/limi...
"$150+ of mystery zines for $40" with an image of a mailing box filled with zines, confetti exploding from behind it
January 22, 2026 at 4:51 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
🧹 Doing some housecleaning!

There are a bunch of zines that I only have 1 or 2 copies left of, & I’m moving soon, so I'm offering an extremely limited run of surprise boxes with as many zines as I can fit into a flat-rate shipping box (~25-30! kind of a bonkers deal!)
sheerspite.ca/product/limi...
"$150+ of mystery zines for $40" with an image of a mailing box filled with zines, confetti exploding from behind it
January 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
It's Friday and perhaps you have some money in your pocket that you would like to donate to support the Black Zine Fair... We're less than $1500 away from our next goal of $15,000 - gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
gogetfunding.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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lionsroar.bsky.social
Exciting news!!! I’ve got art and writing in the first issue of Cinder Magazine, which is available for preorder at a discounted rate now!! Cinder is an arts and lit mag for creatives with chronic illness, neurodivergence, and/or disabilities. This magazine means a lot to me!
Store 2 — Cinder
www.cindermagazine.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
The Black Zine Fair exhibitor and volunteer application is open too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2026 Black Zine Fair Application
Black Zine Fair | 11am-6pm, Saturday, May 9, 2026 | Powerhouse Arts, 322 Third Ave, Brooklyn, NY The Black Zine Fair is an opportunity for Black zine makers and independent publishers to connect with...
docs.google.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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zinelib.bsky.social
There is a lot of woe in the world, but here is one thing I'm excited about:

nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger This zine layout tool is a dream I never knew I had. You can upload a pdf of your, e.g., 56-page 1/4-sized zine in page order (1-56), and in seconds get back a 14-page doc you can print from.
The ZineArranger by Nash High
Zine layout tool for PDFs
nashhigh.itch.io
January 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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marc-fischer.bsky.social
Thrift score! $5.99 unopened ream of card stock that costs almost $32 at Office Max. Doing at least some of your printing/assembly yourself and being flexible about paper stocks/colors is a huge part of how I keep costs down and sustain my self-publishing.
An unopened ream of Astrobright Star Dust 65# cardstock.
January 15, 2026 at 9:52 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
wonder no more: Samantha Kruger’s helpful guide on When To Critique A Trans Woman is here!

sheerspite.ca/product/when...
A photo of the zine 'when to critique a trans woman', riso printed in black ink on pink paper. Its cover has a photo of the author wearing a slip style dress and smoking a cigarette. The zine is shown surrounded by thinky face emojis
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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quinnanya.me
I'm teaching tapestry weaving this morning and embroidery afterwards and I'm short on sleep but maybe caffeine enthusiasm for cool stuff will carry me through! Among the examples I've got is a weaving I made out of laser cut bark pieces inspired by @sheerspite.bsky.social zibe on trauma. #DHmakes
Quinn wearing a striped dataviz sweater, dataviz gray and purple scarf, pants with sewing stitches on blue, and a small tapestry embroidery with wood pieces Close up of the bark tapestry weaving and another that reads "every one of us is a world of possibility"
January 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
I wrote about how and why to run an in-person zine distro, something I did and enjoyed from about 2012-2016.

I recommend it! tbh it's a lot easier and more fun than running a distro via an online store.
sheerspite.ca/running-an-i...
running an in-person zine distro - sheer spite press
Sheer Spite isn’t my first time running a zine-selling operation: from about 2012 to 2016, I ran a couple of zine racks in person in Ottawa, where I was...
sheerspite.ca
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I love this photo of @wastedinkdistro.bsky.social's free zine area. If you are in Phoenix, you should stop by.
A wooden display rack holds rows of zines and booklets. Above it are posters, including one with a pyramid scheme illustration and another about borders. A colorful “Free Zines!” sign is centered at the top.
January 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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quinnanya.me
Just discovered the Justseeds Open Type project, of potential interest to the zine crowd, embroidery folks, letterpress people, laser cutter friends, and anyone else who works with text. #DHmakes
Justseeds Open Type Project - Justseeds
Justseeds Font Pack 1 Libertario–adapted from a 1932 Italian pamphlet of writings by Élisée Reclus Busted Knuckles–a marker script drawn by Chris Stain (3 versions: left, center, and right leaning) Pe...
justseeds.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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cbmilstein.bsky.social
Call for contributions to my next curated zine:

“Processing the Pandemic: Reflections on Well-Being from Below”

Length: prose, approx. 75 to 250 words
Due: by or before Sun, Jan 25
Email to: cbmilstein {at} yahoo {dot} com

See full post @cindymilstein on IG or at
kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
Cindy Milstein (they) (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Call for contributions to my next curated zine aimed at resisting this christofascist epoch and concurrently modeling the world(s) we desire: “Processing the Pandemic: Reflections ...
kolektiva.social
January 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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ninanovaxoxo.bsky.social
i'm in this!!
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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alyssafavreau.bsky.social
Just a very chill memoir with a very chill title 💙
sheerspite.bsky.social sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · Jan 6
a new sheer spite book!

Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke, by Alyssa Favreau

avl here or order from your fav bookstore:
sheerspite.ca/product/tryi...
A hand holding up a copy of Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live against a brick wall. the cover shows a painting of a semi-abstracted person sitting in a hospital bed trying unfathomably hard to live, held open to its first page. the inside cover has a textured blue design, and the front page has the book title in a wobbly wavy font back cover of trying unfathomably hard to live “It’s hard to write about healing without feeling the weight of the ableist world breathing down your neck, wanting you to write a hero’s recovery journey, a brush with death that is singularly your own, and will end in a return to pre-accident “normal”. Alyssa Favreau’s Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live pushes against this mainstream desire and delves into the difficulties of healing and recovering, and the way our ableist world affects how we let ourselves heal. With the company of books like Eli Clare’s Brilliant Imperfection, Barbara Ehrenreich’s Natural Causes, and Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, Favreau articulates how we might find new ways of living after injury with humour, curiosity, and care. Not shying away from showing her impatience or the emotional devastation of healing, Favreau wonders how to lean deeper into the feeling of being alive, trying to not rush her recovery, trying to find new ways to live. She says, ‘I have learned one set of rules just to see them change completely, without the imperceptible shift of aging. I’m in constant negotiation with myself’. This renegotiation, while exhausting, also offers a new, more compassionate, way of living.” – Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, author of Knot Body and The Good Arabs, winner of the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal 2022
January 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
Our dreams don’t fit in ballot boxes: 16 Anarchist Examples of Encouraging Liberals to Break Free:

The latest from @cbmilstein.bsky.social is now up in the distro, free to download, $0-1 + shipping for a paper copy!

sheerspite.ca/product/our-...
Our dreams don’t fit in ballot boxes: 16 Anarchist Examples of Encouraging Liberals to Break Free (print) - sheer spite press
“Most of us didn’t pop out of a womb as an anarchist—although babies, toddlers, and other young folks typically engage in anarchic behaviors until adult ‘authority figures’ beat such...
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January 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM