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Alana Storm

@alanastorm.bsky.social

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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

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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...

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 2d

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 2d

Usual chill and normal response from the wealthy former bohemian neighbors re: losing the community board that has stayed active out front.

Image of a community billboard with a rustic Pacific Northwest look.

Close-up of graffiti on a community billboard that says “ if the new owners take this down, I will burn down the building”

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like the old Food Front co-op building is (finally?) being redeveloped.

banner on a fence showing the architects exterior design plans for the food front co-op building, and contact information for the new developers. A PROJECT
BY
DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE WEST
PROPERTY SERVICES LLC.
FOR INFORMATION
MARK@N-NRES.COM
503.807.5927
WWW.N-NRES.COM

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 3d

One day I will read a book and it won't send me spiraling off into special collections of libraries 3,000 miles away from me. One day.

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 4d

Thought I was headed to the U District for a conversation with 2006 me but instead stumbled into some kind of food street fair populated by children who were barely, if at all, alive in 2006. Scored a sweet ass book though.

Cover of the book “New York dolls, photographs by Bob Gruen”

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 4d

Our auction raised $500, split between Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Alice Correia Barbosa’s legal fund 🥳 massive thanks to everyone who bid, and especially to our contributors who donated their work

A picture of Lilac Peril’s book TABOO with text above it that reads “$500 raised to defend migrant rights in DC”

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 6d

old lady business

Image of a middle aged transsexual woman watching the kids do the one to twelve things you can do at a club

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 6d

Printed and folded, assembly next week, and then @pdxzines.bsky.social on November 9th.

Image of Zane’s stacked on a bookshelf, pages and covers still separate, waiting to be stapled and stack cut

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 7d

Also — deep in the zines and grief mines this week

An advertisement for the novella length zine “Troubled Sleep“ by Samantha Jane Dorset in issue 8 of the “strap yourself in” zine

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 7d

Looks like @littlepuss.net‘s media mail trash (based) finally washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest. (this is good)

A copy of the gender trash from Hell book on a self healing cutting mat. There is a button in the right hand corner that says I heart transsexuals.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 10d

It's been a few years since I wrote that. I'm a little more stable in all this. I don't think validation or approval are the words I'd use now but there's still a longing for — something between reconciliation and acknowledgment. It will probably never come. Burdens of being a certain age I suppose.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 10d

Wrote a whole zine about that time of my life a few years back to process My Shit™ -- the Jezebel article and her biography features.

gliff.org/my-zines.html

Cover a zine with the title: Details of Lost Time: feature loathing and dysphoria on the road with Ani DiFranco.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 10d

I saw her in concert in early '95. I was 19 and hooked. I ran a fan website and message board and went on tour with other fans across the northeast. First real encounter with queerness and dykes which was a little good, but also mostly bad given the vibes around music scene dykes in those years.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11d

Were you involved with any of the online or concert going fans communities circa ‘95 — ‘00ish? Asking in a “it’s always fun to reconnect” sort of way.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 12d

and when I find it, I know I'll make sense of me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVRD...

Perfect World

YouTube video by Liz Phair - Topic

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 12d

The five percent nation of "wait, how _will_ I retire?"

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▲▼▲▼▲▼ @arajay.com · 13d

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

a boxcar with graffiti parody of the nine inch nails album cover art for "pretty hate machine" but it says "nine inch rails pretty freight machine"

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 13d

tfw you innocently go to the art supply store, take in your surroundings, feel a lunging sense of anxiety and grief, and then realize you’ve stumbled across the Wendy and Lucy Walgreens

Image of the Walgreens on Lombard Street in Portland, Oregon that was used in the filming of the movie Wendy and Lucy

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 14d

Endless thanks to @submorstua.bsky.social and @lukejsuth.bsky.social for letting a middle aged lady work out her nineties and aughties shit in print. Copies of @lilacperil.bsky.social are still available to order but will sell out quick — grab one while you still can.

Image of a book with title Lilac Peril: Taboo

Image of the inside page of a book of an essay entitled, cause Susanna and the legacy of mid-century transvestites

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 15d

Me: we should all aspire to make bad art

Also Me: come on man trim your edges what are we even doing here?

Image of a zine with an untrimmed edge with some other books just out of focus in the background.

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 17d

But thinking about this one more.

A SPEECH DELIVERED ON THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

Listen up you people
I need to say something

The Christian Right is leading the country
in a dangerous direction:
The political progression toward establishment of
Christianity as
State Religion.
Abortion is a safe and necessary medical procedure
Biblical values and principals can't govern the populations
of American Cities
Gay people will oppose you
Free thinkers will oppose you
Women will stand up against you
Your wave will break on the shores

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 17d

Samantha Dorset, in 2004, on a political convention that saw one party invade NYC, wrap protestors in orange cyclone fencing, and dump them in ad hoc pens at the pier (including a toxic bus depot). Peak Bush years, when everything felt hopeless. Thinking about this for no reason. (from Silver Lines)

A PUBLIC MEETING OUTSIDE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

Southern Republican Mayor
Dining on an outdoor table
Penned in by police and orange netting
along with an obnoxious angry young man wearing what
could be called rags
A constituent from his city
What a democracy.

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Diskette Press @diskettepress.bsky.social · 17d

zines are little museums you can carry around

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 18d

Between my age, transition, and AI there’s not a lot for me at any tech job right now.

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 18d

Me: nine months out of work it’s probably time to engage cheap food protocols

Also Me: I should definitely spend $50 on this out of print punk anarchist zine

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