Hi, I’m Laura-Marie–a queer permaculturist trikewitch, living in community in Kalapuya land with my spouse Ming. I enjoy prayer and ritual, rest, ecstatic dance, fat liberation, radical mental health, and sunning. I’ve been making zines for 33 years. All the zines I have in print are available for trade, so please contact me, if you’re… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you today? I have a new poetry zine: hat genius 26. I’m up for trades. Please let me know if you’d like one. The poems are about love, death, homelessness, community. Some are listy. They all have a lot of heart. The drawings are by Ming and me. I love doing… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? I made a new zine. Feels important–would you like to trade? It’s functionally ill 32: autism plus crazy is a whole other thing. I copied it today at my old favorite copy shop Copy World in Berkeley. It’s five cents a page–up from three cents a page, ten years ago. … Read More »
Hello, I’m so happy. My zine interview with the LA Public Library posted. Please enjoy and share. https://lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/interview-zine-maker-laura-marie-river-victor-peace-nopales I love libraries as a gem of society. If we’re going to have a government, may it do wonderful socialist things like public libraries. Zines are my favorite, I enjoy being interviewed, and I love LA! I… Read More »
Hello, I made a new poetry zine: hat genius 25. I wrote the poems slowly over the months, mostly when Ming and I still lived in Las Vegas. There’s a new one called “trans” that I wrote a week or two ago, I think somewhere in California. More recently I finished the zine’s first poem… Read More »
I was talking to my friend Ariel about releasing art. When I work on something for a long time, it can feel hard to let it go. Or I feel like I need to mark the occasion. It made me remember when I was a kid in a play. It was a big deal, the… Read More »
I made a new zine: love is a skill we can strengthen. It’s 32 pages, half size, including covers. Text heavy, with many lists of things to try, and contextualizing intro material about how love is a skill we can strengthen. There’s philosophy about love and gender, love and capitalism. An Audre Lorde quote, and… Read More »
Hey, I made this art I wanted to show you: my body is mine. This is just the sentencey part. It’s about choosing to expend energy on relationships in a way that’s in keeping with my values. dark green words on pink: My body is mine. My heart, mind, and life are mine. I need… Read More »
I made a new zine, functionally ill 30 wellness plan. I feel happy and proud. It had been just more than a year since I made an issue of functionally ill. Wow! I took a break. But I was making tons of other zines. It’s been 14 years I’ve been making functionally ill. This zine… Read More »
I made hat genius 23, a new poetry zine. Poems about psych wards, amethyst, addiction, sexual longing, basil, and looking for the elusive extra nipple. How mental illness is the history of my family. There’s a series of short poems about dreams right in the middle, and I drew some cute pictures too–shopping cart, street… Read More »