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tips for zine making

Hello, reader. Respectfully, I greet you and ask–how are you doing? Do you need any tips for zine making? I hope so, because that’s what I’m giving today. Maybe every day, I’m giving zine. trans rural elders conference I was at the trans rural elders conference, and I agreed to help facilitate zine making during… Read More »

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bakery item

“If you were a bakery item, what would you be?” I asked Ming. We were lying in bed, cuddling. “A what?” Ming asked. “A bakery item,” I repeated. “I would be the blender,” Ming said. “The blender!” I said.  “You like ripping everything apart?” “I like mixing everything together into a wonderful combination,” Ming said.… Read More »

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burden

“Are you carrying too much burden?” I asked my dear one. I made a mistake at the tea shop–I ordered my boba tea without specifying non-dairy milk.  So I gave my drink to my dear one who can have dairy.  They were carrying two boba drinks as we walked back to my car. As usual… Read More »

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freedom over our bodies

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  Wow, I didn’t post for a while.  I’m working on a novel for National Novel Writing Month, so that takes energy.  And I made a new zine (see below).  But mostly it was a mistake.  I have a few half-written posts I just haven’t finished.  This morning I got… Read More »

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home

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  I am adjusting to home after a transformative trip I took with my friend. When I got home, I had a big My Life Is All Wrong attack.  It wasn’t PMS time, the classic My Life Is All Wrong time.  I was just shaken up. The freedom I felt… Read More »

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story

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  My housemate was telling me a story in the kitchen.  We were cooking our last dinner together before they left our community. When someone’s telling me a story, I like to interrupt them.  I say–wait, wait.  Can I guess what’s going to happen? It’s a bad habit.  May be… Read More »

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harm and how we can do better: interview with Jacks McNamara

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  I’m excited–I interviewed Jacks McNamara about harm and how we can do better.  Please listen and share with anyone who cares about these ideas.   Caring, inspired people form activist groups, wanting to make a better world.  But despite our best intentions, we end up recreating the violence that… Read More »

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enbies

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  Ming and I were talking about gender, as we often do.  Ming was telling me an aspect of enbies I don’t always think of.  He was telling me how there’s not a messed up team spirit like cis men have. Cis men are pro-men and like they have to… Read More »

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art show

Hello, how are you doing?  Ming and I put up an art show at a local library, then survived the reception.   There are zines, poetry memes, mixed media, art embroidery, and the St Brigid’s Cross of Lavender that I wove from lavender in the garden. Can I show you some pictures? Thank you to the… Read More »

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sometimes a truth becomes a burden

Hello!  How are you doing?  Sometimes people read one of my zines that’s a few years old, and they make the mistake of thinking all that stuff is still true.  If you read something, it might not be true anymore.  The reason I say anything can be that I need to say it, then lay… Read More »