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If you're an autistic adult, there probably hasn't been a whole lot of guidance or community for you past the age of 18. Joe Biel writes about what it's like to be autistic. Dr. Faith writes about what it's like to care for autistic folks, based on her experience as a parent, friend, and therapist. The zine covers diagnostic criteria and how they play out in practice, what it means for autism to be a disability, and co-occurring symptoms, like depression and anxiety, and life skills and social skills that a neurotypical world doesn't always think to teach autistic people.

"Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You"... most of the hits from the Gin Blossoms' 1992 breakout album, New Miserable Experience are credited to "D. Hopkins," but the mysterious songwriter isn't mentioned anywhere else in the album notes, or even on the band's website. Joe became fascinated with the forgotten story of Doug Hopkins, the band's co-founder and original songwriter, and delved into the history, scouring decades of old interviews and news articles to piece it together. It's a story of heavy drinking, creative genius, and fraught band relationships, ultimately ending in tragedy. This zine serves as a belated eulogy for Hopkins and a powerful parable about the very real stakes of the choices artists make about how to pursue their goals.

Throughout human history, dogs have performed service tasks for us. Some of the earliest documented cases occurred during the First World War. Do Not Pet: A Service Dog's Graphic Tail follows the story of one such service dog, Ruby, who gave the author Joe Biel mobility, health, and companionship through the most difficult years of his life. This book details their personal struggles with public awareness and accommodation, as well as celebrates their remarkable interspecies bond.

Poop! It's not something we like to talk about, much less think about, and once we've flushed it's out of sight and out of mind. But that doesn't mean it stops existing. Far from it--if you live in any sizeable municipal area, many people and machines will interact with your shit as it makes its way through your city's sewers and waste management systems. How is it processed? How does the garbage we flush get sorted out? Where does the end product go? It's all fascinating, and troubling, and worth knowing. You'll never look at a toilet the same way again.

Alix is a transguy struggling against a limited and restrictive healthcare system. Genderfailz #1 is written about his struggle with depression while he waits to be assessed for hormone therapy. The tedious shuffle of bureaucracy is almost too much to bear, and when his appointment finally arrives, Alix discovers that the one gender specialist in Alberta may not agree with his choices. Gendrfailz explores the area between and outside of male and female, and shows through first-hand experience just how limiting gender can be.

An entirely hand done account from a primitivist point of view about utilizing technology while realizing the contradiction, society imposing work and school upon us, and the way Romans at the end wrote history as if their empire wasn't about to crumble. Maybe they didn't realize it or maybe they were trying to prevent the public from realizing it. Ran doesn't talk about these things like he's the expert; he explores it like it's a conversation with a friend. Come check out the computer geek who thinks that computers are the downfall of society.

A short, easy to read booklet drawing on ways in which pirates of old organized. Their history offers suggestions for current folks struggling against oppressive society.

Alix is a self-described "polycurious transguy...who refuses to pick a sexual orientation." Gendrfailz is his zine about how his fluid ideas of gender run counter to rigid societal norms. Alix professes his non-ironic love for Pete Wentz's gender-bending ways, and why Katy Perry is a different story. He expresses his disappointment in Obama's policies toward the queer community, and explains that while his mom may not be thrilled with his life choices, she's always supportive. Alix also discusses his history with depression, the list of drugs he's taken, and why he chooses to take them. Gendrfailz is an epic zine win.

Katie Haegele asked around for stories of cats lost and found, and uncovered a lovely range of emotional narratives: from poignant tales of missing a cat to fun stories about finding one's purrfect feline soulmate. There's a comic, an illustrated poem, and some essays.

Five people of varying genders got together to discuss the topic of intimate violence. This zine explores roles of the community in support of people in situations of intimate violence including both physical and emotional. Radical Responses to Relationship Violence for Community Accountability skillfully tackles a very complex issues with a well laid of approach, personal stories, and exercises.

"My name is Heather, I am an anarchist, and I am getting a breast reduction," begins this zine. Heather talks us through her decision to have the surgery, all the parts of the process (including some pretty intense photos of her breasts before, during, and after healing--intense as in blood and bandages and bloody bandages), how she felt afterward, and a list of resources for people considering doing the same thing. She also writes about having a kid, her history with eating disorders, and learning to love her body.

The Hub Bicycle Co-Op is the only worker-owned and -operated bike shop in Minneapolis. This zine introduces you to a few of the people, ideas, and ideals you'll find there. This zine is a nice profile of a few of the people who work together to create a feminist vision for a bicycle-powered future!

Juggling the Rainbow is a collection of personal essays that really provide a look at what it can be like to experience relationships in a way beyond the current model of monogamy. This is not a collection meant to fuel your three way fantasies or make you want to throw monogamy out the window. Instead this zine shows how these people were able to explore themselves in a way that they couldn't in a monogamous relationship. Issue 3 continues the themes of self-discovery while also examining polyamory as a practice that can extend to other areas of life, "Practicing, polyamory is a journey, a dynamic and changing sense of how I network with the rest of the world."This zine is about more than polyamory. It's about exploring one's identity and relationship with themselves through their relationship with others.

Featuring Alex living and volunteering in Moscow, this zine tells the story of punks in Russia. With @still.hear's art to accompany the story, readers can dive into the punk scene of Moscow. Alexander Herbert is the author of What About Tomorrow and spent months in Moscow before writing this zine.

Imagine being the kid of a trauma therapist and bestselling mental health author. The pressure's on, right? Dr. Faith's son, Samm, rises to the challenge admirably, sharing his young life's worth of valuable lessons in perhaps the most important life skill that there is: non-jerkitude. In a day and age when being an absolute dick to the people around you is rewarded, it's easy to forget that kindness--or even just non-mean-ness--is not only totally possible, it might even make your life better. Appropriate for adults or teens, this is a valuable little life manual on the basics.

The big question behind emotional eating, or many other problematic behaviors, is: What are you really hungry for? Dr. Faith breaks it down into five possibilities: relief, control, connection, meaning, and equanimity. In this small workbook zine, she defines all five, and then gives you plenty of space to work out what you are hungry for, how you are fulfilling those hungers now, and how you might approach them differently to find satiety.

Annie writes with incisive wit and insight about what it's like to be disabled in an able-bodied world. She walks us through the stereotypical portrayals of disabled people in books and movies--the "inspirational" people, the miracle cures, the monsters and villains--and shows how these stereotypes play out in real-life interactions, from rude stares and patronizing comments to the institutionalization, marginalization, and even murder of people with disabilities. She also writes about positive representation of disabilities in pop culture and ends with a call to action for a cultural shift.

Dating used to be a thing that most people did for a while. Now it's faded to take up a cramped and awkward space in between hooking up and instantly moving into together. If you woke up all alarmed and find yourself wanting all that old shit, letters and sodas, read this zine and get on with doing the stuff that makes up dating. Like having FUN, remember that? And trusting your guts. And taking it slow. Microcosm Publishing bestseller Dr. Faith breaks it down for you with good boundaries, wise counsel, funny jokes, and of course lots of swearing.

A steamy and smutty bondage encounter between Liam and Ryan. Ryan is Liam's master, and when Liam realizes - much to his chagrin - that he has become pregnant from an encounter with another partner, Liam runs to Ryan for help with the situation, and to forget himself in an intense moment of ecstatic sexual pleasure. A sensual queer m/m bondage story.

Ember is a shapeshifting sex-worker on a faraway planet, insect-like in her natural form but capable of taking on the appearance most desired by any given customer. So when Floret, the Issishai arrived, feline but with botanical features, Ember is asked to transform to best suit the needs of this encounter. What follows is a sexual encounter unlike any other, as their alien anatomies intertwine in ways both familiar and exotic. A queer and erotic fantasy, part of Microcosm's Queering Consent series.

A supportive workbook for transgender men and transmasculine and nonbinary people who are considering or in the midst of physical transition. Exercises help you check in with yourself every step of the way as you explore your needs, hopes, plans, and experiences. In these pages, you'll find plenty of space to work through what transition path is right for you, take notes about your research and appointments, track your meds and reactions, plan your surgery and recovery, journal through your fears and dreams, write supportive letters to yourself, and more. Compiled by someone who's been there, this safe and supportive workbook is designed to help you find yourself and enjoy who you truly are. Can be used on its own, or alongside Sage Buch's book, The Transmasculine Guide to Physical Transition.

Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel updates the information provided in the first edition (edited by Biel and the late and great Bill Brent) to address zine making in today's digital and social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine! hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability. Says Feminist Review, "Make a Zine! is an inspiring, easy, and digestible read for anyone, whether you're already immersed in a cut-and-paste world, a graphic designer with a penchant for radical thought, or a newbie trying to find the best way to make yourself and your ideas known." Illustrated by an army of notable and soon-to-be-notable artists and cartoonists, Make a Zine! also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene, with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly (Slug and Lettuce, Peops). Part history lesson, part how-to guide, Make a Zine! is a call to arms, an ecstatic, positive rally cry in the face of TV show book clubs and bestsellers by celebrity chefs. As says Biel in the book's intro, "Let's go!"

Ariel Gore has spent her life writing and organising her way towards a creative utopian vision, where storytelling is a form of resistance and writing is an outsider art. In this follow-up to her national bestseller How to Become a Famous Writer Before You''re Dead, Gore offers a lyrical call to literary revolution paired with practical exercises.

Transform your wardrobe with this step-bystep guide to sewing pockets into your favorite clothes. With simple instructions and line drawings, this book teaches six basic pockets, with suggested alterations to customise each pocket to your wardrobe needs, while learning the history of what pockets looked like and why they remain a political tool today. All the projects are designed for beginner sewists, and most can be made by hand, with no specialty tools or machine required.

Conflict is everywhere - our living rooms, our streets, our community organizations, and every corner of the internet. But few of us have the training to intervene or resolve these conflicts successfully. In these pages, professional peacemaker, Gwendolyn Olton, shows you how to use your existing skills and intuition to transform a wide variety of conflicts from insurmountable impasses to working relationships where everyone''s needs are met. The result is a practical, kind, realistic guidebook for anyone who''s found themselves in a conflict and wondered, ''How did we get here and what can I do to make it better?!''

Inside, you''ll learn about non-medical interventions like chest binding and packing, explore the varieties and effects of hormone replacement therapy, and get a comprehensive primer on choosing, preparing for, and recovering from top and bottom surgery. Medical research and jargon is made accessible, side effects and pros and cons are clearly spelled out, and empowering perspectives help you consider what transition path is right for you. Everything always comes back to checking in with yourself at every step of the way so that you can enjoy the unique self-expression that comes with finding yourself and who you are meant to be.

In the late 90s, the music scene in Miami was at the infancy of becoming the multi-million dollar cultural and artistic force that it is today. Musicians like Outkast, DJ Khaled, and countless others staked Miami''s claim as the newest Mecca for Hip Hop heads and graffiti artists. During this time, The Cipher was created. An independent newspaper that followed the scene and included reviews, interviews, essays, photos, and more, The Cipher was the choice source for discovering Miami''s underground. The History of Miami Hip Hop chronicles the ups and downs of this legendary rag during its short tenure.