Another issue of Ripe, packed with yummy sounding recipes. Recipes for sweet potato soup with coconut milk, corn cakes, lime cream pie, fried green tomatoes...just tons and tons of delicious food. There are over 30 recipes and they're all vegan!! And they're inventive with being overly complicated, containing ingredients that are already in a well-stocked pantry, or at least that are easily procurable. Along with recipes, Jae gives us tips for setting up a functional kitchen and eating local. She even shows us how to sprout and avocado!
Guess what we just got in the mail? A new food zine! We just can't get enough of these things. Instructions for how to cut your mango to resemble a tiny city skyline, as well as recipes for Moroccan garbanzo bean soup, tofu bacon, and double trouble chocolate cookies. Total there are 20 different recipes included. There's a listing for food-related websites, and a review of the author's top 10 favorite cookbooks. Word has it that this zine will soon be turned into a book on Arsenal Pulp Press.
This is, sadly, the last issue of Sarah Oleksyk's amazing comic zine Roadside. It documents, in beautiful comic form, the planning and moving from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon. It contains endings and new beginnings and has great narrative to accompany her journey. Look for Sarah's new projects to carry into bigger and better things.
This features Adam of the Little Dipper on drums. When this was re-released this they were camatose but are together again with a new drummer. It sounds like Lifetime with some healthy hints of Jawbreaker and they do a version of WAVE OF MUTILATION before 3,815 other bands recorded it too.
Rocket Queen is back in print. Possibly one of the best, most insightful zines ever written, "Rocket Queen" is author Janet's tale of working as a dancer in Asheville, NC. Janet examines all the reasons why someone would want to dance for money, and her own motivations for doing so, including issues of freedom, power, and attention. She also deconstructs the different types of customers that come to clubs, like the sugar daddy that wants to take care of you, or the savior that wants to save you from a life of stripping. It's all told in a matter of fact style that doesn't demonize stripping, and doesn't romanticize it either. Rocket Queen has the familiar tone of a friend telling you about their job; what they like, and what they don't. And the whole thing is just so intelligent, honest, and witty. It's highly recommended for anyone who's danced or thought about dancing, or even those who have friends that dance. Rocket Queen will change the way you think about sex work.
Rocket Queen is back in print. Possibly one of the best, most insightful zines ever written, "Rocket Queen" is author Janet's tale of working as a dancer in Asheville, NC.
Issue #2 is Janet's account of working for a club in New Orleans. #2 is a bit darker overall, but just as interesting and heartfelt. Janet addresses feelings of hate and bitterness towards customers, and answers burning questions like, "Do dancers ever sleep with customers?" and "How does it feel when friends visit you at work?" We learn that during Mardi Gras, women fly in from all over the world to dance. And there's a great contributed piece from a woman who experienced childhood abuse, who deconstructs how that relates to her decision to dance. A really awesome zine.
From the author of Contessa's Tome zine comes Rogue Reader. It's all the historical content of the former zine, except this time without a narrative story line. In this issue there's a detailed look at phrenology, hypnotism, magnets, ice picks, and chiropractic's! There's a drawing of a head so you can fill in your own phrenology chart and a segment on ice pick lobotomies. Not a whole lotta graphics, but there's a ton of factual content! There's even a list of sources!
Androo and Maria put together this little book of fun for everyone. In this issue we are introduced to their little rat friend Larry and all the fun to be had with a rodent in the family. Androo discusses his love for the ukelele, how to make a wash tub bass and things that scared him as a kid.Maria explores many different styles of laughing, Boggle, and an amusing q&a section with Soapy, an ornery cleaning advice giver. There are many more stories that make you feel like you are hanging out with two goofy friends... and their rat Larry.
Jae (of Ripe zine) presents an herbal health zine full of potions and concoctions. From oils and salves, tinctures and poultices, to baths, scrubs, and facial masks. Cool instructions for making all types of mixtures, with information of various herbs and their particular uses.
A punk rock travelouge packed to the gills with riveting stories and accounts. Nathan is from Ontario but he takes trips to NYC and Mexico as well as telling us all about his favorite illegal hangouts, coffee shops, going to his first punk show, how to live cheaply, living with junkies, visiting the Mexican punk freemarket El Choppo, a big interview with artist/squatter/musician/activist Fly, some of Fly's artwork, and an article from Fly about squatting and squatter's history in NYC. Like Menace, this zine begins a new era of punks and their stories preserved very nicely in a great literary manner that reads nicely. So we get the flare, excitement, and history without having to figure out what a sentence is supposed to convey. Nice.
Imagine a woman roleplaying a bonehead skinehead character pontificating his most sincere feelings through poems and letters. That is exactly what we have here and it'll leave you laughing for days. A letter to Gwen Stefani asking to hang out, a letter to his son about how he grew up tough because he was mistreated, a poem about sweatpants, a letter to Soy Not Oi, a poem requesting a penpal not to commit suicide and another about how hearts are strong and shouldn't be broken. The smartest piece of literature in our catalog. Beware the humorless!
In a shocking and disturbing tour de force, this book, reporting from the Bosnia warzone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the UN for standing by and doing nothing to stop the genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. This is the definitive explanation of a war that will be remembered as a the greatest failure of western democracy since the 1930s. Bosnia was more than a human tragedy. It was the emblem of the international community's failure and confusion in the post-Cold War era. In Bosnia, genocide and ethnic fascism reappeared in Europe for the first time in 50 years. There was no will to confront them this time. THIS COPY IS USED.
So Longview is the story of a group of punks and their town, Longview, Washington. Kyle buys a $3 tape recorder and spends a couple weeks interviewing punks around town, discovering more about some people in a day than he had in several years of just seeing them around. Transcribed in this zine are their reflections on punk rock and small town life. Plus half of all proceeds go to the Bellingham Books to Prisoners and Community House, a local (for kyle!) homeless shelter.
111 pages of recipes designed to help vegans or vegetarians who have not-so-healthy eating habits to find things that are both tasty and good for a growing or adult body. A new paperback edition with new, shinier cover!
Spitboy was 4 women from the bay area who pushed a strong feminist agenda into the local and national punk community at the time.
Spread is an independent magazine working to "illuminate the sex industry." Coming from a strongly pro-sex work perspective, the magazine is a forum for sex workers to openly discuss the work that they do and challenge a system that marginalizes and oppresses them. The magazine is comprehensive - covering issues from a male/female/trans perspective, as well as a look at sex work and sex trafficking on a global scale.
***In this issue:
Interviews with Brazilian author Bruna Surfistinha, Ana Lopez-Portuguese sex-worker-union-activist, and a Seattle Priest. There's also book reviews, movie reviews, and lube reviews. And articles on the DC Madam, sex-workers who literally fight back when a serial killer is on the loose, what do your parents think you do for a living, and a bunch of other cool stuff.
***In this issue: Tips for working with clients with disabilities; best red lipstick review essay; profile and interview with kinky, queer sex worker and artist Madison Young; and updates on recent news stories regarding sex work ad crackdowns and a prostitute-targeting serial killer.
An on the street update on Spitzergate, an interview with Annie Oakley, a lengthy article on the Lusty Lady, the only worker-owned union peepshow, an interview with the folks who run Xochiquetzal, a home for over 60 sex-workers in Mexico City, and the usual news and updates on sex work in America and around the world.
Spread is an independent magazine working to "illuminate the sex industry." Coming from a strongly pro-sex work perspective, the magazine is a forum for sex workers to openly discuss the work that they do and challenge a system that marginalizes and oppresses them. The magazine is comprehensive - covering issues from a male/female/trans perspective, as well as a look at sex work and sex trafficking on a global scale. **In this issue: How different race, gender, and body types influence your pay, how to keep the money you make, the role of money-issues in the decision to strip, and Screech makes a porn tape..I wish I were joking.
This is a huge issue of Spread with so much stuff in it, it's hard to list it all. The cover stories are about Zona Galactica--Mexico's State-run brothel, sex work in the bible, Randy Goodhandy's, and sex tourism in Thailand. Besides that, there are one page write-ups on dancers in Dallas being forced to have background checks, Cambodian detention centers for sex workers, a decriminalization initiative in San Francisco, a proposal to tax all adult entertainment by 25% in California, bachelor party girls in the Bay Area, the death of the DC Madam, and wanting to get out of sex work. Plus, a voter guide to where the presidential candidates stand on major issues, international sex-worker news, and some flavored condom reviews.
Open these pages and discover the truth behind Australia's largest and best known charity. Rather than being the quaint old charity group of the popular imagination, this report exposes The Salvation Army as a racist, hierarchical, exploitative, right wing cult complicit in attacks on indigenous peoples and the economically disadvantaged. Based on historical accounts, media reports and The Salvation Army's own newspapers and texts, this report will show you the other side of the "Starvation Army."
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This is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. I think you can find a lot more meaning in life if you are willing to lose it all for one thing.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is an African-American journalist, political activist, and former militant leader from Philadelphia. An early member of the Black Panther Party, Abu-Jamal was charged with the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner. Originally sentenced to death, Abu-Jamal's sentence was overturned in December, 2001. Both the prosecution and the defense have appealed the ruling. Abu-Jamal is now serving life in prison at the maximum-security SCI-Greene. Due to his political involvement and association as a black radical he was framed for the murder and is one of America's most famous political prisoners. (source - Wickipedia)
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