toasted-cheese

Also we've gotta go back to being mean. The bimbo movement or whatever was dumb. Unironic girlboss is stupid. Y'all gotta realize that playing into a gender role will never free you from or destroy the patriarchy. Makeup does more harm than good, the fashion industry and it's expectations for the ideal woman are extremely harmful, the body positivity movement was still based in a desire to be attractive rather than a demand that we not even be defined by racist, sexist, etc standards of beauty in the first place.

Like I'm sorry but insisting feminism as an ideology is about ~gender equality~ and not the specific patriarchal oppression that women of all kinds go through is partly what got us into this mess. Defanged bc some of y'all were too worried about men's opinions. Defanged because you couldn't let go of the comfort of the patriarchy. Defanged because you couldn't let go of white supremacy and transphobia. Defanged because you liked the aesthetic of feminism more than the action of it and THAT is because you let capitalism take feminism and sell it back to you as a cutesy pink logo with some tshirts and shades.

Kill self

Transition

Betray self for nothing

Move to a brand new city and teach self how to die

Be a lesbian

I'm back with a new zine! It's an essay about the current state of the music industry, the importance of community and independent local art through the lens of war.

This project has been in the works for a couple of months and has been on my mind for even longer, I really hope you like it!