antifascist androgyne

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ᯓ Heyy, I’m Ezra (they/he)! I’m a 19-year-old neurodivergent poet and zine artist from Catalonia currently based in Ireland!! ⋆˚꩜｡

Favorite tracks:

Fairytale of New York by The Pogues

Bad Decisions by The Strokes

Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode

Slow Animals by The Strokes

New albums/EPs:

Revolution Girl Style Now by Bikini Kill

Inbred by Ethel Cain

Angles by The Strokes

Pendulum by Twin Tribes

Koi No Yokan by Deftones

The Bends by Radiohead

I wanted to know, what do you make them about? My aunt got me a zone kit and I want to make one but I don't have any ideas

Heyy!

I make zines about my personal experiences, which usually means themes of trans-queerness, mental illness/recovery (different points in my journey, reflections or thoughts), neurodivergence (this includes fanzines of things I like), and also collages!

Here are some of my favorite comedic excerpts from the novel:

“After all, this man is a god tae me. Ah’d walk oan ma hands and knees through broken gless for a thousand miles tae use the cunt’s shite as toothpaste and we baith know it.” (pg. 25)

“What a fucking scene; two guys stand in the doorway ay the toilet, just pishing intae the place, which has a good inch ay stagnant, spunky urine covering the flair.” (pg. 30)

“Of course, the Rent Boy is looking like a flaccid prick in a barrel-load ay fannies. Sometimes ah really think the gadge still believes that an erection is for pishing over high walls.” (pg. 37)

“If Spud isnae HIV positive by now, then the Government should send a deputation ay probability statisticians doon tae Leith, because the laws ay probability urnae operatin properly there.” (pg. 72)

“You’d shag the crack of dawn if it hud hairs oan it” (pg. 202)

Kanan is a great example of this. Not only is he one of my favorite Jedi of all time, but his death was the most brutal for me to watch. He gave his own life to save his loved ones. He had to choose between himself and others. As explored in the episode A World Between Worlds, there doesn’t exist a reality where Kanan lives where the rest of the Ghost Crew also does.

It would be short-sighted if this act was viewed as one done solely because of his love for Hera/the Ghost Crew, because he knew that Lothal’s fuel depot specifically was crucial to the Empire (for the TIE Defender program). At this point, the Ghost Crew were already involved with the larger Rebel fleet and he knew they had a role in that as well.

Obi-Wan also sacrificed his life so the Rebellion could survive. By fighting Vader, he made sure Luke, Leia, and Han could escape and thereby complete the mission of destroying the Death Star. He delayed his death until the very moment it was necessary to make sure the others could fulfill their greater purpose.

Luke himself did something very similar when he projected himself onto Crait to fight Kylo Ren long enough to buy the Resistance time to escape. He singlehandedly delayed the First Order so that the last remainder of Resistance fighters could regroup and continue to fight back, which they eventually did.

This list would not be complete without Anakin, who gave his life to defeat the Emperor, thereby marking the start of the Empire's dissolution. ROTJ introduced very explicitly that being a Jedi is about selflessness and sacrifice in general, and death is usually portrayed as the highest form of sacrifice. We see that motif over and over, as seen in the above examples.

I have been super interested and I have a mental idea of what I want them to look like aesthetically, but I don’t know what to do mine about in a way that I’m providing information that maybe adds some value. I don’t really want to repeat someone else’s talking points

How do you come up with the idea you want to share in your zines?

Hey, thank you!

I was aware of zines due to my knowledge of the riot grrrl movement and in June of 2025 I decided to make my first one. There wasn’t a particular reason why I started then and not before, but it probably had to do with being exposed to more zines online + a growing desire to express myself through another art medium!

The content you put into your zines (what adds that “value”) is at the intersection of your personal contribution (your perspective, lived experience, opinion, etc) and the research you do (not always warranted, but depending on the topic you may want to include historical information or external points of reference).

The first part is especially important because that’s what makes your zine unique (i.e. not repetitive of what others may have said before you)!

I keep a list of zine ideas that I add to whenever I think of a topic I feel a sense of urgency to share. This ranges from a recent emotional wound to a band I’ve developed an infatuation with to a series of observations I’ve made that I haven’t seen (many) other people talk about. What all of my zine ideas have in common is that there is an underlying passionate need to tell other people what I think and feel.

“Hawkwood” was published by Ouch! Collective this May.

Issues #17, #4, #3, and #7 of GRRRL BOY Zine, respectively.

And (!!!) being an artist is also a lifestyle (no, this doesn’t mean art has to be your job at all). The making of the art in and of itself is the solidification of the artist. There is a constant tension, a friction between the artist and everyone and everything else and the art is the way to bridge that schism.

So, of course, you can be uninspired, unskilled, unprepared, unsure, misdirected, hesitant, terrified (etc etc) of making art and still be an artist. But. You cannot remain in the state of purgatory waiting for the moment you feel you’ve reached a satisfactory level of creative purity to start making art or taking your art seriously.

I hold the firm belief that everyone has at least one form of artistic expression and that people who (due to childhood/teenage discouragement, busy corporate and family lives, or a lack of confidence) don’t create through those mediums repress that instinct. That doesn’t mean everyone is an artist per the definition I presented, but it does mean the capacity for that identity exists.

There are a lot of songs I love by these artists that are not included in these records because I don’t necessarily love the album they’re in as a whole. And this music is not necessarily what I listen to the most (although some of it is) as much of what I listen to on a daily basis consists of miscellaneous songs by vary many artists.

These records are ones where I love every single song or nearly every single one.

My favorite tracks from each one:

MADRA: Angel, Where I Go, Nightmares

Masterpiece: Vegas, Paul, Humans

Этажи: Танцевать, Клетка, Фильмы

American Idiot: Are We The Waiting, Extraordinary Girl, Holiday

Maggot: Maggot, Groan, Wet

Hozier: Like Real People Do, In A Week, Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene

The Black Parade: Sleep, Dead!, The Sharpest Lives

Comedown Machine: All The Time, Happy Ending, Slow Animals

Hatful of Hollow: Girl Afraid, How Soon Is Now?, William, It Was Really Nothing

Cigarettes After Sex: John Wayne, Opera House, Apocalype

Unreal Unearth: I, Carrion (Icarian), Unknown / Nth, Francesca

I love that Cassian’s sister is suspected to be working at a brothel. I love even more that Cassian makes no remarks about or shows any indication of believing her job to be disdainful.

The Empire, like all fascist regimes, functions off of systems of oppression, misogyny being one of them. After the Empire exploited and murdered the Kenari people, like so many other peoples, they were forced to flee and find a way to survive.

Because of misogyny, refugee and impoverished women are pushed to seek employment that requires the commodification of their bodies for male pleasure. Cassian seems to be aware of this reality and therefore doesn’t express any disgust, repulsion, or embarrassment about his sister’s job.

He understands that she, like him, is only doing her best to survive, and he places no sexist hierarchy on what forms of survival are more “morally pure” or “honorable”.