live thru this & you won't look back

Glasgow Zine Library needs of renovations in order to safely store and display their zine collection, and improve accessibility.

Good news: They are currently only £500 away from their £12,726 goal, and for every donation made, Creative Scotland will double that money.

Bad news: This is an all-or-nothing fundraiser, so if they don't meet that goal before June 13th, they get nothing.

From their fundraiser:

"Our ability to safely and accessibly store, preserve, and display our zine collection is in jeopardy. In addition, we are running out of space to continue accepting zine donations. That is why we urgently need to upgrade our collection storage and display to increase capacity, accessibility, and improve preservation.

Our archive, which holds the entirety of our collection, is running out of space to safely and accessibly store and preserve the zines. As a result, the condition and future of our zine collection is at risk of rapid decline due to insufficient storage and preservation capacity. We have reached capacity, turning away major donations, and (with permissions) donating duplicates.

Reaching capacity of our archive means that we have to turn away zine donations and halt zine acquisition of cultural objects. For instance, we turned away 249 issues of historically significant literary zine, 100 issues of an important writing zine, and a large collection of music zines and magazines. Another donor wants to bequeath a significant 1980-90s zine collection including historical trans zines.

Currently, we do not have the capacity to store and preserve them. Without this project we cannot properly preserve the collection or sustain zine donation intake."

I've been attending Glasgow Zine Fest for a few years now, and the work they do not only preserving such a variety of voices, but supporting new zine makers and local communities is amazing. They've run fundraisers for Palestine and refugees, coding meetups for trans folks, and anti-capitalist writing workshops.

I'm really hopeful they'll be able to make this deadline, but I've donated as much as I can. If any of yous have some to spare, please consider it. And consider visiting, as well!!

Rachel Ann Bovier is a Pittsburgh legend who has been publishing her poems in city newspapers for decades. In more recent years, she started putting up these bill boards along major roads. For what reason? I have no clue. But I would often pass them on my way to Oakland for therapy. They never failed to cheer me up.

As a young trans writer, they gave me this precious little spark of joy. There was someone like me, a writer, a Pittsburgher, a trans person, who was confident enough to put their face on a bill board! I would always smile as we passed by and my mom took note.

Fast forward a few years and it’s my 21st birthday. My mom has been super excited about my gift and teased me about it over and over again. She said it was the best gift she’d ever gotten me and in many ways she was right. It was a custom poem she commissioned from Miss Bouvier! It congratulated me on my birthday, my academic success, lots of little stuff. It was simple and sweet and perfect.

In February 1968, Paul McCartney began running a series of ads in New Musical Express to promote Apple Corps. All of the ads were photos or drawings chosen by Paul, with no text except the word Apple.

All those weird photos which you have seen in the press recently advertising the Beatles’ Apple companies, have been selected by Paul.

He thought up the idea for the Apple advertising campaigns and visited many of the photo agencies in London so that he could plough through thousands of photos in order to find what he wanted.

Made something just for fun today. I was inspired by the variety & creativity I saw at the Seattle Art Book Fair over the weekend. Different textures, shapes, colors, & opacities made me want to play around.

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I'm releasing a quick font called SKYFANG! It was inspired by the logo for a video game I have never played. It's licensed under the SIL Open Font License, which pretty much means you can use it anywhere with no fuss. You can download it here!

Skyfang has 3 styles. One where the speedlines imply movement going right, (a slightly sloppier) one going left, and one that combines the two into a sort of horizontally blurry look.

Posting because I saw @megazumi-world have a Tumblr. We did an exchange last summer as a part of Sunday Zine Club Jam with the theme "SEASON." I can't believe it's already been a year. I really liked looking at this zine last summer and enjoying the cool summer vibes that ooze out from each drawing.