theory & a nail {press & distro}

can i mail you a bootleg dvd of this fucking rad new queer history docu film that i shouldn't have a copy of and won't even name in this ad so the producer-celeb-queers don't find out + get angry? FREE or trade me something. theoryandanail @ riseup

How We Kiss: privilege on the dance floor is a mini-zine on cis- and hetero privilege, written & distributed by Providence RI-based queers at the "queer animal future" dance party in Summer 2011.

We've got free copies of this zine for you! Find us in person or contact [email protected] for more info — or you can get downloadable + printable files on the f.i.e.r.c.e.n.e.s.s. tumblr.

Here's an excerpt. You can find the full text here.

    It’s not just what you know — it’s what you never have to know. It’s happening every day, at that party or park or potluck, when you can look like what you really are and touch who you really want to touch without feeling like you’re violating others’ expectations. It’s never being forced to examine accepted ideas of gender and sexuality, despite their arbitrary nature. It’s never having to realize that people are seeing you as something you know you are not.

Here's our version* of Dean Spade's short & crucial manifesto "Dress to Kill, Fight to Win", originally printed in LTTR #1 in 2002, then made into a tiny zine with a nice cover image by Not Yr Cister Press in 2010, and now slightly redesigned & made more compact by us. 

Downloads:

THIS ONE is a 209kB PDF file designed for 2-sided printing (cut each sheet in half to get two 2-sided mini-zines; or you can just print it on 1 side, then fold in half), and 

THAT ONE is a 205kB PDF, for looking at on the computer.

Contact us if you'd like another format or layout: [email protected].

We've just finished throwing together a zine version of the first chapter from the incredible Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, published in late 2011 by AK Press. It's by Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, and Dean Spade, and it's called "Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We've Got". We can claim no credit for this work — we even stole the book's cover image of burning police cars! — but we think it's such an important call to action that we'll do anything to get more queers & trans folks & others to read it.

You can download the PDFs at zinelibrary.info, or if that's not working [have you also noticed it being down/broken at certain times recently?], try these alternate direct links:

abolition-final-read.pdf, 9.4MB, 28 pages ideal for reading on your computer or printing 1-sided, with no fancy folding

abolition-final-imposed.pdf, 9.4MB, 14 pages  imposed to be printed on 7 double-side sheets and then folded into a zine or booklet

Here’s a new publication of “Queer Liberation Is Class Struggle,” written by JOMO and originally published online at http://gatheringforces.org/2010/01/08/queer-liberation-is-class-struggle/

Queer_Liberation-imposed.pdf 231 kb (8 pages, imposed for printing on 4 2-sided sheets)