BRASS IN POCKET: available now from Booklyn

BRASS IN POCKET, the feminist collaborative exhibition zine, is out now! We debuted the zine this weekend at Comic Arts Brooklyn + it is now available online on buy.booklyn.org

Including artwork by:

CAROLINE PAQUITA, CATHERINE STACK, CRISTINE BRACHE, CYNTHIA SCHEMMER, DAFY HAGAI, ERIN BOWERS, GEOFFREY DUNCANSON, HANNAH SCHULMAN, JASON ROY, JEN MAY, JESSICA MEANY, KATE WADKINS, LAUREN DENITZIO, LIZ LINDEN, LYNNETTE MIRANDA, MINA BOROMAND, MITSUKO BROOKS, RACHEL WOLF, REBECCA CLARKE, REGINA JESTROW, SONIA CORINA, SONYA DERMAN, SUSAN FANG, AND TAMARA WAITE-SANTIBANEZ. [view on tumblr]

The Way the Lights Went Out: A Hurricane Sandy Zine Benefit

The Way the Lights Went Out: A Hurricane Sandy Zine Benefit

RSVP: http://bit.ly/sandyzinebenefit

This event will be both a zine reading and zine sale to benefit The Ali Forney Center, a Manhattan-based organization which provides housing to homeless LGBT youth. Part of the Center’s facility is located near the Hudson River and was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. The event will include readings by zinesters as well as the sale of zines generously donated by many zinesters. 100% of proceeds will go to this important community resource.

We are aware of recent critiques of the Ali Forney Center*, and we concur with TransRadical blog** that it is crucial to rebuild AFC in order to continue creating safe and welcoming communities for LGBTQ youth everywhere.

READERS:

Kate Angell (My Feminist Friends, A Thousand Times Yes)
Jamie Varriale Vélez (Sinvergüenza)
Jenna Freedman (Lower East Side Librarian, Barnard Zine Library)
+ more!

ZINE DONORS:

Stranger Danger Zine Distro, Kathleen McIntyre (The Worst), Lauren Denitzio (Get it Together), Kate Wadkins (International Girl Gang Underground), For the Birds Collective, Kate Angell, Amber Dearest (Fight Boredom Distro, The Triumph of our Tired Eyes), Maranda Elizabeth (Telegram), PonyBoy Press, Aimee Lusty (Booklyn, Pen15 Press), Amanda Stefanski, Jami Sailor (Your Secretary), Jordan Alam (The Cowation), Alycia Sellie (Brooklyn College Zine Library), Cindy Crabb (Doris), Natty Koper & Sivan Sabach (Bangarang This), Chella Quint (Adventures in Menstruating), Shawn Smith (Black Lesbians in the 70s Zine), Elvis Bakaitis (Homos in Herstory), Sarah Rose (Tazewell’s Favorite Eccentric, Once Upon a Distro), Maud Pryor (Marmalade Umlaut), Jenna Freedman

Zinesters are welcome to contact us with zines to donate! 100% of event proceeds will be donated to hurricane relief.

CONTACT
Kate Angell at myfeministfriends@gmail.com
Kate Wadkins at mskatherinewadkins@gmail.com

(more info to be updated on the Facebook event page)

* http://transradical.tumblr.com/post/20347951835/i-meeting-with-the-deputy-executive-director-of
** http://lizvseverything.tumblr.com/post/35113227079/please-reblog-ali-forney-drop-in-center-of-homeless

PUBLISH OR PERISH

WEIRD WORLD photo zine--my photos at left.

December is the month for print!

Booklyn Artist Alliance has just released WEIRD WORLD, a photo zine to accompany the exhibition by the same name. The zine features 21 artists--many from the show itself, but some hangers-on, too, myself included. I'm happy to be a part of anything Aimee curates, and also to finally publish some of my photos in print.

You can purchase WEIRD WORLD at the newly-launched Booklyn web store, and in person next weekend at the Booklyn Book Shop (details below):

I also contributed a drawing to the Women Who Rock Coloring Book Vol. 2, to benefit Girls Rock! Rhode Island--a project I am really passionate about. Girls Rock! RI had an opening party for the coloring book last night, with performances by graduates of Girls Rock! and drawings from the book projected on the wall. Might make an awesome holiday gift? So check 'em out online at Etsy.

Women Who Rock Coloring Book Vol. 2 release party (photo via)

Cover art courtesy of Girls Rock! Rhode Island

AND--if you've made it this far in the post, I will be announcing the major project that I've worked on in the past year, which will finally be available at the end of December. Stay tuned!