Stop Saying I Look Like The Zinester American Girl Doll!
Jenn Woodall has had it up TO HERE with these cherubic luxury nostalgia-baiting mall dolls being passed off as DIY ‘girl power.’
Issue 99
Review: On Writing and Failure
Orwell, Joyce and Austin could barely get jobs, never mind publishing deals. Stephen Marche asks: “Why would it be any different for you?”
One Day We Will All Die. Who’ll Make Comics Then? David Galliquio and Comix in Unpredictable Peru.
“People thought I was a degenerate, I did what I did only because the one underground rule was that there were no rules.” How the perilous, conservative rulership of Peru shaped its counterculture.
Review: Literal Bimbos
With its glut of glittery, girly stickers, fire photography, takedowns of Pretty Women and useful relationship advice, Literal Bimbos, a litzine created by sex workers, is a work of art.
Walking Tall: Boots Riley on the Utility of Absurd Art
“What I want to do is use this exaggeration to point out contradictions and to point out ironies and skip over large swaths of theory and just smack it in your face. That’s the usefulness to me.” The activist, musician and director tells us how to speak to a world that’s gotten strange.
Review: like every pillow flung off the bed
Reading these poems feels like running laps in the author’s head. The external world has fallen away and we’re along for a destructive ride through the stages of breakup.
NOW What: Is There a Future for the Alt-Weekly?
The loss of local voices goes beyond arts scenes and progressive op-eds as trusted legacy publications become propaganda for your city’s worst actors.
Toronto Zine Library Reopens
“To me the space is important as an example of creativity, community and solidarity coming together without commercial expectations.”
Introducing Our Spring Issue: America the Absurd
Boots Riley tells us about the absurd and how it functions as a satirical language that can speak far more eloquently when the world is on fire. All that and more in our latest issue!