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A Homolka obsessed zine dealing with social and cultural stereotypes of women through collage and poetry. The poetry is florid but redeems itself with a graphic sense of humour; “all the world is changed when Barbie wears a cock and refuses to take it off for a telecast.” I guess the collages — ads, headlines, clippings, pictures — create a more viable, even memorable vision of what this zine is all about. Right now, the far less precious cut-n-paste gives the reader directions into an angry world that the poetry does not want to explore. It’s the refreshing insecurity, the questions, that allow this activist-minded zine its almost ghostly quietude — “Who am I/When I’m an advertisement/For you”.

zine / Summer 1995 / no publisher / main creator: S.J. Dawson / free(?) / PO Box 862, Station F, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2N7

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