Under Pressure: Herbs For Resilience is an in-depth and insightful guide to "twelve plants that can help increase or enhance resilience in times of upheaval and uncertainty." Looking at the physiology of stress, the zine is a holistic guide to surviving in an unhealthy culture.
Written by Janet Kent, an herbalist, writer, and founder of Medicine County Herbs and the Terra Sylva School of Herbal Medicine. With original woodcut illustration by Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative member Roger Peet.
Screen-printed covers on 100 lb stock. Perfect-bound. 70 pages, half-letter size.
A rare, almost-sublime zine about place, memory, and lost history. About the ways things change and stay the same. About how the place you're from shapes who you become. About growing up in a small Midwestern town without a zip code, a place not on most maps.
As JB writes in the introduction: "I never read about or saw anything that looked like where I grew up. I was always on the lookout, but depictions of rural areas I encountered didn't feel familiar, seemed to picture a world that was too remote, too friendly, too simple, too impoverished, too sinister, or too romantic...This is an attempt to capture was I know, what I've learned, and what I remember about Antonia." HIGHLY recommended!
48 pages, half-letter size.
Reclaiming Dreams for Survivors / Recuperando Sueños para Sobrevivientes is a short zine to assist abuse survivors that have issues around sleeping and dreaming. Going through herbs that can assist in this process, the zine offers a range of techniques and possibilities.
As Blanca says in the introduction, "depending on our experience, [the dream] world may be a source of anxiety or one of healing...Reclaiming your dream world is an act of spiritual resistance."
Available in English and Spanish versions. 8 pages, half-letter size.
Recorded in a renovated church during a windstorm, with members of Mount Eerie serving as her backing band, Bury Me Into the Mtn is an album that stops you in your tracks. From the big backing vocals of the album’s opener to its methodically sparse closing track, she creates a musical narrative that doesn’t release its listener until the whole tale has been told. An album that's completely unique while also being totally accessible.
Released on CJ Boyd's Obsolete Media Objects labels. Listen on Bandcamp.
A long-time favorite in the zine community, now in a fancy, professionally-made version accessible to all game lovers. Playing like a cross between canasta and Magic: The Gathering, Zine Game is all about building your own zines. A 70-card deck where players use Content Cards, Action Cards, Idea Cards, Supply Cards, and Binder Cards to create zines, sabotage other players zines and compete for the most points.
A really fun time with tons of possibilities. Cards have fun drawings and lots of playful humor.
Shrink-wrapped, gorgeously printed, comes with detailed instructions.
A fun and fascinating gift for basically anyone, The Difference Between compares similar (or similar-sounding) things and provides straightforward definitions for each. Within: baking soda and baking powder, communism and socialism, krump and krunk, sympathy and empathy, turtle and tortoise, national deficit and national debt, girdle and corset, Dirty Harry and Debbie Harry, and so much more.
With contributions from Liz Mason and illustrations by Missy Kulik, Leslie Perrine, Ramsey Beyer, Jaime Tillotson, and Billy McKay.
164 pages, quarter-size.
Part personal zine and part workbook zine, Digna looks at how healing can occur through both sound and the dream realm and how the two can overlap. Personal experiences mix with questions and ideas for those looking to reclaim their voice and their dreams.
12 pages, half-letter size.
An assortment of postcards from letterpress artist Hope Amico and her long-running Keep Writing postcard project.
Get yourself a pack of 5 or a pack of 10. You won't regret it.
Know Your Vote, a workbook zine from Anna Jo Beck, seeks to help you make sense of the United States voting system and political structures. Prompting you to figure out your state's elections, representatives, and local government, this zine is a much-needed guide for anyone left confused by the (often ridiculously complex) American systems of democracy.
From Beck's Biff Boff Bam Sock zine series. 24 pages, half-letter size.
The latest in Jennifer Williams' well-loved workbook zine series. We Need Emotional Labor: Discussion Questions to Redistribute the Work that Holds Communities Together is an essential guide to understanding both the value of emotional labor and the imbalance of it.
In her in-depth introduction, Williams asks, "What toxic systems can be uprooted if we start to wipe away the idea that taking care of each other is a burden?" While also pointing out that "There are questions we need to ask, though, before this giving and receiving: Is it consensual? Is it valued? Is it reciprocal?" (Clementine Morrigan.) In this, she examines how the weight of emotional labor's imbalance often falls on women, gender nonconforming folks, and people of color.
What follows is a couple dozen questions to help you delve deep into your own relationship to giving and receiving emotional labor. A zine to spend time with—whether on your own, in relationships, or small groups.
72 page, half-letter size.