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Zine Review: Things My Parents Never Taught Me
Things My Parents Never Taught Me
Crash Reynolds
https://linktr.ee/indeliblecrash
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/UtopiaByCrash
Things My Parents Never Taught Me is a one-page folded full-colour mini-zine about overlooked childhood lessons.
I knew from the moment I read the title of this mini that I would enjoy this zine.
Opening up this zine, you find a small collection of snippets covering the practical – like how to properly clean a bathroom – to more emotionally related skills. Crash had me from the first missed lesson, and I spent time wondering just how much YouTube and other educational websites have taught me. I nodded along with most of Crash’s lists, identifying with so many and inspired to make a list of my own.
This zine makes me feel sad in the feelings and sentiments that it covers. But, like with many zines, I appreciate the potential it has to help people feel less alone.
Zine Review: Body Hair: A Love/Hate Story
Body Hair: A Love/Hate Story
Olga
https://www.olgawritesthings.com/
https://www.instagram.com/olgawritesthings/
Body Hair: A Love/Hate Story is a black and white A5 text zine collection of life moments that shaped Olga’s journey with body hair.
In this zine, Olga sweeps us into her journey with a memory from grade 8 when a comment from a mean classmate about her moustache and her mother’s reaction to the event set up her attitude toward body hair for a long time to come.
From there, each page features its own snippet – its own life moment. Olga explores her background, her reactions to her body hair, and others’ reactions. Olga questions assumptions and finds self-worth beyond beauty by challenging herself to grow her body hair. A challenge that makes me feel a lot of respect for Olga because I don’t have the courage to do the same.
As a hairy woman in a long line of hairy women, I identify with this zine so much. From her mother’s reaction to body hair to curing her hair heredity… I also just took it for granted that you did whatever necessary to get rid of body hair when it started appearing – just like Olga did.
Olga wraps up on an important note: it’s not about making anyone feel bad about what they do with their body; it’s about choice and how so many people feel like they didn’t and don’t have one when it comes to body hair.
I think this is a great zine, and I’d love to see more like it. Olga doesn’t hold back nor does she make it into a happily ever after. It’s damned hard to face the idea of judgement from others let alone actual judgement.
Good on Olga.
Happy Birthday Wanderer!
Looking at the Year Ahead
Hello, zine friends!
I intended to write this post much earlier in the month, but – as you may know – 2019 came out swinging.
Wanderer ended up for a short stay in hospital. He’s feeling back to normal now, thank goodness, but the days were stressful, as he dislikes hospitals at the best of times and was a bit of a medical mystery to the doctor. Financial stresses keep piling up, any my own medical issues are proving annoying as they butt into my focus while I’m trying to focus on other things.
However, I will leave all the negativity here and now. As I’m typing this. I have stressed, cried, wondered how it could all possibly work… and now it’s time to let go. Oh, the things are still there, but there’s a difference between dealing with the stressful things and focusing on them to the point where you feel like they will consume you.
When I watched Feral Publication’s video, I felt inspired to put my focus on the positives. To the things I’m working toward. And to put those things ‘out there’ into the zineverse rather than containing them strictly within my head.
Here are my goals for this year:
*Finish all zine projects still ‘open’ from 2018
*Make at least five zines
*Submit to at least ten collab zines
*Go to Festival of the Photocopier
*Open the Sea Green Zine Distro
*Read at least one book a month (I read heaps of zines but would like to read more books)
*Finish the first draft of my next story (not sure if it’s novel-length just yet)
There’s certainly a lot more that I’d like to accomplish this year, but I want my goals to be distinct from all the various things things on my to-do list. They are also ‘SMART’ – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely.
I’ll stop my ramble here, friends, as I’ve wandered a bit more in the writing of this post than I thought I would. Haha.
I wish you all the best in the year to come – whether you made your goals on New Year’s Eve, haven’t made them yet, or would rather not make goals. Should you be stressed or overwhelmed, I hope the universe provides you with everything you need to take it in stride.
Best wishes always.
Happy Mail Monday – Mac & Cheese Edition
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Happy Mail Monday, friends! This week’s mail is especially glorious with goodness from Belgium, Israel, and the US! Check out fun postcards, ZineWriMo goodness, funny pressies from the States, and some goodies that will be available at Festival of the Photocopier.
Thank you so much for watching.
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Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:
*Nina Echozina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/
*Drawings By Nina – https://drawingsbynina.wordpress.com/
*Guitarrr 1 Zine Review – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-guitarrr-and-bass-mini-manual/
*Nina’s Postcards – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/postcard-season/
*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
*ZineWriMo 2018 – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zinewrimo-2018-list/
*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/
*Latibule – https://linktr.ee/latibule_art
*Sticker Robot – https://stickerobot.com/
*Portland Buttonworks – https://portlandbuttonworks.com/
*Festival of the Photocopier 2019 – http://www.stickyinstitute.com/
*Brainscan 33 Review – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-brainscan-33-diy-witchery-an-exploration-of-secular-witchcraft/
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GoFundMe to Get to Festival of the Photocopier – https://www.gofundme.com/help-nyx-get-to-fotp-zine-fest
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My PO Box:
Jaime Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia
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Call for Submissions: ‘You’re Standing On My Neck’: A Daria Fanzine
Call for Submissions: The Throwaway Account
The Throwaway Account is a brand new zine planning to debut in February 2019 interested in your poetry, micro essays, flash fiction, little interviews, postcard-sized art, mini-comics, and other forms of short-short stories!
The theme for the first issue is “Emotions,” which can be anything from sadness to gladness. While the publication will be mostly in English, submissions in other languages, especially for feelings and concepts that are untranslatable, are welcome.
Send all submissions and queries to editor Liz Tetu at throwawayzine@gmail.com by January 14th 2019 to be considered for the first issue. Non-themed submissions are accepted on a rolling basis (aka anytime) for future issues coming out May, August, and November.
“Throwaway” means an interest in anything you have! Old or new, unfinished or just unpolished, the embarrassing, too personal, and too weird submissions are considered just as seriously as any other. Reprints are acceptable, as well, as long as you note where it was originally published when you submit.
“Throwaway” also refers to the way the zine will be printed. The plan is to print most (and handwrite some) submissions and adhere them to napkins made of recycled materials borrowed from restaurants. Plans for a digital anthology of a single year’s issues are also in the works. We’ll see!
The Throwaway Account is 100% recyclable
Call for Calls for Submissions: Spread the Word About Your Zine/Distro/Library!
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Big fuzzy love hearts to those who have a .jpg call for subs, but all are welcome. Get in touch by emailing seagreenzines[at]gmail.com or comment below.