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Doris West Coast Readings!!!

2/26 Sunday at 5:00 at Rock Paper Scissors, 2278 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
http://rpscollective.org/zine-reading-feb-26th-cindy-crabb-of-doris/

2/29 Wednesday at 7:00 Modern Times Bookstore,
2919 24th St, SF
http://www.mtbs.com/events.html

3/9 Friday at 7:00 Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak St, Portland OR
http://www.readingfrenzy.com/index.php

3/11 Saturday at Evergreen college, not sure of time. This will be a talk, not a reading

3/12 Monday at 7:30 Left Bank Books, 92 Pike St, Seattle WA with Peregrine of Entropy zine and hopefully Neely of Mend My Dress zine!!!

new zines from dorisdorisdoris.com/zines

Entropy
The most powerful and hopeful zine I've ever read about incest survival, body memory, trauma and healing. Peregrine spent years writing it. It is not a raw testimonial, but an unfolding of his story, starting with his discovery that he was a childhood incest surviver, with intense body memories but not many specific fact memories - and the difficulties of belief and denial, within himself and his family.
So many men I know are sexual abuse survivors, and I have seen very few zines written by men about it. I know this zine will help so many people. It is great regardless of your gender!
I recommend this zine for everyone - regardless of whether or not you are an abuse survivor. It is an essential peice of writing for us all.

Ilse Content #10
Stories about how Alexis interprets and remembers Home. Beautiful, haunting, stream of conciousness style writting about her childhood homes, ghosts and dreams, the smell of her mother, pretending to be in Little Women, Her current house which makes her not want to run so far, preparing to move by preparing her heart and body for the home that will come along.

Hoax #6: Feminisms and communication
Another great issue of this zine! In this issue they "aim to explore these questions and others: 'How are knowledge/power transmitted though tone/words/body language? What makes us feel visible and what makes us feel silences or erased? How do we understand ourselves and how do others read us? How do we move forward after breakdowns in communication...." It includes a huge array of really excellent stories, articles and thoughts and critiques including "Academic Language and Power..." Slutwalk, "What Washed Faggot" and the invisibility of queer Asian literature, philosophy and theory, why it is not ok for people who aren't black to use the word Nigger, the idea of progress, and so much more!

Words Are Not Enough: Lip Service to Two Years Working With People in Crisis
This important zine is about working at a domestic violence shelter and a homeless families shelter: bearing witness to the people's stories and dealing with the ways the shelter system and staff members dehumanize the people who come there. Harsh and real and so necessary, it says "I want so much to know when shelters became so much like prisons..."
It ends with ideas on how to create shelters that provide support without becoming oppressive forces themselves. It says "What I'm looking for is a shelter system that is founded in radical thinking and in solidarity with other movments - one that is not just trying to rush-rush remedy a problem but one that is hoping to abolish the problem while giving people refuge and resources in the meantime."

Skinned Heart #3
The power of female friendships and support; fallouts and exploring the causes; sexism and wanting to learn from the collective pain and miscommunications; being a radical feminist in denial of the abusive relationship she was in; the loss of a few white friends; gardening; "I think a lot about punk and activism and the impression that each of those communities have left on me. I think about how much I have learned about people and communication.I think about how much my friends mean to me and how much they have meant to me. I can't imagine who I would have been if I had not come into contact with these people... I started to forget what I was all about. I really lost a sense of my own culture, my sense of Browness, and I forgot how to connect with people who weren't punks..."

Rot 1
People standing up to abuse. death of pet rat, father, friends, strangers in struggle. what do we do. murdered by cops, rapists, the systmatic murder of women in Ciudad Juarez. All tied together.
Beautiful poster-worthy drawing "Herbalist Bat Girl Conquers the Unexplained Panic Attack," and more.

High on Burning Photographs #8
This issue is mostly about a really hard breakup, the kind that just completly destroys any sense of self, and then starting to regain that self. Growing up in cycles of abuse and promising to oneself not to repeat those behaviors: "but maybe you've made a similar promise to yourself, and broken it, and if you ever have, maybe you know how awful it feels to realize that you can't fulfill it, that you are at a point where your deamons are eating you alive, where you can't ask for help or even realize that you need to ask for help, where you scared someone who genuinely loved you and wanted good things for you..."

Spellbook For Reckless Children
From London. Included in it is a beautiful, tiny zine with directions for an adventure which sounds totally fun (but requires that you live in a city with busses).
Living as kid near a high-security psychiatric hospital, "I'm not sure at what point my fear of people escaping turned into a fear of being the one not allowed to escape." Being expelled from highschool for vaguely talking about suicide and then sent away to boarding school. Feeling seen for the first time, and then that boy turning abusively jealous, "I told myself It's more likely I would kill myself without him that it is that he would kill me."
Finding an imaginary friend, collecting found objects, Zines and creating as a human need, not self-indulgent; and what bullshit the idea of what constitutes a "real" writer. Hope and magic.

up coming E.Coast and W.Coast readings

Upcoming Events:
Sun Dec 4, Providence RI. 280 Broadway, 6:00 zine readings!
Monday Dec 5, Pratt, Brooklyn reading and talk
Tuesday Dec 6 New School, NYC. 6E 16th St room 1107, 8:00pm reading and talk

tenative dates and venues:
Feb 26-29 various Bay Area readings - Rock Paper Scissors, Modern Times, etc. stay tuned for dates and times

March 9, Friday Portland OR, Reading Frenzy
March 10, Sat. Olympia WA Public Library, zine writing workshop
March 11, Sun. Olympia - Evergreen College, reading and talk
March 12, Monday. Seattle WA - Left Bank Books, zine readings

more new zines

more new zines available at my distro www.dorisdorisdoris.com/zines

Shotgun Seamstress Fanzine #6
The last issue of one of my very favorite zines Shotgun Seamstress!!! a zine for, by and about Black punks, queers, feminist, artists, musicians and activists. Issue #6 includes an interview with the band Trash Kit, a conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. A really excellent and interesting interview with a woman who owns a tattoo shop in New Orleans. A great Manifesta, an article/story about punks in Rio de Janerio, and a bunch more!!! So good!

Butch nor Femme #1
Thoughtful zine about various things they've been trying to sort through: the word "fucked", an ex-friend yelling at them in public, some sweet stories, and a powerful and brave piece called "I got what I wanted" about being manipulative in sex. I am particularly grateful for this story! I know it will help lots of people realize behavior patterns and begin to change!

Butch nor Femme #2
Loving Femme, but not being femme, and wanting other ways of being feminine to be seen. Sleeping with their cock on for the first time. "For me, the idea that I'm actually OK as I am, that there is nothing "wrong" with me or what I want/need, is shocking and a bit revolutionary." Quitting their Facebook account - thinking about how they want to interact with people. Even though I don't use social media, I thought this was interesting, especially because they still use tumblr and twitter - so it's not an anti-social media thing or a political-against-Facebook thing, but rather a real look at how Facebook affects their life.

Seaglass
a zine about quitting drinking. "Not drinking hasn't fixed all of the broken parts inside of me, but I don't feel like such a secretive mess..." Interesting little section about weird things to drink other than booze. Anxiety and social situations, learning to deal with impatience. books that helped.

Cat Power #1: a Riot Grrrl Zine
critiques of mass culture images and messages - this zine starts with a reprint of Kathleen Hanna's Riot Grrrl Manifesto (which I've always loved) and continues on to critiques of Lady Gaga's use of gang rape imagery, the food industries manipulation of our food sources (GMS's, advertizing, etc), gender, body image, American Apparels soft-core porn advertising and the sexist, abusive CEO of the company, and a beautiful creative fiction piece called "In Which We Battle Pink Robots".

Cat Power issue #2
Cassie writes about how she started this zine for two reasons: because she wanted more girls to have an outlet and to get involved with things they love, and also because she hated being a girl and wanted to change that. This issue includes a celebration of body hair, a story about being forced by society to perform as male and how much social pressure there is when you're seen as a guy to be disgusted by all things "feminine", also an article about being a woman bassist in a male dominated music scene and more.

Reimagining Queer Community
"...a personal investigation into (their) evolving relationship to the term queer ... the myth of cohesive queer communities, being a spectator versus being a participant, queer histories, and potential strategies to build alliances." plus queer theory academia derailing social justice conversations - and how fucking horrible and telling it was that they majored in queer studies and never learned about HIV/AIDS, the horror of it and the activism around it.

Hyena in Petticoats: A Mary Wollstonecraft Zine
This thick zine is all about the amazing writer, feminist, activist from the 18th century and her family. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the excellent "Vindication of the Rights of Women," and mother to Mary Shelly (was wrote Frankenstein when she was 18). Their stories are really interesting! Written by Alexis Wolf of Ilse Content zine.

Ghost Pine #10: Wires
includes an installment of a hysterical story about high school - gym class, punk, a bunch of really funny characters. Also a sweet story about staying in a tent on a San Francisco rooftop, and going to a generator show that where the generator doesn't show up, so instead they help some people who are getting evicted.

Ghost Pine #11: Crows
Another installment of the high school story "The Social Justice Club". Plus sweet little vignettes of friends and love, office spaces, writing, suburban diners, punk

Ghost Pine #12: Water

new zines

Stunned Lungs
If you have ever read the poet Shannon Olds, you know how poetry can tell a story stronger than a story itself. That's what this zine is like. If you like poetry at all, you should get this. It is amazing. The poems tell a story of their mothers home a feeling of vertigo and suffocation; a story of body and sex, and such deep everything you really must read it.

You've Got a Friend in Pennsylvania #4
Really open discussion of relationship stuff that a lot of us go through - trying to break the cycle of managing the pain of breaking up by finding a new relationship. The identity crisis that can happen when you identify as queer but your relationship is seen by the world as hetero. Coming out as trans and the lack of support within some feminist circles, support from zine readers and their partner, and asking friends to use nutral pronouns.

You've got a Friend in Pennsylvania #5
Working in an organic produce packing coop and dealing with racism and sexism, being trans but not out at work, learning to pick your battles.

Telegram Ma'am
I wish Miranda lived here so we could be friends and have writing group together. Their Ine is the kind of zine that made me want to start writing zines in the first place. They write about their personal experiences with enough distance and care that they become not purging, but rather small maps that can help us to look at our own lives and the beauty of how we survive and become more fully the people we want to become.

Telegram Ma'am: Stealing Lilacs
Miranda talks about really serious things with such honest and enough humor to make it joyful to read even when it is about being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, spending time in a treatment center for anxiety and depression, getting sober, coming out as gender queer. There's a great article called "Be Your Own Therapist," which discusses creativity, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, the ER, and letting go.

Moon Root: an exploration of Asian Womyn's Bodies
issue #1. Seven writers explore, in verse, story and essay issues of body, history, assimilation, racism, politics and family and secrets and queerness and gender and identity and more. Super beautiful and powerful work!

Ship of Fools
I love this comic zine! I like how each issue gets more complex, both drawings and content, just like life.

Hoax #5: Feminism and Community
Exploring the topic of community. Articles about Queer land movements, dealing with being jealous of other girls, "Saved By Rock and Roll", The International Girl Gang Undergound, supporting emerging feminists, and much more

Figure 8
I am so happy to finally be carrying this zine in my distro! It has been one of my favorite zines for awhile now - a zine "devoted to the radical idea of fat liberation and fighting sizism"


Summertime #1: A Graphic Novel If I had been a comic artist instead of a writer, there's a time in my life when I probably would have drawn a zine a lot like this one. It's about black-out drinking and fucking strangers. Love and friendship and body hate and abuse, self-destruction, addiction and punk. I love this zine! So sad but also somehow redemptive and so powerful!

Shotgun Seamstress number 2: Everybody Say Love
“a zine by and for Black Punks, Queers, Misfits, Feminists, Artists and Musicians, Weirdos and the people who suuport us. This zine is meant to support Black People who exist within predominantly white subcultures, and to encourage the creation of our own." Reflections on hardcore in the '80's in DC when punk and reggae and/or gogo bands played on the same bill + how cool go-go was!!! Check it out!!!
Articles: Punk and Black are the same thing. Interview: with all-women psychedelic rock and roll band. Book Review: Letting it All Hang Out, by RuPaul. Culture Clash: dread meets punk rockers. + more!

tons more new zines! + upcoming readings

I have a ton of new zines in the catalog! Check it out at dorisdorisdoris.com/zines

I'll be doing a couple readings in NYC in December - on the 5th at Pratt and on the 6th at the New School!

new zines

new zines at doris distro ... www.dorisdorisdoris.com/zines
It's Down to This: reflections, stories, experiences, critiques and ideas on community collective response to sexual violence, abuse and accountability

this huge zine (100 pages!) is a tremendous resource for people who are committed to ending sexual violence. The past few years have seen an upsurge of community-accountability processes of dealing with assault - and lots of questions and issues these processes have raised. This zine collects a mulititude of stories, reflections and articles - from advice on finding a therapist, written by a perpetrator who is in an accountability process, to articles describing what different accountability groups look like, to raw stories of the failure of radical communities to step up and offer support to survivors. Intense and essential zine for people doing this work.

Mend My Dress: issues 7+8
Featured in the book Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, Mend My Dress is a zine mostly about sexual abuse survival, about girl power, and girl love. Issues 7 and 8 come together in one envelope. Stories of an abusive relationship and getting out of it, problems with an IUD, what to do when your abusive ex-boyfriend starts dating someone you work with, how to keep girl-love-girl-power alive, stories of birth, stories of home.