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Contains 42 Results:

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 1 v. 1: Chavela Vargas, Eloisa Aquino, 2009

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 1
Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine detailing the life of Chavela Vargas, a Mexican musician and singer who came out as lesbian in the 1980s. The zine describes her singing career, friendships with artists such as Frida Kahlo, and travels through Latin America.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2009

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 2 v. 1: JD Samson, Eloisa Aquino, 2009

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 2
Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine about the musician JD Samson. Zine discusses Samson's music, collaboration with Emily Roysdon, reclamation of her facial hair, and subversion of traditional feminine and masculine roles.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2009

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 3 v. 1: Gladys Bently, Eloisa Aquino, 2009

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 3
Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine about the performer Gladys Bentley. Describes her time as a singer during the Harlem Renaissance, her wedding to a woman, and her eventual claim that she had been cured of homosexuality by female hormones.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2009

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 1 v. 2: Gertrude Stein, Eloisa Aquino, 2010

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine about the life of Gertrude Stein, a lesbian author in the Victorian Era. Discusses her relationship with Alice B. Toklas and her modernist contemporaries in Paris.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2010

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 2 v. 2: Claude Cahun, Eloisa Aquino, 2010

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine about the life of Claude Cahun, a lesbian living in France during the first half of the 20th century. Zine describes her gender nonconformity, relationship with stepsister Marcel Moore, and imprisonment after distributing anti-Nazi propaganda in occupied France.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2010

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 1 v. 3: Martina Navratilova, Eloisa Aquino, 2011

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Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine about the life of Martina Navratilova, a record-breaking tennis player. Zine describes her devotion to her sport, her coming out as a lesbian, and her later health issues.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2011

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 2 v. 3: Jenny Shimizu, Eloisa Aquino, 2011

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 7
Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine about the modeling career of Jenny Shimizu, a butch and openly gay model. Describes her young gender-nonconformity, her coming out, the start of her modeling career in New York, as well as the designers which have used her as a model.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2011

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 1 v. 4: Judith Butler, Eloisa Aquino, 2012

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Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine about the life and writings of Judith Butler, an US gender theorist. Discusses her Jewish heritage, her activism, and quotes from her writings.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2012

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 1 v. 5: Audre Lorde, Eloisa Aquino, 2013

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Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine about the life and writings of Audre Lorde, an African-American poet and activist. Describes her early life, political activism, and travels through Latin America, interspersed with quotes from her writing.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2013

Life and Times of Butch Dykes Issue 1 v. 6: Brazilian Singers, Eloisa Aquino, 2014

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 10
Identifier: II
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Hand-drawn mini-zine discussing the lives of Brazil's lesbian pop singers, and the perception that most female Brazilian pop stars are lesbians. Describes the various approaches lesbian singers took to coming out or publically acknowledging their sexuality.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by B & D Press. 16 pages in English.

Dates: 2014

Radical Domesticity #2: The Sewing Issue, Emma Karin Eriksson, 2014

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Zine giving basic advice on sewing techniques.

Published in Manhattan, New York by Pretty Dirty Press. 17 pages in English.

Dates: 2014

Radical Domesticity 3: Summers Up, Emma Karin Eriksson, 2014

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Zine giving advice in preparation for summer including topics such as cleaning and organization, gardening, activities, and recipes.

Published in Manhattan, New York by Pretty Dirty Press. 14 pages in English.

Dates: 2014

Radical Domesticity 4, Emma Karin Eriksson, 2014

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Identifier: II
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Zine giving advice in preparation for fall and winter including topics such as cleaning, illness remedies, and recipes. Also includes the author's response to the perception of domestic work as inherently oppressive.

Published in Manhattan, New York by Pretty Dirty Press. 12 pages in English.

Dates: 2014

Radical Domesticity 5: Food and Friends, Emma Karin Eriksson, 2015

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 14
Identifier: II
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Zine giving advice on guest and roommate etiquette, laundry, food, and storage.

Published in Manhattan, New York by Pretty Dirty Press. 14 pages in English.

Dates: 2015

Radical Domesticity 6, Emma Karin Eriksson, 2015

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 15
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Zine giving advice on cooking, renting, and wardrobe.

Published in Manhattan, New York by Pretty Dirty Press. 14 pages in English.

Dates: 2015

America Was Never Great, Eternally Grizzful, 2013

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Identifier: II
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A story about one of the author's subversive performances.

9 pages in English.

Dates: 2013

Pussy Boi 1, Felix, 2016

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 17
Identifier: II
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Pussy Boi discusses being queer and trans and working alongside people experiencing homelessness. The author writes about saving others and being saved from suicidal thoughts, class in the trans movement, ways to work through thoughts of competition with others, trans-masculine people in women’s sexual assault crisis centers, and the homogeneity of queer sex-positivity culture. 

20 pages in English.

Dates: 2016

Jane: Documents from Chicago's Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973, Firestarter Press, 2004

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 18
Identifier: II
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Brochures and pamphlets from Jane, an abortion service in Chicago in the late 1960s and early 1970s, appear in this political zine. There are also interviews with women who worked with Jane and a discussion of feminist politics and abortion, especially with regard to race and class and police persecution

Published in Baltimore, Maryland by Firestarter Press. 58 pages in English.

Dates: 2004

Overcoming Violence: An Introduction, Gary Llama, 2013

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 19
Identifier: II
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Provides advice on how people can stop perpetrating violence.

Published in Richmond, Virginia by Something Something Press. 38 pages in English.

Dates: 2013

Dumb 1 and 2, Georgia Webber, 2014

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 20
Identifier: II
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Comic about the author's voice injury and subsequent recovery while she was unable to speak.

Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Retrofit Comics with contributors Georgia Webber, Madeline Palmer, Natalie Zina Walschots. 36 pages in English.

Dates: 2014