It’s that time of year again! The WBMC is looking for short zines and comics by trans/queer artists to publish in 2026! As always, this is a paid opportunity and you don’t need a finished project to apply! Apps are open till January 15th, 2026! Tell your friends! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

you could actually buy this shit if you was about it

I am SO EXCITED for this zine (and for finding my clipart soulmate Lee through the magic of @qzap.bsky.social)!

Clipart Crypt is an extremely indulgent fanzine celebrating clipart, featuring interviews with clipart experts and aficionados (such as @kwooten.bsky.social on feminist clipart), and collages of the strangest and most beautiful vintage clipart I could find. sheerspite.ca/product/clip...

SPITE SPITE SPITE SPITE SPITE

So apparently a conservative "journalist" attended the ZLuC over this past weekend, attended and live-streamed sessions without consent, and is trying to intimidate and dox attendees. Here's the organizers' statement: www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/

I will say it till I kick it myself, but among the things I heard most after Mira passed was ‘I wish I had told her’. give the flowers & start the friendships now

a change in my communication style about a decade ago, when a lot of things were shifting in my life, was to frequently, fluidly detail this kind of thing to folks. this year, i adopted a policy of thank you notes (largely by mail) for basically everything. connective tissue

Saw a thread on table displays the other day, & while I did reply to that directly, I thought it would be fun to do a thread on it, too. Learn from my mistakes! (photo is from WWC 2025, photo credit: David Kotsibie / Persuasion Photo and Janis Isaman / Photos of People) 1/7

If you have any interest in trans history or zines this is a must-read. Gendertrash is both vitally important and an insanely fun read. I am so excited to have a paper copy I can hold and share and loan out and not get back and buy again!

If you're a zine fan who likes to send snail mail, we've got a treat for you—5 zine-themed postcards! We're raising funds for the BIPOC Travel Fund for future Zine Librarians unConferences @zineluc and you can help by ordering a set of 5 zines for just $15 (shipping within the U.S. included).

Honoured that "Making Friends With Zines" is nominated alongside some fantastic other works for one of Expozine's favourite English-language zines of 2024! It's a tribute to ways people can find each other & make & sustain connections through zines, w many interviews! sheerspite.ca/product/maki...

support my friends at brown recluse!!

Brown Recluse zine distro is raising money to support their continued (amazing) work of supporting and sharing zines by writers and artists of colour. I want to live in a world with BRZD in it, don't you? www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro...

Brown Recluse zine distro is raising money to support their continued (amazing) work of supporting and sharing zines by writers and artists of colour. I want to live in a world with BRZD in it, don't you? www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro...

Call for trans zine recommendations: my Trans Studies students are going to be doing a unit on zines next month, and one activity we're doing is looking at as many physical zines as I can get my hands on. If you know of cool trans zines that ARE PURCHASABLE ON PAPER, please let me know!!!

Really sad to hear that @igd.bsky.social is shutting down. They have been an amazing resource. itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

here's my events for the rest of the year! come find me! October 18: Anarchist Bookfair (Montréal) November 15-16: Expozine (Montréal) December 5-7: City of Craft Small Zine + Paper Market (Toronto)

I love student journalism so much and this is a fascinating project.

I kicked in to support my friend's cool movie and you can too!

new in the distro: two zines from Sojourners for Justice Press, plus the workbook that accompanies the lovely book Let This Radicalize You! sheerspite.ca/product/sojo... sheerspite.ca/product/mary... sheerspite.ca/product/let-...

preordered this instantly and you should too!

if you're curious about WHY every other occult horror movie is chock full of Hebrew-lettered diagrams, & also why this actually sucks, you can read my (citation-heavy) zine on the subject here ezrarose.itch.io/fyma-a-lesse...

One magical part of being in the same job for almost 20 years, is that I hear about new books based on dissertation research I helped support. And sometimes they're literally magical (about Radical Witchery in the Southeast)! "For a Spell" by Jason Ezell uncpress.org/978146969044...

Calling all BIPOC writers and poets! We're accepting applications from Quebec-based aspiring and emerging writers who are Black, Indigenous, or people of colour for the 2026 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship. qwf.org/call-for-app...

I don't know what to say about this, as I get ready to head to my 3rd zine tabling event in a month tomorrow, other than @sheerspite.bsky.social nails it. As both an attendee and organizer of zine, zinelibrary and rad events, there is so much for us to do still to make the days-of awesome for all.

this is a great write-up of actionable tips for organizing zinefests, and also captures some of what I've enjoyed about the zinefests I've been part of. zine-centric fairs have absolutely been my best experiences as an author & creator.

Every zine fest is a miracle and a labour of love, but here are some things that I have experienced that make for a zine fair that is especially nice to table at: sheerspite.ca/five-things-...

Nous y serons avec Archives Révolutionnaires, Éd. Raison en Révolte (PCR), M Éditeur, Fernwood Publ., Éditions Collectives, Natacha Novem, Alternative socialiste, Kersplebedeb, The Breach, Étoile du Nord. Aujourd'hui 5 octobre. 12h - 18h. Grand atelier du Bâtiment 7 (1900 rue le Ber, Montréal)

art is a vehicle of fearlessness— your effort to make comics + actually making them would ideally make you closer, more familiar with the world. and because comics are labour, and labour is a uniting force, i don't see a meaningful categorical difference between myself and the artists i admire.

comics is labour so subject to issues of labour, taking yourself seriously is underrated, any story can be good, things seem to work out best when genre is less a setting/collection of memetic tropes but instead the poetry by which emotional, otherwise unexpressable experiences are represented

Added a lot of neat zines to my to-read list thanks to @sheerspite.bsky.social's great page of free zines & resources for making+printing zines: sheerspite.ca/home/about/z...

new in disto! "If You Don't Like The Game, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production", by Marie Leblanc Flanagan, explores video game labour practices through the story of three friends who decide to start a worker co-op together. sheerspite.ca/product/if-y...

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

recently paused submissions for the press and distro because i am pretty maxed out and also? i already stock 87 print zines and 37 digital zines and i feel like that's plenty. you may buy some if you like sheerspite.ca/shop/

love love to see friend / client @invisibooks.bsky.social here making the case for the role small presses play in making writing careers (if not piles of money)

thrilled to be distributing Scissors PHL, a thoughtful, political, gorgeously made zine by and for QTBIPOC dykes! sheerspite.ca/product/scis...

FUCK THIS.

Ending home mail delivery is an acute attack on entrepreneurs, freelancers and gig workers who work from home. We need mail services at home when we work from home and operate businesses from home!

Call for contributions to my next curated zine: 
“Politicians Won’t Fix This: Friendly Anarchist Tips for Breaking Free of the Liberal Box”
 Length: prose, approx. 75 to 250 words
Due: by or before Oct 1
Email: cbmilstein [at] yahoo Full “call” @cindymilstein IG or kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

Devastated to hear that Bluestockings is closing. They will be missed. bluestockings.com

You don't have to do things perfectly or happily today. You can also do them out of spite!

Big Elizabeth Taylor energy.

available now, in print and digital with all $ going to its author: "Gaza Calling: Will the World Pick Up?", a zine collecting poetry and prose by Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a 19-year-old Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza. sheerspite.ca/product/gaza... sheerspite.ca/product/gaza...

The trouble with tiny zines is uh, they're fun, and you want to read and make more of them. Now I just need some zine friends. (This is an assortment I'm offering at a non-zine-specific shindig coming up. They are mostly by other people, a few are mine.)

New in stock! 4 issues of GREEBO an alternative queer zine celebrating music, art, literature and culture. 🩻 penfightdistro.com/product-tag/... #diyzines

coming this fall! Cesario Lavery's Der Eydes is a lively story of Montréal past and present, the ways they intertwine, and of Jewish diaspora and resistance. We're re-releasing the out-of-print first 2 volumes, and sharing a brand-new 3rd volume of this gorgeous comic: www.ceelavery.com/der-eydes