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This zine is just a little journal documenting my attempts to read more lesbian poetry. While I love poetry and have read a lot by various queer artists, I really hadn’t made a concerted effort to read specifically lesbian poetry until this year. This first volume ended up being mostly writers I was already familiar with (I had already read Chrystos and Mary Oliver collections, and had read individual poems or essays by the rest) but I’m hoping to find new authors next.

This was supposed to be published in April for national poetry month but it turns out describing poetry is really hard, so my apologies if I didn’t quite get it right.

Like many of my zines this is available as a free printable on my ko-fi.

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Spent the afternoon getting these zines from @vampfemmezines print, cut, folded, and into my collection/library. Haven't gotten to read all of them yet but the ones I did read I really loved! If you've got color printing you're in for a treat!

For whatever reason I was having trouble printing these out with Firefox but I switched to Chromium (degoogled Chrome) and it did just fine.

All of these are pay-what-you-want including free!

Check them out here!

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A deeply unserious and very quick 16 page zine of lesbian vanity plate ideas, inspired by the hours spent driving back and forth to Philadelphia

This is available as a free printable on my ko-fi along with a bunch of other zines

Resemblance to any real vanity plates is entirely coincidental, and many of these are inspired by buttons at the Lesbian Herstory Archives

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Little process shots for the shirt I made for Philly Dyke March! I’m a total newbie to linocuts and this was the first one I made on fabric, tons of lessons learned but I loved it

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You know this one is hot off the presses because I still have lesbian flag colored marker on my hands

This is a little perzine about being closeted in the workplace while teaching queer students, something that's been on my mind a lot recently. It's sort of a meditation on visibility, responsibility, and solidarity in the current climate. Like many of my other zines, it is available as a free printable on my ko-fi

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There was a formatting error in my High Femme Holy Day zine that I just fixed—let’s print and fold a new one together!

Using this pretty lavender paper makes it look like the vintage zines I remember from the archives🖤

You can find this zine and several others as completely free printables on my ko-fi.

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This little minor event has been weighing on my thoughts recently, thought l'd make a zine to process and move on! "High femme holy day" has been so memed and removed from context I thought it'd be worth revisiting the sweet and funny scene and talking about why valentine's day is so special to myself and many other femme4butches.

While this zine takes the jumping off point of someone saying something I disagree with, this isn't really a call out. l've blacked out in front of a crowd on a microphone and said some dumb shit too. But I said it in the zine and I'll say it again: there is no high femme holy holiday without butches

This zine is available as a free printable on my ko-fi (with fixed formatting!)

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Never too early for planning next years’ Halloween costumes! This is my 101 Butch-Femme couples’ costume ideas zine.

This zine, along with several other lesbian zines, is available as a printable completely free on my ko-fi.

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One of my most recent zines, all about the “mean lesbian” stereotype.

This zine, along with many others, is available as a free printable on my ko-fi.

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Let’s print, fold, and bind my I Want a Dyke for President zine tribute to the incredible Zoe Leonard!

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Let’s print and fold one of my free zine printables, 30 Zine Ideas for Lesbian Zine Makers.

Tools used: pdf, paper, printer&ink, cutting matt, craft blade, bone folder

Steps:

Download the PDF on ko-fi for free and print the zine. The zine is entirely in black and white, but you can easily change up the look and feel of the zine by printing on colorful paper!

Fold the zine into eight rectangles (once long-ways, then twice short-ways.) I’m using a bone-folder in the video, which is a tool used to get crisp folds in your paper.

Unfold the paper to lay flat and trim along the center line, but only along the middle two folds. I’m using a craft blade in the video, but scissors will also work.

Fold the zine: Fold in half long-ways, then push the ends together. Find the cover page and make sure it is on the outside.

Voila! Finished 8 page zine

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Thoughts on Stone Lesbians? 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎❤️‍🔥❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝

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Goth Femme Dyke is my wordiest zine to date, in which I discuss being both a goth and a femme lesbian and the impacts of those subcultures on my understanding of style, fetishization, gender, stereotypes, romance, and more.

You can find this zine as a free printable on my ko-fi, alongside several other free lesbian zines.

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Ever wondered how to make a flexagon? Here’s how I made the butch4femme4femme4butch4… flexagon

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Butch4Femme4Femme4Butch4Butch Flexagon

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Button zine of Mary Oliver’s “I Did Think, Let’s Go About This Slowly” poem from the collection Felicity. I made this right before my anniversary with my butch and I’m so pleased with how it came out.

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My favorite buttons at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, volumes 1-5

Each zine has tons of cool lesbian buttons to explore. These zines are available as free printables on my ko-fi. If you like them, consider sending a couple of bucks over to the good folks at the Lesbian Herstory Archives.