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At last weekend’s Paper Plains Zine Fest, I realized just how much the people are craving a club. (Like, a social organization. Not a sandwich. But club sandwiches are pretty great, too!) For almost 3 years now, I’ve been facilitating the Kansas City Zine Club, bringing together a bunch of DIY weirdos (posi) to share zines, collaborate, and co-work on the second Tuesday of every month. A KC Zine Club meeting always gets me inspired, and the compzines we’ve collaborated on together are so silly and special. I look forward to our meetings every month. It’s just super invigorating to be in a room full of people who are passionate about […]

Ugh, yikes. Here we go again: for the third time this month, I’m sitting down to try and write this blog post. And just like every other time, every failed attempt, I’m ending up here with a major case of writer’s block. The blinking cursor taps like impatient fingers against the WYSIWYG editor box as I delete all the intro sentences I’ve already written. Why is this so hard? Having writer’s block over this type of post feels extremely fucking silly. Welcome to a blog post that is simply a list of projects I’ve got going on, beyond my usual writing zines + planning KC Zine Con + producing videos. I […]

Today’s post is a tutorial on making a mini zine holder out of paper, inspired by a Casio watch’s packaging. As zine fest season approaches and we all prepare to display our wares, print and fold your own DIY mini zine holder, and then share this with all your mini zine-making friends who could use a cheap, easy way to put their zines on display.

Every month, for over a year now, I’ve written a newsletter-style perzine that I share with subscribers, penpals, and friends. Creating each issue has become one of my favorite monthly rituals, and I’ve expanded the practice into creating a monthly minizine, too.

So, music zines. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure that you have noticed the trend of folks collecting physical media. I’m talking books and dvds and music — we’re fighting back against the idea that we will own nothing in a streaming-filled world. In a time when corporations will alter our favorite books, or disappear whole series with just the click of a button, we are creating our own media libraries impervious to the whims of capital. It’s protection from enshittification. I have been collecting physical media for years and years and years now, ever since I was a kid with a boombox and allowance money to spend […]