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Hey, Kansas City! Remember back in 2020, when I signed up to purchase 26 weeks worth of farm-fresh veggies grown by refugee immigrants as part of the New Roots for Refugees Farm Share program? I blogged about that experience with the hope that it would be a useful resource for Kansas Citians interested in supporting local farmers. The veggies were tasty, and despite only blogging thru August 2020, I signed up for a Farm Share again in 2021 and 2022. But this year, I decided to switch it up and subscribe to a different CSA program. Introducing Bread and Roses: a regenerative farm on KC’s eastside. Why make the switch? Well, […]

Okay, so I know it’s a big zinester cliche to start a zine (or in this case a blog) with some variation of an apology, a “sorry for taking so long to get this out into the world”, but here we are. I’ve got a backlog of zines I need to post and write about, and a backlog of zines I’ve already posted on the ‘Gram but needed to share here. So I’m tackling the latter now, and the former with once-weekly reviews, bare minimum. (On the @zinereviews Instagram… the Zine Review blogs will remain monthly roundups.) Maybe if I post that promise here, in public, I will hold myself accountable […]

As a witchy zinester, my ears always perk up when I learn about magic, tarot, or spellwork zines. I’ve read a couple lately that I’d love to share with you. Here is Twenty Two Zines tarot series, and “Many Gods, No Masters” by Elliott Stewart. And while we’re talking witchy zines, maybe you’d like to pick up some of mine? “Sigils for Self Care” and “The Witchy Zinesters Book of Spells” are my bestselling mini-zines about the craft.

Once you’ve been the zine scene for a while, you’re bound to make a mini-zine, and then you’re bound to show other folks how to make one. There is something a lil’ cool and lil’ magical about making a six-page booklet outta a single sheet of paper with just a couple folds and a snip. So here is my *official* mini-zine tutorial.

I checked my P.O. Box and these cool zines turned up! So here are some reviews: introducing the high-contrast body horror of “PYXIS” by Jonas Campe, the cat fanzine “Taco Sophia” by Vanessa Capshaw, and volume 4 of the “Life Next Door” compzine, compiled by artist Karine Rupp-Stanko.