Maya Kosover sent me a bouquet of mini-zines, each one a little jewel-toned treat: there is her Audre Lorde zine, featuring a quote from Lorde dressed in pretty purple paint, “We Will Not Cancel Us” shares excerpts from adrienne marie brown’s book of the same name against a bed of resplendent florals, and “Skeleton Woman” illustrates reminders from Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.’s “Women Who Run with the Wolves”. But it is when Kosover is sharing her own words that I think her zines are strongest: my favorite of the bunch is “Murky and Lofty Intentions” a heavily-collaged zine that Kosover created during their Saturn Return “at the start of that confusing time, the first time in (their) life (they) experienced depression and grief in a way that completely consumed” them. The zine asks questions and offers up poetry like an offering to the chaos and confusion, a way of using art as a guidepost and road map thru the muck and bramble of life.