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...and Still Keep In Touch With Your Friends
With a strategy for maintaining your relationships outside the confines of the internet, this little zine is part personal reflection on the merits of unplugging and part instruction manual for successfully extricating yourself from the ever-more-nightmarish world of social media. Author Sylvia Friday reflects on the uses of social media, and offers a critique of the ways that social media (especially for artists) has reduced art to a vacuous process of the capitalist cult of productivity. Friday calls for us to embrace snail mail and the beauty of ink and paper as a way to slow down, be creative in new and different ways, and engage more meaningfully with our friends through the process of writing physical letters on actual pieces of paper.
Zine / pamphlet. Published by Microcosm!
Imagine being the kid of a trauma therapist and bestselling mental health author. The pressure's on, right? Dr. Faith's son, Samm, rises to the challenge admirably, sharing his young life's worth of valuable lessons in perhaps the most important life skill that there is: non-jerkitude. In a day and age when being an absolute dick to the people around you is rewarded, it's easy to forget that kindness—or even just non-mean-ness—is totally possible. For teens and adults!
Earth Guardians Youth Director and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez shows us how his music feeds his environmental activism and vice versa. At the early age of six, Martinez began speaking around the world and now is a nineteen-year-old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful voice on the front lines of a global youth-led environmental movement. Martinez visualizes a future that allows us to direct our anger, fear, and passion toward creating change. Because, at the end of the day, we all have a part to play.(This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear.)
Zine / pamphlet. Published by Microcosm!
Let's Talk About Your Uterus: Body Conscious Birth Control
This thorough and informative zine gives a responsible walkthrough of fam—fertility awareness method. Fam teaches menstruators to use fertility signs as a highly accurate form of birth control (more accurate than condoms when used correctly!). Let's talk about your uterus: body conscious birth control is such a great resource about this empowering topic of reclaiming fertility, and is complete with helpful diagrams and drawings!
Zine, published by Microcosm
This gentle nature memoir with an anti-capitalist perspective will soothe you, make you think, and make you want to get up and go for a walk in the forest. The current trend in nature writing memoirs shows nature as a tool for healing grief and trauma; understandable, but naturalist Emma Alice Johnson thoughtfully challenges the idea that nature's primary value is as a healer/therapist or any kind of resource for us to exploit. Instead of a transactional and capitalist and one-sided relationship, she approaches nature as something that makes us part of it rather than the other way around; we aren't separate at all, and it's there with us whether or not we need anything from it.
THE BORDERS ISSUE
In the Borders edition, we seek to explore the complex ontology, politics, and implementation of borders in Appalachia and beyond, focusing on how they influence conservation practices, identity formation, and social ecologies.
Zine, published by Microcosm
A full-throated celebration of the heyday of pulp horror moviemaking, featuring a must-watch checklist of gory and glorious creations by women writers and directors. Emma Alice Johnson directs her critical acumen and fan's enthusiasm on her favorite era of scary movies, when women behind the lens and onscreen brought a unique, (sometimes inadvertently) feminist approach to horror, subverting familiar tropes and developing unique stories. Complete with helpful hints about where to find these flicks, this zine will have you diving into the wild world of '80s horror, from Assault of the Killer Bimbos to Zombie High.
Zine / Pamphlet. Published by Microcosm!
A 2017 study out of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute found that about 20% of autistic youth have at least one encounter with police before the age of 21, and that 75% of adults with autism have had at least one encounter, with 53% of autistic adults reporting four or more run-ins. In this zine, you'll hear from folks who've been confronted, harassed, beaten, and brutalized by the boys in blue from all over the world for no reason other than their brain working differently. These stories are not easy to hear, but for neurodiverse folks, or those who love a neurodiverse person, they may offer warning and wisdom that may help you to avoid finding yourself in a situation like the ones described in this zine.
Burnout is a topic on everyone's mind since the pandemonium hit in March 2020. But what about autistic burnout? It's a real thing, caused by the demands of trying to navigate a world not built for you, and autistic and neurodivergent adults have been experiencing it for a long, long time. This collection of first-hand writing is about what burnout feels like, where it comes from, and what to do about it. Features a piece by Burnout co-author Amelia Nagoski, along with series regulars like Eliot Daughtry, Partly Robot, and Joe Biel, and some striking new voices.
Zine published by Microcosm
Mutual aid has received more attention as a radical tactic lately, especially in the wake of the uprisings and protest movements that took the world by storm in 2020. But what does it look like in practice, and what can it mean for neurodivergent folks—who often have different ways of navigating social relationships than neurotypical people do? Featuring contributions from series regulars Eliot Daughtry, Partly Robot, and Microcosm's own Joe Biel, this latest Neurodivergent Pride zine explores how to communicate with and support each other to build the kind of world we'd really like to be a part of. As Joe writes, "it’s not about repairing every misstep so much as it is about the process of transforming ourselves to proceed in a more informed manner moving forward." Let's proceed together, with this zine's help!
For neurodiverse folks, it's a rare thing to have only one diagnosis (or misdiagnosis) at a time—and if we do, it means our doctors are probably missing something. We have a lot of layers, and so many conditions and hurts go hand-in-hand, compounding and leading to each other. Our brain wiring doesn't exist in a vacuum. As Eliot Daughtry writes in his excellently clarifying contribution, "Basic research into statistics on how often the autistic population is affected by conditions like anxiety, sensory processing issues, and learning differences, started to yield some surprising numbers." He includes illustrated charts of common groupings, aka "comorbidities"—including conditions that can be categorized as neurological, psychological, physiological, learning differences, genetics. Also in this issue, Joe Biel talks about getting neurofeedback and navigating the healthcare system, as well as strangers assuming he is homeless.