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Addye Susnick
@addye.bsky.social
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Political Theory PhD Candidate at UBC, working on trans joy and also zines 🔆 disabled scholar, cat parent, anti-zionist Jew 🔆 often found selling books or making art 🔆 they/them
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Timeline is very bleak this am, so here's Tiana's reaction upon receiving a decrepit reusable shopping bag.
A tabby cat sits semi inside a bright green shopping bag. She is mouth wide open, yelling in excitement Tabby cat sits on a bright green shopping bag. She is inside one of the handles.
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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KIND branding *calories* broke something deep in my psyche this month
A granola bar labeled "kind fuel". It boasts being a "source of energy*" and the asterisk leads to "250 calories per 50 g bar"
September 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Happy foraging season to all who celebrate 🍐🍎 this is all from our neighborhood! And we're not done! Abundance!
A round wooden table covered in mason jars full of Apple butter and apple and pear sauce. Next to them there are 3 gallon bags full of chopped apples and a stack of Tupperware full of blackberries.
August 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Making friends on vacation
A small brown bird sits on a rock. It is surrounded by rocks, barnacles, seaweed, etc. A bright red starfish sprawled on gray rocks and green seaweed A gooshy purple starfish lounging on grey rocks and green and brown seaweed
August 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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My partner is a potter and just made us this perfect little snack dish, and I need to tell the internet abt it
A white hand holds up a pink, blue, and indigo bowl filled with a pink smoothie and granola. The bowl has various glazes and has a foot at the bottom. It's wiggly with a spiral indent A different angle of the same bowl. This side is paler with indigo coming up from the bottom
June 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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First attempt at sending mail art internationally was a success (recipient of this received it in one piece!), and I am literally begging people for an excuse to send more lol. Envelope below made from vintage Scientific American magazines, a copy machine, and *a lot* of packing tape
A white hand holds a decorative envelope. The main envelope is black and white with various space motifs. A hand cups the address, which is covered by a post it note. The return address is written on a rainbow rectangle (which matches the envelope lining, not pictured). Hula hoop and a giant pot for dying are visible in the background. Back of the envelope in the previous picture. It is black and white with a duplicated and cut up image or a galaxy, as well as the same hand from the front of the envelope holding a crystal cube.
May 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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This was such an effective review that I literally walked into my shift @spartacusbooks.net today and immediately purchased a copy! Super excited to read it
Book cover with red and blue background and black island covered in swords and whatnot. Title reads "Escape from Incel Island!" author Margaret Killjoy
April 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Committed so hard to the whole zine as a paper/chapter bit that I'm just making an ornate work of art at this point lol
2 pages of white paper with black handwriting. Each half page is bordered with green and pink embroidery (double threaded back stitch). On the upper left of the top page, the words "pulling on threads" are embroidered in orange, pink, and green back stitch respectively. The title embroidery is attached to the main page with orange blanket stitch.
April 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Today's book selection theme was "books people at a Dean Spade event might want," and I have never been more prepared for a tabling event. Thanks to @deanspade.bsky.social for a great discussion! (PS we sold 40 copies of the new book! Very excited to read it)
March 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Going through boxes of old magazines and found this gem from Oct. 1986 Scientific American.
Drawing of a slightly open book with an American flag on the cover and burning matches inside instead of pages. Large black text "censorship in a free society. It's a bad match." anyway typing this alt text made me cry lol
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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WPSA paper/zine in progress. It may not be my most academically rigorous conference paper, but it's definitely my paper with the most talking dinosaurs, and that counts for something. Aiming
Low-key aiming for weirdest paper at the conference 🤙
White paper with black handwriting and assorted decorative pictures. Writing includes the heading "what's a zine?" in blue and images include a picture of a dinosaur with a speech bubble Yellow paper with black handwriting besides the word "assemblage?" written in purple. There are doodles of dots and two cut out photos of birds in flight. This image started as a footnote.
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Curry pics to cleanse the feed a lil bit
An brown, black, orange tinted tabby cat states down the camera An orange and black tabby cat photographed from behind. She looks over her shoulder in search of more pets
March 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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^this! Doodle representation of my brain for weeks on end
Black and white drawing on a small, folded piece of paper. Text reads "I want a different world but not like this!" over cartoon flames rising from the bottom of the page
March 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Once again thinking about her (this tree)
A Christmas tree in the hoop of a basketball hope
March 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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The Doom feels big and suffocating, so here's a zine I made a while back that I've been rereading lately to feel more grounded
Small rectangle of paper with blue and purple swirly background. Words cut from magazines read "an ode to my life and the variety of ways I have been loved" Blue and purple background with black circular mesh in lower left corner and black spiky shape in upper right corner. Text cut from magazines reads "psychologically, emotionally and physically--we were wiped out. It's just this life? Is heavy. How could anyone home all of it & not melt" Blue and purple background with spiky black shape in upper left corner. Yellow, light red, and deep red paper form a mountain range type shape along the right side. Against the blue background, cut out text reads "I'm grateful for a sound that pulls me out of myself, Crying once, then laughing, until the laughing is more like a language. Trans people in a supportive and joyful atmosphere--full of "gossiping, teasing, and strategizing." My heart wells up full." Along the right side atop the yellow paper, cut out text reads "life also has a lighter side" Blue background. There's an orange cut out shape with yellow and blue clouds in the upper left corner and a black rounded spiky shape in the upper right corner. Along the bottom there is a grey rocky type texture torn into the shape of a mountain kind of. Cut out text against the blue background reads "in caring for and celebrating trans people I feel happily small, contingent, and held, by what I can't say, short of everything." Cut out text on the grey at the bottom reads "it makes me happy to know that we exist together at the same time" Cut out text in the upper right reads "there is no choosing between caring and activism"
March 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Day 2: scattered
A white hand holds a small, square notebook with white paper. The pave is covered in scribbles. Breaks in the scribbles spell out "scattered"
March 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Illustrating a word or phrase that I'm feeling everyday-ish until I run out of pages in this tiny book, making a thread to hold myself slightly accountable. Day 1: tired
A white hand holds open a small, square notebook. The page is fully covered in lines of fine script repeating short phrases with no spaces. Across the middle in bold, dripping bubble letters it reads "tired." cursive lines in order (putting phrase once, repeated to end of page in image) : Sad droopy rundown heavy How will it end when will it end Nobody can carry it all so why do I try My chest is tight my heart is tired Droopy heavy When will it end how will it end Too much to hold Tight chest heavy heart Sad droopy Everything feels heavy I can't I won't I must Sad angry Tight chest heavy heart How will it end when will it end Too much Sad heavy droopy Why Tight chest heavy heart We can't we must Sad heavy droopy Fuck
March 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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thinking about how cool it is that this is how I've been doing my dissertation work on writing&art* days as spring approaches

*the art is part of the dissertation; my chapter on zines is a zine
A white person in their late 20s wears a green fluffy scarf, brown sweater, mismatched colorful socks, and headphones. They are seated on their front stoop in front of a typewriter, which is set on a green metal table. Laptop, typewriter, books, and art supplies scattered across a grey ottoman and blue rug. Behind them is a fireplace with a TV on the hearth. To the left, there is a bookcase with plants hanging from it and a spinning wheel set in front of it
March 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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More doodle vibes, from yesterday
Black and white drawing on a folded piece of printer paper. Flames rise from the bottom of the page. Down the center it reads "I want a different world but not like this!" Black and white scribble drawing on folded printer paper. There is an open mouth at the center surrounded by the words "make it stop!"
March 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Today's doodles are an accidental Vibe
A notebook page with black scribbled doodles and green post its covering my actual notes. Doodles include the phrases "the Horrors," "I've seen too much," "make it stop," "help," and "I can't look away!" the pictures include a little guy with a big, bloodshot eye, and something that looks kind of like a bell and a jellyfish had a baby
March 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Made stickers to cope with The Horrors lol, all free @spartacusbooks.net
3 black and white stickers spread on a floral blanket. The top sticker has a picture of Luigi from Mario games and reads "free him." the second reads "I'm a transsexual american & I'm not okay." the third reads "I'm American & I'm not okay"
February 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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47 years later, the struggle continues
February 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Working with a 52 y/o anarchist collective infoshop is fun bc sometimes you're sorting empty folders and find original documents from past resistance movements
February 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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looking for 1-3 test readers today for the text from a zine I'm trying to finish about learning from nazi-era resistance media strategies. Just looking for typos, confusing language, etc., not major edits. bonus teaser spread from current draft (it's not all this dark, i promise)!
February 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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New addition to my Thursday morning soundtrack @spartacusbooks.net, Each Machine by @carolynkendrick.bsky.social (via @alexsteed.bsky.social 's zine label) 🎶
February 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM