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sheer spite press
@sheerspite.bsky.social
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small press + zine distro!
Tiohtià:ke // Montréal
transsexual-run // anti-ableist // pro-🇵🇸
https://sheerspite.ca/
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · Jan 28
Some of the dream topics I'd love for sheer spite to be able to publish work about: please pitch me at lee@sheerspite.ca!
Some dream topics I’d especially like to publish work about: - Memoirs and other writing by elders, especially but not exclusively 2SLGBTQ+ and/or disabled elders and people with histories of resistance, organizing, and activism. - Reprints and anthologies of older zines, esp centering around queerness, transness, disability, fat liberation, anti-racism, and organizing. - Friendship & how to place it closer to the centre of life. What it looks like to plan deeply and intertwine lives with your friends. - Reflections on communal & non-normative living arrangements like communes, cohousing, co-ops, land projects, punk houses, squats, etc, other non-Eurocentric and/or non-heteronormative ways of setting up a home and a life. - Special Topics In Organizing + Counterculture: 1960s/70s radical leftist bank robberies, informants in social movements, cross-movement solidarity work - Food, especially autobiographical, political, or reflective writing centring on food and eating and their place in life, especially in connection with any of the other topics on this list. - Survival and preparedness from an anti-individualist, anti-ableist perspective - Complicated and messy perspectives on disability, body difference, fatness, Madness, plurality, sickness, etc - Death & end of life care & planning - Experiences of incarceration and other forms of institutionalization - Quakerism!
sheerspite.bsky.social
Clipart Crypt is an extremely indulgent fanzine celebrating clipart, featuring interviews with clipart experts and aficionados (such as @kwooten.bsky.social on feminist clipart), and collages of the strangest and most beautiful vintage clipart I could find.
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The cover of Clipart Crypt, which is risograph printed in red ink on bright yellow paper, with images of a filing cabinet on fire surrounded by flowers, a border with suns and moons, and a weird humanoid frog. Clipart Crypt zine, open to its first page. The cover is riso printed in red ink on yellow paper; the interior pages are blue on pink. The inside cover has a table of contents and the first page is entitled "sourcing and notes on theft", both are full of a chaotic array of old clipart. Clipart Crypt zine, open to an interior page. It is riso printed in blue ink on bubblegum pink paper and is full of a chaotic array of old clipart, including some creepy sea monsters and a baby chicken wearing a bonnet.
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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princessaggy.bsky.social
SPITE SPITE SPITE SPITE SPITE
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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qzap.bsky.social
So apparently a conservative "journalist" attended the ZLuC over this past weekend, attended and live-streamed sessions without consent, and is trying to intimidate and dox attendees.

Here's the organizers' statement:
www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/
Zine Librarians unConference 2025 | zinelibraries.info
www.zinelibraries.info
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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sleepytimetbear.bsky.social
I will say it till I kick it myself, but among the things I heard most after Mira passed was ‘I wish I had told her’. give the flowers & start the friendships now
amityf.bsky.social amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 6d
man, share the memories you have about your people now. don't wait; just, like make that a regular thing. tell them why they matter to you all the fucking time. and tell them beautifully, poetically, the way you would reminisce about them. because that beauty is important.
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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allisonanne.com
a change in my communication style about a decade ago, when a lot of things were shifting in my life, was to frequently, fluidly detail this kind of thing to folks. this year, i adopted a policy of thank you notes (largely by mail) for basically everything. connective tissue
amityf.bsky.social amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 6d
man, share the memories you have about your people now. don't wait; just, like make that a regular thing. tell them why they matter to you all the fucking time. and tell them beautifully, poetically, the way you would reminisce about them. because that beauty is important.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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tychebooks.bsky.social
Saw a thread on table displays the other day, & while I did reply to that directly, I thought it would be fun to do a thread on it, too. Learn from my mistakes!

(photo is from WWC 2025, photo credit: David Kotsibie / Persuasion Photo and Janis Isaman / Photos of People)
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Publisher with long brown hair standing behind the book table, laughing. She is surrounded by books at different heights on various types of shelving. Photo credit: David Kotsibie / Persuasion Photo and Janis Isaman / Photos of People
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
sheerspite.bsky.social
If you have any interest in trans history or zines this is a must-read. Gendertrash is both vitally important and an insanely fun read. I am so excited to have a paper copy I can hold and share and loan out and not get back and buy again!
littlepuss.net LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 10d
Today is the LAUNCH DAY for
‼️GENDERTRASH FROM HELL ‼️
The zine that redefined transsexual culture forever

THAT'S RIGHT: GENDERTRASH IS NOW LEGALLY AVAILABLE WITHOUT AGE RESTRICTIONS

Get it from our website, or from all good bookstores. You can even ask your library to order it!

💥📕💏🫦💥
Gendertrash From Hell - ALL-NEW — LittlePuss Press
Long-lost and all-new zines revealing the secret history of contemporary transgender culture
www.littlepuss.net
November 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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zinelibraries.bsky.social
If you're a zine fan who likes to send snail mail, we've got a treat for you—5 zine-themed postcards! We're raising funds for the BIPOC Travel Fund for future Zine Librarians unConferences @zineluc and you can help by ordering a set of 5 zines for just $15 (shipping within the U.S. included).
text reading "Buy a set of 5 zine-related postcards for $15 to support BIPOC zine librarians!" surrounded by five very cute and brightly colored postcards. They show a cat sitting on a stack of zines with text reading "Welcome to the zine zone"; two birds exchanging zines and text reading "zines are for everyone"; a meander-fold zines with instructions and drawings of various zoo animals; a person reading in a room with a cat, dog, and many zines; and cute possum making zines.
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
sheerspite.bsky.social
Honoured that "Making Friends With Zines" is nominated alongside some fantastic other works for one of Expozine's favourite English-language zines of 2024!

It's a tribute to ways people can find each other & make & sustain connections through zines, w many interviews!
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"Prix Expozine Awards", with an illustration of a goofy-looking Sphinxlike creature atop a stapler. It is holding a zine with a "cool S" on the cover, and the stapler reads "Gala 2024" Prix Expozine Awards 2024: English Zine - Making Friends With Zines - Why Have There Been No Great Women Eroticists - Steeping Candelabra - I Found You - Untitled - I Wouldn't Lie To You
October 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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m-riot.bsky.social
support my friends at brown recluse!!
sheerspite.bsky.social sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 21d
Brown Recluse zine distro is raising money to support their continued (amazing) work of supporting and sharing zines by writers and artists of colour. I want to live in a world with BRZD in it, don't you?

www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro...
Donate to Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future, organized by BROWN RECLUSE
Secure Brown Recluse Zine Distro's Future! We are seeking funds for the project to conti… BROWN RECLUSE needs your support for Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future
www.gofundme.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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sheerspite.bsky.social
Brown Recluse zine distro is raising money to support their continued (amazing) work of supporting and sharing zines by writers and artists of colour. I want to live in a world with BRZD in it, don't you?

www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro...
Donate to Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future, organized by BROWN RECLUSE
Secure Brown Recluse Zine Distro's Future! We are seeking funds for the project to conti… BROWN RECLUSE needs your support for Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future
www.gofundme.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
Brown Recluse zine distro is raising money to support their continued (amazing) work of supporting and sharing zines by writers and artists of colour. I want to live in a world with BRZD in it, don't you?

www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro...
Donate to Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future, organized by BROWN RECLUSE
Secure Brown Recluse Zine Distro's Future! We are seeking funds for the project to conti… BROWN RECLUSE needs your support for Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future
www.gofundme.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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greatlakesqueer.bsky.social
Call for trans zine recommendations: my Trans Studies students are going to be doing a unit on zines next month, and one activity we're doing is looking at as many physical zines as I can get my hands on. If you know of cool trans zines that ARE PURCHASABLE ON PAPER, please let me know!!!
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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tangledwilderness.bsky.social
Really sad to hear that @igd.bsky.social is shutting down. They have been an amazing resource.

itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/
IGD: 2015 – 2025
About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been...
itsgoingdown.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
sheerspite.bsky.social
here's my events for the rest of the year! come find me!

October 18:
Anarchist Bookfair (Montréal)

November 15-16:
Expozine (Montréal)

December 5-7:
City of Craft Small Zine + Paper Market (Toronto)
where's sheer spite? October 18: Anarchist Bookfair (Montréal) November 15-16: Expozine (Montréal) December 5-7: City of Craft Small Zine + Paper Market (Toronto)
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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sesmith.lol
I love student journalism so much and this is a fascinating project.
These UT Students Are Fed Up With Social Media. So They Revived a Newspaper From the Sixties.
“Instead of stalking our ex-boyfriends online, we started a newspaper.”
www.texasmonthly.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
I kicked in to support my friend's cool movie and you can too!
kahlillkasir.bsky.social Kahlil @kahlillkasir.bsky.social · Oct 14
The teaser trailer for By Time You See Me There Will Be Nothing Left, my directorial debut about a messy t4t serial killer couple, being a mentally ill cripple, and living in California in 2025, it’s a very depressing fucked up little movie and I can’t wait to show to yall (kickstarter below)
October 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
new in the distro: two zines from Sojourners for Justice Press, plus the workbook that accompanies the lovely book Let This Radicalize You!

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A montage of photos of three zines: "Let this radicalize you" has a black line drawing illustration of a group of three people holing signs and megaphones, and of several pairs of hands of various skin tones holding a heart decorated with a floral design. The Sojourners for Justice Press manifesto has a plain grey cover with the title in a border. The Mary Wilson book has a geometric design that evokes cross-stitch. The zines are shown against a blue-green gradient background with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake.
October 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
sheerspite.bsky.social
preordered this instantly and you should too!
littlepuss.net LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · Oct 10
NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press
"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin
www.littlepuss.net
October 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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sheydgarden.bsky.social
if you're curious about WHY every other occult horror movie is chock full of Hebrew-lettered diagrams, & also why this actually sucks, you can read my (citation-heavy) zine on the subject here ezrarose.itch.io/fyma-a-lesse...
October 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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kwooten.bsky.social
One magical part of being in the same job for almost 20 years, is that I hear about new books based on dissertation research I helped support. And sometimes they're literally magical (about Radical Witchery in the Southeast)! "For a Spell" by Jason Ezell uncpress.org/978146969044...
For a Spell
In the Southeastern United States of the late 1970s, a regional network of radical communal gay households formed in the face of rising New Right terror. Con...
uncpress.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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officialqwf.bsky.social
Calling all BIPOC writers and poets!

We're accepting applications from Quebec-based aspiring and emerging writers who are Black, Indigenous, or people of colour for the 2026 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship.

qwf.org/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: 2026 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship for Underrepresented Writers - Quebec Writers' Federation
The 2026 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship for Underrepresented Writers is accepting applications from emerging and aspiring writers and literary artists. This year’s mentorship will be in poetry with ment...
qwf.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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miloblue.bsky.social
I don't know what to say about this, as I get ready to head to my 3rd zine tabling event in a month tomorrow, other than @sheerspite.bsky.social nails it.

As both an attendee and organizer of zine, zinelibrary and rad events, there is so much for us to do still to make the days-of awesome for all.
October 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM