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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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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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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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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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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
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new in disto! "If You Don't Like The Game, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production", by Marie Leblanc Flanagan, explores video game labour practices through the story of three friends who decide to start a worker co-op together.
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The cover of the zine "If You Don't Like The Game, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production", by Marie Leblanc Flanagan. Behind the zine are a bunch of little creatures with speech bubbles saying things like "union?", "co-op", "so tired" and "four-day work week", from the back cover of the zine, along with a speech bubble that says "we're world designers, why can't we design a world we'd want to live in?"
October 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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recently paused submissions for the press and distro because i am pretty maxed out and also? i already stock 87 print zines and 37 digital zines and i feel like that's plenty. you may buy some if you like

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a vast, colourful array of zines, screenshotted from sheerspite.ca
September 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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thrilled to be distributing Scissors PHL, a thoughtful, political, gorgeously made zine by and for QTBIPOC dykes!

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the cover images of four issues of Scissors zine are shown against a blue-green gradient background, with a border of scissor illustrations. the covers vary aesthetically from victorian valentine to windows 95 glitch.
September 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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available now, in print and digital with all $ going to its author:

"Gaza Calling: Will the World Pick Up?", a zine collecting poetry and prose by Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a 19-year-old Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza.

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Photo of the zine "Gaza Calling: Will the World Pick Up?", by Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi. The cover, printed on bright pink cardstock, has an illustration of a young woman in a dark hijab looking thoughtfully out a window at a garden. Beside the photo of the zine is a quote by its author: "Every word in this zine carries our hearts, our grief, and our defiance."
September 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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coming this fall!

Cesario Lavery's Der Eydes is a lively story of Montréal past and present, the ways they intertwine, and of Jewish diaspora and resistance.

We're re-releasing the out-of-print first 2 volumes, and sharing a brand-new 3rd volume of this gorgeous comic:
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coming fall 2025: Der Eydes, reissue of vol. 1 + 2, new vol. 3, with images of the covers of vol 1. (which depicts a white Jewish man with an array of small objects, including jacks and keys, in the background. Vol. 2 is an image of a banner with a Yiddish slogan, with sheets of paper blowing in the background. Vol. 3's cover is yet to be revealed.
September 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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new in distro:
My God Is Disabled: Exploring Deities from the Phillippines Through the Lens of Disability Justice

Ash writes beautifully on "the intersections of precolonial views of different body/minds & how that intersects with current disability justice movements"
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A collage of images of three zines against a blue-green gradient background. In the foreground is "My God Is Disabled", whose cover image is of a home framed by tall, lush trees. In the background are "Uninspirational", whose cover illustration is of hand-drawn squiggly lines resembling a topographical map, and "Laklakan", which as a colourful cover illustration of a butterfly and a boat.
September 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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New in distro: 2 new additions to the @cbmilstein.bsky.social collection! Free to download, or have a copy mailed to you for $0-1 + shipping.

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An image of a pile of colouful anarchist zines: the two mentioned in the post, plus "Ritual As Resistance", "Anarchist Compass", "Don't Just Do Nothing To Counter Fascism", and "Shades of Love". They are all printed in black on coloured paper with striking black and white cover art.
September 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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new in distro: a flippy double book (my favourite format!)

It’s Too Late. Do It Anyway! A Book about Being a Cultural Worker in the Apocalypse + a Hologram Starter Kit, by Cassie Thornton & Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova
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The two covers of "It's Too Late: A Book About Being A Cultural Worker in the Apocalypse" and "Do It Anyway! A Hologram Starter Kit" Photo of "Do It Anyway" held open to a page titled "How to Start a Hologram", in a white hand against a brick wall Photo of "It's Too Late" held open to a page that shows images of a Zoom call and text about The Hologram, printed in white on black, with bubbles of colourful text, in a white hand against a brick wall "It's Too Late // Do It Anyway!" held so its spine faces the viewer, in a white hand against a brick wall
September 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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New in distro: Two beautiful illustrated poetry collections from Sondos A. Al-Saqqa, a Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza.

They're available on a sliding scale in both print and digital formats, with 100% of sales going to the author.
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Two zines, "Aerie Tales" and "The Heart's Gaze", both by Sondos A. Al-Saqqa. "Aerie Tales" is printed on pink paper, with an illustration of a castle rising up out of the pages of the book, against a night sky. "The Heart's Gaze" is printed on cream-coloured paper, with a round abstract ink illustration.
September 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Making a zine about/of clipart and am interested in talking to any Clipart Experts (broadly construed) that you can think of who, for ex.
- have written about clip art
- make art with it
- collect it
- did pre-digital paste-up layout
- created 80s MacPaint era clipart
- just have thoughts about it
graphic reading "hello, please talk to me about clipart". against a blue-green gradient background, there are images primarily from the early digital era of clipart, and some from the traditional art era, depicting an elephant on a stand, a person filming with a big camcorder, a pack of cigarettes, an alien, a humanoid apple using a computer, and graphics reading "dairy month", "we wuv u" and "bring your bible to lunch"
August 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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shipping update:

- lettermail shipping (cheap + slow) is BACK, within "canada" only
- like most small businesses in so-called canada, i'm no longer shipping to the U.S., due to tariffs
- i am in the process of figuring out having a limited selection of zines printed in and shipped from the "u.s."
good news: lettermail shipping throughout "canada" is back. bad news: i no longer ship to the "us". upcoming news: i hope to soon have the option to ship select zines from the "us". the text is shown alongside an image of a mailbox surrounded by flowers and the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake (here also surrounded by flowers)
August 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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new in distro, available in print and PDF:

from beloved friend, self-described recovering addict and drug nerd Imogen Reid, a story of recovery that fiercely opposes simplistic narratives of sobriety that demonize people who use. 
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Two zines, "What the fuck is recovery: a zine about pain, addiction, recovery", and "What the fuck is Fentanyl?", both by Imogen Reid. Both zines are printed on white paper with collaged black and white images. Imogen Reid's zine "What the Fuck is Recovery" is shown held open to its first page, against a brick wall. The inside cover shows a print of a hand holding a cigarette, with the text "All the art in here was made in the weeks and months after going cold turkey of methamphetamine"
August 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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new in distro:

Amanda's Guide to Making Friends, "A zine and workbook about how to make friends and the meaning of friendship, which can help you figure out what kind of friends and friendships you want and what you can offer."

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"Amanda's Guide to Making Friends", with a cover printed on bright orange paper. The cover illustration comes from Rupert Bear comic, and shows a bear with a sweater and plaid trousers, and a black cat, both looking out over a forest. Beside the image of the zine, there is a drawing of two creatures looking at each other, which comes from the zine's back cover.
August 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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new in distro:

Trans Feminist Self Help Zine Volume 0, on “ways in which the medical-industrial complex can control, steal, and ultimately destroy trans people’s bodies, body image, and comfortable embodiments.”
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Trans Feminist Self Help Zine Volume 0, by Cat Haines. The cover, printed on deep red paper made out of a folder, shows a black and white image of a femme person lying on a bed, holding a mirror up in front of her crotch.
August 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Currently up to $884.65 that we've been able to move to Shahd in Gaza via sales of her beautiful zine:
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The writing of Shahd Alnaami, Gaza 2024 zine, with an illustration of a woman wearing a tatreez embroidered dress and a hijab, standing before a fountain, buildings, and palm trees
August 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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new in distro:

"A step-by-step guide to Queer cruising etiquette with a blend of history, humor, and personal stories. From checking into a bathhouse, to consent in a darkroom, @herreraimages.bsky.social shares tips for first-timers and rusty old-timers."
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a paperback book with a simple pink cover, with black text reading "(analog) CRUISING), Leo Herrera". The image of the book is placed against a background of a blue-green gradient with text from a page of the book semi legible behind it.
August 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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After an 11-year hiatus, @theghostpine.bsky.social has put out a new zine!

Memories of growing up in suburban Ottawa and discovering coffee and punk as a teenager, Jeff’s current life in rural Nova Scotia, exchanging letters with friends across decades.

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Ghost Pine, a quarter-letter sized zine, whose cover image shows an old illustration of two people in dresses and big hats perusing books under a sign that reads "All the very latest novels." The zine is shown against a blue-green gradient background, with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake. Text along the sides of the image reads "all stories true", a slogan that has appeared on other issues of Ghost Pine
August 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I have been periodically remembering and laughing about this joke for almost a decade now.
Screenshot of a tweet reading "baffling that anarchists aren't winning despite having a complete monopoly on zine making"
August 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Imogen Reid writes as a recovering drug addict, someone who has lost friends to fentanyl and seen the crisis unfold from the inside.

In this zine, she places fentanyl into its cultural, historical, and scientific context, exploring both its mythology and realities.
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The zine "What the Fuck is Fentanyl", by Imogen Reid. The cover has a large image of a white woman who looks tired but defiant and glamorous, with the zine's title overlaid across her beehive hairdo. the zine is placed across a blue-green gradient background with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake, and a collage of the zine title repeated over and over.
August 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Not every zine enjoyer is entiiiiiiiiiiirely cis and neurotypical, so I feel like you might enjoy these zines from Lex Kartanė, a trans, autistic, and disabled artist, illustrator, and zine maker.

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A collage showing the covers of the four zines mentioned in the post, all of which are printed in black ink on white paper. "Dog in the Hospital" shows a dog standing in front of a hospital building looking back at the viewer, with a background of polka dots. The survival toolkit has an abstract design of concentric shapes. Autistic burnout has a design that resembles overlapping leaves, and demon has a dark scribbly background. The zines are shown against a blue-green gradient with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake.
August 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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new in distro: "Hope Chest: A resource for non-flat top surgery, radical reduction, FTN, and non-binary top surgery"

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The cover of "Hope Chest: A resource for non-flat top surgery, radical reduction, FTN, and non-binary top surgery", with an image of a butterfly and a flower, which is repeated in the background of the image "Hope Chest: A resource for non-flat top surgery, radical reduction, FTN, and non-binary top surgery", open to its introductory page, which includes a list of questions people can consider about surgey, and illustrations of people with a wide range of bodies.
July 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM