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Ladybeard
$2 A6 16p 10g
You may have heard of this zine already. Apparently it even has a facebook fan page! If we were on facebook, we would be fans, as it’s a very fine zine, about Maddy’s coming to grips with being a hirsute person in a female body. It tells the story of Maddy’s history of hairiness, the years of shame and concealment, laser hair removal and plucking, eventually deciding to let hair be hair and the analysis of gender that accompanied this decision. An excellent, succinct and well written story, ‘part coming out…, part testimony. My battle on the hair front has ended – now I’m writing a peace treaty’.
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Ladybeard #2: Transhairstorical
$2 A6 20p 12g
The first issue of Ladybeard was about coming to terms and making peace with being a hairy lady; this, the follow-up, is about tearing up that peace treating and declaring war on the gender paradigm. Bastian has embraced a new name, new identity and new way of viewing not just hair but gender altogether. Ladybeard #2 is a revolutionary call for the ‘need to make visible those other beards that have been erased from history, depilated into oblivion, yearned for, induced, born of artifice and set free after years of repression’. If that sentence alone isn’t enough to have your follicles tingling in defiance of the male, cis-gendered monopoly on beards (and other body hair), then wait til you read the rest of this!
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
$1 A7 48p 16g
An anonymous, mini zine whose narrative is made entirely from reproductions of text messages that recount the course of an affair… ‘This is a collection of text messages I received from my boss over the course of 3 months. His words and my story. Or is it the other way round?’
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Love Like Pop #6
$3 A6 50p 20g
Back in stock, hurrah! Rachael’s excellent long running (I know there haven’t been heaps of issues, but I believe she’s put them out over a fairly long period of time) perzine, thoughtful snippets about racism and music, work and travel and much more. Rachael packs a lot into her zines, and has a great cut n paste style. This is the kind of zine you’ll want to keep in your bag until it’s all dog eared and falling apart from love.
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Love Like Pop #8
$3 A6 32p 15g
Yes, excellent: a new issue of one of the most consistently, delightfully good zines to be made in Australia. This issue is particularly good. It contains meditations on deciding to stop keeping a diary, throwing away piles of unwanted possessions, re-evaluating what’s important, work, art, zines… ‘Meditative’ is the right word for this issue, actually. It made me want to play my guitar, and write another zine.
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March Eighteen
$2.50 A5 48p 47g
To make this zine, Jessie and Paul spent an entire day – from sunrise to sunset – in the Marrickville Metro shopping centre and recorded their experiences in notebooks and with cameras. The Metro is a ‘contested’ site, as they put it: a down market shopping centre that has been slated for redevelopment. “Aware of environmental, anti-capitalist, and ‘community’ activism, we attempted to shelve our concerns for the future, or the neighbourhood, and strive for an impossible impartiality.”
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Marrickville Pipes
$1 A6 32p 22g Temporarily sold out
A typological survey of the drainpipes in a small area of Marrickville, Sydney. Now, that may sound about as scintillating as, well, a book about pipes, but it’s really not as bonkers as it seems. This isn’t your average poorly conceived ‘art zine’. The photocopied photographs have a great tonal quality, and there’s no text except for a short dedication. When you consider the rapid rate of gentrification in Sydney’s inner-west, simple studies such as this take on a real importance.
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Metal Hearts
$2.40 A5 8p 6g
We often talk about the ambiguity of zines and how hard it is to pin them down with clear definitions of what they are and represent. This zine is an interesting example of this ambiguity. I don’t mean the subject matter, because it’s clearly about metal detectors. But is it?
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Motor City Kitty #16/Culture Slut #24
$3 A6 48p 32g
The flip side (or front side, depending on which way you look at it, of course) of a split with Amber’s Culture Slut. This is the first issue of Motor City Kitty that I had read, and it did not disappoint. Bri has a great style and her zine definitely falls into the same bag as ones such as Culture Slut, Telegram Ma’am, Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell and others that are loyal to cut n paste and feminism – no bad thing at all. Bri’s zine contains a story about how she discovered zines and feminism and why they are important to her, and a story about starting a band and playing Bikini Kill covers at a house party.
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Mutiny
FREE A5 16p 22g
Mutiny is a collectively edited zine from Sydney that documents local and international anarchistic ideas and actions. It’s inspirational both for its content and its editors’ dedication: an issue has been released every month for a little over the past three years. Mutiny is free, but hit ‘buy’ to add it to your cart. Use the ‘note to merchant’ option to specify if there are particular issues that you’d like.
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Nearly Healthy
$3 A6 80p 53g
I have to admit that part of my inspiration for writing this zine was reading an issue of Brainscan and thinking: you know, I just want to write a zine that’s really chunky that you can’t read in one five-minute sitting. Nearly Healthy is about some of my experience with depression and anxiety, work and art, wanting to change the world and feeling that it’s impossible, and the inevitable questions that all these things generate. To quote Luke’s review on Broken Pencil (July 14 2010): ‘For me this zine is a masterpiece. It is difficult, heartbreaking, beautiful, wonderful, personal, revealing, at times hopeful and at times bleak. This is a really substantial, serious and important work of art.’ – Emma
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Old Memory
$3 15x15cm 44p 43g
Following on from Village Ghosts zine (see elsewhere in this catalogue), Old Memory is a collage zine collecting images of ruins and quotes from various bibliographic sources to complement a series of short pieces of writing in which the author remembers some of the rooms that he grew up in. The tone, like Village Ghosts and the author’s other zine A Fresh Trail of Paper, is melancholy and weighted with a sense of loss and nostalgia, but beautiful nonetheless. The zine gets you thinking about the effects that time has on both memory and the physical landscape.
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Outshine the Sun #2
$2 A6 16p 11g
The last issue of Outshine the Sun was Chiara’s paper-storm dedication to Spring 2009. Issue #2 does the same for Spring 2010. As usual with Chiara’s zines there’s a heady preoccupation with music – particularly stuff of the post-punk era – and every event that isn’t somehow based around listening to music seems to have some sort of song accompaniment. Again, I totally relate, and totally loved this little zine.
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Owlzine #1
$4 A5 24p 20g
Owlzine made its way to us via the Snapdragon Absent Zinester Table. I understand that owls are a bit fashionable at the moment, so I suppose it’s right that there is a zine dedicated to them! Owlzine documents owlish occurences in nature and culture: there are owl facts, owls in games, a review of Legend of the Guardians (a film about, you guessed it, owls) and profiles of some folks who collect owls related paraphernalia. This zine is obviously made for a very specific audience, but it’s pretty damn cool that there are enough people interested in owls for there to be a whole zine dedicated to them, I must say.
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Owlzine #2
$4 A5 24p 20g
Issue two of Ann’s zine for those interested in all things owl, this one contains facts about the owls of the goddess Athena, plus more profiles, reviews, puzzles and a comic, all related to owls.
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