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Village Ghosts
$3 15x15cm 28p plus foldout 36g
This is a photocopied, cut and paste zine made up of collage, photographs, archival images and so on about memory, class consciousness, myth and history.
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Virgin #1
$1 A6 18p 3g
‘I’m writing the zine I wanted to read… Basically, I’m not getting any and never had any. This doesn’t really bother me, but it bothers the rest of the world and that reaction DOES bother me.’ This is an anonymous zine about being a virgin. The author describes their (lack of) sexual history, and discusses what it means to them. They describe feeling an affinity with the asexual community, but without leaping to fatalistic conclusions about the definiteness of their sexuality. Rather, the zine is an attempt to open up a discussion on the many and diverse reasons that people might not have sex.
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Virgin #2
$1.50 A5 16p 4g
As I say above in the description for the first issue, Virgin is a zine about trying to open up a space to discuss the various reasons that people might not have (had) sex. The author concluded the first issue with a call out for folks to share their own stories about why they are a virgin. For only 16 pages this zine shows a very wide range of experience, from those who say they want sex but can’t get it to others who consider themselves asexual, and more in between.
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Watch Him Bleed #2
$2 A6 44p 16g
DESCRIPTION COMING SOON!
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Watch Him Bleed #3 / Licking Stars off Ceilings #15
$2 A6 40p 11g
A split zine full of proto feminist, riot grrl-esque energy and anger, the kind of zine I remember reading in the 90s and being inspired to write my own. The words ‘punkrock’ and ‘grrrlfriend’ appear a lot in Clementine’s (Licking Stars…) side of the split, and both zines are tight with the mutual love and respect the respective zinesters have for each other. Reading this zine feels a bit like peeping into someone’s private mail, or reading their diary – excitement tinged with guilt…
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YOU
Free when purchasing other zines!
Every week since November 2001(!) You has hit the streets – the streets of Melbourne where it was born and streets all over the world. Always free and ostensibly anonymous, You is a photocopied letter addressed to you, tucked up and stapled, usually, into a paper bag. You won’t be charged for this, but hit ‘buy’ to add it to your loot.
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YOU: Some letters from the first five years
$25 13.4x19cm 80p 307g
Published by the exceptionally nice folk at Breakdown Press, this book contains, as elucidated in the title, some letters from the first five years of You zine. As Anna Poletti puts it in the blurb on the back, ‘You is local history; a story of local experiences. And it is real.’ Read just how much rockin’ out one person (and some guest writers) can do in five years.
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Instructions for ordering from outside Australia
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When is a zine not a zine? When it’s a book! But what if it’s a book that collects a huge array of samples from some of the year’s ‘best’ zines? Well, it’s still a book, but a very exciting one. Microcosm’s 9th zine yearbook is packed with heaps of fine zine excerpts and their authors’ contact details. Excellent to check out some of the zines you may have missed in 2009, this would also make a great introduction to the world of zines for the uninitiated (if, indeed, such a thing still exists.)
