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Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎

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that’s so real, i’ve only had the spoons to work on zines not post them 😭😭😭

me: i think profiting off of other peoples labour is selfish
relative: not it’s not

like hello your labour is being profited off of and you *dont* think it’s stealing???

this is just me failing to class conscious my relatives :( i will keep trying tho
#anticapitalism #classconsciousness

sorry for getting ✨️political✨️ on the good vibes and video games app again, but the human brain is not designed to withstand another 207 weeks of this shit so pace yourself and try to channel that anger, despair, and hopelessness into something productive. make some kick ass art, we will need it

www.sherwoodforestzinelibrary.org has a zine library with hundreds of zines on so many different topics!!! #zines #zine #library #punk #anticensorship

wahhh I wish I could schedule posts on here

Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.

In Ohio, a teacher (34 years on the job, uniformly excellent evaluations) was suspended & threatened with firing because books she had in her classroom library contained LGBTQ characters. No sex. No advocacy. Just ... the characters existed.

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These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

Front cover of an eight-page zine, titled “assholes” at the top, and an album cover picture of a doll on a lime green background. The zine itself also has a lime green background and at the bottom, it says “mommy long legs”

the 1st two pages have a dark blue textured background and over the top, it says: “you can take your GMOs, your NFL, your Super Bowl”

on both pages, there is a collage background with green, dark blue and a newspaper clipping. On the left-hand page, it says “you can take your CEOs” and beside the text there is a silhouette at a podium, with “blah, blah blah” written over it. on the right hand side, it says “giant heads and tiny souls”

these 2 pages have a light pink background, and the text “And drive into a” is written over blue textured rectangles. a large, collaged, black and white (the white is actually newspaper clipping) swirl takes up most of the middle of the page, and the text “wormhole” is on either side of the swirl. below the swirl, on the same blue rectangles, it says : “cause in the end you’re all alone”

assholes by mommy long legs — a zine #zine #punkmusic #mommylonglegsband #punk #collage #smallartist i fucking love this song omg and i tried out collage for the first time in a zine!!! (the back page just has my tumblr + bluesky handle lol)

Irish and Scottish friends or people who live over there, stay safe with the storm!! 🤍

ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

If we want to make Americans less reliant on smartphones, we have to address the problems of misery among all Americans. Parental stress reflects on children and young adults, who often witness all the ugly consequences of a cruel society and economy. Direct stresses on youth, enhanced by diminishing promises of a flourishing future, a sense of planetary demise, tightening social restrictions, educational failure, and the rise of public cruelty in real life and social media, demand a much more comprehensive—and political—approach than Haidt can offer with his laser-focus on phones. The danger of emphasizing a single cause for such a widespread and deadly problem is that there is a good chance we would fail to address the range of the real contributing factors.

The @sivav.bsky.social piece on phones and youth well being is so, so good, and this is the crux of it. I’m no fan of phones *inside classrooms*, but shoving the blame for youth anguish onto phones lets adults skate on the moral injury we inflict on our kids.

Indigenous people have been here since time immemorial. We are still here. We will remain here into the future.

making patches — a zine (back page) #zines #8pagezine #1sheetzine

Front cover of a handmade eight-page seen that says “making patches” as the title. There is a red and grey patchwork design on the cover and on one of the red patches it says: “why make them? how do you make them? where do you put them?”

page 2 why make patches?: Fixing holes and rips Decorating and personalising Political statements, e.g. Black lives matter Recycling scrap fabric page 3 Supplies: Fabric, scissors, thread or dental floss, Needle These are the essentials. The other stuff can be used if you have them, but you don’t need to go out and buy them: Paint and paint brushes, (acrylic/fabric ) Stencils Sewing machine Embroidery floss Fabric transfer paper Beads Other stuff to put on patches

Page 4 Fabric: Medium or lightweight fabrics are best as they are easy to sew on. Don’t use a busy patterned fabric. If you are putting a design on top. If you don’t want the pattern fabric, you can paint over it. Use a contrasting colour fabric to your design so that it stands out for example, white on black. You can get scrap fabric from old cotton clothes and socks, scarfs, pillowcases, sewing, scraps, et cetera.

Page 6 Decorating (embroidery) If you have embroidery floss, then you can pretty easily embroider a design onto your patch using a running stitch or other stitches. I recommend doing this BEFORE cutting out your patch, especially if you’re using an embroidery hoop Page 7 Sewing Here are two common ways to sew on your patches by hand Running stitch : it’s an up-down-up-down, sort of motion Whipstitch : it’s a sort of up-and-around motion You can also use a sewing machine

making patches — a zine #zine #punk #handmadezine
will repost with back page

a top down shot of a dark red wine box with a lot of 8 page zine inside

my box of zines! #zine #smallartist #punk

i’m not neglecting my bluesky i swear there are more zines to be posted soon!

guys idk if i should do more digital zines or more handwritten zines, bc i like different things about both but idk
i might do a more handwritten style on my digital zines to see if i like it but we’ll see

a picture of a small clump of dark green yarn

yarn chicken time! 😭 #crochet #fibreart #fibreartist

a picture of the front cover of the play “an inspector calls” with the title at the top in light blue and has a shadowy photo of a woman holding her hands close to her face set against a black background. the book has blue, orange and red sticky tabs sticking out of the side of it. on top of the book are two white, a6 size booklets, which are zine blanks

gonna make some inspector calls zines as revision (its gonna have quotes and stuff in it)
i love being a zine maker and an english nerd lmao #zine #revision #englishlit

#zine #zines #smallartist #zineartist #sustainability (uhh idk what i’m doing, is it socially acceptable on bluesky to chuck tags in a reply that you forgot to add to ur post)

front cover of an 8 page zine, with the title “subcultures and fast fashion” in a white box at the top, an arrangement of pencil drawings of various types of clothing in the middle: a graphic tee, some boots, a star pendant, a corset top, a pleated skirt, some trousers and a belt in the middle, and “a zine by @felix-the-obscure (tumblr/bluesky)” in a white box. the background behind is light green

page 2: “so… what’s a subculture? subcultures are groups in society that differentiate themselves from the mainstream values of that society. this can be done through ideology, music, clothing or other ways. some examples are: emo, scene, punk, goth, lolita, decora and there are so many others. page 3: “for some subcultures, clothing can be hard to find…” below the writing there are two pictures: a red, black and white graphic tank top made to look like the person is wearing 2 tanktops but its one garment, and a person wearing a light pink lolita outfit with a flouncy ruffle dress and matching parasol. they are shown to be items from fast fashion clothing websites. below the pictures reads, “…but for companies like shein make thing super easy and there definitely, totally isn’t any problems (sarcasm)”

pages 4 and 5: “fast fashion brands ignore the culture part of sub cultures and market the styles they are identifiable by as "aesthetics" to make money. this is done by fast fashion companies sending the manufacturers pictures of what is popular online to quickly copy and sell. with subcultures becoming more popular online, their styles get mimicked, mass produced, and then marketed as "aesthetics" by doing this, an entire subculture full of ideologies, music and experiences is boiled down to a word with a -core suffix, claiming that you need all of these clothes, and accessories and decor to truly be a part of the subculture, which is just not true. fast fashion in general also has lots of problems with ethics, sustainability, and copying and many people in subcultures take issue with fast fashion (including me!)”

page 6 and 7: so where can i buy clothes? * depop (second hand, online) * vinted (secondhand, online) * thrift/charity shops (secondhand, in person) * threadup (secondhand, online) * etsy (first/secondhand, online) * small businesses (usually firsthand, in person/online) i tried to keep it quite general rather than for specific subcultures, and for there to be a vide price range as well lots of subculture fashion is built on diy, so here are some skills/crafts that might help, especially for customising existing clothes instead of buying a whole new wardrobe • crochet knitting sewing darning/mending embroidery * (screen) printing painting (with fabric paint) * fabric dyeing

FINALLY POSTING ANOTHER ZINE
also there is a back it just doesnt let me post more than 4 bits of media at a time *cries*
it just says “thank you for reading” tho so its fine

omg yes! libraries are brilliant and have so many resources! where i live i can get one for free and it’s the best. please, look into where your local library is, and if you can, get a library card <3

Bruh unpack your whorephobia somewhere else. Support sex workers or GTFO.

My political views are that I want people to have all of their basic needs met and not just survive. Apparently that’s too radical.

working on a zine abt subcultures and fast fashion atm
i wanna do one specifically abt how much i hate fast fashion bc all my reasons are not gonna fit in my current zine #zines #antifastfashion #subcultures

me fr

my only flex is that i’ve been boycotting since i was 11