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"Masturbation is one of life's great pleasures, helping to build self-knowledge, foster body awareness, and expand your sexual repertoire. Anyone can use masturbation to explore their relationship to their body, desires, and pleasure. This joyful, unique book centers people of color, queer people, disabled people, sex workers, and other often underrepresented voices to bring an informative and beautiful perspective to self-love and unpartnered sex"--

The possibility of having seizures at any time changes a lot of things about how you live your life. Halley talks about her experiences and shares tips, hacks, and wisdom with dark humor and spirit.

This zine is not too long, but full of helpful information on how to get through an uncomfortable medical procedure--such as abortion--like a champ. It also touches on art therapy, aftercare, and creating good habits of self care. Hand-drawn illustrations and the entire zine is in black and white.

Reading about "building your own house, growing your own food, making your own music, art culture, life" will make you feel ready to join the revolution before you even get past the intro. Firewood isn't just about talk though. Sine offers serious real-life help in here. There is a large article on how to build your own cabin. With information on how to physically do it, even all by yourself, there is also help on salvaging materials, obtaining cheap materials and building houses of wood, straw-bale, cob, Tipis and Gers. Also, you can read about growing your own Anarchist Victory Garden and get a little lesson on Land Ownership in Scotland. In general, a really inspiring and helpful zine.

In the sixth issue of Mettanoia, Shea Pederson goes into how the season changes affect mental health and reflects on lessons learned since starting this zine. Handwritten stories, illustrations, and comics combine to make a really engaging and relatable personal zine.

This volume is focused on helping others and helping to prevent suicide attempts as well as tackling heavy issues such as abuse.

Being charged with a felony is not the end of the road and Aza Enigma is here to help you keep pushing forward through the cloud of doubt. Open at any point in this zine and you'll find hopeful advice on how to build a happy and succesful life after conviction. Survive parole, know your rights, build your own business, set goals and access recommended resources: you can get out, stay out, and rise above.

Volume 3 has a number of good self-care strategies for helping you keep a positive outlook despite the world's attempts to keep you down.

This thorough and informative zine gives a responsible walkthrough of FAM--Fertility Awareness Method. FAM teaches menstruators to use fertility signs as a highly accurate form of birth control (more accurate than condoms when used correctly!). Let's Talk About Your Uterus: Body Conscious Birth Control is such a great resource about this empowering topic of reclaiming fertility, and is complete with helpful diagrams and drawings!

The handbook on consensus decision-making. Everything from group dynamics, to the structure of decision making, the purpose of evaluation, agenda planners, facilitators, notetakers, group discussion techniques and more is covered, in both philosophical, and eminently practical terms. Should be mandatory for anyone wishing to attend a meeting, let alone conduct one.

The anonymous author writes about their decision to drop out of high school and live independently, and shares the resources they learned so others can do the same thing. It's a practical guide to resisting the institutions that oppress us, be they schools, families, jobs, or capitalism, and not just surviving but thriving under the radar of society.

A collection of short essays and comics focused around trauma. It's the fourth in the Mettanoia zine series that focuses on mental health.

A lovingly hand-written and illustrated zine in the classic perzine style containing personal stories, thoughts about mental illness, poems and comics about depression and healing, and some helpful resources. Shea's words are always kind, sometimes funny, and are very good at reminding you that you are not alone and this feeling is not forever. As she says on the last page, "You are tougher than you think. Don't stop fighting! Good luck out there."

Do you want to start a business? Or does your existing business feel stuck? Either way, this no-fluff workbook will walk you through the steps of planning and troubleshooting your enterprise. Publisher Joe Biel and bestselling author Dr. Faith G. Harper, co-authors of Unfuck Your Business, reunite to help you make your business idea viable, find your niche, and evaluate your growth and success. With the help of worksheets and exercises, you'll make sure the money adds up, plan your strategy for growth, hone your management skills, and work through common pitfalls like imposter syndrome and self-sabotage. Even if you've never run a business before and don't see yourself as a numbers person, you can succeed with the right tools. Work out your dreams on the page and then watch your hard work, critical thinking, and belief in your meaning and purpose make them come true!

Are you paid less than your male colleagues for the same work? Do you work all day for the man and then come home and tend to another man and some kids? Do people keep interrupting you, taking credit for your ideas, and asking you to do extra social labor beyond your job description? And are you literally sick and tired of it all? With a hefty dose of irreverent self-satire, Eryn O'Neal shares the essential oil recipes that she uses to treat her own patriarchal woes, so that you can too. A tincture of clary sage may not dismantle the patriarchy singlehandedly, but it'll help you get enough sleep so you can keep working on destroying the power dynamics that are dragging us all down.

A guide to using plants in your environment for their medicinal properties! A whole host of tips and tricks for tending to your bumps and bruises and keeping yourself healthy. Health care and medical doctors are getting more and more useless, but there's a lot of stuff you don't need them for, and being able to tend to your health in small ways is a key adulting skill. Cute illustrations from Giovanni Caputo and a generally fun vibe and feel! Includes healing cuts and scrapes, burns, rashes, sunburns, building a first aid kit, gut problems, aches & pains, bugs, bruises, bleeding, parasites, and a list of further reading resources.

Throughout human history, dogs have performed service tasks for us. Some of the earliest documented cases occurred during the First World War. Do Not Pet: A Service Dog's Graphic Tail follows the story of one such service dog, Ruby, who gave the author Joe Biel mobility, health, and companionship through the most difficult years of his life. This book details their personal struggles with public awareness and accommodation, as well as celebrates their remarkable interspecies bond.

Poop! It's not something we like to talk about, much less think about, and once we've flushed it's out of sight and out of mind. But that doesn't mean it stops existing. Far from it--if you live in any sizeable municipal area, many people and machines will interact with your shit as it makes its way through your city's sewers and waste management systems. How is it processed? How does the garbage we flush get sorted out? Where does the end product go? It's all fascinating, and troubling, and worth knowing. You'll never look at a toilet the same way again.

A brief look at a number of important questions facing heterosexual men who don't want to go along with sexist ideas about how to have sexual relationships. Why should women be the only ones thinking about this?

Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel updates the information provided in the first edition (edited by Biel and the late and great Bill Brent) to address zine making in today's digital and social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine! hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability. Says Feminist Review, "Make a Zine! is an inspiring, easy, and digestible read for anyone, whether you're already immersed in a cut-and-paste world, a graphic designer with a penchant for radical thought, or a newbie trying to find the best way to make yourself and your ideas known." Illustrated by an army of notable and soon-to-be-notable artists and cartoonists, Make a Zine! also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene, with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly (Slug and Lettuce, Peops). Part history lesson, part how-to guide, Make a Zine! is a call to arms, an ecstatic, positive rally cry in the face of TV show book clubs and bestsellers by celebrity chefs. As says Biel in the book's intro, "Let's go!"

A ten-page resource zine on current and accessible abortion care. Topics in this little zine include: How to find a reputable clinic in your area, how to fund your abortion, hotlines for counseling, and much more. All in a very easy-to-read format that is suitable for everyone with hand-drawn illustrations.

A collection of thoughts, articles, and reprints about America's fat-phobic, sizism, and pointing us toward fat acceptance. This is a beautiful jumping off point for those interested in the subject - articles from Marilyn Wann about embracing yourself and reclaiming the word fat, personal health, some thoughts about the learning (and unlearning) processes of fat acceptance, numerous surprising facts, historical quotes about fatness, as well as an excerpt from Nomy Lamm's "Big Fat Revolution", as well as information about fat women being more likely to enjoy sex even! A fat liberation manifesto! Statistics of fat women based on their class background! There is a true wealth of information on the subject and Crystal promises there is even more on the way! Let us unlearn out media induced responses to fatness!

Even if you live in a big, dirty city, you can grow your own lush herb and vegetable garden year-round. Claire walks you through the basics of fire escape gardening, like choosing containers, soil, landlords, pests, and making sure your fire escape can still be safely used in case of a fire. She offers a planting calendar tuned to New York City's climate and then offers detailed advice for growing tomatoes, herbs, peas, cucumbers, strawberries, and more. Finally she offers several blueprints and profiles of real-life NYC fire escape gardens. Evocative line drawings by Sheila Lin will help you envision your escape from mass-produced food networks!

Have you ever thought about founding and running a successful worker-owned co-op? It takes more than just getting together with some friends and agreeing to share the work and profits. A business--even a small, unconventional one--requires planning, structure, and good business sense. Based on the trials and tribulations of the Jefferson People's House in Duluth, Minnesota, this guide will provide you with the tools to help start your own co-op.

From Chick-Fil-A to the Boston Tea Party, Nike to Women's Suffrage in the U.S., United Farm Workers to the Woolworth's Lunch Counter, boycotts have been an instrumental way to push the needle and change the world from the ground up. This zine distinguishes between virtgue signaling and boycotts and how to channel the lessons from history to change the world in your own movements by building effective coalitions and creating public sympathy for them. Read up and you'll be along with the wild ride of history as well as tips from those who were successful about how to be the change that you want to see!

Fireweed, as the full title implies, is all about introducing your kids to plants. It's about teaching young children the joy of gathering edibles, and making them into candies, teas, jellies, or even medicines. There's tips for going on plant walks, and suggestions for good introductory plants like ginger, mint, and marshmallow. There are recipes for prickly pear crisp, catnip tea, and simple fermented herbal infusions. The authors conduct a couple interviews with parents about their experiences sharing plants with their children. This zine is really inspiring.

This is your guide to the fast-paced, energetic sport of treewatching! Just kidding. Watching trees is a relaxing way to slow down your life, synch up with the natural world, and truly breathe and learn to be in peace for a little while. You may have heard of forest bathing--it's a similar idea. This guide will open your eyes to trees, nature, and your own capacity for calm observation.

The first time that I met my favorite autistic mentee, she walked right up to me, declaring "You don't look like prey!" We discussed at length how we are both consistently perceived as vulnerable from our appearances, body language, and mannerisms. I had never thought about this as a trait of autism until I began to research the relationships of crime statistics and autism to find that we are frequently victims. When I looked up the meaning of "getting taken advantage of," I had a startling discovery. The phrase has two components, someone using you unfairly for their own benefit and you being complicit and accepting in this dynamic. According to this definition, being robbed on the street is not being "taken advantage of." While everyone experiences these types of encounters, it seems that so many neurodiverse people are taken advantage of because they are easily fooled into being complicit in these exchanges. This zine is a forum of advice and stories to explain the neurodiverse experience so that we can be seen as real, whole people. One theme that kept coming up in conversations with neurodiverse people as "being taken advantage of." Every neurodiverse person seems to be a survivor of abuse, whether that be emotional, financial, sexual, physical, or mental. These stories humanize those experiences and provide context, humor, and real solutions for how to overcome them. Ultimately, living in our society it becomes difficult not to internalize ableism and see ourselves as lesser, rather than just different.