July Updates
Hello Members, I don’t know about you all but it’s been hard to not be enraged by all the news coming out of SCOTUS here in Turtle Island. While I’m channeling my rage into productive projects like zine collecting, resource curating, and donating. I am also taking breaks from the news cycle and doom scrolling. I hope you are too.
Speaking of zines and donations, The Doula Project is a collective of trained doula volunteers working to assist and ensure pregnant people access to the reproductive health care they need. They have created a DIY DOULA zine that is a toolkit of practical advice and answers. If you download and use the zine, please consider donating to the project here. The best thing we can do is to support and donate to your local abortion fund. Every state has one, find yours here.
Remember to take care of yourself and visit CZ issue 5 on Self Care As Resistance and Longevity in Activism. They aren’t how-to’s or answers but tools to keep you going in the long struggle. It’s how I’ve stuck around coping with and disrupting the cycling industry.
For the month of July I’d like cover content for International Zine Month and hopefully share content for ways you can use zines as a tool to express ourselves during these times. It’s good to channel your grief into creative works and get into something new. Also IZM encourages us to learn or share something this month so it may be a fun way to learn about zines and zine making! This image is from last years IZM but once an updated version is posted, I’ll update ya’ll on it.
And if you need a break from the feed, I’ve had a couple of exciting works come to fruition like a piece in the Get Rad’s second issue, Creating Space Through Zine Making, a feature piece in Sierra Mag on bike zines, Spoken Word: Inside the Rogue, Homegrown World of Bike Zines and an interview with the Wheel Suckers Podcast on Crumb Culture & Bike Medicine.
In the meantime, please enjoy the content above and check out the zines we have curated in our e-zine library and our google docs on resistance since the George Floyd uprisings linked below. They are educating, keep me doing the work, and help me to think beyond issues when we need to be creating resistance and networks of resistance at home and in our community.
Check them out here: Zines On Resitance