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small press + zine distro! Tiohtià:ke // Montréal transsexual-run // anti-ableist // pro-🇵🇸 https://sheerspite.ca/ https://sheerspite.bigcartel.com/

andi vicente - Bakla Babes! The Fringes of Your Skirt Are Showing! Interviews with queer and trans community builders, cultural workers, organizers, and agitators in Montreal’s Filipino migrant diaspora in 2016. - Chères babes bakla ! On voit les franges de vos jupes ! Entrevues avec les personnes bâtisseuses de communauté, travailleuses culturelles, organisatrices et agitatrices queer et trans de la diaspora philippine de Montréal en 2016.
coming early 2027, a venir debut 2027 nikita chigoho, seat at the table / une place a la table ke - fucking gossip / putains de potins! arcana shanks - dancing around it: a history of montreal queer line dancing / alors on danse: une histoire de la danse en ligne queer a montreal andi vicente - bakla babes! the fringes of your skirt are showing! / cheres babes bakla! on voit les franges de vos jupes!
Invitation to Participate in WBBM Newsradio's Author Spotlight Series Dear Lee Arden, I hope this message finds you well. My name is Patrick Barrins, and I serve as Producer & News Editor at WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM in Chicago. I recently had the opportunity to review your forthcoming book, The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?, and I was struck by the thoughtful way it approaches a subject that resonates with so many people today. Rather than treating loneliness as simply an individual experience, your work examines the broader social and economic conditions that shape how we form, sustain, and sometimes lose meaningful relationships. Your exploration of friendship through research, personal narrative, and lived experience offers a timely and compassionate perspective on an issue that continues to affect people across all walks of life. At WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM, we value books that encourage thoughtful public conversation and offer fresh perspectives on the issues shaping our communities. Your work invites readers to reflect not only on the importance of friendship but also on the societal structures that influence our ability to build lasting human connections. We believe these ideas would make for an engaging and meaningful discussion with our audience. With that in mind, I would like to personally invite you to participate in our Author Spotlight Series, a professionally produced interview program dedicated to featuring authors whose work contributes to important cultural, social, and intellectual conversations. The interview provides an opportunity to discuss your book, the research and experiences that inspired it, your writing journey, and the message you hope readers will carry with them. Our interviews are conducted in a conversational and respectful format, allowing authors to share the stories behind their work while giving listeners a deeper understanding of the ideas that shaped the book. In the interest of comple…
a role of fluorescent orange stickers that say "PAID Thank You!"
where did we sell zines? (april - june 2026) Sales at events (27%) - Love tabling at events but it is EXHAUSTING and also it costs money to get the zines and I places! Online - PDFs (5%) - Maaaaan it would be so nice to increase PDF sales Online - print (Canada) (13%) Online - print (US) (17%) US print orders are shipped by White Squirrel in WA. I love them, I pay them 20% of revenue, it is worth it! - Wholesale - Canada (28%) Wholesale - US (9%) THANK YOU stores that stock zines! I love you! - Ingram print on demand - 0.2% lol
evolving from kiki language instead of (kiki) say this (bouba) - he kicked the bucket > he blew the big balloon - this road does a zigzag > this road is swervy-wervy - let's cut to the chase > let's bring the broth - zip your lips about this > do floss your gloss here - i'll keep that in my thoughts > i will bear in mind
Drawing by Rose O'Neill of a large, strong-looking humanoid creature, sitting on the side of a cliff and looking as though it is part of the cliff. Standing betweeen its knees is a much smaller, slimmer, and paler humanoid figure. The larger figure is leaning down touching its head to that of the smaller figure, whose face is bent up towards it.
cover of the book The Politics of Lonely, with two boxes: "what makes friendship harder" and "what makes friendship easier", each filled with entries from the book's index. what makes friendship harder? austerity, collapse (social), white supremacy, convenience (as value), colonialism (settler), disposability, right-wing social movements, fascism, work (paid), trauma (generational), individualism, Thatcher, Margaret, incarcertation, shame. what makes friendship easier? food, sharing of, relationship anarchy smorgasbord, neigbhours, trust, singing, coming out, ceremonies, labour unions, intimacy, bottomlining, group chats, joy, kinship, generosity, hosting friends, access to healthcare, interdependence, prison abolition, working through conflict, interdependence, communal living.
Meet the project advisors! presentation des conseiller.ere.s du projet ! Histoires 2ELGBTQIA+ "QC" 2SLGBTQIA+ histories - Liuba de Armas - Victor Yin - Sika Valme - Kamamik Poundmaker - Aysha White Pitch deadline: June 15, 2026 Date limite pour soumissions : 15 juin 2026
A zine held up against a brick wall. Printed on bright green paper with a border of carnations, it reads "Teleny: Gay pornography from 1893, published anonymously, which may or may not have been co-authored by Oscar Wilde and his friends, currently in the public domain"
a graph from google trends showing "transgender" as a search term. it rises gradually over the 2000s, and becomes higher and spikier after the so-called trans tipping point around 2015
Preface: Friendship Is Worth the Struggle When Friendship Breaks Your Heart Friendship Is Hard Because Everything Is Hard Despite It All, We Come Through for Each Other What Are Some Ways You’ve Cared for Your Friends? Part 1: What Is Friendship? / 1 Do We Even Know What Friendship Is? Different Friendships in Different Contexts 2 Casual Sex, Serious Friendships, and Life Outside the Couple Infatuation plus Attachment Never “Just” Friends Making Friendship Legible The Price of Ambiguity 3 Weaving Networks of Friendship The Danger of Dyads Why We Let Our Friends Down 4 The Families We Choose Chosen Family Hits the Mainstream AIDS and Queer Family Chosen Family as an Ideal How Do the Friendships in Your Life Become Deeper and Stronger? Part 2: Why Is Friendship So Hard? / 5 The Ideology of Coupledom Unbundling Marriage Coupledom Doesn’t Benefit Everyone Equally What Else Is Out There Beyond Coupledom?
screenshots from the canada post store of their brian mulroney stamps. mulroney was PM of canada for much of the 80s into the 90s. he devolved affordable housing to the provinces, which is a HUGE factor in canada's current housing crisis, pushed free trade, supported the gulf war, and privatized everything he could get his dirty little hands on. if you live in so-called canada he has undoubtedly made your life worse. hope this helps.
Two men stand side by side in profile, as though gazing at something, with text reading "there is something powerful about the bronzes' mystery--"
The zine Il Terzo Bronzo, printed in pale yellow paper. The cover depicts a diver's flippered feet above two statues lying on the ocean floor amidst fronds of seaweed
“Lee Arden offers a thoughtful meditation on what austerity has done to our friendships, with a pragmatic and radically grounded pathway to transform and rebuild a social safety net in the spaces between us.” Ardath Whynacht, author of Insurgent Love
“A friend-letter (which is like a love-letter, but more complicated) to the ordinary glory of being with others, in all our mess and beauty, The Politics of Lonely is an incisive call to build worlds in which friendship is more and more accessible, for everyone.” - Alexis Shotwell, author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
appel à contributions call for submissions histoires 2ELGBTQI+ “QC” 2SLGBTQI+ histories 4 authors, 4 bilingual zines, authors get $1500 4 auteur.ices, 4 zines bilingues, chaque auteur.ice reçoit 1500 $ Pitch deadline : June 15, 2026 Date limite pour soumissions : 15 juin 2026
appel à contributions call for submissions histoires 2ELGBTQI+ “QC” 2SLGBTQI+ histories 4 authors, 4 bilingual zines, authors get $1500 4 auteur.ices, 4 zines bilingues, chaque auteur.ice reçoit 1500 $ Pitch deadline : June 15, 2026 Date limite pour soumissions : 15 juin 2026
images of three zines: wanderer is printed on light green paper with a line drawing of leafy plants. posthumous is printed on orange, with a bold black and white illustration of flowers and stars. 'problem' skin is printed on pink with a four-panel illustration of a person applying a cream to their face.
a fridge magnet reading "Less AI Slop More Lentil Slop" against a background of lentils. the magnet is surrounded by other silly vintage fridge magnets sourced from ebay listings.
Ottawa May 8+9, Possible Worlds presents Object//Project 2026 Art Book Fair, Carleton Dominion-Chalmoers Centre. Order on sheerspite.ca with code "OBJECTPROJECT" to pick up at the fair
"Pandemic Care Without States: 12 Prefigurative Practices in Supplying Well-being from Below", the zine is printed on yellow paper with a black and white illustration of a blooming thistle.
The cover for Swapping Genders with My Ex, the Cartoonist Studio Prize logo, and their writeup: Swapping Genders With My Ex — Cesario “Cee” Lavery (Crucial Comix) Rendered in soft ink wash, Lavery’s first comic for Crucial relates his story of coming out and transitioning alongside his then-partner. He chronicles their parallel gender journeys, break-up, and subsequent reconciliation with tenderness and care, framing their bodies in perennial mirror image to one another.
text reading "transsexual art will live forever" surrounded by an assortment of trans zines
a collage of colourful zine covers, including "Swapping Genders With My Ex", "Five Friendship Fantasies", and "Grief Castle", with text reading "available now from sheerspite.bigcartel.com, shipping from the US"
Grief Castle, a zine printed on blue paper, with an illustration showing a pair of eyes looking out from a dark jagged hole in a crumbling brick wall. the zine is shown against a background of pink lined paper, with text reading "sheerspite.ca: ships from canada to anywhere but the US" and "sheerspite.bigcartel.com: ships from the US to anywhere"
On a pink speckled background, the text “Zines and Literatura de Cordels / Exploring the multi-national history of zines and paradoxes in self-publishing / with Tosin Jerugba” appears in black font, along with the workshop details in the caption above. In the bottom right corner, a person with dark brown skin and short springy hair holds a neon green zine, with photos of a few other colorful zines on the left.
text reading "$1700 to writers in gaza" with an image of four zines by authors in gaza
The book "Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke", by Alyssa Favreau. The cover image is of an abstracted painting of a person in a hospital bed, by Hakim Kasir. The book is shown against a background of pink notepaper. Text surrounding the book reads "she's back - sheerspite.ca (ships from canada to anywhere but the US - sheerspite.bigcartel.com (ships from the US to anywhere)"
wasted ink zine bistro menu “espresso”.......................... $ 1.50 italian soda ..................... $3.00 gross muffin .................... $2.00 good muffin ................... SOLD OUT panini maybe? ................. $ idk staple................................. $ 0.03 full bleed print .............. $800.00
"$150+ of mystery zines for $40" with an image of a mailing box filled with zines, confetti exploding from behind it
a graphic reading "wasted ink zine bistro". "wasted ink" is in a swirly clownish 90s font, "zine bistro" is in teal brush script with a heavy drop shadow. there are clipart images of a coffee cup, bagel, stapler, croissant, and coffee grinder in a blocky 90s woodcut-ish style, and fruitopia-esque spirals in the background. it's a work of art obviously
A photo of the zine 'when to critique a trans woman', riso printed in black ink on pink paper. Its cover has a photo of the author wearing a slip style dress and smoking a cigarette. The zine is shown surrounded by thinky face emojis
A hand holding up a copy of Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live against a brick wall. the cover shows a painting of a semi-abstracted person sitting in a hospital bed
A photo of the zine "se familiariser avec le pronom iel et autres mots du genre", with an image from the Mr Men books. The cover is printed on hot pink paper and shown against a background of puffy clouds
"tell an american - all of these are now available from sheerspite.bigcartel.com shipping from everett, wa - cheap US shipping - no weird border stuff" with images of the sheer spite zines, books, and stickers that are currently for sale there
An image of 4 t-shirts, one reading "I heart zines and gay sex", with 2 pairs of scissors scissoring, one with a weird zine creature surrounded by strawberry leaves, one that says "sheer spite" with chains above and below it, and one with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake. text reads "there is shirts btw"
Online auction for Palestine Dec 1-9 Live NOW: galabid.com/mtl-gaza All funds go to groups and families in Gaza Watermelon Maps x Familles montrealaises pour la Palestine
Nothing is on sale :) everything is already cheap and priced on sliding scale already. why not just buy a zine regardless tho sheerspite.ca sheerspite.bigcartel.com the text is surrounded by a border of images of colourful zines sold by sheer spite, and a logo of a coiled snake.
Lee, a gender-ambiguous white person, smiles goofily while gesturing towards a bouquiniste stall filled with colourful zines. The spire of notre-dame cathedral is visible in the background, if you can believe it
A screenshot of the US store, showing the zines Clipart Crypt, PALS, and Surprisingly OK, the book Crossdresser/Accept Yourself or Die, and pink stickers reading "DIY" and "I Heart Zines and Gay Sex"
The cover of Clipart Crypt, which is risograph printed in red ink on bright yellow paper, with images of a filing cabinet on fire surrounded by flowers, a border with suns and moons, and a weird humanoid frog.
"Prix Expozine Awards", with an illustration of a goofy-looking Sphinxlike creature atop a stapler. It is holding a zine with a "cool S" on the cover, and the stapler reads "Gala 2024"
where's sheer spite? October 18: Anarchist Bookfair (Montréal) November 15-16: Expozine (Montréal) December 5-7: City of Craft Small Zine + Paper Market (Toronto)
A montage of photos of three zines: "Let this radicalize you" has a black line drawing illustration of a group of three people holing signs and megaphones, and of several pairs of hands of various skin tones holding a heart decorated with a floral design. The Sojourners for Justice Press manifesto has a plain grey cover with the title in a border. The Mary Wilson book has a geometric design that evokes cross-stitch. The zines are shown against a blue-green gradient background with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake.
The cover of the zine "If You Don't Like The Game, Change The Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production", by Marie Leblanc Flanagan. Behind the zine are a bunch of little creatures with speech bubbles saying things like "union?", "co-op", "so tired" and "four-day work week", from the back cover of the zine, along with a speech bubble that says "we're world designers, why can't we design a world we'd want to live in?"
a vast, colourful array of zines, screenshotted from sheerspite.ca
the cover images of four issues of Scissors zine are shown against a blue-green gradient background, with a border of scissor illustrations. the covers vary aesthetically from victorian valentine to windows 95 glitch.
Photo of the zine "Gaza Calling: Will the World Pick Up?", by Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi. The cover, printed on bright pink cardstock, has an illustration of a young woman in a dark hijab looking thoughtfully out a window at a garden. Beside the photo of the zine is a quote by its author: "Every word in this zine carries our hearts, our grief, and our defiance."
coming fall 2025: Der Eydes, reissue of vol. 1 + 2, new vol. 3, with images of the covers of vol 1. (which depicts a white Jewish man with an array of small objects, including jacks and keys, in the background. Vol. 2 is an image of a banner with a Yiddish slogan, with sheets of paper blowing in the background. Vol. 3's cover is yet to be revealed.
A collage of images of three zines against a blue-green gradient background. In the foreground is "My God Is Disabled", whose cover image is of a home framed by tall, lush trees. In the background are "Uninspirational", whose cover illustration is of hand-drawn squiggly lines resembling a topographical map, and "Laklakan", which as a colourful cover illustration of a butterfly and a boat.
An image of a pile of colouful anarchist zines: the two mentioned in the post, plus "Ritual As Resistance", "Anarchist Compass", "Don't Just Do Nothing To Counter Fascism", and "Shades of Love". They are all printed in black on coloured paper with striking black and white cover art.
The two covers of "It's Too Late: A Book About Being A Cultural Worker in the Apocalypse" and "Do It Anyway! A Hologram Starter Kit"
Two zines, "Aerie Tales" and "The Heart's Gaze", both by Sondos A. Al-Saqqa. "Aerie Tales" is printed on pink paper, with an illustration of a castle rising up out of the pages of the book, against a night sky. "The Heart's Gaze" is printed on cream-coloured paper, with a round abstract ink illustration.
graphic reading "hello, please talk to me about clipart". against a blue-green gradient background, there are images primarily from the early digital era of clipart, and some from the traditional art era, depicting an elephant on a stand, a person filming with a big camcorder, a pack of cigarettes, an alien, a humanoid apple using a computer, and graphics reading "dairy month", "we wuv u" and "bring your bible to lunch"
good news: lettermail shipping throughout "canada" is back. bad news: i no longer ship to the "us". upcoming news: i hope to soon have the option to ship select zines from the "us". the text is shown alongside an image of a mailbox surrounded by flowers and the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake (here also surrounded by flowers)
Two zines, "What the fuck is recovery: a zine about pain, addiction, recovery", and "What the fuck is Fentanyl?", both by Imogen Reid. Both zines are printed on white paper with collaged black and white images.
"Amanda's Guide to Making Friends", with a cover printed on bright orange paper. The cover illustration comes from Rupert Bear comic, and shows a bear with a sweater and plaid trousers, and a black cat, both looking out over a forest. Beside the image of the zine, there is a drawing of two creatures looking at each other, which comes from the zine's back cover.
Trans Feminist Self Help Zine Volume 0, by Cat Haines. The cover, printed on deep red paper made out of a folder, shows a black and white image of a femme person lying on a bed, holding a mirror up in front of her crotch.