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Guerrilla Gardening: DIY planters battle urban sterility
Fold! Your very own zine mascot + how to make a cut-out comic
Neocolonialism and genocide

Roll the Dice: How to get an arts grant
10 zines talking back to Trump! Plus the winners of the Zine Awards 2018 and DIY for the apocalypse!

zines

short stories

fiction

Read more about Broken Pencil #82

Global zine report: Dispatches from zines in every hemisphere!
Plus: Urinal fiction, communist zine archives and more!

Read more about Broken Pencil #81: The New Noir

The New World of Webcomics
Found Fruit: Discovering DIY Foraging

Read more about Broken Pencil #80: X-Ray Summer Fiction Frenzy

Read the winning stories from Indie Writer's Death Match 2018!

Read more about Broken Pencil #79: Deaf Creators Make Themselves Known

Read more about Broken Pencil #85: Freedom Hi

A greyscale photo of a man with his eyes closed and mouth open, covered in black tar and white feathers

Includes stories, art, and articles about gay sex and gay politics

Read more about Crooked Fagazine #5

Black title text in a rounded rectangle outline

This book was inspired by the saying "the best thing since sliced bread". I was curious if its history supported this bold claim. It very much did.

food

history

Read more about The Very Real History Of Sliced Bread

A book of illustrations of Butch haircuts

butch

queer culture

lesbian

Read more about Made the Cut

A pattern of black & white painted swirls overlap an image of a classical angel sculpture

On grappling with queer identity and mental health during the pandemic

Read more about Another Virus

A collaged background of colourful images, black tulle, and sequins with a black and white illustration of the author, left half in masculine day clothes, and right half in feminine drag

An autobiographical story by trans/enby/queer artist Oliver and their drag persona Kardiá Diamánti

Read more about Gender's A Performance & I've Got Stage Fright

A greyscale illustration of the author, a brown girl with long, dark, curly hair, crying.

Living with fibromyalgia and PTSD

chronic pain

illness

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

comics

autobiographical comics

Read more about Barely Functioning Comics

A yellow, pink, and blue colour blocked background featuring an illustration of a skeleton, one tear falling from its eye socket, and three red arrows pointing to areas of pain.

Poems and art about the author's experience with fibromyalgia

Read more about Fibro Zine

recipe zine by Loaded Ladle at Dalhousie University

vegan cooking

Read more about Ladle At Home

A zine about carvings found atop 18th century gravestones in ye olde burial grounds of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

cemeteries

Read more about Graven Images

How-to guide on composting toilets.

composting

home

environmentalism

Read more about Home Humanure: Building your own composting toilet

How to organize your own Revolutionary Communist Party, specific to Canada.

communism

revolutionary communism

political organizing

Read more about Building a PCR-RCP Organizing Committee

Zine outlining iconic butch dyke filmmakers across the world & their works.

Read more about The Life and Times of Butch Dykes: Filmmakers

Review of notable punk music releases in Canada in 2020, focusing on Nova Scotia and Ontario.

Read more about Post-Cheese Zine #4

Description of trauma, its side effects, and treatments. Part of a series called "One Minute Happiness"

Read more about One Minute Happiness: Trauma

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Broken Pencil #83: Guerrilla Gardening

Broken Pencil #82

Broken Pencil #81: The New Noir

Broken Pencil #80: X-Ray Summer Fiction Frenzy

Broken Pencil #79: Deaf Creators Make Themselves Known

Broken Pencil #85: Freedom Hi

Crooked Fagazine #5

The Very Real History Of Sliced Bread

Made the Cut

Another Virus

Gender's A Performance & I've Got Stage Fright

Barely Functioning Comics

Fibro Zine

Ladle At Home

Graven Images

Home Humanure: Building your own composting toilet

Building a PCR-RCP Organizing Committee

The Life and Times of Butch Dykes: Filmmakers

Post-Cheese Zine #4

One Minute Happiness: Trauma