Three amazing zinesters -- Sarah Mae (Giving it Up), Elvis Bakaitis (Homos in Herstory), Dana (Introduce to Major Benefactor) -- share and read from their work, all touching on the theme of queer and feminist spaces.

Sarah Mae will read from her zine, "A Foreign Woman Needs Prophetic Powers," her most recent project, which spotlights the well-established social practice of banishing and exiling smart, outspoken women by deeming them "dangerous" and turning them into "bad witches," through a radical interpretation of the myth of Medea, who's most widely known as a jealous, filicidal villainess. Sarah Mae introduces a different Medea: an intelligent, fiercely strong feminist woman who is exiled from the spaces promised to her as safe havens again and again, and unites this perspective of Medea with her own contemporary experiences of being a queer feminist exile seeking community.

Elvis will present a comics slideshow, & talk about their new zine, "Homos in Herstory: 1950's Edition." The 1950's was arguably the worst decade in the 20th century for queer folk - in an atmosphere of hostility and isolation, how did queer people find each other, and create space to communicate safely? Elvis will talk about the signals, secret languages, and texts that facilitated queer connection during this time.

Dana will read from her zine "Introduce to Major Benefactor," a collection of prose poems about post-industrial spaces and relations between bodies, buildings, and capitalism. This collection intends to create more space for poetry and subjective expressions of alienation, friendship and possibility within an anarchist frame. Set primarily in Philadelphia and St. Louis, the poems chart a navigation of self and society through crumbling factories, gentrifying blocks, precarious homes, and once-industrial spaces reclaimed by forests. In exploring the deconstruction and construction around oneself it becomes clear there are many ways to interpret and act with or against these motions—recognizing and reclaiming bricks to throw or re-arrange, both literal bricks and those which construct bodies, gender, and social relations.