Magpies Press

18/06/2025

APPLY PRESSURE ✊
May oras pa! Boykot Frankfurt Book Fair na!

18/06/2025

This year, dadalo bilang Guest of Honor ang Pilipinas sa Frankfurt Book Fair sa Germany. Kami at ang aming friends from small independent presses, komiks, writers, and zine community, urge you and everyone else to BOYCOTT THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR.‼️ Period no erase fax no printer cross our hearts and hope to die! 🙅‍♀️🫀

“You don’t negotiate with a victim of genocide. You do what they’re asking to support them.”
Komikeros for Palestine reminded us of our collective responsibility to Palestinians to HEED THEIR CALL to boycott the book fair and all institutions that support Zionism. We have a responsibility to each other to prevent Germany and cultural institutions, both local and foreign, from further using our labor, our art, and our taxes to perfume their reputation—dahil hindi lang sila complicit, active collaborator din sila sa genocide ng Israel sa Palestine. If you refuse to see and acknowledge this, and fail to act on it, you are enabling this too.

Paalala nga ng Makò Micro-Press mula sa isang found sticker na “Friends don’t let friends support genocide.” 🫂

This is not an opportunity to network!
This is our opportunity to show our solidarity!

END THE GENOCIDE!
FREE PALESTINE!
BOYCOTT THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR! 🇵🇸

16/06/2025

Boykot Frankfurt Book Fair! End the genocide! Free Palestine!

Hinihikayat namin ang lahat ng mga mambabasa ng mga akdang Pinoy na kontakin ang mga kinagigiliwan nilang Pilipinong manunulat at manlilimbag na pupunta ng Frankfurt Book Fair at ilapit sa kanila ang kampanyang iboykot ito.

Zionistang institusyon ang Frankfurt Book Fair. Ang makinarya nito ay ginagamit upang gawing katanggap-tanggap ang henosidyo ng Israel sa Palestina. Palalakasin lang ang nasabing makinarya ng patuloy na partisipasyon rito, lalo na sa kaso ng Pilipinas, na dadalo pa ngayong taon bilang Guest of Honour. Pinakamalinaw na paraan ang boykot para harangin ang “business as usual” sa FBF, isiwalat ang pagiging sangkot ng FBF sa henosidyo, at pahinain ang makinaryang sumusuporta sa pagbura ng Palestina.

Ang panawagan na iboykot ang FBF ay pinangungunahan ng mga Palestino. Hikayatin natin ang mga manunulat at manlilimbag na bahagi ng Philippine Guest-of-Honor delegation na makinig sa kanila.

Boykot Frankfurt Book Fair! End the genocide! Free Palestine!

13/06/2025

Kitakits bukas!

BUKAS NA!

BAKIT BOYKOT? A conversation and zine-sharing and trading on Palestine and the Frankfurt Book Fair

June 14, 2025 / 2PM to 5PM at Common Room, the Atrium, Makati

In October 2023, the Frankfurt Book Fair expressly stated that it “stands with complete solidarity on the side of Israel,” a position made even clearer by the Fair’s cancellation of the awarding ceremony for Palestinian author Adania Shibli. In January 2025, a call to boycott the FBF was launched by the international network Publishers for Palestine, after the FBF’s repeated refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, cut ties with institutions and corporations that support the brutal Israeli occupation, and spotlight Palestine in FBF programming.After a decade-long campaign, the Philippines is slated to be FBF Guest of Honour in October 2025. Why should we join the boycott? Are there ways for us to compel the FBF to fulfill the boycott’s demands without actually joining the boycott? What is there to gain from a GoH stint now visibly entangled in FBF’s firm and willful complicity in the relentless extermination of Palestine? What is there to lose in maintaining separation between FBF participation and solidarity with the Palestinian struggle?

Walk-ins are welcome, although seating is limited!

10/06/2025

📢 RE-CALL FOR ZINE CONTRIBUTIONS

If you are interested in contributing your zines to the library, send us an eMail at belatx(at)gmail(dot)com.

BOYKOT FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR! FREE PALESTINE!

RE-CALL FOR ZINE CONTRIBUTIONS

We have been slowly building a zine library on Palestine with zines made freely available by international organisations like Publishers For Palestine and Librarians & Archivists With Palestine. We hope to add more from Filipino zinesters, so we are looking for more zines and other print materials like komix, posters, flyers, bookmarks, stickers, et al, made by you and your friends to add to the collection.

One of the zines that will be available for reading and trading on June 14 is Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s story “This Sea is Mohammad al-Khatib’s,” published by Paper Trail Projects with illustrations by Apol Sta Maria. We are humbled, honoured, and eternally grateful that Ms Shibli has granted us permission to print a limited number of copies of her work for inclusion in the zine library.

The zine library is free to read and also open for trades, so if you want to trade your own zines on Palestine with other available zines in the library (as long as there are multiple copies of it), we can do that instead.

We plan to have the library with us in all the expos and fora and other in-person events we will organise in the future, the first of which is this coming June 14’s discussion on Palestine and the Frankfurt Book Fair Boycott campaign in the Common Room at Atrium, Makati.

If you are interested in contributing your zines to the library, send us an eMail at belatx(at)gmail(dot)com.

BOYKOT FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR! FREE PALESTINE!

01/06/2025

26/05/2025

🇵🇸📒 BAKIT BOYKOT?
A conversation and zine-sharing and trading on Palestine and the Frankfurt Book Fair
📌 June 14, 2025
📌 2PM to 5PM
📌 Common Room, the Atrium, Makati
As the Philippines is set to be the Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair this October, join us for a discussion on the Frankfurt Book Fair, the ongoing demands for a boycott, and the necessity of our continued efforts in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.
Registration slots are already full, but we still hope to see you there!
tinyurl.com/boykotfrankfurt
🎨 Art made by Komikeros for Palestine volunteer.

🇵🇸📒 BAKIT BOYKOT?
A conversation and zine-sharing and trading on Palestine and the Frankfurt Book Fair
📌 June 14, 2025
📌 2PM to 5PM
📌 Common Room, the Atrium, Makati

As the Philippines is set to be the Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair this October, join us for a discussion on the Frankfurt Book Fair, the ongoing demands for a boycott, and the necessity of our continued efforts in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.

Registration slots are already full, but we still hope to see you there!
tinyurl.com/boykotfrankfurt

🎨 Art made by Komikeros for Palestine volunteer.

26/05/2025

Kasangkot ang Frankfurt Book Fair sa kampanya ng Israel ng paggamit ng kultura upang burahin ang kultura ng iba. Hindi ito tunay na world capital of ideas kung hindi kasama ang Palestina!

Heto ang ilang mga kuwento na hindi mo mababasa sa Frankfurt Book Fair: https://www.index-of-repression.org

Boykot Frankfurt Book Fair!

24/05/2025

Lumipad ang aming team sa Tacloban ✈️🌥️

As part of UP Tacloban College's celebration of National Literature Month 📖✨, we were invited by the Division of Humanities to hold an introductory lecture and facilitate a workshop on zine-making ✂️🖍️ last April 2. We got to talk about and share with students what we hold dear: DIY production and care and collective work. 🤝

From the history and definition of zines 📚 to how they have evolved into DIY practices and communities, we shared how these have been adapted over time to build and sustain systems of making in the hands of hobbyists, enthusiasts, and nonprofessionals. We also touched on the values, politics, and dynamics at play in organizing conversations and alternative initiatives on creative production. 🛠🔄

Zines from our archive and those shared by friends were also passed around during the lecture. Participants browsed different manifestations of the medium in terms of form, theme, and process.

By the end of the workshop, there were zines on various issues and experiences of women—from Catholic and conservative suppression to mainstream representations of women’s bodies—and zines critical of “official” state representations of Tacloban and its local dynastic politics, just to name a few!

We are grateful to UP Tacloban’s Humanities professors—especially Prof. Jessa Amarille and Pauline Arnould—and their students who participated in the workshop for trusting us with their space and stories, and for looking after us. 🫂❤️‍🔥

19/05/2025

BAKIT BOYKOT?
A conversation and zine-sharing and trading on Palestine and the Frankfurt Book Fair

June 14, 2025 / 2PM to 5PM at Common Room, the Atrium, Makati

In October 2023, the Frankfurt Book Fair expressly stated that it “stands with complete solidarity on the side of Israel,” a position made even clearer by the Fair’s cancellation of the awarding ceremony for Palestinian author Adania Shibli. In January 2025, a call to boycott the FBF was launched by the international network Publishers for Palestine, after the FBF’s repeated refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, cut ties with institutions and corporations that support the brutal Israeli occupation, and spotlight Palestine in FBF programming.

After a decade-long campaign, the Philippines is slated to be FBF Guest of Honour in October 2025. Why should we join the boycott? Are there ways for us to compel the FBF to fulfill the boycott’s demands without actually joining the boycott? What is there to gain from a GoH stint now visibly entangled in FBF’s firm and willful complicity in the relentless extermination of Palestine? What is there to lose in maintaining separation between FBF participation and solidarity with the Palestinian struggle?

Free for all. Register here: tinyurl.com/boykotfrankfurt

BAKIT BOYKOT?
A conversation and zine-sharing and trading on Palestine and the Frankfurt Book Fair
June 14, 2025 / 2PM to 5PM at Common Room, the Atrium, Makati

In October 2023, the Frankfurt Book Fair expressly stated that it “stands with complete solidarity on the side of Israel,” a position made even clearer by the Fair’s cancellation of the awarding ceremony for Palestinian author Adania Shibli. In January 2025, a call to boycott the FBF was launched by the international network Publishers for Palestine, after the FBF’s repeated refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, cut ties with institutions and corporations that support the brutal Israeli occupation, and spotlight Palestine in FBF programming.

After a decade-long campaign, the Philippines is slated to be FBF Guest of Honour in October 2025. Why should we join the boycott? Are there ways for us to compel the FBF to fulfill the boycott’s demands without actually joining the boycott? What is there to gain from a GoH stint now visibly entangled in FBF’s firm and willful complicity in the relentless extermination of Palestine? What is there to lose in maintaining separation between FBF participation and solidarity with the Palestinian struggle?

Free for all. Register here: tinyurl.com/boykotfrankfurt

30/03/2025

Kitakits! 👋

UP Tacloban College Division of Humanities opens its celebration of the National Literature Month 2025 with Zine-Making with Magpies Press: A Workshop on Independent Literary Production on 2 April 2025, 8:30 AM-12:00 NN, at the Humanities Laboratory of UP Tacloban College.

Magpies Press members Jecko Sanjorjo and Fiona Ricci Cardino are the resource speakers of the workshop. They will discuss the history and evolution of DIY publishing in the Philippines and facilitate the workshop proper.

Students of BA Literature and BA Communication Arts (Literature and Creative Writing) programs are invited to the event. Register for the workshop here: https://forms.gle/A3ithixLBpi7Z7iE8

The workshop is the new addition to DH's Panuratan series of lecture-workshops on Eastern Visayas literary production, history, and translation.

21/02/2025

RIP DADDY 🙏☠️😥

presents: TOUGH TWELVE 🕯️⚰️🪦 The Daddy Digong Zine 🕯️⚰️🪦
For Magpies’ 12th year, we present twelve most iconic Magpies thingzzz 🐦‍⬛

Para sa alaala ng yumao nating ama you will always be famous

Ito na ata ang pinakamahirap na zine na ginawa ng Magpies ever. Released in 2017, the Daddy Digong zine is a handmade photo album of our members’ childhood photos superimposed with Rodrigo Duterte’s face. Behind every photograph is a handwritten anecdote of memories with their fictional father meant to allude to current state crises.

Each photograph is photoshopped, printed on photo paper and glued together with matte paper printed with camera watermark and handwritten text to simulate an old photograph. The plastic pages of the photo album were also made by hand. Each film of plastic burned over candle flame to seal the edges. The album pages were then compiled by two metal fasteners. Because of its handmade nature, we released very very limited copies of this zine.

CNN Philippines featured it as one of the “best Filipino books of 2017” and again as one of Adam David’s 2018 summer reading list. Wala nang resibo kasi defunct na yung CNN website!

The second edition of the Daddy Digong zine is an even smaller photo album made out of an album keychain. Each photograph was resized to around 4x6” and painstakingly cut one by one.
It was released in 2022.

Salamat sa lahat ng nagtatanong kung meron pang Daddy Digong zine. Hayaan na natin siyang mamahinga. Yung buhay na lang yung guluhin natin.

Read more about it and other Magpies’ related work in this Jacket2 feature by Shaunnah Cledera:
https://jacket2.org/article/intimate-texts-against-state-emergency

Magpies’ Cargo:
https://cargocollective.com/magpiespress

🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥
SEE YOU TOMORROW FOR THE
🎀 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗖𝘂𝘁𝗲 🎀

🗓 February 22, 2025 (Saturday)
🕒 3:00 - 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Eco Eco, Diamond St., Umali Subd!
💌 Snacks are on us 💌