Mend My Dress Press

02/27/2022

It’s been forever since we’ve posted-but we finally have some news! We put together this collection of items to support ‘s moving fundraising auction. There are a ton of other amazing things available too-link in our bio.❤️❤️❤️

11/05/2020

New in the shop:🌸 Vo describes the effects of different types of trauma and how they can come up in daily interactions. ideas and advice on building resiliency for your self and how to support your community. These pages hold incredibly useful information, along with compassion. the colors of the pages and the handwritten letters are so soothing. this book is a blessing.
106 pages. Full color.

09/05/2020

So excited for tomorrow!!!!

We're excited to be hosting two panels during this year's festival, and you can watch them LIVE at kczinecon.com! 🌟 Can't watch the panels live? No worries! We'll be posting the video capture of the discussions on our website. The panels will be automatically captioned, and after the festival, we will be replacing the auto-generated captions with professionally-written captions thanks to our sponsor, Moosader. 🙌

Join us on Saturday for a panel about astrology, healing and witchcraft, with Ailin Lu, Neelybat Chestnut, Nikki Manor, and Rayne Klar; and on Sunday for a conversation with BIPOC zinesters featuring Alexa Lima, Carmen Pizarro, Jonas Cannon, and Kayla Shaggy. 🤩

08/30/2020

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Shop now and always.

06/02/2020

We’ve spent the past few days sifting through our massive collection of zine PDFs and have uploaded lots of zines dealing with black history and struggle, privilege, allyship, policing, legal rights, activism, and protest tactics.

These are free. Please donate your money to POC causes, bail and medical funds, and supplies.

Share this material widely and enjoy:

https://www.sherwoodforestzinelibrary.org/recently-added-pdfs-links



NOTE: we are taking free zine submissions so please email us at [email protected] if you have a zine you’d like us to share.

05/11/2020

reviewed !! It’s going to be in the print edition, that, from what I can tell is not available in the US. The German language review reads as follows-maybe some of you read German? I’m going to include what came out of the google translate machine too—
Unsichtbare Wunden

Er gilt als unaussprechlich oder als Empfindung, die sprachlos macht, etwas, das die Sinne trübt und die Wahrnehmung nach Innen lenkt – in Rückbezug auf einen Körper, der sich unter Tränen langsam auflöst: chronischer Schmerz. Nicht immer hat er eindeutige Ursachen, stellt keine Genesung in Aussicht, kündigt sich nicht an und ist doch präsent – als Tatsache, die für Außenstehende unsichtbar bleibt, denen, die sie kennen, aber so viel Kraft abverlangt, dass das Überspielen selbst zur Kunst wird. Aus diesen Erfahrungen haben die Autor*innen von „When Language Runs Dry: An Anthology for People with Chronic Pain and Their Allies” ein Pain-Zine gemacht und ihren durch Fibromyalgie, PCOS, MS und anderes bedingten Schmerzen Gesichter gegeben. In „Sick. A visual Account of invisible Disabilities“ lässt Annie Murphy sie wie Monster aussehen, die sich nicht von verständnislosen Mitmenschen unterscheiden, Jonah Aline Daniel richtet an seine/ihre tauben Arme einen Liebesbrief und Sunny Drake ein Manifest gegen eine kapitalistische Gesellschaftsordnung. Gerade weil die Folgeschmerzen nicht von Innen kommen, sind die Bilder und Texte dieser Anthologie vor allem eines: Manchmal romantische, dann wiederum humorvolle Schutzschilder gegen ableistische Zuschreibungen, die kein zweites Mal verwunden werden. [barbara eder]

04/26/2020

Left Bank Books have been a wonderful supportive space for Mend My Dress Press over the years-hosting readings and always being excited to have our work in stock. Please join me in helping them out during this time.❤️

Left Bank Books is a radical bookstore in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Since 1973, we hav… Left Bank needs your support for Support Left Bank Books Collective

02/04/2020

We are so exited to announce that our anthology of When Language Runs Dry is finally up for presale! Books ordered now will ship as soon as copies arrive from the printer. Thank you to everyone who believed and supported us!

This is a pre sale listing-we are in the process of printing and the books will go out as soon as they arrive, it might be as long as the third...

09/16/2019

Colleen Twombly Borst has working with two of her friends who have created this incredible oracle deck for you all. It's a queer/trans/SW affirming deck and an absolute beauty to behold. I was lucky to see some of the test prints, and they are stunning. please pledge and help support this amazing project. xoxo--neelybat

An oracle deck of magical resistance for the radical witch.

08/23/2019