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Here are some booklets, tapes, and crafts I’ve made. To order any of the items listed, choose your items, add up the cost, and send payment through paypal to bitte_ein_kuss (at) yahoo.com as a gift (to avoid fees). You can use this button:
Please include the following info: items, quality, your chosen price, shipping (combined shipping available—pay what you think is fair), and shipping address. Items are also available for wholesale. If you, your store, or distro would like to order quantities of 10 and up, I generally ask for 50% of the retail price. International shipping available. Add $3.75 or whatever is fair.
Everything is anti-copyright except the anthology Other Tongues. Reproduce, share and distribute freely—just please give credit. If you don’t have the $ for anything you are interested in, feel free to email me and I’d be glad to send you a free digital version (if such a version exists).
Love!
Zines, Pamphlets, and Books
36 pages, 1/2 size
sliding scale, email moonrootzine (at) gmail (dot) com to order
MOONROOT is an ongoing collective project about race, gender, and bodies created by Sine Hwang Jensen, Amy Dewan, Sun Hashmi, Marilla Li, monna wong, Jess Kealiihoalani Toshea Mease, jackie wang, mai c. đoàn, linda nguyễn, and Bhanu Kapil. The project is fairly open-ended and includes a range of perspectives. If you identify as an Asian womyn or gender variant person, we invite you to get in touch with us and contribute. If you order a copy from the collective, we have snazzy spray-painted color covers! The zine is also available for distribution.
C. Exigua (chapbook)
32 pages, 1/2 size
Buy from Birds of Lace Press
This chapbook contains 3 short stories. The first one is about a runaway tongue, bodies and their alien appendages, micro(scopic)-civilizations, and finding love in loss. (Philosophically, it’s kind of about “negative” freedom and the reunification of the dismembered body.) The second story is about a girl who has a face that makes everyone vomit, an overbearing mother, mass public puke zones, and the absurdity of narratives culminating in redemptive heterosexuality. The last one was inspired by Bhanu Kapil and Carole Maso. It’s about head injuries, best friends, and color hallucinations. Illustrations are by my partner Caroline Bren.
Birds of Lace is a feminist press from San Fransisco.
Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (anthology)
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302 pages, Inanna Publications
This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the 21st Century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the center, rather than periphery, of analysis. The anthology also serves as a place to learn about the social experiences, attitudes, and feelings of others, and what racial identity has come to mean today. Edited by Adebe Derango-Adem and Andrea Thompson.
The Phallic Titty Manifesto
20 pages, 1/4 size
$1-5 sliding scale + $1 shipping.
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This is an essay about bodies. It discusses the ambiguity of flesh, erotic lactation, Judith Butler, Louise Bourgeois, the lesbian phallus, unmaking and remaking bodies, expanding erogenous zones, and queer sex.
Shadow Ladies
36 pages, 1/2 size
$3-6 sliding scale + $1 shipping
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Shadow Ladies is a collection of short stories, flash fiction, and lyric essays. Some of the pieces that appear within this collection were turned into multimedia live performances. This booklet is ribbon bound and printed on ivory paper with a color cover.
The Adventures of Loneberry
40 Pages, 1/2 size
$2-5 sliding scale + $1 shipping
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From Microcosm Publishing:
“Adventures of Loneberry” is written by Jackie, the author of “On Being Hard Femme” zine. This is her perzine about bike tripping and general adventuring, in which she meets new people and visits old friends. She sums it up best when she writes: “This zine is about being a little person in the world and feeling fucking big – huge, even. Part tales of wild journeys, part critical reflections on being a queer mixed-race woman lone traveler. It’s about crushes. And letters. And shitting on the idea that adventure is a white boy thing.” I think that pretty much sums it up.
On Being Hard Femme #1
16 pages, 1/4 size
$1-2 sliding scale + $.50 shipping
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From Stranger Danger Distro:
A short guide on what it means to be strong, fierce and femme with further analysis on how race shapes others’ perceptions of femininity and sexuality. Jackie (“Memoirs of a Queer Hapa” zine) steps forth to fight the misconceptions and stereotypes in order to proudly assert herself as a hard femme.
The Vertigo of Falling #2
56 pages, 1/2 size
$2-6 sliding scale + $1 shipping
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This zine consists of essays, sketchbook pages, journal entries and letters from when I lived in Kunming, China. This work is an experiment in critical and creative memoir writing, and explores topics relating to family, culture, race, relationships, and language.
Memoirs of a Queer Hapa #1
28 pages. 1/4 size.
$1-2.50 sliding scale + $1 shipping
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This is an essay about childhood, family, identity, and the interplay between race and sexuality.
Memoirs of a Queer Hapa #2
18 pages, 1/2 size
$1.50-3 sliding scale + $1 shipping
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From Microcosm Publishing:
This is a must read for those that wish to challenge the definitions of identity that are forced upon us our entire lives. Jackie is a radical mixed-race Queer person in a world that prefers easily classified identities. In this second issue of Memoirs of a Queer Hapa, she writes about finding love and worth – of self and within activist communities. She also writes about being a product of language and history, the emergence of Queer Hapa identity (or anti-identity) in the U.S., and the notion of home.
Egg Days #1
8 pages, 1/2 size. Full color.
$2-5 sliding scale + $1 shipping
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This is an art comic zine in the style of the gag comic. It’s ribbon bound, printed on cardstock, and is in full color.
W.A.G.E. Project
We Are Good Enough is a writing project I do in my spare time. It usually involves a very immediate process of writing an essay, printing it out, and leaving copies of the printing essay around town or at whatever place I would wander to. These are some of the essay pamphlets I’ve made. They’re free. Feel free to print and distribute.
#1: An Anti-Manifesto Print Version
#2: An Open Letter to Myself and the World Read Issue 2 | Print Version
#3: Flight From the Body Read Issue 3 | Print Version
#4: Death, on the other hand, is the final silence Read Issue 4 | Print Version
#5: “Every griotte who dies is a whole library that burns down” Read Issue 5 | Print Version
#6: She’s Infinite Energy Read Issue 6 | Print Version
#7: We’re Going Home Read Issue 7 | Print Version
#8: Animals, Physics, and Sports: Note to a Dead Dog Read Issue 8 | Print Version
Music
Loneberry, Igneous Hand
Audio Cassette Tape, 12 tracks, 53 minutes
$4-8 sliding scale + $1.50 shipping
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This tape is nearly 53 minutes long, and features a mixture of songs and audio productions of stories that are experimental and magical in nature. There are also 2 live recordings of performances on side B. The case is a handmade block print that is printed on colored cardstock. Included is a 12 page mini booklet printed on ivory paper. Each tape is individually dubbed.
One-take vocal tracks and late-night experimentation. Lo-fi, electronic, and folk songs abound.
Side A: Songs (6 Tracks)
Side B: Stories (6 Tracks)
The track “igneous hand” features singing with my friend, Pilar. “The bugs and the others” features story telling w/ my favorite lonesome dove, Matthew. “Samantha, i will never know” and “the words of the worm” are part of a larger epistolary tragi-romance magic epic tale of two lonely souls and their lonesome companions, a whimsical worm and his faithful interpreter. collaboration with Matthew. “A history of laughter” is a meditation on the alienation of modern technology. Features friends, family, and lovers.
Limited edition Shadow Ladies/Igneous Hand pack
Cassette tape, chapbook, block prints
$10-25sliding scale + $2.50 shipping.
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I only 20 copies of this limited edition pack of stories, music, and prints. Each copy literally took hours to make.
- 3 original prints (block print, stamp print, stencil and hand crumpled paper)
- Recycled hardcover book encasement with block print cover
- Ribbon-bound edition of Shadow Ladies (collection of short stories). Printed on ivory paper with color covers
- Igneous Hand tape
- Tape held in with ribbon, booklet and prints carried in pocket
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