What are you reading Wednesday
Nov. 1st, 2023 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frandroidWhat are you currently reading? nuttin'.
What Have You Finished Reading:
So I went to meet Kawai Shen to grab some zines from her. Kawai is one of the best zinesters in Toronto. Completely understands the medium, and has produced multiple types of zines. She has a microzine series of interviews with some people she admires. She has some zines about relationships. She make comics. She has a fun zine about sex recipes...
So after I grabbed my zines from her, I ended up sitting in a local bar to grab a pint, and I pulled some /other/ zines from my backpack. Turns out I had some of the stuff I had picked up at Canzine. One of the things was not actually a zine, but a small book with two short stories. One coincidentally happened to be Missionary, by none other than Shen herself. It features the horniest climate activist you will ever meet, who gets turned on by protesting and ends up in an underground activist cell, which, huh, gets busy. I was reminded of Bruce LaBruce's Raspberry Reich. It's a short story so Shen wastes no time, and the sex is fast and furious.
On the flip side of that is a story titled Deliverance by Whitney Mallett. The main character is a woman who is stuck in isolation at home due to a COVID infection. At the end of her isolation, she suddenly finds herself horny and hungry... She is bewildered by the options of what you can get on delivery (the author literally spends a whole page describing the various dish options you could get from Toronto's multicultural restaurant scene) and finally settles for something. When the delivery rider comes with her food, you kind of roll your eyes at the pizza delivery boy trope but before you know it, the story's gone full hentai. Weeee!!!
This is put out by Tamara Faith Berger's Smutburger imprint, if you need some sort of referral.
Zine (in a more lowkey register): Gem House by Rabeea and Jade. Cool comic zine by two young women (possibly from the GTA?) who live as roommates in Montréal and have fun discovering life there. Gorgeously printed in riso. Clever takes on how their backgrounds (one is a white woman, the other is a South Asian hijabi) impact how they deal with the city.
What Have You Finished Reading:
So I went to meet Kawai Shen to grab some zines from her. Kawai is one of the best zinesters in Toronto. Completely understands the medium, and has produced multiple types of zines. She has a microzine series of interviews with some people she admires. She has some zines about relationships. She make comics. She has a fun zine about sex recipes...
So after I grabbed my zines from her, I ended up sitting in a local bar to grab a pint, and I pulled some /other/ zines from my backpack. Turns out I had some of the stuff I had picked up at Canzine. One of the things was not actually a zine, but a small book with two short stories. One coincidentally happened to be Missionary, by none other than Shen herself. It features the horniest climate activist you will ever meet, who gets turned on by protesting and ends up in an underground activist cell, which, huh, gets busy. I was reminded of Bruce LaBruce's Raspberry Reich. It's a short story so Shen wastes no time, and the sex is fast and furious.
On the flip side of that is a story titled Deliverance by Whitney Mallett. The main character is a woman who is stuck in isolation at home due to a COVID infection. At the end of her isolation, she suddenly finds herself horny and hungry... She is bewildered by the options of what you can get on delivery (the author literally spends a whole page describing the various dish options you could get from Toronto's multicultural restaurant scene) and finally settles for something. When the delivery rider comes with her food, you kind of roll your eyes at the pizza delivery boy trope but before you know it, the story's gone full hentai. Weeee!!!
This is put out by Tamara Faith Berger's Smutburger imprint, if you need some sort of referral.
Zine (in a more lowkey register): Gem House by Rabeea and Jade. Cool comic zine by two young women (possibly from the GTA?) who live as roommates in Montréal and have fun discovering life there. Gorgeously printed in riso. Clever takes on how their backgrounds (one is a white woman, the other is a South Asian hijabi) impact how they deal with the city.
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Date: 2023-11-01 11:09 am (UTC)Hahaha that sounds incredible.
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Date: 2023-11-01 02:16 pm (UTC)I just remembered I have a bunch of old issues of the Atomic Elbow wrestling zine that I should reread.
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Date: 2023-11-01 09:10 pm (UTC)LOL, sniff
It looks like one of those zines where I care not one bit about the topic but the people are so passionate that it hits my sweet spot in terms of what I seek when reading zines... :)