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Still working through that big stack of zines from Jimmy Dunson and Rebel Hearts Press, and we're down to the last thing: a paper back anthology of essays entitled Building Power While The Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power. It's really making my brain buzz with ideas! I'm only midway through, but so far my favorites are "Mutual Aid and Anti-Racist Organizing in Rural Appalachia" by Rural Organizing and Resilience, "Love My People: Following in the Footprints of the Panthers" by Suncere Ali Shakur, and "Survival Programs: Then And Now" by Malik Rahim (an old guy in his seventies who was part of the Black Panthers in the '70s). Like the other stuff from Rebel Hearts, it looks to be a paper-only release.

I just want to quote a few paragraphs from Shakur here, because... how could I NOT love this book? He cut his teeth on mutual aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, where black men were getting murdered as looters by vigilantes, cops, and others. It was not a safe time and place, and he describes the following events:

( The stories of Mike and No. 1 Gangster Killa )

Current Mood: hopeful

lb_lee

We uploaded Untouchable, a 4-page sketch comic about Rawlin's chronic and infectious health condition, and her self-loathing from it.

Mild content warnings for body horror, contagious chronic illness, and bad feelings from it.

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DOCTOR WHO

So I’m wondering, upon reflection, what story the Doctor Who writers thought they were telling last night?

I’m not so uncharitable as to take it for granted that RTD is consciously ripping off Catherynne Valente with the concept of Space Eurovision: it’s entirely likely that as his new era is QUEER AF Space Eurovision seemed like an obvious choice.

But then…honestly, the more I think about the episode, the more I wonder what they intended. ( Read more... )

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Sneak: after Trump came into office again, I did a cartomancy spiral using Portable Fortitude. It ended up so appropriate that I put the cards up as a ward on our walls at the appropriate directions! It’s been six months so I thought I would post them here before finally putting them away to rest. ^_^ Most are self-explanatory, I think!

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This is a short story for

pluralstories that I found in the sci-fi library, in an apparently impossible-to-find anthology called WomanSpace: Future and Fatnasy: Stories and Art by Women. It came from New Victoria Publishers, a long-shuttered feminist press. While digging around in the library archives, I stumbled upon it, and it's short enough that I decided to type it up here for plural posterity.

Mara
by Lois Metzger

I don't wear glasses, but I put them on. My mother's face was a blurry haze; her clothes were without detail, only color.

"Please give them back," she said. I took off the glasses and saw clear gray eyes and white hair. My mother was sixty-two.

"You won't cause any trouble?" sh said.

I listened and heard nothing. "No trouble," I said.

My mother cried. Mara told me a story: On my world people don't cry: their skin changes color. When they're happy they look yellow or red; when they're sad they turn dark blues and greens.

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lb_lee

Sooooo, the cat fosterer's landlord will not allow the cats to be kept more than two weeks, which means that by May 29th, we'll need more fosterers for the cats. I fucking hate this.

There are two elderly cats, no health problems, asides from sometimes allergies, and meds can be provided to mix into their food. If possible, it'd be great for the two cats to stay together, since they've spent their entire adult lives together, but considering how difficult this is already being...

Please spread word of this. We hope we can find a place for these cats.

Current Mood: drained

lb_lee

Guys, we have truly arrived as artists: someone is pirating our work in Florida!

( And it led to good things! No, really! )

Current Mood: bouncy

lb_lee

Pluralstories: Why We Did It Like That
Summary: "Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Never piss one off." --Spider Robinson
Word Count: 3450
Notes: Winner of the fan poll this month and sponsored by our fans at LiberaPay and Patreon! Derelict from a "plurals in video games" academic paper that didn't end up happening.

We first got the idea of making a catalog of plural stories in 2009, back when we were in library school. People seemed to want one, and we heard plenty of complaints along the lines of, "I just want to read a story about people like me!" but at best there were lists of a few favorites on a blog or (later on) in an itch.io collection. Arguably the closest thing to a comprehensive catalog was Nita and Anita's now-defunct Multiple Personality and Dissociation Book List, which after a decade in existence listed 161 books with keywords and reviews. However significant, it had major flaws: it was limited to books from a medical standpoint, used only vague keywords like "fiction" and "psychiatry", gave no description of what the books were actually about, and kept the reviews (the only place to find content descriptions) siloed off and organized by reviewer name, rather than book title. Something more comprehensive and searchable was needed.

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Current Mood: geeky

lb_lee

Took me a while, but I made an archive.org profile and am slowly uploading the multi stuff I've bookscanned and OCRed for posterity.

It is sloooooow as molasses, and I have over a hundred issues of Many Voices to upload, so it's definitely going to take a while.

Also hey, I uploaded that weird mysterious Wayfarer 1 vid, for those of who you were dying to see it! (Never uploading a vid again; I think I had to leave my computer for an hour or so.)

EDIT: made it through three issues uploaded and got clocked as spam because the metadata is nigh-identical except for the date. ...maybe I'll just upload them in year chunks, instead of each individual file, because holy crap otherwise I'll be in a hospital bed by the time I get the whole thing up.

lb_lee

EDIT: foster found!

Hey guys. A friend of ours in New Hampshire is becoming homeless and are in desperate need of someone to foster their two elderly cats, preferably by May 15. The cats have no health problems, asides from sometimes allergies, and meds can be provided to mix into their food.

If possible, it'd be great for the two cats to stay together, since they've spent their entire adult lives together, but this is an emergency.

Transit can be arranged to bring the cats to the fosterer.

Please spread word of this. We hope we can find a place for these cats.

lb_lee

Rogan/Mori: well, Open Studios was kinda a bust, and naturally the rainstorm broke right as we were dashing to the art show reception in between, but silver lining: we found the coolest book in a free box on the way!

It’s called “Lost Envoy: the Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare,” edited by Jonathan Allen. It’s published by Strange Attractor, some small UK publisher I’d never heard of, and it costs 30£ new, and for DAMN GOOD REASON.

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Current Mood: enthralled

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Reading

Building Power While The Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power

Untouchable is on healthymultiplicity.com!

Doctor Who, Eurovision, Murderbot

A Ward for Trump Times

Mara, by Lois Metzger (1981)

Emergency Cat Fostering Needed Again--New Hampshire or New England thereabouts

Jimmy Dunson, Rebel Hearts Publishing, and The Pirates of Florida

Pluralstories: Why We Did It Like That

Archive.org

Emergency Cat Fostering Needed--New Hampshire or New England thereabouts

Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare

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