Yeaaa I'm still paying off those student loans that helped me survive almost 20 years later...

How on earth did you survive?

A younger friend asked me how I survived the Great Recession as a HS graduate:

- worked 3 random part-time jobs
- unpaid internships
- slept in my car & on couches
- student loans w/ high interest
- food banks & stealing
- drugs & booze

I think I'll write a zine about those special times.

I had a super lovely time at the Bisbee Zine Fest this weekend! It was great to see friends and meet new folks. Thanks to the organizers and volunteers for another great year! ✨

It's always so good to see you!! ✨✨

I legit said aloud "whose hair is that?" when I saw it.

Who needs a hair stylist when you have a paper trimmer? 😂

Learn from my lesson and put your hair up haha

Got some extremely cute film back from my trip to Tucson Zine Fest and @wastedinkdistro.bsky.social 😊

All of these people self-published at some point in their work:

Margaret Atwood
Stephen King
Beatrix Potter
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
Walt Whitman
Virginia Woolf

Benjamin Fucking Franklin might be your table neighbor at a zine fest if he was alive today.

One of the things I find so incredibly fulfilling each day I do WIZD work, is the high level of creativity I'm met with in every direction. It's so colorful and exciting all the time. Each of you have such incredible and exciting ideas, thank you

What zines do you read when your heart is heavy? Asking for a friend

I'm looking forward to the Northern AZ book fest coming up this weekend and then the Bisbee Zine Fest the next weekend! Can't wait! ✨

We're gonna waste some ink with dis. Ty therespace for prepping screens for us 🩵

Put myself to work @wastedinkdistro.bsky.social

My old-ass zines on da freakin wall @wastedinkdistro.bsky.social

In honor of being in our new space for one year, I'm writing a blog about all the folks that helped make our space beautiful. From resurfacing walls to our new signage, this space is a massive community project. Can't believe it's been a whole year!! 😍

So excited to finally visit the new @wastedinkdistro.bsky.social location this week!!!!!

Zines laid out in overlapping rows to read: My body is learning to say something. Troubleshooting silence in Arizona as an animal. If you’d like to hear it /// I can sing it for you. I will bare fruit. Lost in the sun. Collaboration. Many gods no masters. You can’t bring me down.

I constructed a found-poetry piece using zine titles and I feel a bit better. @wastedinkdistro.bsky.social comes in clutch to help me ground myself once again.

Sooo how many countries so far have issued a national emergency due to the fuel shortages? Some have begun sending their staff to wfh or do 4x11 schedules. 😬

Hi everyone, I started a GFM for my cat Moxie who started passing bloody urine and clots. She's currently in the emergency pet clinic getting the help she needs. My partner and I would really appreciate your support in paying for her care. Donating or sharing. Thank you❤️

gofund.me/85168a70f

*closing their store front. Statements show their publication services will continue and possibly more.

can you help boost/share/support this family in the central neighborhood of minneapolis? ICE is still active here in smaller numbers than before, but they’re still taking our neighbors, there are so many folks are trying to stabilize.

V: colocha_rachel
$: ColochaRachel
Dm Rachel for Zelle

Silver Sprocket is closing, please send funds to the staff they're laying off if you can! Funds will help cover 2 months of pay as they look for other work.

Dang

And Saturday:
Sleeping in, coffee made at home, hanging with the pups, lunch with friends, and attending the stolen land fest

Ahhh

Also understanding that many more people might not survive.

I'm kinda feeling *worried* about the summer heat and the energy crisis and I'm thinking us desert dwellers are going to need to drastically reconsider what surviving the summer looks like. 😬

The past 10 biz days:
I'm a circus clown juggling:
4 rescheduled shifts
1 cancelled event
3 visits from AC tech
1 grant app submitted
1 grant report submitted
1 article submitted for publication
1 annual report completed
1 house guest
taxes 🤮
And zine fest prep for next week.

If you wanna book a zine or art skills workshop for this summer, now is the time to reach out! Let's do something rad

It's supposed to be 106° in Phoenix this week. We're moving up our initial water bottle drive. It's going to be a hellish summer, esp with the impending energy crisis. 😬