A selfie of myself showing off my very short hair

Chopped my hair yesterday and I feel like I lost 5 lbs of hair, such a freeing feeling. 💇‍♀️

Issue 4, the spring issue of Kenozia, in my hands. It has a dark cover with a hummingbird that is almost not visible and a purple flower.

The inside cover of issue 4 with the table of contents

It’s here!! It arrived early! Ahhh 😌

#zine #issue4

A graphic with a teal green background and some floral elements. It says- KENOZIA an arts & literary zine. SPRING ISSUE RELEASE PARTY! Wednesday, April 29th. Mocktail hour 5:30 pm | Live Music 6:30 pm. Reading & Panel Discussion to Follow Blue House Books | RSVP. It also has the BHB logo and the Sipster mobile bars logo with an arrow that says swipe!

A graphic with a teal green background. It also say’s KENOZIA an arts & literary zine. SPRING ISSUE RELEASE PARTY! Wednesday, April 29th. Live music featuring: r&b sjnger Leroy Booker. Pop singer Braxton Molinaro. RSVP required. It also has the photos of Leroy and Braxton.

A graphic with a teal green background. It also say’s KENOZIA an arts & literary zine. SPRING ISSUE RELEASE PARTY! Wednesday, April 29th. Flash fiction reading & Q&A with Greg York and the photo of Greg. It also says RSVP Required.

A graphic with a teal green background. It also say’s KENOZIA an arts & literary zine. SPRING ISSUE RELEASE PARTY! Wednesday, April 29th. Kenosha murals project panel- then it has four photos of the people participating. Francisco Loyola, Nathan Upham, Leeanna Chipana, and Danny Villanueva jr. it also says RSVP required

I really can’t wait for our release party! It’s going to be so much fun! Come celebrate with us 🎉

More information and to rsvp here: withfriends.co/event/276939...

#zines

TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.

Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.

Your Tax Day reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and the poor.

Don't let billionaires fool you into thinking we shouldn't tax the rich.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

I am hearing Amazon just fucked up a sports broadcast. Boo!

They also worked a guy to death in a warehouse last week and then told a tearful worker who wanted to help give CPR to look away and keep working.

A funfetti cake on a pan with sprinkles all over it, with one birthday candle, in the shape of a skull.

Behold, my beautiful funfetti skull-shaped birthday cake, bc I am an adult. 3️⃣7️⃣

Join me at the next Kenozia release party! We are going to have a mocktail hour at 5:30 pm and then TWO musical performances followed by two panels. It’s going to be a great time! I’m so excited about this issue! 🎉

#local #community

Today is also 2 weeks being sick. 2 whole damn weeks and I haven’t been able to go to the gym.

Losing my shit over here. 😅

Today’s my birthday, turned 37. Here’s to another year of surviving. 🎉

Surprisingly, my dad remembered the correct day this year and sent me a birthday text. Maybe he can change…. lol nah.

Just sent issue 4 of Kenozia to the printers. Finished this zine while sick, so fingers crossed I didn’t mess anything up. 😅😅😅 also this one is big, 48 pages. Phew.

one day you walked out of Blockbuster for the very last time and you never even knew it

The strangest thing about being sick this time is that I cannot sleep. I’m exhausted and can’t keep my eyes open, but I can’t fully sleep. It feels like I’m always half awake. 🫥

Been sick since Tuesday and this one has really knocked me on my ass. I don’t get sick often but when I do, I’m out for the count. And of course when it’s right up against my deadline to get the next zine out. 😭

I’m fine. This is fine… 🔥

It's actually really fucked up watching so many people clamor to watch a new television series created by a woman who has proudly bragged she'll use the money she makes to try and kill my entire community.

“New Mexico got a historic $375 million jury verdict in the first of several cases nationwide against Meta.”

Yesterday I heard a “did Instagram make your teen depressed? Join our class action lawsuit” ad on the radio. Knives are out. I hope every state and every parent sues Meta into oblivion.

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines Let us know if you see more.

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE)

www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

This is brilliant and clear, funny campaigns like this should be taken up everywhere. There’s nothing the heads of these companies like less than being mocked & creating salient & coherent cultural backlash against what everyone feels is a pathway to interrupt and slow some enshittification.

Seriously spread this clip around so people can start being aware at how fucking stupid the MAHA people are. Good on SNL for mocking the shit out of them.

"My parents died after getting the covid vaccine." THE PUNCHLINE TO THAT!!!

Whenever you get the temptation to say “no one else cares,” remember that we’re in a massive propaganda ecosystem intended to isolate and demobilize us.

And then go find five people that care and ask them if they need any help. Our hope is restored through the work and the community.

Oh hey, come bring your kids this Saturday to BHB and get their faces painted by me! 🎨

I don't want to hear the eventual mewling. It absolutely DOES matter that state TV is doctoring footage.

Every couple of months I think, why don’t I try something new with my coffee order… and each time I do, I regret it. Today I tried the Almond Brittle Latte and I’m forcing myself to drink it. Its pure sugar 🤢

I think I just like the actual taste of coffee over anything else.