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BrownRecluseZineDistro

@brownreclusezinedistro / brownreclusezinedistro.tumblr.com

BRZD isa zine distro dedicated to centering zines written by People of Color. BRZD's goal is to provide one place to find POC zines instead of spending forever on the internet. brownreclusezinedistro.webs.com brownreclusezinedistro.bigcartel.com
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*DO U WANNA HELP SPONSOR BRZD??* Donation options @ bottom of this post 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 It's an important goal to have BRZD be present at events that center marginalized experiences. I am hoping to table at NAH FAIR at the end of Feburary, but cannot afford it, so i am reaching out for help! LA ONDA presents NAH FAIR, they are an LA-based crew that actively works against capital and it's outcomes; a screamingly obvious and immediately pressing outcome of capitalism in LA is harmful af rapid gentrification. It's vital to be critical of how creatives--artists,&writers are complacent of and contribute to gentrification and displacement, and how white artists co-opt and straight up steal from black and brown artists. So here's a call out for ~FUNDRAISING HELP TO SPONSOR Brown Recluse Zine Distro can be able to attend NAH FAIR in LA, February 24&25th. Fund$ are to support airfare & the cost of a full table, as well as reordering from artists and printing materials. Just like Brown Recluse, NAH Fair doesn't do any work for profit, we do this for our communities. all $ gets funneled back into our projects. SUPPORT QTPOC REPRESENTATION ! ! ! ((ALL of the distro's sales goes directly to support artists directly and reprinting material by hand, with any left over profit being donated--so this is a specific sponsorship fundraising callout ! )) *BRZD -to- NAH SPONSORSHIP GOAL IS $300 * TO DONATE ---- BRZD bigcartel: http://www.brownreclusezinedistro.bigcartel.com/product/donation PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/ElenaCorinne Cash: $upsetting Venmo: @upsetting DONATORS--- Send a message with your address if you want a lil "thank you" gift !

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we aren't very active on Tumblr anymore- but follow us on FB and ig (@brownreclusezinedistro) or our website (we just redid the whole thing) to receive updates on new titles, events we'll be tabling, projects we support, etc. xoxo Http://www.brownreclusezinedistro.com

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empower yoself before you wreck yoself: native american feminist musings" is one of our best selling zines and often sells out! while we wait to restock... did you know Native American Feminist Musings also has two more zines? Check out "The Nizhoni Beat" and the newest "Shi'kis ShiHeart" on the BRZD online shop 💝💙💜 #POCzines#brownreclusezinedistro #nativeamericanfeministmusings

http://www.brownreclusezinedistro.bigcartel.com/

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We have been quite active and very busy- adding more zine titles every week and doing lots of fun events - but we just don't have access to posting on this website as often as we do on our other sites!!

For the newest updates, follow Brown Recluse Zine Distro on Facebook or Instagram !

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BRZD operates mostly on punk time/zine time and every order is ribbon-wrapped with a handwritten note. snail mail time may be frustrating to some in this ~age of technology~ but thank you all for yr patience! BRZD operates very DIY i reprint most of our titles on lunch breaks, scavenge for recycled paper and ribbon, try to figure out the internet and keep up to date on inventory between jobs.. with the increase of sales, there will be longer waiting times. if you want it quicker, come help! ✂️

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thank you to everyone who came out and supported QTPOC zines atOlympia Zine Fest this past weekend !

it was such an honor to meet Osa Atoe of Shotgun Seamstress, who has been a friend of the distro for a while. also so lovely to meet and connect with new pals and new artists~ thx for everything!!! special shout out to my pals in a collective i have recently been working with here in oly, KUMON, for the release of their first zine and for watching my table whenever i needed breaks 💕

i picked up a few new titles for the shop (can you tell i sat next to my pal Vo of An Out Recordings, who makes one of my fave zines FIX MY HEAD ??) and also put the few remaining cute ass totes on the online shop on sliding scale that comes w some buttons too bc why not

XOXOXOXO

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NW friends come hang out with us at Olympia Zine Fest next Saturday, October 1st at The Olympia Center 222 Columbus St NW 11am-5pm !

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• BROWN RECLUSE ZINE DISTRO • • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS •

“Zine culture is not white culture. D.I.Y. culture is not white culture. Punk is not inherently white culture. So in the spirit of resistance, in the spirit of visibility and in the spirit of celebrating our cultures and intersectionality: Brown Recluse Zine Distro.”

BRZD IS NOW LOOKING FOR NEW ZINES! We have all different kinds of zines (personal zines, political zines, DIY how-to zines) abt all sorts of stuff: racism, gender, sexuality, punk, sex work, feminism, addiction, recovery, harm reduction, anarchism, racism, teaching, self care, antioppression wok, accountability, herbalism, food, traditions, mental health, community activism, traveling, touring, bands, accountability processes, parenting, &more!

we’re open to all sorts of stuff! our criteria is p loose but we have an especially HARD NO to anything that includes hateful content towards trans folks, sex workers, and/or substance users.

please share this CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS far & wide!!

looking forward to continuing to support black & brown zine writers ❤️

xoxo

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not only have we restocked one of our best sellers,  Black Women & Self Care: Thoughts on Mental Health Oppression and Healing, BRZD received fifty of these AMAZING postcards from the zine's author, Naomi Moyer of élastiquedesigns, a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Toronto, Canada. We will be selling the above designs plus many more for $2 at our table at OLYMPIA ZINE FEST October 1st & 2nd -- "Let's start a dialogue - with postcards! Send to friends, family, a mentor or someone you know who is experiencing racial angst." 

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• BROWN RECLUSE ZINE DISTRO • • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS •

“Zine culture is not white culture. D.I.Y. culture is not white culture. Punk is not inherently white culture. So in the spirit of resistance, in the spirit of visibility and in the spirit of celebrating our cultures and intersectionality: Brown Recluse Zine Distro.”

BRZD IS NOW LOOKING FOR NEW ZINES! We have all different kinds of zines (personal zines, political zines, DIY how-to zines) abt all sorts of stuff: racism, gender, sexuality, punk, sex work, feminism, addiction, recovery, harm reduction, anarchism, racism, teaching, self care, antioppression wok, accountability, herbalism, food, traditions, mental health, community activism, traveling, touring, bands, accountability processes, parenting, &more!

we’re open to all sorts of stuff! our criteria is p loose but we have an especially HARD NO to anything that includes hateful content towards trans folks, sex workers, and/or substance users.

please share this CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS far & wide!!

looking forward to continuing to support black & brown zine writers ❤️

xoxo

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• BROWN RECLUSE ZINE DISTRO • • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS •

“Zine culture is not white culture. D.I.Y. culture is not white culture. Punk is not inherently white culture. So in the spirit of resistance, in the spirit of visibility and in the spirit of celebrating our cultures and intersectionality: Brown Recluse Zine Distro.”

BRZD IS NOW LOOKING FOR NEW ZINES! We have all different kinds of zines (personal zines, political zines, DIY how-to zines) abt all sorts of stuff: racism, gender, sexuality, punk, sex work, feminism, addiction, recovery, harm reduction, anarchism, racism, teaching, self care, antioppression wok, accountability, herbalism, food, traditions, mental health, community activism, traveling, touring, bands, accountability processes, parenting, &more!

we’re open to all sorts of stuff! our criteria is p loose but we have an especially HARD NO to anything that includes hateful content towards trans folks, sex workers, and/or substance users.

please share this CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS far & wide!!

looking forward to continuing to support black & brown zine writers ❤️

xoxo

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• BROWN RECLUSE ZINE DISTRO • • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS • "Zine culture is not white culture. D.I.Y. culture is not white culture. Punk is not inherently white culture. So in the spirit of resistance, in the spirit of visibility and in the spirit of celebrating our cultures and intersectionality: Brown Recluse Zine Distro." BRZD IS NOW LOOKING FOR NEW ZINES! We have all different kinds of zines (personal zines, political zines, DIY how-to zines) abt all sorts of stuff: racism, gender, sexuality, punk, sex work, feminism, addiction, recovery, harm reduction, anarchism, racism, teaching, self care, antioppression wok, accountability, herbalism, food, traditions, mental health, community activism, traveling, touring, bands, accountability processes, parenting, &more! we're open to all sorts of stuff! our criteria is p loose but we have an especially HARD NO to anything that includes hateful content towards trans folks, sex workers, and/or substance users. please share this CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS far & wide!! looking forward to continuing to support black & brown zine writers ❤️ xoxo

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just restocked to the shop: aint shit, aint shit vol 2, ho lover, queens hookers & hustlers, riceball, touring with mental illness, transmission: hot trans people not giving a fuck, transmission part two, always was always will be aboriginal land, nerds of color, slander #8, they are here with us. NDAP zine included free in every order. get these babies while you can!! http://brownreclusezinedistro.bigcartel.com/products

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Brown Recluse Zine Distro's online store is back open!! http://brownreclusezinedistro.bigcartel.com/

we are still in process of restocking and reordering, so thanks for yr patience!

we will be at Olympia Zine Fest October 1st&2nd.

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as some have heard thru the zine grapevine, Brown Recluse Zine Distro has been going thru some big changes! the biggest being that the distro has moved from seattle to olympia and has been adopted by BRZD's virgo power g0de$$, elena.

Thank you, Nyky, for being an inspiration, a mentor, and a bad ass friend all around~ showing me the ropes of running a DIY business, tabling zine fests, and introducing me to so many powerful, creative friends. I am constantly humbled and am in awe of you and all the energy and love you put into your activism and your creative projects.

// BRZD would love to continue with "collective" as the ideal -- if anyone (esp in the NW area) is interested in collaborating, helping with inventory and folding zines, keeping me company at the copy shop and such, please hit me up! !!

More updates soon ! x o x o

questions&inquiries - - - - brownreclusezinedistro@gmail.com

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♥ ♥ ♥  SPRING UPDATEZ  ♥ ♥ ♥

Restocked: ♥ Pata ♥ all of the Muchacha zines! Coming soon to the shop: ♥ Hoy Babae from Sam of WHITE MAN’S BURDEN ♥ Brown People for Black Power from Brown and Proud Press

elena, one half of BRZD, will be on punk vacation/merch baby for the majority of March through the Midwest, SW, Mexico, and West Coast. She’ll be bringing select titles from the shop to sell at shows and at Everything is Not OK fest - find her on social media to keep up on where she is at ;) Come out & buy zines from the Traveling Brown Recluse Mini Distro, and say hi!  

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♥ ♥ ♥  SPRING UPDATEZ  ♥ ♥ ♥

Restocked: ♥ Pata ♥ all of the Muchacha zines! Coming soon to the shop: ♥ Hoy Babae from Sam of WHITE MAN’S BURDEN ♥ Brown People for Black Power from Brown and Proud Press

elena, one half of BRZD, will be on punk vacation/merch baby for the majority of March through the Midwest, SW, Mexico, and West Coast. She’ll be bringing select titles from the shop to sell at shows and at Everything is Not OK fest - find her on social media to keep up on where she is at ;) Come out & buy zines from the Traveling Brown Recluse Mini Distro, and say hi!  

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