My latest zine! “BoyDyke: Bigender Manhood and Lesbian Attraction” is up on my gumroad!
My latest zine! “BoyDyke: Bigender Manhood and Lesbian Attraction” is up on my gumroad!
Zines. Poetry. Photography. Calligraphy. Ex-Pentecostal/Evangelical. Abuse survivor. Bigender trans(istioning). Casual tumblr: @puddletownmasc https://bitterteahymnal.gumroad.com
My latest zine! “BoyDyke: Bigender Manhood and Lesbian Attraction” is up on my gumroad!
My latest zine! “BoyDyke: Bigender Manhood and Lesbian Attraction” is up on my gumroad!
This week's #zine #review is of "Puddletown Masc: A Trans(sitioning) Zine: Dysphoria. Part 1" by Tor Lowell @bitterteahymnal
Content warning: the zine discusses child sexual abuse, dysphoria, suicide, self-harm, dissociation, transphobia, misogyny, religious abuse
This was a heavy zine.
One of the things I love about zines is how they're documentation: a record of a person's experience and knowledge. Puddletown Masc is a testimony. It's a story about Tor's experience with dysphoria, about struggling to simply survive. And it's a story about finding one's way. It can be painful and confusing and terrifying -- but it's how we can learn to live.
I felt a lot while reading this.
Pages from a zine I made about disability.
You can view the full zine on my itchio as well as download your own prinatble copy! Payment no longer optional as I’ve had some emergency expenses so the zine is currently £2.50, but this is a temporary thing.
ID: an illustration of the wounded man standing almost naked, impaled with multiple weapons. His body is coloured in red while the ground and weapons are black. His face looks tired.
The second image is black text with red ornate letters are the start of each paragraph that reads “You have to imagine that the wounded man is happy. That he has friends
and family who love him, that his lovers taste his blood when they go
down on him and don’t flinch from how the swords slide in and out of his
body during sex. You have to convince yourself that after he has broken
down and sobbed from the pain and fear that he picks himself and his
wounds up off the floor and continues onwards.
You have to make yourself believe that it is better to bleed than to be
dead. You have to believe that this life is worth living too.” ED.