Newsgirls, a photo zine by Andrea Clegg

Newsgirls is a new photo zine by photographer Andrea Clegg. Clegg was involved in Toronto's boxing community for many years, mainly in the gym Newsgirls, where she developed her work as photographer. Newsgirls the zine captures some moments of that trajectory in a space that's much more than a gym - it's an empowering community and a safe space for queer women and transfolk.

Visit Newsgirls mini site.

Buy it from Etsy at a special launch price of $6.

28 pages in black and white
off-set printed
9.25 x 6.25 inches
$ 7 

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New Judith Butler Zine at the Montreal Queer Book Fair

B&D will be once more at the fantastic Queer Between the Covers, Montreal queer book fair, this coming Saturday, August 18, in the Montreal Gay Village.

We will have Eloisa Aquino's new butch dyke zine with a mini-bio of Judith Butler and also Jenny Lin's Skinny Leg in its two incarnations: hardcover pop-up and softcover zine.

Queer Between the Covers is a exciting event in Montreal, part of the alternative Pride Pervers-Cité. There are tones of interesting materials, cool events, and a fun vibe. From their website:

Queer Between the Covers aims to provide access to queer materials that are otherwise unavailable in the city, as well as draw attention to the role of queer bookstores in providing community space and supporting queer cultural production.

Queer Between the Covers
Saturday, August 18th
11 am - 6 pm
1212 Panet (metro Beaudry)

Disclosure: I (Eloisa) am part of the collective organizing the fair this year ;)

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Skinny Leg, by Jenny Lin

Jenny Lin is launching her new pop-up book Skinny Leg during the conference Comics and Medicine: Navigating the Margins, in Toronto. Lin's book narrates her experience of being run over by a truck while biking and the subsequent recuperation, blending clinical descriptions with personal accounts. According to Lin, "what is revealed is the strangeness and banality of the experience as well as the mutability of memory."

BUY SKINNY LEG, THE ZINE VERSION, HERE.

Each book was meticulously made by hand and there are only 25 copies available.

More about the book (including more beautiful images) on Jenny Lin's website.

Lin also published a zine version of Skinny Leg (a softcover book without pop-ups). You can buy it here.

Talk and book launch:
Comics and Medicine: Navigating the Margins
University of Toronto
155 College Street
Monday July 23, 3:30 pm
Open to conference attendees

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