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Appalachian in Queens • Writer, editor, union member • My cathedral is built for a god to see so even secret places have ornament • They

You don’t have to worry about trans women in sports. You do have to worry about trans women in your walls, eating a big crumb as a whole meal off a table they made out of a wooden spool, and taking baths in a bottle cap

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

watching people you love and respect cutting corners to keep creative pace with an idiot machine, starve themselves to keep pace with a new, more impossible ideal, it is overwhelmingly sad some days and no one is truly immune to it

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

july 2026’s zine, « APPROXIMATION OR OMISSION », is an 8-page collage zine made with lots of textural, layered paper collages, further fractured and remixed together digitally. each zine has an individually cut edge, with lots of variation throughout the batch. i’m running a little late this month!

four monochrome collage zines zine backs with address and date stamp interior spread showing textured black and white collage work with irregular edges fanned out zines

we have to destroy and discard a monolithic sculpture (6.5’ tall block of chauvigny limestone w/ some carvings, balanced against itself) and it annoys me so much we can’t just dump it in a field or the woods to be a cool mystery