Avail Yourself Love Letters To Monsters #1 Penned By Ciara Xyerra Displayed As Copy

is my most recent personal zine published in augustamp maybe one of the most personal zines i have ever written.
it focuses on three topics: the death of my father five years ago, my experience going back to ohio to deal with the death stuff there was no funeral amp the alternative wake/death rituals we held are explained in the zine, the complicated nature of my relationship with him amp the rest of my immediate faily both before amp after his death, amp how those relationships have deteriorated even further in the ensuing years some of my philosophies borne of my fifteenplus years involved in zine culture, the political nature of my attraction to the zine medium, amp potentially helpful writing advice for those individuals who enjoy that type of thing amp my misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, how the label affected my mental health, my experiences with psych meds, how i became undiagnosed, some of my mental health coping strategies, amp criticisms of both traditional amp nontraditional mental health management.
these stories, which i attempted to interweave to a certain degree, into a sort of narrative structure reflecting my own personal trajectory in the last five years, are bookended by letters both to amp from sea monsters about my reluctance to make another zine amp some witty criticisms of my own writing.
there are also book amp zine recommendations, everything is laid out using a typewriter with pretty small font, amp i tried to do a nice, clean, textheavy layout that still captures the eye amp doesn't overwhelm.
i am learning the value of white space! the covers are printed on colored paper amp each zine is blockprinted

by hand on the front amp back coverssea monster tentacles holding a bottle on the front cover, amp a tentacle holding a letter on the back.
heavy stuff, but i think it came out well, ciara xyerra was born raised in a working class family in northwest ohio, she started writing zines as a young teenager quit traditional schooling at age, in, at the age of, she organized the first bowling green zine conference, she then packed up moved to portland, oregon, where she started writing the popular zine a renegades handbook to love sabotage.
a renegades handbook ran for five issues somepages or so thats a lot for a zine, by the time she stopped writing it, she had re located to boston massachusetts, where she started her sitelink zine distro.
you live for the fight when thats all that youve got was released in early, in, she did a zinester residency at the roberts street social center in h ciara xyerra was born raised in a working class family in northwest ohio.
she started writing zines as a young teenager quit traditional schooling at age, in, at the age of, she organized the first bowling green zine conference, she then packed up moved to portland, oregon, where she started writing the popular zine "a renegade's handbook to love sabotage".
"a renegade's handbook" ran for five issues somepages or so that's a lot for a zine, by the time she stopped writing it, she had re located to boston massachusetts, where she started her sitelink zine distro.
"you live for the fight when that's all that you've got" was released in early, in, she did a zinester residency at the roberts street social center in halifax, nova scotia, launched her current zine projects, "love letters to monsters" "up the logic punks!" which is an all logic puzzle zine.
she is currently working on the third issues of each writes for her blog at sitelink sitelink,