Absent Cause #1 features a collection of interviews with vibrant, successful people-- mostly women-- living radically non-mainstream lives, whether through their activism, their radical self-acceptance, or through overcoming abuse and mental illness. Editor Redguard pulls together diverse themes to create a great zine with a focus on resisting oppression both personally and politically. In exploring these themes, Absent Cause embraces 'the dark side' of art and culture as an aesthetic both subversive and healing. This is a powerful zine and a great read through and through.
This issue features interviews with singer/songwriter Velocity Chyaldd of Vulgaris, Arab American student activist Tina Elshalakany, fat-positive DIY model Vampiress Jessika, and radical parent Jessica Mills, author of My Mother Wears Combat Boots.
Full size/44 p./B&W with color cover
$3.00
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Absent Cause #2: Duality
AC issue two is about bipolar identities, including bisexual and transgendered identities, split selves & multiple personalities, & the usual unapologetic mixing of culturally "incompatible" elements that you can expect from Absent Cause. What happens when you mix sexuality and death, man and woman, one culture with another? Redguard is making a bomb, and I think he wants us to throw it. Amanda Palmer headlines with a lengthy interview. Again, awesome journalism that spans a wide range of topics and will keep you reading.
Includes interviews with:
* Walaa Quisay, Egyptian student activist
* Laura-Marie Taylor, Functionally Ill zine
* Breaking To Top, Maoist punk band from China
Half size/Color
$4.00
Absent Cause #3: Death, Dying, Undeath
Redguard's newest edition of Absent Cause is the biggest yet- in fact, it features an additional Literary Supplement of fiction and poetry. Treading from the heartwrenching to the delicate to the gothic, Absent Cause 4 covers the subjects of death and life (or undeath, as you may prefer to call it?)
On the undeath side, there is a great interview with Pussy Power artist Sara Dodd about her humorous, outlandish pussy-powered feminist art happenings. And there are some beautiful pieces from people struggling with serious illnesses, including a piece by Leslie Feinberg and activist Eman Rimawi. "I am only a girl," an incredible poem by Walaa Quisay dedicated to the women and girls raped and killed by US soldiers worldwide, gives dimension to this collection of pieces about death. There's plenty here running the full gamut of 'spooky goth,' yet I found myself enjoying even those pieces because they were part of this very thoughtfully put together package that felt grounded and rather fun at the same time.
Wraparound cover by BRANDI LEE
Interviews with feminist artist PUSSY POWER
and Black / Doom Metal band WOODS OF YPRES
Full-color art centerfold
Essays, photography, artwork, fiction, poetry from:
LESLIE FEINBERG, EMAN RIMAWI, JAIMIE HASHEY, gabiMONSTROSITY, JAMES RUSH, QUINN COLLARD
and many more!
PLUS: FREE bonus 60-page Literary Supplement featuring more fiction, poetry and artwork devoted to everyone’s favorite subject, death.
130 p. including both zine and supplement/half size/Color
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Absent Cause #1 features a collection of interviews with vibrant, successful people-- mostly women-- living radically non-mainstream lives, whether through their activism, their radical self-acceptance, or through overcoming abuse and mental illness. Editor Redguard pulls together diverse themes to create a great zine with a focus on resisting oppression both personally and politically. In exploring these themes, Absent Cause embraces 'the dark side' of art and culture as an aesthetic both subversive and healing. This is a powerful zine and a great read through and through.
