Zines: All My Best Work I Do At A Slanted Angle #3 femme covert

This zine explores some of the challenges of traveling while queer & female assigned, trans identity, sex work, and class issues. The zine opens with a great piece where Bernard? identifies hirself as poor and non-college-educated. As ze points out, a whole lot of writing on queer and trans topics come from people with the privilege of a college education, and often class privilege as well. Bernard notes that this can be an amazing way to use privilege to educate and make change, but folks with class and education privilege shouldn't occupy the center stage-- nor should we assume that zines about queer and trans topics are automatically coming from privileged positions. I think recognizing this is a work in progress for the trans*/queer movement & I was psyched to see bernard? address it in a personal way.


Bernard? discusses coming out as trans, preferred gender pronouns, traveling, being "trans enough," getting cruised by sketchy dudes in cars, and finally devotes the last portion of the zine to picking up where Slanted Angle 2 left off. Bernard? meets up by chance with one of zir attackers from SA #2: He doesn't recognize zir, and when he does figure out what is going on, he refuses to be even slightly accountable.

This is a great zine, filled with writing and photos, with margins packed with doodles and borders, like every good paste up zine should be. A few pages may be hard to read due to an inky/old typewriter, but it's very much worth the effort.


31 p./half size/b&w.

$2.75


Zines:All My Best Work I Do At A Slanted Angle #2: Fuck It's Dark/TGIF Again

Bernard? of Honey Tunnel is now bernard? of All My Best Work I Do At a Slanted Angle. Slanted Angle is more of a traveller punk perzine informed with feminist + queer consciousness. Fuck It's Dark/TGIF Again starts out with a general discussion of scumfuckery amongst some traveler kids. Part 2 is a narrative of the violence that bernard? and zir friend faced from some particular misogynist scumfucks at a camp in Texas. This zine is a graphic, true description of life-threatening violence, and there's not really any way to be prepared to read it. If you're triggered by accounts of physical assault, consider carefully before you read.


bernard? also describes the ways that privilege came into the process of getting help after the assaults, and zir decision to seek help from cops and the legal system.bernard? also discusses a little bit about what pressing charges against an attacker means for anarchists who oppose the prison industrial complex. The story of that process continues in Slanted Angle #3.


46 p/quarter size/b&w.

$2.00


a genderfucking pissant affectionately know as 'bernard?'.