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New accessibility focused zine about cooling techniques in heat waves due to disability, pandemic and climate change, and updates about ekphrastic art and writing hybrid class an online community workshop, greetings from zine fest.
Hey y’all,
Just wanted to send a quick note to let you know there’s still time to drop into my class Playing with Text + Image. It’s online, Tuesday (tomorrow) at 1-2 ET, $30. If price is a barrier, reach out for sliding scale/barter options—I want you there.
There will be a final session August 26th 1-2. Come for one or both!
Tomorrow’s class will be focused on language describing visuals—the alt text selfie project, ekphrastic poetry, access artistry, and visual culture theories. You don’t need any prior experience with art or writing to come. It’s generative, playful, and I promise I will get you creating something weird. Come hang, make friends, and get encouraged to try new things.
Stay Cool: a new zine
This weekend I tabled at WNY Book Arts’ zine fest in Buffalo and met so many cool people. Welcome to the new folks and THANK YOU for letting me read your tarot and for sharing zine nerdiness together.
I sold out of my new zine “Stay Cool,” which offers practical tips for keeping your core body temperature regulated in the ever increasing heat waves, based on what I’ve learned over the last few years of long covid. It’s part of a series I’m working on that politicizes the heat—come for the cooling tips, stay for the analysis of how our experiences of heat are political, and stick around after for skill building.
How do I get one?
Didn’t get a chance to snag a copy? I’ll be printing more soon. If you want to pre-order one, you can respond to this email with a good mailing address and your Venmo handle for me to request when it’s ready. Copies are $10, and shipping is $2.
And if you appreciate my work and have the means to chip in to support me in making the next two zines in the series, my Venmo is @miriamsaperstein. I really appreciate your support as this is a labor of love. Part two is a deep dive into interpersonal skills to make mutual aid work more satisfying and effective and three is frameworks for community organizing in the heat.
Accessibility:
This is a printed zine in 16 point font, written and formatted as plainly as possible to support those with heat-induced brain fog to get the support they need ASAP. If you want the zine but have specific access needs that this doesn’t address, send me a message and I’ll see what I can do!
As a bonus for reading this far, I made this funky video as a promo for the class tomorrow and next week. I hope you enjoy.
Take care,
Miriam