Hello all!

One of my goals for 2026 is to make one essay zine a month over on my Patreon. It was originally intended to be comic essays, but my muse popped out a photographic one for January instead.

January’s essay is entitled “Seeing” and is inspired by a recent trip to see an exhibit of Sr. Corita Kent’s photo archives. Here’s a preview:

Seeing

Read the rest of the essay over on Patreon.
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🎨 Sr. Corita Kent is better known for her pop art screenprinted posters, many of them anti-war and justice-oriented. She also created these 10 rules for creatives, students, and teachers which often gets misattributed to John Cage. Photos of her Mary’s Day parades feel joyfully subversive. Her archives feel instructive for our times.

🌎 A grounding, orienting conversation with Autumn Brown from Minneapolis on Minneapolis at the Surviving the End of the World podcast.

🧸 Nicole J. Georges offered an online workshop yesterday on Meeting This Political Moment: Making Comics During Fascism and has posted the video replay and accompanying worksheets on her Patreon. Helpful for remembering we are not alone, and a practice for focusing our feelings into actions.

🎧 A new Foment podcast episode is up about artist residencies, inspired by what we learned stewarding Mt Caz’s DIY ones.

🧁 What’s in the works: I’d love to do a new series sharing nervous system practices over at Wandering Grace. I need to schedule the speculative intergenerational letterwriting workshop that is being offered as part of the Dear Daughter Kickstarter campaign. I plan to start offering creative coaching for tenderhearted anticapitalists soon!

Take good care,
Christina