RECOMMENDED ZINES
Feel free to print the zines listed and distribute them in school, at work, among your friends. If you feel that something is missing from this list, feel free to send us an email or a Facebook message. Find our contact information at the bottom of this page.
Intimacy, Sex & Boundaries After Sexual Assault
This zine is for those who have experienced sexual assault and for those who want to understand and help those who have had such experiences. Intimacy, sex, boundaries, and consent can be hard to navigate after sexual assault and other traumatic experiences. We cover everything from talking about trauma to body language to verbal consent and coping strategies. The zine is written by Det Bløde Rum, which means that everything is written from a survivor’s and a queer perspective.
- HELP! - A Guide to consent, allyship and boundaries
Learn how to help, listen, get help and take care of yourself in the process. This zine is produced by Det Bløde Rum. It has been created with the help of group participants. They have been so kind to share their experiences in order to offer support to those who are close to people who have experienced trauma. The group felt a need to share coping strategies from a more personal perspective. Therefore we have gathered their most important tips in this zine.
Plant Allies 4 Anxiety - by Hydra Community Care, Seapurr Apothecary
The info in this zine is a collection of experiences with clients and themself, with studies from pharmacological science as well as indigenous knowledge and folk medicine. This zine is an edited and extended version of a workshop held with the group the Soft Room (Det Bløde Rum), with some additions. I made this zine so that people who didn’t feel like attending also could take part in the resources that plants and herbalist aids can be.
Ask First! Resources for Supporters, Survivors, and Perpetrators of Sexual Assault
Ask First!: Resources for Supporters, Survivors, and Perpetrators of Sexual Assault is a collection of resources dealing with the topic of assault and abuse. It explores consent, the dynamics of abuse, how to be a responsible partner, how to support survivors, resources for survivors, and resources for perpetrators.
DIY Guide to Preventing Sexual Assault
This is a four-panel pamphlet (it prints best on legal size paper) that provides a short guide to preventing sexual assault. It’s targeted primarily at the punk and/or anarchist subculture, but provides important information regardless of subcultural affiliation. Topics covered include defining sexual assault, alcohol and sexual assault, how to watch out for yourself and your friends, what to do if you or a friend are sexually assaulted, and how to help a survivor. It’s an excellent short introductory pamphlet for handing out at punk shows, having at venues, when tabling, or wherever else it seems needed.
If a Man Commits Rape…
If a Man Commits Rape in Newtown and No One Knows How to Deal with it.. Then Did it Ever Really Happen? is a zine that explores what happens when rape happens in a radical/anarchist community (in this case, Sydney, Australia, although the patterns are similar almost everywhere). It covers the author/survivor’s experience, the response of the “community” in Sydney, and uses this to share valuable lessons and insights about the importance of helping survivors and addressing rape within radical communities. It includes helpful ideas for how communities should respond to allegations of rape, how communities should help survivors, dealing with rape apologists, outing rapists, and more.
Let’s Talk About Consent Baby
Let’s Talk About Consent is a short introduction to the topic of consent and how it functions/should function in the context of relationships. The zine opens with a series of questions about consent designed to get people thinking about consent. From there, the zine presents Antioch College’s “Sexual Offense Prevention Policy,” an excerpt from Our Bodies, Ourselves on communicating about sex, and lastly an article from Rolling Thunder called “We are all Survivors, We are All Perpetrators.”
Strategies for Survivors
This is a one page zine/pamphlet put together by the Philly Survivor Support Collective that offers suggestions for survivors and communities dealing with sexual assault. Specifically, it is about setting goals for what you’d like to accomplish and what healing could look like in a survivor’s life and in their community.
Supporting A Survivor Of Sexual Assault
This is a helpful pamphlet that gives concrete ideas on how to support a survivor of sexual assault. Essential reading.
The Broken Teapot
The Broken Teapot (2nd Edition) is a collection of five essays that explore the limitations of current anarchist models of “accountability” in situations of rape and abuse. The zine raises a number of important questions regarding the “accountability processes” that have been developed over the past ten or so years to deal with these issues within the anarchist space. It’s an important piece to consider when thinking about how “broken” we all are. This is the updated “2nd Edition” with reflections from the author.
Learning Good Consent
This is a very good zine on the topic of consent and should be required reading for everyone. It covers tons of important information: how we define consent, identifying abusive behavior, consent in different types of relationships, how consent interacts with gender, and shares stories of consent in relationships. There is also an extensive “resources” list at the end for those who want to learn more.
We Are All Survivors, We Are All Perpetrators / What To Do When…
This short zine combines two excellent resources on sexual assault: the article “We Are All Survivors, We Are All Perpetrators” from the Crimethinc publication Rolling Thunder and a piece titled “What To Do When Someone Tells You That You Violated Their Boundaries, Made Them Feel Uncomfortable, Or Committed Assault (A Start).” Both offer important ideas for beginning discussions about sexual assault from a perspective that brings the issue into the open rather than keeping it hidden in the shadows.
Taking the First Step: Suggestions to People Called Out for Abusive Behavior
This zine is intended to spark a dialogue about how people accused of rape, abuse, or sexual assault should conduct themselves regardless of their feelings of guilt or innocence. It includes ten suggestions for people accused of the aforementioned. It’s helpful for the accused, but also for those of us in radical/anarchist communities who struggle with dealing with these situations.
How To Put Together Your Own Consent Workshop
The title of this zine, How To Put Together Your Own Participatory, Community-specific, Radical Consent Workshop, is pretty straightforward and a great description of the zine’s contents. In addition to the general theme of how to put together a workshop on consent, the zine also provides tips on facilitation, space and accessibility, and additional resources. The bulk of the zine is an outline with ideas on what to say, activities to do, and materials to include.
What about the rapists? Anarchist approaches to crime & justice
This zine looks at contemporary anarchist theory and practice on crime and justice, though it won't be using these terms. The first half will be a critical examination of Transformative Justice-based accountability processes, an approach with origins in US anarchist circles now taking seed in parts of Europe. The other half looks at retributive approaches, such as survivor-led direct action against rapists.
Generation FIVE: My Body, My Pleasure, My Choice
A positive sexuality booklet for young people. Generation FIVE’s mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations.
Beginners Guide to Responsible Sexuality
The cover says "(for men)", and it's put out by a Denver Collective who "identify as experiencing male privilege."