Welcome to the ee! : a space for loving response to zines and art/books.
For our fifth issue, our guest editor Sara Inácio asked our contributors to respond to five zines or art/books with this theme in mind:
Queerness & Multi Species Kinship
José Esteban Muñoz describes Queerness as “not simply a being but a doing for and toward the future,” a rejection of the here and now and an insistence on the potential for another world. Queer ecological thinking paves a path toward a greater openness to the world which moves past constructed norms, imagining new and alternative ways of being. Queerness is creative, continuously growing and adapting to one’s surrounding circumstances. The pieces in this issue each explore multi-species connections found in relationship to non-human beings, especially those that are overlooked, and find themselves at the margins of the human-centered landscape. These pieces are a reflection on parallel existences and persistent survival. We welcome the rats, pigeons, bats and mushed berries…
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a rat Alexis Gudding responds to rat church by Zooey Kim Conner (2022).
A Squeezed Life Selena Williams responds to Mushed Bb by Elise Mollie (2024).
For our third issue, we asked our contributors to respond to five zines or art/books with this theme in mind:
begin with curiosity
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Portals Home Sierra Edd and Chanti Jung respond to the zine anthology, “Portals of Indigenous Futurism” edited by Amber McCrary (Abalone Mountain Press, 2021)
Spacetime Eric Jackson responds to Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s artbook, wild wild Wild West & Haunting of the Seahorse (Capricious, 2020)
If by Chorus We Might Mean Loving Responders (Margaret Blaney, Kate Duffy, Sebastian Vander Ploeg Fallon, Max Felland, Carsten Finholt, Anna Klein, Chris Martin, [Redacted] Maxwell, Rachel Miller, Chisom Oguh, Rehana Naik Olson, Emma Paltrow, Grace Ronan, and Henry Sottrel) respond to
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves‘s pamphlet, Of Forests & of Farms: On Faculty and Failure (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020)
For our first issue, we asked our contributors to respond to five zines or art/books with this question in mind:
How do we love ourselves when our time is always blurring the line of our ancestors and our future selves?
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Dear Daughters: Remember Christina Tran responds to
Elise Bernal’s zine, Loss And Found: a zine about caretaking, loss, grief, — for support, resources, stories (2018-2019)
Green Anita N. Bateman responds to
Becci Davis’s collection of sculptures, Collard Archive of Modern History (2016)
Magnetic Joshua Escobar responds to Sunny Leerasanthanah’s photobook, Homes Against Tides (2018)
Keeper of the Seeds Abbey Meaker responds to
Pohan Amanda Turner’s artist book, Maize Meditations (2018)
To my father, Miriam Geiger responds to Hannah Altman’s monograph, Kavana (2020)