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the ee! : number five
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).
Pigeon Peeks: Watching and Understanding
Uttong Zhao responds to A Pocket Guide to Pidgeon Watching by Crow Raughley (2023).
Plato’s Allegory of the Bat
June Thompson responds to Little Brown Leatherwinged Bat Crankie by Storm Welch (2023).
Becoming Myself Again
Elise Bernal responds—with a sequence of drawings—to “until that hole” by sage ua sole (2022).
the ee! : number four
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the ee! : number three
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)
You ask how it feels to be close to another being.
Chantelle Mitchell responds to Neta Bomani and Cy X’s zine, “Tea Meditation” (self-published, 2021)
Hypothesis
Jam Lincoln responds to Gabrielle Civil + Call & Response Artists’ “Experiments in Joy: A Workbook” (Co—Conspirator Press, 2019)
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Meg Shevenock responds to Audra Wolowiec’s publication, “SOUND” (Gravel Projects, 2019)
window back to my body
sydnee monday responds to Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo’s book, “Slow Looking: These Views Are Our Tools” (Childish Books, 2021)
the ee! : number two
For our second issue, we asked our contributors to respond to five zines or art/books with this theme in mind:
What are your sensitivities?
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Where you exist
Wanda Diep responds to Ellen Bae’s zine, Korean Spa (self-published, 2018)
from Fifty Times You Leave Your Lover
Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross responds to Mira Dayal’s artist book, Hair Biography (self-published, 2019)
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)
Homework: Conversation Questions for an ESL
Classroom
Moncho Alvarado responds to Caroline Hu’s zine, Defense Mechanisms (self-published, 2019)
the ee! : number one
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)
