ZINE STUFF

"Perzines are about vulnerability and sharing part of yourself with an audience, but Lady Teeth utilizes a whole other kind of vulnerability: the kind achieved when opening up to someone you trust."
- Women Write About Comics

"By the time I reached the back cover, I felt like she and I had gone on a really solid road trip together because we’d had such an in-depth, varied conversation."
- Bianca Barragan, LA Zine Fest

Lady Teeth #9 is the most recent issue of my most current zine. I started writing zines in the mid-90s after a girl down the shore gave me an issue of Cometbus to read. I had never seen a zine before. Since then I have put 9 issues of Lady Teeth, Sub Rosa (1-7), Girl Swirl (1-13 including 11.5), Sophisti-Femme (1-6) and the following mini zines/one offs/etc: Life Without Booze: Reflections on Six Years Sober, Moods: A zine about covered bridges, An East Coast Girl's Guide to Record Stores in the PNW, Home, A Girl Called Mike, Boshi (1-3), Sid, Boobs & the Milk Cart, Dear Gwen (which appeared in Bust Magazine), Dear Gwen PS, To Stop To Listen and Inside & Out (issues 1-2). I also wrote a book, Heavy Hangs the Head & currently have a monthly mini zine mailorder club.

01.16.18 - Wasted Ink Zine Distro (Phoenix, AZ)
12.22.17 - Coffee House Without Limits (Allentown, PA)
05.26.17 - Coffee House Without Limits (Allentown, PA)
08.27.16 - Philly Zine Fest Gala Reading (Philly, PA)
04.30.16 - Chicago Zine Fest @ Workshop (Chicago, IL)
10.10.15 - Zines as Radical Resistance (a discussion panel for Boston Zine Fest) Make Shift Boston (Boston, MA)
05.10.15 - CHI PRC (Chicago, IL)
09.07.14 - Red Emma's (Baltimore, MD)
06.28.14 - Doylestown Bookshop (Doylestown, PA) +
05.18.14 - Vice Coffee & Tattoos (Philadelphia, PA)
03.17.14 - Boxcar Books (Bloomington, IN) ^
03.16.14 - Rainbow Bookstore Co-op (Madison, WI) ^
03.13.14 - CHI PRC (Chicago, IL) ^
03.11.14 - The Tool Shed (Milwaukee, WI) ^
01.15.14 - People's Co-Op Bookstore (Vancouver, BC)#
01.14.14 - Alternative Library (Bellingham, WA)#
01.12.14 - The Northern (Olympia, WA)#
01.10.14 - Black Coffee Co-Op (Seattle, WA)#
01.09.14 - King's Books (Tacoma, WA)#
01.08.14 - Portland Button Works (Portland, OR)#
08.27.13 - Dollhouse (Washington, DC)+
08.22.13 - Wooden Shoe (Philadelphia, PA)+
03.10.13 - Fort Vegan (Bloomington, IN)*
03.07.13 - Women & Children First (Chicago, IL)*
03.06.13 - Big Idea Books (Pittsburgh, PA)*
03.05.13 - Wooden Shoe (Philadelphia, PA)*
03.03.13 - (7pm) Dollhouse (Washington, DC)*
03.03.13 - (1pm) University of Maryland (College Park, MD)*
02.14.13 - Wooden Shoe (Philadelphia, PA)
08.25.12 - Wooden Shoe (Philadelphia, PA)
07.20.12 - Wooden Shoe (Philadelphia, PA)

^ The Witches, Bellies & Writers Traveling Road Show
# Totally Real Life Book tour
* Thank you for being a Friend zine tour
+ Heavy Hangs the Head Book events

In October 2015 I spoke on a panel at Boston Zine Fest called "Zines as Radical Resistance" where I discussed how zines are a part of my recovery and sobriety. In April 2016 I was part of a reading for Chicago Zine Fest where I shared a piece from the new issue of Lady Teeth called "Getting Sober & Staying Sober".

There are no scheduled events at this time.

If you would like to host a reading, have me on a panel or include my work in an exhibit please get in touch.

Chicago Zine Fest 2017
NYC Feminist Zine Fest 2017
Lehigh Valley Zine Fest 2016
Philly Zine Fest 20016
DC Zine Fest 2016
Chicago Zine Fest 2016
NYC Feminist Zine Fest 2016
Boston Zine Fest 2015
Chicago Zine Fest 2015
Chicago Zine Fest 2014
DC Zine Fest 2013
Brooklyn Zine Fest 2013
Chicago Zine Fest 2013
Philly Zine Fest 2012
Philly Feminist Zine Fest 2012
Portland Zine Symposium 2012
DC Zine Fest 2012
Philly Zine Fest 2010
Philly Zine Fest 2009
Philly Zine Fest 2008
Richmond Zine Fest 2007
Philly Zine Fest 2005
Boston Zine Fest 2005
Philly Zine Fest 2004
NJ Zine Fest 2003
Beantown Zinetown 6 2003
Santa Barbara Zine Fest 2002
Beantown Zinetown 5 2002
Beantown Zinetown 4 2001
DC Zine Fest 2000
NYC Zine Fest July 2000

Lady Teeth was included in the zine exhibit "Between the Staples" at CHI PRC in Chicago from November 10-26, 2017 - more info here.

My zine Life Without Booze: Reflections on Six Years Sober was included in the zine exhibit "Zines as Creative Resistance" at The Graduate Center Library @ CUNY - more info here.

See my personal zine collection here.