Release Events for SICK:

July 22, 6-8pm @ Last Words Books, 211 4th Ave., Olympia, WA

The Importance of Support

Benjamin Holtzman (Sick: A Compilation Zine on Physical Illness), Kristyn Leach (Stonewall Youth, Olympia) Kevin Van Meter (Team Colors)

This workshop will explore the importance of creating networks and communities based in support, and expanding such practices in zine, counter-cultural and activist communities. Benjamin Holtzman, editor of the recent zine collection “Sick: A Compilation Zine on Physical Illness” (Microcosm, 2009) will read from and describe his zine on creating support and physical illness; writer and researcher Kevin Van Meter of the Team Colors Collective will discuss the new “care zine insurgency” and the potential of these to further systems of support; and organizer Kristyn Leach of Stonewall Youth (queer youth organization in Olympia, WA) will discuss creating direct services, engaging in direct action and building networks of support.

July 23, 7pm @ Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak St. Portland, OR (www.​​​readingfrenzy.​​​com)

Release Party & Reading with several contributors from Sick!

July 24-26 (Friday-Sunday) Tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium

(www.pdxzines.com)!

July 26, 11:00am-12:30pm (Sunday) at the Portland Zine Symposium

The Importance of Support

This workshop will explore the importance of creating networks and communities based in support, and expanding such practices in zine, counter-cultural and activist communities. Benjamin Holtzman (Sick: A Compilation Zine on Physical Illness), Kevin Van Meter (Team Colors Collective), and Kristyn Leach (Stonewall Youth) will explore how zines, radical movements, and neighboring communities can respond to personal crises and how they help provide care. Moving beyond politics as a set of issues and positions, let’s consider what communities can do to address issues such as physical illness and, mental illness, intimate violence, trauma and grief, and other experiences and realities.

Tuesday, August 11, 7PM @ Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen Street in New York City (www.bluestockings.com)
Release Party & Reading with several contributors from Sick!

Sick is out now!

Sick collects peoples' experiences with illness to help establish a collective voice of those impacted within radical/left/DIY communities. The zine is meant to be a resource for those who are living with illness as well as those who have not directly experienced it themselves. Contributors discuss personal experiences as well as topics such as receiving support, providing support, and being an informed patient. These writings are meant to increase understandings of illness and further discussion as well as action towards building communities of care.