Rude Awokenings vol. I

Personally I am STOKED to get plugged into a socialist organization that is DOING THINGS! And, on a psycho-spiritual level, my insides are still fucked up by my time as a traumatized activist in woke world.

That's why I'm writing this zine—not because I think endless critique on the pitfalls of neoliberal identity politics is a useful end in itself. But because I think reckoning with this worldview now, as it continues to gain cultural dominance in the US and be exported across the world, is a necessary part of our journey toward a unified, effective political left.

- excerpt from Introduction

Rude Awokenings is a serial zine sharing one artist's wrong-thinking socialist perspectives on all things leftism, identitarianism, social media, solidarity and whatever else is on my dang mind.

In this first issue, I go ballz to the wallz. Topics include OCD, racial purity politics, unborn babies duking it out with long-dead ancestors, Jesus Christ, self-loathing and of course, cancel culture. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for being here. —Bebe

about the zine:
♡ size: 4.25in x 5.5in
♡ risograph cover in assorted colors
♡ cover illustration, text layout and assembly done by hand in Portland, OR
♡ ships to US, UK & Canada!

sliding scale pricing:
♡ $22.22 — sustainability star
invests in my long-term capacity as an independent artist.

♡ $14.00 — zine fiend
covers the cost of materials and time spent writing, illustrating, printing and assembling the zine.

♡ $11.11 — printing pal
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