Another Collection of Tender Stories Product - (Content warnings for this book include mild sexual content, nudity, and weed use) A collection of short comics featuring moments between my characters Mason and Andrew at different periods of their relationship. This book is approximately 5 x 8 inches, and has a color cover with black and white inside pages. Enjoy! Short Bio: Grace Allison Perkins is an artist from central Texas who aims to normalize positive queer narratives in comics and other forms of media. She believes it is important to write stories that people can connect with regardless of their sexuality, gender, race, ethnic background, or economic status. Grace enjoys celebrating love with a goal to share representations of queer relationships that emphasize intimacy and companionship without the use of harmful tropes or stereotypes. "Love is love and we are worthy of love!"
All That There Is. Controlled Burn. Natural Hair Coloring Book. Natural Hair Coloring Book 2 - All That there is a collection of poetry and art on mental health. Controlled Burn is a poetry zine that goes into the darker side of that mental health journey. Natural Hair Coloring Book, and it's follow up Natural Hair Coloring Book have pages of Black folks of all genders to color and celebrate the diversity of Black hair.
AMIGXS - AMIGXS is a zine of photographs by Camilo Godoy of his friends and lovers. This title is a gender-inclusive alternative to the Spanish word for “friends.” The centerfold of AMIGXS, No. 1 also took the form of a billboard located at the Southeast corner of Ninth Avenue and 37th Street in Manhattan, presented from November 27–December 24, 2017 and produced by the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York. AMIGXS, No. 1 was launched on November 28, 2017 at ISCP with a public program of performances on friendship, love and lust by artists Ella Boureau, Susie Day, Michael Funk, Jorge Sánchez, Pamela Sneed, and Aldrin Valdez. AMIGXS, No. 2 was published in 2018. AMIGXS, No. 3 was published in 2019 and launched at the Brooklyn Museum on October 5, 2019 with a public program of performances on friendship, love and lust by Joshua Allen, Karlo Bueno Bello, Brian Carlos Contratto, ELSZ, and Cristóbal Guerra. AMIGXS, No. 2, 2018 Offset printed zine, 24 pages, 5" x 8.25" $30.00 AMIGXS, No. 3, 2019 Offset printed zine, 24 pages, 5" x 8.25" $30.00
Anthony Cudahy / Ian Lewandowski - We are an artist couple who have a strong focus on zines, prints, and multiples.
Anxiety Dreams - When your teeth crumble and your hair falls out
Astonishing Queer Tales - Astonishing QT focuses on queer horror and occult comics and artwork. Crime, drama, hauntings and bizarre happenings are what drive the creative process of artist John Jennison. Along with comics he also created a queer masculine divine tarot deck called the MYSTIC MALE TAROT.
Authorized to Work in the US - Authorized to Work in the US is a small risograph publishing studio. The owner Cem Kocyildirim used to display the prints and zines on a tricycle in the streets of NYC, that was before COVID...
bd-studios.com - We make zines featuring original writing and art (and sometimes accompanying music).
Bert & Ernie are in Love, A Quick Guide to They Pronouns, Supermarket Scare - Izzy Boyce-Blanchard makes mini comics and zines about queer experience, with a focus on education and all ages content.
bi., Boats, ME, Grey, and A Narcissist Travels - Humor based memoir comics that look like a very skilled 1st grader did them.
Bianca Bee Fanty - Zines showcasing art, comics, and stuff to think about.
Bicycle Diaries, Blood + Foam, Inter, The Countess, Cetology - Bicycle Diaries: short diary comics from summer 2020 about my bike adventures; Blood + Foam: I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls (based on a song by the Mountain Goats); Inter: entrances and exits through various surreal hells and purgatories; The Countess: a queer masquerade party and futuristic absinthe disasters; Cetology: a zine about Moby-Dick.
Black Images in a White World and Who Are You Really? - 1. In this project, I compare images of slaves and examples of scientific racism, like the story of the Hottentot Venus, to contemporary images by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. How have black people been used as objects for art and science? How does that reinforce the racial hierarchy of white people being the makers and thinkers while black people are reserved to being primitive beings to be looked at? Has that relationship changed in 200 years, in and outside of the museum space? / 2. A zine based on my film Who Are You Really? About a socially anxious college student reluctantly heads to a party attempting to make new friends.
Bound Leather - Bound Leather Zine was started as a means of exploring and documenting the contemporary leather and BDSM communities through a photographic lens, leaning on cultural history and traditional fetish imagery while simultaneously subverting those standards by showcasing an array of people more inherently inclusive than the long-established canon.
Bureau of General Services - Queer Division - The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space hosted by The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. We aim to foster a community invested in the values of mindfulness, intellectual curiosity, justice, compassion, and playfulness. The Bureau seeks to excite and educate a self-confident, sex-positive, and supportive queer community by offering books, publications, and art and by hosting readings, performances, film screenings, book discussion groups, and workshops. We provide local and visiting queers and friends with an open and inclusive space for dialogue and socializing. The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division welcomes you.
Charlie Welch / Sissy Boy - Sissy Boy was first introduced in 1994 and is a bastard child of the Queer Action Figures collective (NYC). Projects have included short films, photography, limited edition stickers, t-shirts, posters and zines. He draws his inspiration from dirty sailors, elaborate desserts and sad pop songs.
Chloe Henderson - My name is Chloe Henderson. I am an Edinburgh-based interdisciplinary artist. I am an illustrator, filmmaker, zine-maker, and jeweller. I make art inspired by the natural world, mythological creatures, faerytales, nerd culture, and the radical idea that humans should be kind to every living thing. Through my illustration work, I journeyed into the world of zine-making. I set up the company Coin-Operated Press, in 2020, with my business-partner Katie Mayes, where we host workshops, run zine fairs, create educational online content, produce, publish, and distribute our own collaborative zines. I make zines inspired by my experiences with anxiety, love, feminism, geocaching, and cats!
Cock au Soleil - "Cock au Soleil" is originally a series of gay zines launched by a French collective that regularly presents new queer / gay publications. "Cock au Soleil" will present a series of facsimiles from vintage magazines.
Coin-Operated Press - Coin-Operated Press is an artist-led organization established in 2020. We are based in Scotland and run by zine-makers Katie Mayes and Chloe Henderson. We host workshops, run zine fairs, create educational online content, produce, publish, and distribute our own collaborative zines. What is a zine? A zine is a booklet-style artwork that you make yourself, and give away, swap, or sell for the cost of printing. Zines enable adaptable learning and provide a creative outlet that can be accessed by anyone regardless of experience or skill level. We use our talents to help others to develop their own through the power of collaborative support. We aim to welcome our own community of an open and fluid collective of people of all genders, sexualities, ages, races, abilities, and backgrounds to get involved in Coin-Operated Press. As a company, we strive to be as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible. We value intersectional feminist culture and are especially interested in working with the LGBTQ + community and marginalized folks. We believe everybody is an artist, and all you need are the right tools and a little encouragement to have your voice heard in your own handmade publication.
Daily Life Storage - Daily Life Storage is an admittedly peculiar archive of queer creativity.
Daily Thoughts // Daily Thoughts 2 // Iconic Black Femmes // Iconic Latinx Femmes // Iconic Trans Folx // History of Black Punx - Daily Thoughts 1&2 are illustrated moments of my life and entendre affirmations. While the ICONIC series are coloring books of people that I find inspiration and game changing throughout history.
David Macke - SUMMER OF LOVE #thisloveisreallove.
Diasporan Savant Press - Diasporan Savant Press is an incubator project for works exploring marginalized members of the African diaspora, including (but by no means limited to) folks in recovery, folks of size, tgnc folks, queer folks, disabled folks, working-class folks, poly folks, children and youth, and elders.
Doable Guys Homoerotic Art Anthology - Doable Guys is a homoerotic art anthology featuring the work of an international group of artists celebrating the beauty of the male form. Through their personal aesthetics and styles, they answer the question “What makes a guy ‘Doable’ to you?”
DOMAIN - DOMAIN is a publishing project that emerged from my broader practice as a graphic designer. In addition to launching a new series of projects on queer nightlife, I work with public domain texts. I design every element of these pocketbooks myself—typefaces, layouts, covers, etc.—and produce each book one at a time by hand. I also design the books as mailable objects, so the final cover designs are often the result of a collaboration with USPS. The internal operations of the press—production, buyers, events—are "inside out" and recorded publicly on the website. We're also excited to launch the first title in our Private Domain imprint! The Drag Explosion collects photographs drawn from Linda Simpson's archive of late '80s and early '90s New York drag. When Simpson—a queen, comic, amateur photographer, and editor of the irreverent zine My Comrade—found a drag time capsule in her shoebox treasure trove of photos, she launched a slideshow performance to exhibit them in 2012. This volume presents Simpson’s photographs alongside her reflections on finding community, the gender-expansiveness of drag, gay revolution, drag legacies, the power of flippancy, and the “drag queen magic” that brings her portraits their homemade glamour.
Femme Filth Press - Zines about radical vulnerability & self-love, healing as resistance, queer femme joy, & trauma recovery.
For Everard - The For Everard zines chronicle the 1977 fire at New York's Everard Baths and serve as a tribute to the nine men who lost their lives in the fire.
Frederick Studio Comics - Frederick Studio Comics were born in 2014 in Provincetown when James Frederick drew the short graphic memoir “There I Am” in a workshop with Alison Bechdel. Over the years Frederick has crafted numerous 4-panel comic strips about his experiences and observations as a gay man, which in some cases have been compiled into a collection of mini-comic books/zines. Including: “The Truth About Cuddling” 2017 “Gym Shorts” 2017 “Cycle of Life” 2017 “What’s Weird About a Beard” 2018 “Pucker Up” 2019 “That’s Nuts” 2020.
Gendercomic, SQUiRT - Gendercomic is a 60-page collection of autobio comics about gender produced by Anne for her undergraduate Honors thesis. SQUiRT is an anthology of queer erotica which Anne co-edits.
Ginger - Ginger maps networks of creative people. In keeping with the logic of a network, all of the contributors were referred by an editor or contributor from a previous issue. As a feminist publication, we are committed to supporting the work of womxn, non-binary, and gender nonconforming individuals. Our goal is to produce a zine with a diverse range of forms, content, and perspectives.
Girl Wrestling Fan Will You Marry Me - A compilation of stories about existing in the wrestling fandom from marginalized voices in the professional wrestling community.
Gutwrench Press - eulalia; where you from?; keep loving, keep fighting - zines about homes and hometowns, and collage and art zines.
Hamilton Six Zines - Pity for Thyself, the primary Hamilton Six zine series, is a collection of email missives beginning in 2007 when “hamiltonsix”, who had just completed a creative writing MFA and quit his job in San Francisco, rather abruptly decides to take a one month sublease in NYC and put everything in storage and drive across the country from Oakland. Issues will chronicle romantic failures; alienation as a biracial individual in the queer community; the struggles of functioning creatively in an urban environment, the mediocrity of office life; attempts to impregnate a lesbian friend; a compulsion towards cultural consumption; and a heightened sense of existential malaise, longing, and despair. Juxtaposed with those pontifications to friends are the explicitly crude and desperate emails chronicling frenetic acting out through sex addiction. Adult Content. Additionally, there are individual sad and slutty zines: “Persona Non Grata” and “Mary Gaitskill”, transcribing two different and somewhat wistful conversations from the Scruff app, and “Cockblock List 2016” which is a catalog of every cultural event (concert, film, museum exhibit, reading, etc.) attended in a single calendar year which prohibited a single queer bachelor from getting laid).
Headmaster - Headmaster is the print magazine for man-lovers who appreciate contemporary art and writing. Each issue of Headmaster features a range of queer voices showcasing the work of nine or ten artists. Each project is a response to an assignment written specially for each artist by the magazine’s two editors.
here is okay - seeking comfort, the nonstop pursuit of every day.
He/Her/They/Them - We wanted to recreate, during a time where we want to take up the space in a cis-het dominant society, a new and improved Barbershop Poster for the the butch queens that look like me, and for the future generation of queer individuals.
HOMOCATS - Created by Brooklyn artist J. Morrison in 2010, HOMOCATS is a visual art project connecting the modern popularity of the feline with social politics. We aim to fight phobias, propose equal rights, combat cultural stereotypes, question social norms, and resist the Trump administration. We are celebrating 10 years of HOMOCATS with special print editions.
horse gurl press - wild and crazy, always staring at the moon and making vivid dreamy zines.
Hyperlink Press - Inspired by South Korean online LGBTQ communities in the 2000s, Hyperlink Press is an online publication and curatorial collective to create intersectional platforms to showcase work by artists navigating the in-between spaces. Hyperlink Press’ mission is to empower the underrepresented histories, experiences, and identities in the tech field, and art gallery system.
Founded by Taehee Whang, Jeong Yoon Lee, and Minsoo Thigpen in 2018, Hyperlink Press would like to share the time of utopic excitement, that we felt back in our shared childhood of the 2000s, for a just world, breaking free from traditional forms of community building.
I Forgot Why I Thought This Would Be Fun (IFWIT Zines for short) - IFWIT zines collect slice-of-life comics, sketches, stories, playlists, and some themed zines here and there, with more to come.
Impostor Monster Zines - Mick is a radical full-spectrum doula and zinester. They make zines about self-advocacy, disability, fatness, and other issues, usually with plenty of fun handlettering.
In Full Color - We produce a poetry zine called "in her words" and also have one-off zines including "how to destroy the patriarchy" and other published titles. in her words: Woman-identified poets of color share original works in this short but sweet quarterly zine. in her words is produced by In Full Color, an organization that empowers women through education and the arts. | "how to destroy the patriarchy" by Summer Dawn Reyes is a prescriptive poem in seven parts that its reader can use as a guide to, well, taking down the patriarchy! This light, short read is inspiring, funny, whimsical and powerful all at once. | Girls Who Colored Outside the Lines is a coloring book featuring 12 portraits of groundbreaking women of color, drawn by artists of color. She-roes include Maya Angelou, Malala Yousafzai, Angela Davis, Anna May Wong, Rita Moreno and more.
Irrelevant Press - Irrelevant Press is a zine collective and internet shop creating, printing, publishing, and distributing zines and art of all sorts in Oakland, Brooklyn, and on the world wide web.
My comics and zines present autobiographical work as wells as academic research and educational material in comics form, on topics of queer and trans identity, historical memory, ghosts, monsters, heartbreak and more.
Jessie and Elle Zines - We are a trans & non-binary couple that makes zines about gender, dreams, and music. Our zines include "Glorbos the genderless alien" which is a lofi comic zine about an alien coming to earth for the first time and grappling with their gender, or lack of one. We also have a compilation zine called Every Mountain Goats Song Is Gay which is currently on its second edition. Jessie makes zines about their dreams in addition to co-hosting a monthly dream analysis group (now virtual). Elle makes a series called scatterbrained, an improvisational perzine.
Kiernan Dunn - Queer femme silk screens and zines!
Kintsugi Books by Dudgrick Bevins - Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold or other precious metals; it does not seek to conceal the fractures, but rather highlight the beauty of their mending. Kintsugi Books, likewise, seeks to find artistic voices in the liminal, in the gaps, in the disparate, and in the broken. Kintsugi Books seeks to explore all points along the spectrum of rupture to repair. As such, hybrid forms, mixed media works, and collaborative pieces are given priority, though any artist exploring these areas is invited to submit. Additionally, Kintsugi Books seeks to offer voice to those who are marginalized, particularly queer folk and people of color who dwell in these "golden" gaps.
My Plants Know I'm Their Dad, The Ghost Has Two Friends, Fraud, Plant Buds, Day Job - My comic and illustration work features rich detail and color, and my stories often explore love, anxiety and growth with a unique sense of humor.
MystoPress - MystoPress is home to the eerie and nightmarish work of two sisters who create poetry, illustration, short comics and zines. Zines - Paroxysm: An Independent Horror Anthology, The Chilling Wind of Rage Rattles my Bones: A Nightmare Zine
No More Mermaids - An autobiographical comic series, dealing with my dating experiences. It also explores how I have dealt with my own sexual identity.
NOTES - NOTES is a compilation of intimate notes, dreams, thoughts, grocery lists, breakup texts; anonymously compiled in a zine from with foreword written by Tyler Hampton. It explores and questions the immediacy and effectiveness of using the "Notes" app on your phone as a vehicle for thoughts.
Nun Comix - Nun Comix is mostly autobiographical comic zines. I make zines about cooking, crafting, and living as a queer woman with obsessive compulsive disorder. "Too Old to Mosh" chronicles my history in the pit after tearing my ACL moshing. I made "That Horrible Club" to celebrate starting my own GSA as a teacher after being discouraged from attending as a student. "Someone's in the Kitchen with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" is half cookbook, half confessional about the trials of cooking with rituals. My partner and I collaborate on books of funny, spooky poetry called "Death Haikus". I also make patches and prints!
OMG PRESS - Mexico City based press. Working with Queer artists to create zines, photobooks, and prints. Themes in our work center around pop culture, nerdy icons, and the queer experience.
One For Ghost: A tribute narrative beyond the music - One For Ghost' is a 300-page large print nonfiction short autobiography art book about multidisciplinary visual artist| photographer| journalist 'ADillaTheGENIUS' and tribute narrative to one of the music industry's most influential hip-hop artists, American record producer and rapper James 'J Dilla' Yancey. 'One For Ghost' gives a truly unique, unconventional, and deeper perspective "beyond the music" and life of J Dilla in connection to 'ADillaTheGENIUS'. This visually graphic artbook is an eye-opening, empowered, educational, enriching, and spiritually enlightening story that unites the lives of us all, past, present, and future. 'One For Ghost' is none like any book attributed to James Yancey, EVER!. Here you will read about the unfolding story, inception, and intimate life of 'A.Dilla' and how it ironically in many experiences mirror's J Dilla's life. This narrative as well offers insight into the world of divination and synchronicities that are only distinctive in relation to 'ADillaTheGENIUS'. It's an art book full of divinely orchestrated stories and surprising happenings. “Every Move You’ll See How It’s Related”. 'Augmented Reality' book cover is interactive with the use of a smartphone device provided by 'ARTIVIVE' #bringArtToLife, www.artivive.com. The 'ARTIVIVE' app is downloadable for iPhone and Android via the app store. “One For Ghost: A tribute narrative beyond the music and the short autobiography and unintended unfolding of 'ADillaTheGENIUS' and ironic connection with James 'J Dilla' Yancey” Available at Amazon.com US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, JP. Digital book available on www.issuu.com.
Paradox Creations - Olivia Montoya makes lots of zines, mostly perzines, but also fiction zines, photo zines, minicomics, and more! She writes especially about her identities and experiences as a queer, asexual, Autistic, chronically ill, latinx person. She also makes original pinback buttons, handmade jewelry, and dice bags.
Pietra Publications - Pietra Publications is a small press publisher based in Ghent, Belgium. It focuses on themes such as memory, souvenirs, support and (queer) intimacy. It focuses mostly on photography and text. Started by Tom Van den Wijngaert, Pietra originated out of his artistic research on intimacy and sexuality. As the number of publications grew, Pietra became an independent initiative with its own attitude and name. Pietra is always evolving. It produces various publications following a loose common thread, combining Tom's more personal research with his love for history, semiotics and word jokes.
Plants from Home / Plantas del Terruño, by Birds of Paradise Press - Plants from Home is a graphic exploration of the plant allies that keep us connected amidst distance and longing. This collaborative zine is made by Andrea Narno (Mexico City) and Vanessa Adams (New Orleans) exploring eight plants that have helped them cultivate a sense of belonging. These plants have grounded them across borders and along vast and complex loving territories. The images in Plants from Home are collaborative relief prints, and are accompanied by text both in english and spanish. The first edition of the zine is a two color risograph. Plants from Home was the first project created by Birds of Paradise, a collaborative project by Andrea Narno and Vanessa Adams, which explores distance, longing, and the connections we have to place through our relationships to plants.
Pressing Concern Books - Pressing Concern publishes texts and images devoted to exploring the intersections between globalism, education, and gender.
Printed Matter, Inc. - Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission of fostering the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and related publications. In addition to maintaining an inventory of 12,000 books which are sold on behalf of book artists and independent publishers, Printed Matter is a dynamic hub of services and activities offered in support of artists, including: exhibitions, lectures and talks, book launches, publishing projects, the NY Art Book Fair and the LA Art Book Fair.
Queer Sailors Zines - Queer Sailors zines explore the themes of masculinity, desire and queerness through films, literature and sailors.
QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project - The Queer Zine Archive Project. QZAP is a digital archive of LGBTQ+ zines and print ephemera. In addition to helping to run QZAP, Milo is also an active zinemaker. Currently they put out a queerpunk pop-cult perzine called Rumpy Pumpy, and the occasional one-shot zine like Bootch, Please! (2020).
Ravi Teixeira - Ravi makes zines and comics about their favorite media, being gay and trans and a person of color, and characters from their favorite media being gay and trans and people of color.
Raw Meat Collective - Raw Meat Collective is an independent publishing house based in Brooklyn, NY. We work with a wide range of contemporary fine artists in all types of mediums, primarily in publication, print, photography and fine art objects. Titles within the collective are produced once and only available through Raw Meat Collective, through the involved artist independently or through our limited stock listings. Our concepts of titles range from current political struggles, sorrow and sadness, sexual awakenings and much more. We strive to give a voice to Queer & Femme contemporary artists within publication and print.
Ren Strapp - soft, cute lesbian comics and illustrations from a butch lesbian.
Ship Jumper / Valmontgod - Erotic art, narrative homoerotic comic, personal art stories.
Soft Femme Zine Series - Soft Femme is a zone series about femme, softness, feminism, femme theory and more. The second issue, Soft Femme II: Summer Camp is about femme, softness and camp: vintage, leopard print, and dirt.
Southern Exposure - Southern Exposure is a zine series that explores sexual and racial identity and its representation, reckoning with history, and the places where those spheres intersect. The project uses visual styles in a manner both complicit with and critical of the history that gives them power.
Spicy Mango Comics - Known as the Spice Girls of comics, Spicy Mango is Daisy Ruiz, Rachelle Hall, and Julia Mata - bringing you a fresh take on what it means to be a first generation American girl. We are three young women writing and drawing our narratives through comics, cartoons, and illustration. Each with a unique and distinct style, we come together to hustle our dreams into reality, selling handmade comics, zines, stickers, prints and apparel. Spicy Mango is based in N.Y. with roots that span the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America.
Straight To Hell editions - Publications, and limited edition artwork, from S.T.H. contributors and comrades.
Studio Confessions - The Studio Confessions Zine takes the podcast "Studio Confessions" and cuts and tears it into an exploration of words and collage.
Support Ho(s)e Collective - Support Ho(s)e Collective zines touch on art, survival, poetry, organizing, and political protest actions that our queer lefty sex worker collective are engaged in.
teke cocina - Books and zines about: asteroids, books, photos, Printmaking, friends, environments, queerness, desire, memory, color, and More.
The Bettys - The Bettys is an art collective, celebrating collaborating and advocating for underrepresented artists from around the world.
Two Dead Queers Present: GUILLOZINE and QUARANZINE - TWO DEAD QUEERS aims to produce high quality affordable horror for those that dare revel in all its gruesomeness. Our zines are collections of salacious artwork and decadent prose by the diabolically deviant duo K. M. Claude and R. E. Hellinger revolving around selected themes; in this case, the themes are losing one's head and sickness.
Vănguard - Mission Statement Vănguard is a transnational zine with the mission of connecting and uplifting LGBTQ+ Vietnamese creatives through art, literature, and activism. They hope to establish a safe platform where freedom of expression and individuality can thrive. Vănguard là một tập zine với sứ mệnh gắn kết và tôn vinh cộng đồng sáng tạo LGBTQ+ Việt qua các tác phẩm nghệ thuật, văn học và xã hội. Vănguard mong muốn tạo nên một không gian an toàn mà các nghệ sĩ, nhà văn có thể tự do thể hiện cá nhân của mình.
Voxigma Lo - Voxigma Lo, self proclaimed literary drag queen, is a zine maker who combines self portraiture with original writings to tell stories and document performances.
Wabi Sabi Zinez - Queer comic, zines, and books with an erotic focus and an eye towards punk aesthetics.
XXXZines - An queer art zines series with each issue by an individual artist/artist group.
^ote: What Did You Dream? - ^ote, is a reflection on the crises of control and consciousness in our democracy. ^ote travels through a series of historical narratives challenging readers to examine the importance of action over optics in the face of systemic corruption.