New zine! "All my friends are mountains"
It's been said that the Kurds have no friends but the mountains.
There may or mayn't be much in that, but any friend of the mountains is a friend of mine. (you know, if they're okay with it)
So I chased curiosity and solidarity over the plains of Turkey and in to the Zagros Mountains of Iraq, the one Dubya saw fit to pull from the burning wreckage for his own ends. The zine talks about animal rights, wildlife trade and hunting in Iraq; antispeciesism; the environmental destruction of the war; the aftermath of Saddam; the aid industry; the Antideutsche's crusades in the Middle East; sex work and the female prison system in Iraq and Kurdistan; the Kurdish Spring; underground media in Kurdistan, and why not to carry Kurdish bullet shells through Turkish airport security. It also includes an awesome interview with the folks of the Kurdish Anarchist Forum.
And there is a lot of gushing about mountains. Mesopotamia ho!
48 A5 pages. You can buy it for three bucks plus the cost of stamps on Etsy here. If three bucks is too much, write me and we can figure something out. If you're feeling well generous, you're welcome to send whatever amount works to projectbridget@hotmail.com with pay-friend Thing. As you might've noticed I often like using my zines to raise ca$h for various orgs, but in this case (as I expand on in the zine!) there's a lot of head-pounding deliberation over where would be a good place to send money raised... so if I arrive at a good answer I'll let you know - otherwise it'll go towards mine and Sebastian's impending Aotearoa mountain adventures :)
There may or mayn't be much in that, but any friend of the mountains is a friend of mine. (you know, if they're okay with it)
So I chased curiosity and solidarity over the plains of Turkey and in to the Zagros Mountains of Iraq, the one Dubya saw fit to pull from the burning wreckage for his own ends. The zine talks about animal rights, wildlife trade and hunting in Iraq; antispeciesism; the environmental destruction of the war; the aftermath of Saddam; the aid industry; the Antideutsche's crusades in the Middle East; sex work and the female prison system in Iraq and Kurdistan; the Kurdish Spring; underground media in Kurdistan, and why not to carry Kurdish bullet shells through Turkish airport security. It also includes an awesome interview with the folks of the Kurdish Anarchist Forum.
And there is a lot of gushing about mountains. Mesopotamia ho!
48 A5 pages. You can buy it for three bucks plus the cost of stamps on Etsy here. If three bucks is too much, write me and we can figure something out. If you're feeling well generous, you're welcome to send whatever amount works to projectbridget@hotmail.com with pay-friend Thing. As you might've noticed I often like using my zines to raise ca$h for various orgs, but in this case (as I expand on in the zine!) there's a lot of head-pounding deliberation over where would be a good place to send money raised... so if I arrive at a good answer I'll let you know - otherwise it'll go towards mine and Sebastian's impending Aotearoa mountain adventures :)