Engendering Joy

In the corner of the library tucked between the adult fiction books on a high shelf you notice this little zine, stuffed there and left to find a trans girl like a message in a bottle set to sea.

This zine was made in 2022, by us! It's a collection of thoughts, experiences, and doodles about being trans, being therian, and what all that's like from the perspective of the first 7 months on estrogen. 

It was originally made on a deadline to submit to a local pride month thing, and we've been meaning to digitize it for a while now. But the weird way we decided to format the folding and the printing and stuff, combined with Life Happening So Much, left this little project sitting on our hard-drive for a good while. We decided finally, spring 2024, to put it together and throw it up on our page.

I'm very happy to get this out there, it's a small thing but it's full of trans stuff and the world always needs more of that. Unfortunately I don't know how to get screen-readable text on here without spending weeks learning how to sort that out and I don't really have the time right now. So for this zine, if you have trouble reading text visually, I'd recommend the version where we preform the piece orally. We also decided to include a bonus commentary track just like on our last project.

This zine is pretty tame, but it does include artistic nudity in the doodles as well as frank discussion of body feels and mention of transphobia.  You have been content warned.

So! I hope you enjoy it if you check it out! :3 Thanks <3

You wonder briefly how this little tiny thing came to be in your local library. Does this girl live in your town? Did someone else print it out and put it out there? Who knows~