This collection is part of my directory of other people's creations on itch.io, Curated Collections of LGBTQIA, where you can find more collections about other topics, and on specific sorts of transgender identities. I personally select and review each creation in them, even if they are different than my own views or experiences as a queer person myself.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A mini zine designed to be printed on one sheet of paper and folded.
About: Platonic poetry about the zinester's own aromantic experiences.
Content: Rated PG-13. Content warnings for artistic nudity, swear words, needles, fantasy body horror (for example, robot bodies), insects, and menstruation.
Medium: Zine. Full color.
Genre and subject: Nonfiction. Anthology. Poetry. Art. Comics.
About: An anthology of poems, comics, collages, paintings, illustrations, and other creative works by many transgender men and trans masculine nonbinary artists from around the world.
Queer themes: Transgender men. Trans masculine. Nonbinary. Drag. Name change. Hormone therapy (Testosterone). Dysphoria. Transition. Top surgery. Gay trans men.
Content: Rated PG. Warning for needles.
Medium: Zine.
Genre and subject: Nonfiction. Poetry.
About: "a poem about being transsexual and the divine right of kings, by seraf/michael/tm"
Vibe: Defiant, empowered.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Zine.
Genre: Poetry. Comic book. Romance.
About: "A 10-page minicomic including adaptations of Sappho's poetry, as translated by Anne Carson."
Vibe: Beautiful. Sad. Lovely.
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: Full color magazine.
About: An anthology about testosterone (T), from authors of many genders. Most of what is in this issue are essays, but there is a poem about being a girl with hairy legs who is not a girl.
Content: Rated PG-13. Violence.
Medium: Interactive multimedia prose created with Twine.
Genre and subject: Fiction. Horror. Romance.
About: Lesbian werewolves having a night on the town.
Content: Rated G, so far as I've seen.
Medium: A poetry generator created with Twine.
Genre and subject: History. Poetry. Romance.
About: "This generator creates lines of poetry using Sappho's style and vocabulary, as translated from dozens of fragments (using Anne Carson's chosen terminology). As such - representative of Carson's style - many of the generated lines will be broken or incomplete, marked with ] or [ to represent words lost to time. This is intentional."
Content: Rated R.
Accessibility: Some of the text is intentionally difficult to read for artistic reasons.
Medium: A personal zine designed for reading on screen.
Genre and subject: Nonfiction. Memoir. Poetry. Collage.
About the zine writer's personal experiences with being a lesbian, enjoying being surrounded by other sorts of queer people (gay, bi, and trans), and how being a lesbian doesn't necessarily mean being a woman.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Zine.
Genre and subject: Poetry. Romance.
About: A poem for the zinester's love.
Content: Rated PG. Contains references to cissexism, menstruation, and sex.
Medium: A personal zine of poetry.
About: A nonbinary poet made these seven poems by clipping words out of the informational leaflet that came with their birth control pills that they take to reduce bleeding. The poetry highlights how the leaflet calls some of the desired effects of this medicine "side effects," and how health resources don't mention nonbinary people.
Vibe: Sarcastic yet genuine.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: An illustrated story poem in a zine.
Genre and subject: Science fiction.
About "robot girl maintenance and sapphic yearning."
Content: Rated PG.
Medium: Zine. Full color. One sheet of paper. Designed for printing and folding.
About: A sweet love poem made from magazine clippings, about affirming and embracing your intimate partner's transition and his gender as among the things that you recognize and celebrate about him and enjoy sharing together.
Content: Rated PG-13. Alcohol, sensuality. Description of dead bodies decomposing.
Medium: A book of poetry.
About: As described by the poet, "a suite of eight poems about longing for women. Some of the poems have won the 2nd Gémino H. Abad Awards for Poetry and Literary Criticism in 2019 and published in the Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature in 2021 as a smaller suite. This zine includes three more poems and is arranged in the order I have always intended them all to be read."
Content: Rated PG.
Medium: Zine. Full color picture book.
About: A fan-made spin-off of the classic picture book Goodnight Moon. The bunny is a grown-up now, and though his life has changed a lot, he is still fond of the moon.
Queer themes: The bunny is trans masculine and getting top surgery. He says goodbye to what he leaves behind, and thank you to everyone who helped him get there. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the top surgery fund of a trans man in the zinester's family.
Vibe: All of the feelings. Innocent and flirty. Silly and serious. Joy and sadness. Dysphoria and euphoria. Gratitude and grief. It's respectful to the source material even while handling topics that it would not have. It has space for complicated feelings without oversimplifying them, while still being essentially very positive.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A tiny computer game created with Bitsy. It runs in your web browser.
Genre and subject: Fiction. Poetry. Romance.
About: "a bee muses on new love in spring"
Vibe: Romantic, lighthearted, charming, sweet.
Content: Rated PG.
Medium: A wiki poem (made of excerpts from other texts) in a zine.
About the assumption that everyone's goal is romance as the ultimate form of relationship, and what it might be like if friendships were valued as highly.
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: Poetry in the form of an illustrated zine or comic book.
About: Celebrating the author's body a year after top surgery.
Vibe: Joyful, beautiful, earnest, loving, hopeful.
Content: Rated R.
Medium: Poetry zine.
About: A zine of poems about the etymology behind queer words.
Content: Rated PG-13. Artistic nudity.
Medium: A computerized card game.
Genre and subject: History. Poetry. Romance.
About: "a contemplative, creative card game based on the poetry of Sappho. A typical game can be completed in 1-2 minutes."
