Radical Care for Physical and Mental Health
In a world of systems that aim to keep us feeling helpless, sick, and disconnected from our bodies and emotions, it's crucial to learn how to care for ourselves—and each other. To celebrate the release of zine How to Get Your Period, here's a collection of works that embrace a radical understanding of "self care" as an empowering ethic for healthier individuals and communities.
How to Get Your Period: A Guide to Performing Menstrual Extraction
Take charge of your reproductive rights, learn about your body, and build a supportive community. In 1971, as part of…
Get Your Laws Off My Uterus
Ever since reproductive choice was legalized in the US in 1973, factions have been trying to strip the right to safe,…
Boobs Not Bombs: Produce Your Own Transdermal Estrogen
Treat your hormone needs safely and privately with the help of this guide to making and taking your own topical…
Alive with Vigor: Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle
Alive With Vigor! compiles stories of surviving—and thriving—from a wide spectrum of contributors. Deeply personal…
Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom: Herbal Abortion Procedure and Practice for Midwives and Herbalists
A guide for practiced herbalists and midwives to better serve their communities with herbal abortion options.…
Free to Choose: A Women's Guide to Reproductive Freedom
This pro-choice zine is an introduction to the history of underground abortion and a call to learn our history and to…
Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers
The Wall Street Journal Bestseller that helps us feel better every day with neuroscience and humor. Our brains are…
Stressed & Overwhelmed: Good Habits for the Exhausted Overachiever
If you're the sort of person who takes on every project and responsibility until suddenly it's one thing too many and…
Our Sacred Cycle: A Workbook to Reclaim Your Period from PMS and PMDD
Your period doesn't have to ruin your life. Sometimes our menstrual symptoms prevent us from showing up the way we…
Jane: The Legendary Story of the Underground Abortion Service, 1968-1973
Before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S. in 1973, the Abortion Counseling Services of Women’s Liberation was…
Garden Feminism #2: Herbal Remedies for Lifelong Reproductive Care
Packed with different herbs that assist the female reproductive system and recipes for how to use herbs to manage…
Hot Pants: Do-It-Yourself Gynecology and Herbal Remedies
Hot Pants, long an underground classic, offers great basic sexual health information along with tried and true herbal…
Surviving: Getting Through the Shit Life Throws at You
This is a zine for getting through it when life is piling it higher and deeper, the political and personal and social…
Support: Feminist Relationship Tools to Heal Yourself and End Rape Culture
Support encourages everyone to take a step back, listen, think, and talk about sex, consent, violence, and abuse. If you…
Garden Feminism #3: Safe Spaces: Self-Care, Relaxation
This zine is not too long, but full of helpful information on how to get through an uncomfortable medical…
Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health
Punk rock and mental health have been intertwined since the very beginning. Nervous breakdowns, anxiety, seeking…
I Deserve Good Things: An Introductory Guide to Abortion Support
In this helpful guide for those facing the incredibly difficult decision of whether and how to get an abortion, you'll…
Self-Compassion: Be Kind to Yourself Instead of Striving for Bullshit Self-Esteem
For decades, the U.S. has been obsessed with "self-esteem" or rather with our lack of it. But self-esteem isn't actually…
Fireweed #1: A Zine of Grassroots Radical Herbalism and Wild Foods Connecting With Kids and Family Life
Fireweed, as the full title implies, is all about introducing your kids to plants. It's about teaching young children…
Self As Other: Reflections on Self-Care
In activist circles and elsewhere, it has become commonplace to speak of self-care, taking for granted that the meaning…