Zine in the mail makes us happy

By Michael Jackman

Apr 14, 2015 at 7:30 am

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Basically, at Metro Times, there are two kinds of mail you receive. One is the dowdy business-size envelope with a press release from some faceless government or corporate entity.

The other is a visual fiesta of an envelope festooned with only the coolest recent stamps, meaning somebody has sent you a zine.

It works like this:

The zine in question is Every Thug is a Lady: Adventures without Gender, and it's a perfect bound little thing, very attractive, by a zinester who goes by Julia Eff. Once upon a time, we profiled her. Since then, she has been a Metro Times intern and is actually still out there writing zones, and hoping to sell enough of them to make a down payment on a house in Detroit. Sounds like a noble goal.

Curious? Want to learn more? Send an email to Julia Eff at [email protected].

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Arts zines

About The Author

Michael Jackman

Born in 1969 at Mount Carmel hospital in Detroit, Jackman grew up just 100 yards from the Detroit city line in east Dearborn. Jackman has attended New York University, the School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University and Wayne State University, though he never got a degree. He has worked as a bar back, busboy,...