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GET a copy of The Unbroken Thread - Stories from S

GET a copy of The Unbroken Thread - Stories from SWANA Stitch.

Since we started Portland SWANA Stitch in February 2023, our community has grown and created amazing projects!

We wanted to commemorate our second SWANA Stitch show by interviewing our members about what stitching and Stitch mean to them.

It feels important right now to collect oral histories of our communities. The themes that kept surfacing were connection, community, generational connections, picking up ancestral crafts. These are some of the threads that connect us.

We hope this zine inspires you to pick up your stitches and build radical community the way our ancestors have since the very first stitch.

You can also declare your love for Stitch and order our Stitch button pack!

All proceeds go to support SWANA Stitch
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Available at entangledroots.com

Let Trans Kids Become Elders ❤️❤️❤️

Let Trans Kids Become Elders

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A collaboration between @entangledrootspress + @sheyamghieth

Somehow, we miscounted our presale orders and have some extra shirts available - lucky you! (not in all sizes, though, apologies)

50% of all sales still goes to @themasgd
(Muslim Alliance for Sexual + Gender Diversity)

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Available at entangledroots.com

Armenia + Artsakh: A Brief Intro Zine Last year A

Armenia + Artsakh: A Brief Intro Zine

Last year Armenians worldwide experienced one of the biggest tragedies of their lives when Azerbaijan occupied Artsakh. 120,000 Artsakhi Armenians were attacked and removed from their historic homeland with advanced weapons imported by oil-rich Azerbaijan from Israel, Russia, Pakistan and Eastern Europe. Situated in the diaspora and watching from afar the continuation of a legacy of genocide was hard enough, but being surrounded by many who did not know or did not choose to pay attention to what was happening was harder. Even in radical spaces and anarchist venues the lack of understanding of the region is palpable. I chose to not despair in this fact as I too would have to be honest about my lack of historical knowledge and context on many regions world wide. Inspired by an anti-copyright zine I received in the mail from another Armenian comrade with the same simple title, I expanded their project with more information and context and contribute this knowledge in the radical lineage of self-published zines. As a dear Palestinian friend often says “we keep the records.” With these records we remember, we learn, we reorient, and we strategize.

Anti-copyright. Disseminate and distribute freely.

Available for free in Read and Print PDF files.

Copies purchased will cover paper + printing for free distribution.

Thank you to the folks who sent the original zine that was the inspiration, to my partner who helped with in-depth editing and to @roupsnoop for the help and encouragement.

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For over a dacade, I've identified as a printmaker

For over a dacade, I've identified as a printmaker- paper, ink, press. Political posters and radical broadsides. Propaganda and revolutionary texts. Community print shops and dissemination of ideas.

Now I guess I'm also a janyak (Armenian needlelace) maker? I've been working on remembering and reimagining this practice and these motifs. Queering color and form, all the while exploring the cross over between personal and political on a deeper level. When our stories and identities are inherently political, it isn't that difficult to do.

I'm immensely grateful to my teacher @emma_welty for being that missing link for so many in diaspora , to my kooyrig @29cents who I miss always and adore from afar for inviting me to take that janyak class with you, to @impinsandimneedles whose full of the most needed unpopular opinions and who encouraged me to pick up this ancestral craft after I put it down thinking it wasn't for me, and to the @swanastitchpdx community for gathering and stitching ourselves together every month.

Addition - thank you @roupsnoop for connecting me to stay with @hrayr_huh_died who connected me with a private tour of the janyak show with curator @gassiagassia

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Please support Mirna's families fundraiser. Costs

Please support Mirna's families fundraiser. Costs for basic necessities in the North are exorbitant. They have been living in the centuries old Greek Orthadox Church of Saint Porphyrius since their home was leveled in October last October. Her grandmother was killed a couple of months ago. We failed to stop this genocide. There are no cogs in the machines at the weapons factory; there are no shipments of arms being stopped at the ports. Offer whatever material support you can. Yes, we should be uncomfortable - physically, emotionally, spiritually, materially, financially. We are all complicit in a live streamed genocide. Feeling hopeless? Sign up to support a family with @creatorsforgaza

I'm having a stories sale to raise funds:
Misprints, discounts, bundles and more.

1/2 of everything is being donated, and prices include shipping domestically.
Dm me to claim and wait for instructions/confirmation
Stories will be deleted when they are no longer available

And if you don't want anything, please donate directly- link in bio "for Mirna" 💜

Updated buttons 🪡🧷 These buttons are made u

Updated buttons 🪡🧷

These buttons are made using newsprint prints that are created from troubleshooting, testing or simply proofing. These pieces of newsprint become layered with different images during months or years of print time. Text is added to each individually, and thus, every button is unique.

Link to shop in bio

From the River to the Sea Hand screenprinted larg

From the River to the Sea

Hand screenprinted large back patches. They measure 11x13 inches

Send a donation of any amount to Batoul's fundraiser (link in my bio). Send a screenshot along with your address to me and I will send you one of these patches. You can also specify if you have a color preference from the two colors in the photograph.

Every little bit helps. Batoul gave birth via emergency c-section prematurely and have been trying to raise the funds to survive. Please support her and her family. ❤️‍🩹🇵🇸

Navasart (new year) was the name of the first mont

Navasart (new year) was the name of the first month in the ancient Armenian calendar (August 11-September 9), and the first day of the month was the start of the New Year. It corresponds to August 11 in the Gregorian calendar that we use today and commemorated the beginning of Armenian history. According to legend, on August 11, 2492 BCE, the patriarch Hayk killed the Babylonian tyrant, Bel, thus founding the Armenian nation.

August 11, 2024, according to the “Haikian calendar” (Հայկեան տոմար), which was the oldest one in use, is 1 of Navasart of the Armenian year 4516. The day marks the beginning of the Haikian calendar.

This calendar was created to make the holidays more accessible. It denotes both when the holidays are according to the Haikian calendar and also when the holidays are, where applicable, according to the liturgical calendar. After the adoption of Christianity many of the holidays were given biblical explanations and moved to align with church holidays. [example- Zatik is supposed to land on the first full moon after the spring equinox, marking the birth of the gods of thunder, lightening and fire. Zatik (to divide) marks the uncoupling of spring from winter. The church has rebranded Zatik as Easter, so in the year of 4516 the Haikian calendar marks Zatik as April 12th, where the liturgical calendar marks it as April 20th.]

This calendar allows us to explore the roots of these holidays while also sharing when these holidays are celebrated modernly in the homeland and in the diaspora.

This knowledge, research, and illustrations were gathered and created for the zine Ancient Fires // Future Waters: Reclaiming Ancient Armenian Rituals that was created with @29cents ⚘️⚘️⚘️

The illustrations for this print were taken from the image created for Navasart in Ancient Fires // Future Waters.

⚘️Pick one up at Queernissage by @galas_la
⚘️Risograph print, printed at @outletpdx
⚘️Photographs by @sheyamghieth
⚘️Last photo of AF//FW zine beautifully by @ani.vibes

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