Santa Rosa Zine Fest: We Keep Us Healthy - Zines on caring for ourselves and our communities

In this panel, we'll hear from zinemakers who create work to share inspiring and educational resources with their communities. Many trans people, disabled people and BIPOC face barriers to safe, culturally-responsive healthcare access. The panelists in this conversation each celebrate the power of zines as tools to empower their respective communities by sharing information, affirmation and personal narratives of healing.

Panelists:

Puckworth Bartleby (they) is a fat white trans/gender/queer AuDHD friend who cares big about holding space for all of us. They like making things with other people, dancing, emergent strategy, knitting, transformative justice, writing, the moment where diffuse ideas come together to form the next step toward good things, and cats. They used to live in Santa Rosa and they used to run a zine distro, but these days they are in Seattle to sit with grief and joy and to nurture communities.

Rimona Eskayo (they/them) is an artist, educator, and trans Sephardi insomniac. In 2022, they published their debut book, "I’m Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide For You and Me," a 96-page risograph-printed handbook that interrupts the sterile, dehumanizing realm of the operating room to offer a meditation on the political dimensions of medical gatekeeping and trans liberation. Rimona currently lives in their hometown of Portland, OR. Their work can be found in doctor’s offices, classrooms, zine libraries, and a bookshelf near you. Learn more at rimoskyo.com.

Madalyn Berg (she/ella) is a bilingual energetic herbalist, artist, and educator. She is the owner of The Community Medicine Cabinet and the Lead Clinical Herbalist for the Botanical Bus Farmworker Clinic. In her private practice Madalyn works with humans and other animals. Madalyn’s teachers are Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes of the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine.

Ari (they/them) works in underground networks practicing community care outside the non-profit industrial complex thought various autonomous collectives and networks to further the destruction of white capitalist cishetero patriarchy.