Bleeding Thunder | Inaugural Issue • Winter 2020
This project has been years in the making. Years of feeling excluded from women’s circles. Years of clawing our way to cisgender spaces and finding they are rarely designed with us in mind. Us, the genderqueer, the tomboy turned dyke turned demi-boy, the gender fucked, the too-girl-to-be-boy, too-boy-to-be-girl, the androgynes, enbies, and transsexuals; the can’t-quite-fit-in-any-box, gender-blessed and liminal ones. Some of us have bled for a long time. Some of us used to bleed and stopped. Some re-started. Some of us feel that hormonal shift of menstruation without ever bleeding at all. And all of us have a story.
After years of frustration, years of trying to passionately & angrily educate without seeming too passionate or angry, years of suggesting best practices for communities that were neither going to pay us or accommodate us, years of breaking our hearts in spaces that both nourished and wounded us, we realized the only people who could make a space designed for us was — well, us. So here it is.
You can purchase a high-resolution digital PDF version of Bleeding Thunder for $14.99 via Blurb HERE Print copies are also available from Blurb for $20 ($15.79 + $4.99 shipping) HERE *We are committed to making this zine accessible to folks. if you are someone who is marginalized by capitalism and cannot afford the full price, please reach out to us at bleedingthunderzine@gmail.com, and we can offer you a reduced rate.
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Read the individual articles below
Letter From the Editors
Bleeding Thunder Editorial Team
Various
Interlude: Heart of a Moonbleeder
freygl gertsovski
Fae / Faer
First Blood
Cy X
They / Them
Last Day
Dr. Ash Mechtley
They / Them – He / Him
Just Being Me, Period.
Erin Phares
They / Them
Interlude: Blood of the Matriarchy
Caspian Samuel
They / Them
Wind Chimes
Alex
They / Them – He / Him
Bleeding While Being Non-Binary
fēnix grace
They / Them
Interlude: Still They/ Them
Anna Lila
They / Them
As Long As I’m Bleeding
YodaCera
They / Them
Trans & Bleeding, Period.
Osain P
He / Him
Interlude: 2:47 AM
bouillefriend
They / Them
Shedding
Alli Summerly
They / Them
Interlude: February Moon Blood
Caspian Samuel
They / Them
Dear Well Meaning Cis Women Poets, A Poem
Trey Casen Williams
He / Him
Interlude: Period Dick
Botany Rain
They / Them
Detaching_ A Poem For The Dissociated
Al
They / Them
Interlude: Blooming Together
Anna Lila
They / Them
You can purchase a high-resolution digital PDF version of Bleeding Thunder for $14.99 via Blurb HERE Print copies are also available from Blurb for $20 ($15.79 + $4.99 shipping) HERE *We are committed to making this zine accessible to folks. if you are someone who is marginalized by capitalism and cannot afford the full price, please reach out to us at bleedingthunderzine@gmail.com, and we can offer you a reduced rate. *Portions of the proceeds of the zine will go towards future issues and artist compensation as well as the great work of the Trans Women of Color Collective!
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