Cycling: A Guide to Menstruation is now available for PRE-ORDER! Pre-orders include FREE SHIPPING!
What neat things will I find in Cycling?-Timeline of the menstrual cycle (it's intricate!)
-Encyclopedia of herbal home remedies (what is Cramp Bark used for?)
-Timeline of menstrual products (what did they use in ancient Rome?)
-Exploration of "modern" Moon Huts (a special place to relax!)
-Guide to menstrual products (do you sometimes wonder about sea sponges?)
-Fun Facts
-And MORE!
Cycling is scheduled to go to press in November, 2010. It will have full-color covers, 50-60 pages, and be perfect bound.
Pre-ordering helps to pay the printing bill. Your pre-order ensures that books like Cycling and Tip of the Iceberg continue to educate people about their bodies. It also supports the growth of the entire Women's Health Chapbook Series, and makes each book possible.
July 26, 2010
Tip of the Iceberg and We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago are now available at Chicago Comics!
July 23, 2010
Tip of the Iceberg and We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago are joining the zine collection at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University! Where else can you find a searchable database of women's zines??
The collection began with a large contribution of zines from Sarah Dyer.
July 22, 2010
We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago will be available for the bidding at AREA Chicago's second annual art show and auction, Cheap Art for Chicago!
The event takes place August 7 at Yollocalli Arts Reach, and includes work inspired by Chicago and made by artists living in the city.
July 20, 2010
We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago is now available at Enjoy: An Urban General Store in Lincoln Square, Chicago. You could probably put together a whole Chicago gift basket here.
July 13, 2010
A selection from the forthcoming Cycling: A Guide to Menstruation will appear in Bailliwik 08, due out August 28th. Bailliwik is an artists' collective and self-published periodical. It is hand-bound as a hard cover, full color, limited edition book.
The selection includes a four-page timeline of menstrual products. Here is the first page.
July 3, 2010
The Drygoods Shop is opening in Asheville, NC (West Asheville, to be exact. It's trendy there.) All sorts of items from this very website will be
available for purchase, including books and prints.
The Drygoods Shop is part studio, part shop, part community craft area- run
by Leigh Anne Hilbert of Overlap Sewing Studio and Jean Potter of Rockpile Bindery. Check out their stuff!
May 28, 2010
Zoo-Mouse-Key Press is coming to Leland, Michigan! Tack and Jibe (a shop located in a historic fish shanty) opens today, where you can buy all kinds of neat things including Dork Dance 5,000, We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago, and the letterpress print Dusty Boots.
And as they say, life just plain tastes better when its Pure Michigan.
May 6, 2010
We're traveling across the pond on May 17th, where Tip of the Iceberg will be for sale at the Big Top Jamboree, a creative extravaganza in Dundee, Scotland! I didn't know much about Dundee beforehand, but it sounds like it's the place to be!
April 30, 2010
Tip of the Iceberg and We Should are now available for your free reading pleasure at the Chicago Underground Library! This place seems pretty neat, and they've got their fingers in a lot of the zine/book/writing/etc. pies around Chicago. Go to their website to submit your own work!
April 26, 2010
Tip of the Iceberg is becoming a part of Salford Zine Library in the UK! You can submit your own self-published work by simply mailing it to the library; address available on their website. Neat!
April 23, 2010
INTRODUCING the brand new book We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago!! Learn more about We Should, or BUY it here.
October 24-25, 2009
Tip of the Iceberg will be a part of the many works featured in Vulvagraphics, an exhibition held at The Change You Want to See Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Organized by the New View Campaign, the show celebrates the role of art in activism.
September 11, 2009
EveryBody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009 opens at I Space Gallery in Chicago.
This show presents work by artists and activists representing historical and visual exchanges around feminist health movements, including the Menotoxin poster.
The exhibit also features a zine library that includes Tip of the Iceberg.
Runs through October 10. Curated by Bonnie Fortune. Read the New York Times article featuring EveryBody! Or learn more about the show here!
March 27, 2009
Without You I Am Nothing: Cultural Democracy from Providence and Chicago, opening at Green Lantern Gallery in Chicago.
This show is an exhibition of works on paper that are intended to create small venues for public participation, including The Sexual Orientation Grid and Fertility Awareness Chart. Curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore.
Runs through April 25. Read an article about it, or learn more here!
October 14, 2008
Biological Agents: Artistic Engagements in Our Growing Bio-Culture, opening at Gallery 400 in Chicago's West Loop.
A part of the "Knowledge Virus Research Station", Tip of the Iceberg is featured alongside other small-press materials by artists, biologists, and students around issues of biology and agency.
Runs through November 22. Read the article from Time Out magazine.
July 10, 2008
Zoo-Mouse-Key Press is now on Etsy! Books and posters are all available for perusal and purchase.
May 19, 2008
Work featured on Let Them Eat Anemones, a blog about design and aesthetics.
May 14, 2008
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at Wolfbait and B-girls in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. This is a great store that's passionate about working with local artists and designers.
April 2008
Bejeezus Magazine, Issue 10, is out! Read the article about Zoo-Mouse-Key Press here.
February 26, 2008
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at The Makery in Louisville, KY.
December 9, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at We the People in Louisville, KY. It operates in conjunction with (and at the same location as) Cherry Bomb.
(This is not an actual sign or logo for the store.)
October 20, 2007
Bejeezus Magazine, Issue 10, will feature an article about Zoo-Mouse-Key Press and Tip of the Iceberg. Bejeezus is a bi-annual art & culture magazine from Louisville, Kentucky. It hopes to reclaim southern culture.
October 18, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at Cherry Bomb in Louisville, Kentucky.
September 19, 2007
The Renegade Craft Fair was a success! Or at least a good learning experience.
Here are some photos of the booth, shared by Erin Winch, Rachel Collier and myself.
Erin's books, brooches and necklaces:
Rachel's hand-embellished clothing:
August 30, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg has been reprinted!
Of note: a few slight illustration updates, and an expansion of the "Further Studies: Sources and Resources" section. Here's the new, nearly-identical-to-the-old-version cover!
July 18, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at the Renegade Craft Fair's sister store, Renegade Handmade, located in Chicago.
July 9, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at Red Tent Sisters, located in Toronto, Canada.
A great resource for women's health and sexuality; it offers workshops and products relating to fertility, sexuality, contraception, pregnancy, child-rearing and menopause.
July 5, 2007
Upcoming: Renegade Craft Fair
Erin Winch (of Burnt Cucumber) and I have been accepted into the Renegade Craft Fair, taking place September 15 and 16, 2007 in Chicago. We're so excited!
June 8, 2007
Spudnik Press is officially open!
Printmaker and bookbinder Angee Lennard has officially opened doors to the cooperative printmaking studio located in Chicago's Ukrainian Village neighborhood.
Spudnik's capabilities include etching, lithography and silkscreening. All offerings are listed on the website, so check 'er out!
June 6, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at G Boutique, a sophisticated, woman-owned shop located in Chicago.
April 18, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at Quimby's of Chicago. Have fun finding it in the mish mash!
Oh, you can also order Iceberg from Quimby's online by clicking here.
March 26, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now apart of the zine collection at Papercut Zine Library in Boston, MA.
March 5, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available through the Chicago Women's Health Center, where women are making health care accessible- in ways you may not have experienced before! This is the longest-operating women's health collective in the U.S., and they really know their stuff.
March 4, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at one of the largest feminist bookstores in the country, Women and Children First of Chicago.
WCF strives to promote women writers and provide the best readable resources for women. This is an amazing independent bookstore.
Owners Linda and Ann.
January 25, 2007
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at one of my favorite shops on the web (since I'm not in Canada often enough), Womyn's Ware!
A true celebration and empowerment of women's sexuality, this place educates while offering the best of the best products.
*Read a review and purchase Iceberg from Womyn's Ware here!
September 26, 2006
Tip of the Iceberg is now available at Early to Bed, a wonderful woman-owned store that caters to all genders and orientations of sexual play and education. Located in Chicago.
July 14, 2006
Gallery Opening at Corbett vs. Corbett vs. Dempsey:
Tip of the Iceberg is one of many pieces being featured in
Full Frontal: the dirty, lewd, erotic show at Corbett vs. Dempsey.
The show runs through August 26.
July 2006
Period: The End of Menstruation, a documentary by Giovanna Chesler, premiers at the Gene Siskel Film Center of Chicago.
The film takes a close look at the cultural and medical side effects of menstrual suppression through hormonal birth control. Tip of the Iceberg and related works are shown in conjunction.
April 2006
The BFA Show, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tip of the Iceberg is presented in its earlier stages, along with related works centering around my thesis project; the women's health chapbook series.
