#Februaryness

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It's Feral Friday!

Milwaukee Zine Fest Edition

We’re kicking things off with some of our favorite donations from this year’s Milwaukee Zine Fest. Organized and put on by The Bindery in partnership with the Milwaukee Public Library, this year’s fest sprawled throughout two floors of the Central Library and offered hands-on activities, panel discussions, and free workshops. There was so much good stuff, and we received over 100 donations (thank you!!). Here are a few of the standouts. 

Squire Inquire is an outcropping of Milwaukee’s current DIY scene. Produced by Ed Barth, this lo-fi zine features illustrations and writing from local artists and musicians.  

Notes on libraries, lesbians, and pulp was created by Aiden M. Bettine and printed by Bettine’s Minneapolis-based micro press Late Night Copies Press. LNCP is co-run by artist and educator India Johnson, and is dedicated to amplifying queer voices, storytelling, & history.  

Febrauryness is a project of Milwaukee-based printmaker and book artist Ethan Thomas Krause. It features a mix of comics and illustrations and was published through Thomas’s zine-publishing venture Lemon-O Books.  

Erik Satie was a Punk! was written by Georgi Johnston at Cyberpunk Apocalypse, a publication, writers' cooperative, and residency program that was based in Pittsburgh, in 2013.  

And Martin Sostre, Life and Legacy, written by a group of incarcerated young people at a juvenile prison, recounts the history of formerly incarcerated revolutionary anarchist, abolitionist, and Buffalo bookstore owner Martin Sostre. To evade censorship, it was clandestinely drafted in pencil, transferred outside the prison, and traced in pen before being digitized and printed at Burning Books.  

Images:

Squire Inquire Issue 2, October 2023

Squire Inquire, excerpt (foreword by Gnat Bowden)

Squire Inquire, excerpt (illustrations by Walter)

Notes on Libraries, Lesbians, and Pulp (excerpt)

Notes on Libraries, Lesbians, and Pulp

Febrauryness Number 3, Spring 2024

Februaryness (excerpt)

Erik Satie was a Punk! 2013

Martin Sostre: Life and Legacy 2024

Martin Sostre: Life and Legacy (excerpt)

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[thenegoteator]

if you’re ever shamed for long titles or adventurous spelling, just remember that you’re part of an ancient and noble tradition

(transcription under the cut)

[ A LITELL treatyse of Astronomy, very neces- sary for Physyke and Surgerye, declarynge what herbes, and all kynde of medecynes are appropryate and vnder the influence of the Planetes, sygnes and constellacyons. And also the partes and members of the bodye thereto correspondynge, and howe ye shall brynge the vertue of the Heuens and nature of the Sters to euery parte of mans bodye beynge deseased or sycke to the soner recoueraunce of helth. And also howe to chose the most luc- key dayes and tymes for the a- boue sayde, the whiche shal- be appoynted by the Al- manacke yerelye, accordynge to the course of the Moone, passynge by all the Signes and Sterres in one reuolucion gathered and set forth by ANTHO NY ASKHAM Physiciō in the yere of our Lorde God M. D. L. the twelfe day of Februarye.]

(this book, 1550)

[zombunnys]

FUCK FUCK femslash februarye

[tiny-librarian]

“This yeare, the 9th of Februarye, a priest, being parson in the Towre of London, hanged himselfe withe one of his garters. And the same night the Lady Rochford was had to the Tower.”

[susantbraithwaite]

Things in Scots #6: Months

Following on from yestreen's days o e wick, here's the day's #ThingsinScots #Months

Welcome to day six of Things in Scots!—a fun collaboration with my husband, Jez (Mind an gie Jez’s post a keek.)

In keeping with yesterday’s days of the week, here are the months in Scots.

Junaur (also Janwar, Janavier, Janiveer, Jenewarie)

Fabruar(y) (also Februerij, Fabruarie, Februarye, Feberwerrie)

Mairch (also Merch)

Aprile

Mey (also Mei)

Juin (also June, Jene, Jeene)

Julie(also Jullee,…

[tiny-librarian]

“This yeare, the 9th of Februarye, a priest, being parson in the Towre of London, hanged himselfe withe one of his garters. And the same night the Lady Rochford was had to the Tower.”