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Shotgun Seamstress at Blogger!

Hey, just wanted to let everyone know that even though I quit making new issues of Shotgun Seamstress, I revamped my old blog. It still contains my old Maximum RockNRoll columns, but I've also begun adding new content. Follow it! Shotgun Seamstress at Blogger! My most recent post is about the book Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground…

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Added by Shotgun Seamstress on October 22, 2012 at 8:16am — No Comments

Read Shotgun Seamstress No. 2 in full online here!

Added by Shotgun Seamstress on September 9, 2011 at 10:09am — No Comments

Black Punk Rock Fanzine! Read Here for Free!

Hey, I just finished Issue 5 of Shotgun Seamstress and there are scans of a few pages for you to check out on my page, under photo albums.

Also you can read Issues 1 & 4 as well as a half issue called "violins aren't punk" for free online here:…

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Added by Shotgun Seamstress on September 25, 2010 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

First issue of Shotgun Seamstress available in full online!

I'm working to make all issues of my zine free and available online but it's a time consuming process, so it's going to take me a while. Here is Issue #1. Next, I'll work on Violins Aren't Punk and Issue No. 2 of SS. Thanks for giving a shit. xo SS…

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Added by Shotgun Seamstress on June 3, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

violins aren't punk!

hey i made a quarter size zine to give to friends. it's about bands with violins in them. you can read it here:

Open publication - Free publishing -…

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Added by Shotgun Seamstress on February 18, 2010 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Shotgun Seamstress in ColorLines Magazine

I sent my zine in to ColorLines magazine for review and they were nice enough, and interested enough, to publish my article about photographer Alvin Baltrop online. Go here to check it out: www.colorlines.com.

Also, they're gonna run a little one-page thing on Shotgun Seamstress in their July/August 2009 issue.

For those of you who've never heard of ColorLines:

ColorLines has been the national newsmagazine on race and

politics since 1998. We tell stories from… Continue

Added by Shotgun Seamstress on March 24, 2009 at 7:04pm — No Comments

It's Reclamation Time!

This is from a questionnaire I had to answer from BOOKLYN Artists Alliance, a book art project in Brooklyn NY. I wrote the response last year, in February 2008. It's basically about why I bother to write my zine, Shotgun Seamstress.

Shotgun Seamstress is a zine for people more or less like myself: Black, queer,

feminist, artist, musician, outsider. It is a zine primarily for Black people who

do not fit into white people's stereotypes of what a Black person should be, and… Continue

Added by Shotgun Seamstress on February 17, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Shotgun Seamstress No. 3: MONEY IS FAKE

Hi there,

Just wanted to let everyone know that the third issue of my zine is ready! I haven't mailed it out to distros yet, so for the time being, the third issue is only available through me. Go to Shotgun Seamstress on MySpace to buy a copy.

Message me if you'd like to trade or if you don't have any cash.

Scans of pages from Issues 2 & 3 are on my We Make Zines page.

Issues 1 & 2 are currently… Continue

Added by Shotgun Seamstress on February 15, 2009 at 3:44pm — No Comments