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Alana Storm

@alanastorm.bsky.social

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of a certain age; clocky broad; after much consternation, a writer found in TRANSPlants, Pile Press, Lilac Peril, and PDX Makes zines i use this machine to share work and I try to not discourse in public. https://gliff.org https://linktr.ee/alanaxstorm

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · May 10

New zine is out! "Fucking Cis Men: stunted trans desire in the waning days of generation x". This started as cruising disaster stories from the early 90s and turned into something about putting the past down. Free download and purchase info here: gliff.org/posts/zine-f...

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11h

friends if you loved me you'd do the same

ClaireViolet @ultraviolet.gay · 1d

as far as i can tell, these are the reasons to get a linotype, vandercook proof press, several cases of type, drive them across the country, and THEN convince your close friends to help you find a building and start this project:
1. because you can
2. some hot girls you know write poetry
3. tktktk

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ClaireViolet @ultraviolet.gay · 11h

LINOTYPE IS SECURE

Claire Violet smiling and standing on a uhaul trailer with a large cast iron hunk of metal (a Linotype) ratchet-strapped down

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 18h

Nine days post concussion (rear ended in Seattle, cars are terrible) and I’m still having some sinus and eye strain weirdness. No screens means resorting to primitive measures.

Image of a notebook in a pen at a café table with a crumpled napkin and bagel bag in the bedroom

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 2d

assembly day

Four individual zine piles waiting to be stapled and cut on a table at the IPRC

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 2d

Hammy’s pizza voicemail girl where are you now?

Image inside the old now defunct Hammy’s pizzeria.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 4d

research has me coming weirdly full circle with old desires and ways of being

Image of the book A Punk House in the Deep South: An oral history of 309. Aaron Cometbus & Scott Satterwhite

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 4d

What's up with the (seeming?) increase in smaller, often hyper specific, brick and mortar book stores opening up in the past three to five years? Did something change in the industry that made this sort of operation more viable?

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 6d

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 7d

Usual chill and normal response from the wealthy former bohemian neighbors re: losing the community board that has stayed active out front.

Image of a community billboard with a rustic Pacific Northwest look.

Close-up of graffiti on a community billboard that says “ if the new owners take this down, I will burn down the building”

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 7d

Looks like the old Food Front co-op building is (finally?) being redeveloped.

banner on a fence showing the architects exterior design plans for the food front co-op building, and contact information for the new developers. A PROJECT
BY
DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE WEST
PROPERTY SERVICES LLC.
FOR INFORMATION
MARK@N-NRES.COM
503.807.5927
WWW.N-NRES.COM

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 8d

One day I will read a book and it won't send me spiraling off into special collections of libraries 3,000 miles away from me. One day.

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 9d

Thought I was headed to the U District for a conversation with 2006 me but instead stumbled into some kind of food street fair populated by children who were barely, if at all, alive in 2006. Scored a sweet ass book though.

Cover of the book “New York dolls, photographs by Bob Gruen”

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 9d

Our auction raised $500, split between Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Alice Correia Barbosa’s legal fund 🥳 massive thanks to everyone who bid, and especially to our contributors who donated their work

A picture of Lilac Peril’s book TABOO with text above it that reads “$500 raised to defend migrant rights in DC”

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11d

old lady business

Image of a middle aged transsexual woman watching the kids do the one to twelve things you can do at a club

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11d

Printed and folded, assembly next week, and then @pdxzines.bsky.social on November 9th.

Image of Zane’s stacked on a bookshelf, pages and covers still separate, waiting to be stapled and stack cut

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 12d

Also — deep in the zines and grief mines this week

An advertisement for the novella length zine “Troubled Sleep“ by Samantha Jane Dorset in issue 8 of the “strap yourself in” zine

Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 12d

Looks like @littlepuss.net‘s media mail trash (based) finally washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest. (this is good)

A copy of the gender trash from Hell book on a self healing cutting mat. There is a button in the right hand corner that says I heart transsexuals.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 15d

It's been a few years since I wrote that. I'm a little more stable in all this. I don't think validation or approval are the words I'd use now but there's still a longing for — something between reconciliation and acknowledgment. It will probably never come. Burdens of being a certain age I suppose.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 15d

Wrote a whole zine about that time of my life a few years back to process My Shit™ -- the Jezebel article and her biography features.

gliff.org/my-zines.html

Cover a zine with the title: Details of Lost Time: feature loathing and dysphoria on the road with Ani DiFranco.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 15d

I saw her in concert in early '95. I was 19 and hooked. I ran a fan website and message board and went on tour with other fans across the northeast. First real encounter with queerness and dykes which was a little good, but also mostly bad given the vibes around music scene dykes in those years.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 15d

Were you involved with any of the online or concert going fans communities circa ‘95 — ‘00ish? Asking in a “it’s always fun to reconnect” sort of way.

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 17d

and when I find it, I know I'll make sense of me

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Perfect World

YouTube video by Liz Phair - Topic

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 17d

The five percent nation of "wait, how _will_ I retire?"

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what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

a boxcar with graffiti parody of the nine inch nails album cover art for "pretty hate machine" but it says "nine inch rails pretty freight machine"

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 18d

tfw you innocently go to the art supply store, take in your surroundings, feel a lunging sense of anxiety and grief, and then realize you’ve stumbled across the Wendy and Lucy Walgreens

Image of the Walgreens on Lombard Street in Portland, Oregon that was used in the filming of the movie Wendy and Lucy

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