Mental Health

Hey everyone! I write stories about xenophobia, homophobia, and immigration. I'll be showcasing new work about queer identity, as well as stories of LGBTQIA+ characters in certain situations.

Zines on poetry, queerness, mental illness, and the Tinders of Texan men.

RPS Collective is a DIY arts Non profit serving the Oakland Art Community providing classes, gallery shows, and retail featuring zines, art, and other hand made goods.

Ivy Rose Zines are self-published perzines delving into an intimate, embarrassing, and always genuine internal world. Based in the Bay Area for the past six years, each perzine is a delicately crafted compilation from the various sketchbooks of Ivy Rose. Each zine is a deeply personal reflection of a different aspect of the author's life. These stories act as mirrors for the readers to see themselves with and illustrations drawn to evoke the emotions we often forget to let ourselves feel.

Fantasy & esoteric art zines, prints, & galactic ephemera.

James Huynh comes from a VIetnamese-Chinese refugee family that resettled in the suburbs of Los Angeles County. He has spent his whole life deeply entrenched in Asian immigrant/Asian American communities. He now lives in East Bay and has been involved with different community based organizations and currently is working to build up tenant power in the region. An Asian American Survival Guide zine was written with the intention of being in conversation with the breadth and diversity of Asian American experiences. Please reach out at asianamsg@gmail.com if you want to talk more!

Brown Recluse exists to uplift the work of QTBIPOC zine makers.

Lydia Sviatoslavsky is an arts & culture writer for Broke-Ass Stuart and Bay City News. She also runs THOUGHT ROT, a website where she publishes artist interviews and experimental writing (https://thought-rot.net). She welcomes new ideas and creative collaborators.

Laneha House is a family run small press that solely publishes the work of Lawrence Lindell, Breena Nuñez and The BAYlies Magazine Comics Anthology.

We will have the current and past issue of Milvia Street, plus zines and chapbook made by Berkeley City College students

Shira Neiss is a freelance illustrator and textile designer based in Brooklyn. Her work is whimsical, irreverent, and possesses a strong Jewish and feminist sensibility.

I’m Kadie Kelly / AKA K. Trigger, a white identifying, pan-sexual-in-a-hetero-relationship woman who makes original art, zines and music, drawing on themes around emotional dysregulation and creativity as medicine, who considers her art a demonstration of her protest stage of healing, on the way to forgiveness from harmful impacts of the patriarchy.

Long Arm Stapler is the art moniker of Bay Area born-and-raised Maira. They make zines about mental health, gender, and queerness. Sometimes they draw dogs, once in a while they record a podcast about zines, and most of the time they're thinking about karaoke. Their latest call for submissions is for Zine of the Hill 3, an all-queer issue of their King of the Hill fanzine.

Acardellart is a Queer Taiwanese-American owned small business empowering Mindfulness & Healing w/Handcrafted Illustrated Goods. Intentionally slowing down, I deconstruct generational trauma in hopes of breaking toxic cycles. I Illustrates stories I wished I could have seen as a child. Conversations rooted in mental health & emotional safety. I believe in creating safe spaces to heal your inner child thus empowering your higher self. My illustrations gently remind you to lean into presence so we can navigate an authentic life.