Join us on Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 6PM (PT) for a launch event celebrating the release of Boobless, the latest zine from Birch Rosen. This event will feature a supporting roster of performers - Willow Vaughan, Jin Zeng, Nik Moreno, and Jessica Wadleigh - before Birch shares some of their new zine.

If you'd like to get a copy of Boobless ahead of the launch event, make sure to grab it from Birch's Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BirchRosenZines

Event tickets are sold on a sliding scale - no one is turned away due to a lack of funds. If you are able to contribute, a donation of $5 is suggested. Ticket revenue is used to support the event performers and future programming and your contributions are very appreciated!

Birch Rosen lives in the Seattle area, on the unceded land of Coast Salish peoples. They use personal writing to share nuanced trans and nonbinary narratives. In addition to writing, they foster cats and play Beat Saber competitively. Their work has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, just femme & dandy, and Bellevue Literary Review. Their other zines include T&A (Transitioning & Attractiveness) and the Trans Restroom Rants series.

Willow Vaughan is a nonbinary trans woman and musician who lives in the Seattle area. She writes songs about change, loss, and the grief and wonder of becoming a new person.

Jin Zeng is a Chinese diasporic settler on Kumeyaay land, colonially known as San Diego. He is trans, queer, and married to his nonbinary life partner. In transition and in recovery from work addiction, he is rebirthing his relationship to his identity, to his creative voice, to what it means to exist unapologetically in a system that refuses belonging to marginalized bodies. He is learning to un-objectify himself and embrace his own imperfections. He is yearning for aliveness that encompasses all that it means to be human: doing what is joyful, and Being, breathing with what is here. His current writing is a meditation out loud on the process of shedding and reclaiming. He’s glad to share a piece of this journey with the community, as tender and messy as doing so may be."

Nik Moreno is a Chicano writer, poet, activist, and fiber artist originally from TX, currently living in PA. His writing has been featured in online publications such as Hooligan Magazine, Wear Your Voice Magazine, Latina Magazine, The Body is not an Apology, and more. He published his own chapbook titled Liberación in 2016 which was archived by Brown University in their Women's Center's Zine Collection in 2018. He's published numerous zines since 2015 such as "Why Disabled People Are Magic Vol 1 & 2," ""This Not That - A Guide to Eliminating Ableist Language," "From One Addict To Another," and several others. He writes and creates with a  major focus on his indigenous identity, intergenerational healing, as well as the queer/trans disabled and trauma recovery experience.

Jessica Wadleigh writes memoir from her adopted home of Portland, OR. She is Doer of Things at zines and things, a Portland zine literary zine press. Her work explores the intersections of life, love, and her inability to digest dairy. Find more of her work at zinesandthings.com or on social media @jesswadleigh.

Boobless by Birch Rosen Zine Launch