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Love Letters To Monsters #3/ Alabama Grrrl #9

Love Letters To Monsters #3/ Alabama Grrrl #9

by Ailecia Ruscin and Ciara Xyerra

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From the great plains of Lawrence, Kansas comes this killer split...

Love Letters To Monsters is, as they say on television, "Not here to make friends".... Ciara's sharply critical of the deranged difficulty of forging real "community" and "support" as she moves from Boston to Lawrence, sets up a home with her partner and cat, shuts her zine distro, confronts chronic arthritic pain, her mother's instability, and Midwest punker life in general. LLTM is written like it expects to be thoroughly disappointed with humanity but it's also brimming with spit and fire and deeply insightful in a way that isn't didactic or predictable. A neat trick is that Ciara manages to depict a sense of finding community in Lawrence, which make the back and forth between acceptance and critique all the more relevant. Alabama Grrrl #9 takes us on a hunt for that elusive idea of "community" in a totally different way. From time in Pittsburgh being a wild politicized punk and hyper-busy student to finding and building good times in Lawrence. Ailecia also tears into the failings of grad school and gets into the repurcussions of some heavy Kansas social drama and indulges in some dreamy ziney times in Portland. -EF

80p, b&w, 4.25"x5.5"