10 years ago, i launched my zine press, Free the Future.

it started with this zine about 70s hippie parenting. while designing the cover, i had some extra space at the bottom, and i thought "that's where the publisher name would be on a regular book"...

the name "free the future" is a take-off on a @crimethinc slogan that i never agreed with: "eclipse the past, usurp the future." i liked the general direction, but i thought we should learn from the past so we can make the future better.

i'd made a lot of zines before, but this idea of studying past subcultures was new, and i got excited about it-- so i ran with it.

some titles were about the vibrant 70s grassroots political subculture in boston. others were about punk spaces, and underground DIY arts.

i also did one about local italian-american mutual aid societies (incl. ones my ancestors were part of)

i'm taking a little break lately, but there's more to come. i've gotten to collab with some great folks-- @alexxkittle , chris strunk, pat falco-- and it's been amazing

i've also gotten a lot of support from friends (new and old)-- and am continually reminded of how supportive and wonderful the zine world is.

bottom line: go write your own zines!

#Zines #FreeTheFuturePress

this is pretty neat. it's an issue of a Spanish arts journal; this issue's topic is artist mothers.

one article features a spread of publications related to the topic-- including one of my zines!

#FreeTheFuturePress #Zines #ArtistParents

I was finally able to do a reprint. There are now 200 of these!

#zines #FreeTheFuturePress #MutualAid #BostonMA

my "mapping out utopia" zine is in good company over at Magpie

#FreeTheFuturePress #zines #FaithHarper #MagpieDavis

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And here's my new zine-- a collaboration with Greer Muldowney (who handled the photos, editing, and publishing duties) and Kristen Mallia (who did the design and layout).

It's an entirely rewritten version of the very first Free the Future Press publication from 2016. It's called "Buying and selling other people's homes," and looks at how the Somerville condo market works-- and the effects of all the greed involved.

#Zines #SomervilleMA #FreeTheFuturePress #GreerMuldowney #KristenMallia

Excited to have just received Tim Devin's "Mutuo soccorso!" in the mail. Can't wait to read it! @doormouse

#mutuosccorso
#freethefuturepress
#helpingeachotherout

got the afternoon off. making stacks of my new mutual aid zine for the people.

#MutualAid #Zines #MutuoSoccorso #FreeTheFuturePress

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printing off the last of these jams! get in touch if you want a copy!

A tiny, one-floor storefront near Cambridge's busy Central Sq. has been home to more than its share of radicals & artists. Let's take a look at their world, & see how this one small space made it all possible.
#zines #CambridgeMA #BostonMA #FreeTheFuturePress #BostonArtHistory #BostonArt

the latest reprint of my mapping out utopia zines are on this snazzy textured paper...

#zines #MappingOutUtopia #SomervilleMA #CambridgeMA #FreeTheFuturePress

when i wrote this zine on hippie parenting, i pulled a nice quote (slide no. 2) for the intro from Quaker civil rights & peace activist & all-around innovative thinker, Chuck Fager.

little did i know that Mr Fager lived in a house on my block when he wrote those very words in the early 70s! (the house in slide no. 1)

Mr Chuck Fager's old house, we salute you!

#ChuckFager #FreeTheFuturePress
#SomervilleMA #LocalHistory