Brown Recluse Zine Distro

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Brown Recluse Zine Distro

A DIY zine distro for Black, indigenous, and people of color. no DMs please :) BRZD has operated out of Coast Salish and Ohlone Lands.

EST. 2013
Brown Recluse Zine Distro was created to support + center zines written by queer and trans people of color; BRZD was born was born in the spirit of visibility + in the spirit of celebrating our cultures. Brown Recluse exists to strengthen our ties + highlight our intersectional, relatable experiences. Collective members + volunteers read submissions, print zines, run social media, send

out orders, write descriptions, update our online catalog / shop, table events around the country, answer emails, hustle money, redistributes $$$ directly to QTBIPOC in need, and deal with all the day to day operations.

07/24/2026

New in the Shop!

A split zine from

Is Giving Up Masking Worth It? / On Selective Collective Action

Is Giving Up Masking Worth It unravels the web of fascism, eugenics, genocide and electoralism through COVID denialism. On Selective Collective Action examines the reactionary and hierarchical paths white people took after 2020 and how they shaped the current political landscape.

07/23/2026

New in the Shop!

Embracing Revolt & Exile: A Conversation On The Perpetual Refusal Of The Academy by

$5 for BIPOC

This zine is a transcribed roundtable discussion between three anti-state abolitionist, anarchist and anti-authoritarian longtime comrades and organizers. The conversation highlights specific social experiences, successes and hardships of political education and self-organization praxis outside of, and often in tension with, the Nonprofit Sector, the Academy; and the commodifying co-optive worldviews they have endured by way of violent colonial assimilation. These individual accounts and anecdotes outline the ongoing development of collective tactics and strategies that result from anti-hierarchical perspectives, dynamics and reach. The intentions of this discussion were to provide examples of, and to propagate, critical disengagement/ imaginings, oppositional alternatives and even extralegal material / intellectual expropriation to the outermost outsides of confining statist academic institutions.

01/25/2026

🪵 BEAUTIFUL 10 FT WOOD-TOP TABLE !!! bought from the artist who made it for $500, make an offer!!!!

Dimensions: 10ft x 3.4 t x 29.5in

Some minor wear - light scratches.

😷 masked Pick Up in Oakland
DMs open, need gone by end of month !!

[ID: multi angles of large medium-dark table, with rounded edges, on metal legs. One photo is a flash-photo of wood scratches]

01/09/2026

Thanks you so much to everyone who has donated, shared, helped out, and offered resources. It means a lot to us. This project is very solitary and we aren’t in regular communication with people (brown RECLUSE haha) so to see the support and outpouring has meant a lot!!!

Unfortunately we were not able to secure enough funding in time to keep our Free Printing for Black Zinemakers program funded. The grant we had before, albeit being extremely restrictive, provided us with enough funds to rent out a space and equipment to fund a printing press exclusively for Black folks who didn’t have resources to print their zines. We had to shut this space down and really are grateful we were able to spend the last five years supporting Black zinemakers with this offering. It was a hard decision to make, but hopefully it can come back in the future when we have more volunteers and resources. Thank you to everyone who submitted their zine such an honor to print such amazing works!

We got a new smaller space to house our project which is significantly less expensive, we don’t have the equipment to print for our program anymore, (we are down to one 22 year old risograph that can only handle very small runs) BUT we are able to still offer 100% of the cover price for Black zinemakers and will never take a cut from their sales in our distro.

We lowered the goal to reflect our 2026 operation cost for this project and also to pay for expenses incurred by Free Printing for Black Zinemakers that were not covered by our grant last year.

If you can keep sharing and fundraising it would be helpful!, we are happy to announce that we are going to make it! The mailorder website and zine fest tabling will still exist! We just need a little help, and here’s to 12 more years

12/13/2025

Hi we are here at EBABZ! takes place at the We will be here from 12pm-5pm. We are upstairs in the Tamalpais Room.

The David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way, Berkeley) is located about 0.1 miles (1 block) away from Downtown Berkeley BART, and is also accessible via the 6, 7, 18, 51B, F, 851, 79, 800 and R-Line buses. The 12, 88 also stop nearby a few more blocks away.

This fest is mask required! There are masks available at the door if you forgot yours. There’s an elevator to get to the second floor. Restrooms are multi stalled gender neutral and ADA accessible.

Hope to see you here!

12/12/2025

❄️⛄️❄️⛄️❄️⛄️❄️⛄️❄️FT. some Brown Recluse’s catalog for gift giving ideas for this solstice season - stickers, pins, gift cards, zines, prints.... Hope everyone is keeping warm & staying safe!
📚
hope to see some of you Bay Area folks at the East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest this Saturday, December 13, 2025 ! Masks Required 📚

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11/27/2025

Thank you for your continued support of the project for the last 12 years ! For more info, please visit:
www.gofundme.com/f/secure-brown-recluses-future/

Brown Recluse Zine Distro is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit zine distro of self-published independent print media, including zines and prints, for and by Q***r and Trans Black Indigenous and People of Color.

Your contributions are tax-deductible thru PayP@l & G0 Fuņd M e !

11/06/2025

Catch Brown Recluse Saturday November 8th at the 25th annual Portland Zine Symposium

It will take place at
Portland State University
Smith Ballroom 3rd floor of Student Union

11 AM - 5PM

The venue wheelchair accessible and there is an elevator to get up to the space. Masks are required. There will be a quiet zone this year for folks to take a break and decompress away from the zine fest

10/24/2025

🕸🕸FREE ZINES🎃🕷This Saturday the founder of Brown Recluse Zine Distro will be tabling in New Orleans with table of ‼️FREE ZINES‼️ !!! We are soooo excited!!!
🌈Thanks for visiting our Free Table with .co.op at ! & For all the support at 🔥🔥
💚 We love tabling free zines to show examples of what we include in every sliding-scale order from BROWNRECLUSEZINEDISTRO.COM

💕💕💕🏴Thank you for 12! years of Support!!!💕💕💕

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http://brownreclusezinedistro.com/

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