Growing Pains and Thank You Notes

Growing Pains and Thank You Notes.

The zine is £20 and all of the money will be donated to Mermaids. (Postage will be an additional fee).

The zine is 76 pages, containing pics of lots of partying, protesting, moments of grief and euphoria. Barbie’s on the beach, chasing the sun. Poems and writing segments expressing the love, loss and a never ending amount of gratitude I feel for the community. This took a lot longer than I anticipated to finish, with many obstacles in the way and not being in the head space. I’m always happy to put my grief down on paper and to connect with others through it. When starting the zine I did not know I was going to loose one of my best friends, so the meaning behind it changed entirely.

Ash, I finished this for you, wanting to raise money for @mermaidsgender , in the memory of everything you mean to me and everyone you touched. Your spirit lives on in us all and through everything I do and create now I picture you with me. Every new person who enters my life, I imagine what your relationship with them would have been. Grief is never ending and I guess you can say it makes some bonds stronger and life changes dramatically.

As a side note, everyone hold every trans person closer to you than ever before, the world is hard and with the rise of Donald trump, Elon musk and the ever growing nazism they bring, trans people suffer, with hate crimes worsening and the ever rising mental health issues within the community. Reach out to your friends, tell them you love them <3333 Thank you to all the people who’s faces are within the pages, you light up my life more than you’ll ever know xoxo