theory & a nail {press & distro}

Here’s our version* of Dean Spade’s short & crucial manifesto “Dress to Kill, Fight to Win”, originally printed in LTTR #1 in 2002, then made into a tiny zine with a nice cover image by Not Yr Cister Press in 2010, and now slightly redesigned & made more compact by us. 

Downloads:

• THIS ONE is a 209kB PDF file designed for 2-sided printing (cut each sheet in half to get two 2-sided mini-zines; or you can just print it on 1 side, then fold in half), and 
• THAT ONE is a 205kB PDF, for looking at on the computer.

Contact us if you’d like another format or layout: theoryandanail@omitthesefourwords-riseup.net.

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We’ve just finished throwing together a zine version of the first chapter from the incredible Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, published in late 2011 by AK Press. It’s by Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, and Dean Spade, and it’s called “Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got”. We can claim no credit for this work — we even stole the book’s cover image of burning police cars! — but we think it’s such an important call to action that we’ll do anything to get more queers & trans folks & others to read it.

You can download the PDFs at zinelibrary.info, or if that’s not working [have you also noticed it being down/broken at certain times recently?], try these alternate direct links:

• abolition-final-read.pdf, 9.4MB, 28 pages
  ideal for reading on your computer or printing 1-sided, with no fancy folding
• abolition-final-imposed.pdf, 9.4MB, 14 pages 
  imposed to be printed on 7 double-side sheets and then folded into a zine or booklet

ATTENTION EVERYONE: If you like this chapter, please go out and buy the book to support the authors, editors, and publisher! You can buy it online from AK Press, or try a radical bookseller near you.