Zine and Archive Project

Gaza has been turned into a killing field. Families flee
from rubbled homes to tent camps engulfed in fire. They are
starving, and men dig ditches. Jewish-American teenagers
run target practice on children’s faces; their dogs and their
drones hunt the emaciated and afraid. A nation of youth
forced to watch their fathers break into tears vows a revenge
to be dispensed by God; a nation of heroic ambushes by mujahideen,
of makeshift classrooms, of nighttime forehead
kisses, burning clearings, and cratered faces, all of this, at
once: a huddled and exhausted and imprisoned Palestinian
people, who will not fly the white flag of capitulation....

OPIRG Comic (2022)

​Publisher: Ad Astra Comix

Petroglyph Studious

​Artist: Nicole Burton

THE UNDERBELLI PODCAST EPISODE 3 A Whores’ Dialogue:
On the History and Racism of Anti-Trafficking by Isidore and Erma VIP

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The Underbelli is a project of the Belli Research Institute. If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to go to our website belliresearchinstitute.com to find full texts; pdfs for books, zines, and posters; and updates for this podcast.

The first volume of OPIRG Brock's The Coming Out Monologues was hosted in 2019 through a partnership with the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts. This event included a live showcase & vendors' market showcasing amazing 2S/LGBTQQIA+ performers & artists!

While 'Monologues' is included in the title of this project, we know there are a variety of methods and mediums to express oneself, and leave it to the artists to develop how to best share their stories and experiences.

For The Coming Out Monologues V.2, we wanted to take a different approach to the project so we could expand who and how people contribute. As such, this volume includes a zine and a free showcase of the art.

Please click on the contributing artists' boxes below to see their full pieces & contact information. Many of the artists wished to remain anonymous and as such will not have any contact information listed.​

To increase the accessibility of this work, each written piece has an audio version included. For the visual art pieces, each piece includes an image description. 

RadiOPIRG: Paddle for Palestine

RadiOPIRG on CFRU 93.3FM, a radio program that interviews activists, rad people and community events in Guelph and beyond.

Zine credits: Angela Demarse, V Pereira, Niyo, Shawn Pydyn, Willow 'Anne' Pinder, Niyoshi Y, Daniel Candler, Ezra Morarescu, Amber Thomas, Mabe Kyle, Jaycelynn Rose, Everest Geeregat, Rebecca Moscoe

see Credits page: All artworks are from the Justseeds repository of free, high-res, downloadable graphics! They can be found at: https://justseeds.org/graphics/

The JustSeeds repository is an activist toolbox, a place to find images that speak to, and are created out of, a broad spectrum of social movements.

This colouring book was compiled by Emily Green, Volunteer and Programming coordinator of OPIRG York, for the 2025 DisOrientation Week event series. We hope that the artworks inspire your activism, and uplift your spirits in these increasingly austere times.

Each artist maintains the copyright and manages the permissions to their work, and all images—unless otherwise stated—are protected under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Most artists do not want their work used for commercial purposes without express written consent. Commercial purposes would include any use wherein money is exchanged, even as a benefit or for a non-profit. Feel free to contact them or the artist directly if you want to use a graphic in any other way, or are unsure about appropriate use. That said, these graphics are free for people to use on flyers, posters, banners, and websites!

Any questions or concerns can be directed to graphics@justseeds.org
Each of our artists is working to support themselves and their families. If you are using our graphics for an organization with a budget, contact the artist and offer them direct compensation for the use of their work. If you are an individual who can afford to do so, please consider donating any amount directly to us at:
https://justseeds.org/about/ Instagram: @justseeds

OPIRG Toronto and OPIRG York created this zine which explores how we can keep our communities safe in the midst of COVID and other health and safety risks from a disability justice and abolitionist perspective.

Why a Community Safety Zine? 

It has been over four years since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite considerable evidence of public health and safety measures to save lives, our governments and institutions have “returned to normal”, halted clear communications about the ongoing spread and impacts of COVID-19 and its long term impacts – particularly for those who are marginalized – and reversed life-saving public health measures.

As a result, the burden of advocating for safety measures has largely fallen on these very marginalized communities, particularly disability justice advocacy groups. Their recommendations for safety measures such as masking, vaccinating, and now even self-isolating, are increasingly being ignored.

Vision for the Zine

In this zine, we sought to re-centre the voices of those most impacted by COVID. We wanted to interrogate our society’s abandonment of community care, and to look at how people have mobilized to care for each other in the face of government negligence. Some guiding questions for this Zine include (but are not limited to):

What happens when you stop isolating despite professional advice from health experts?

What are the motivations and larger systems at play behind the government’s reversal of COVID safety precautions?

And, most importantly, how can we approach these situations in a way that rejects carceral approaches and policing, and instead draws from conflict transformation and compassion?

After the success of The Disorientation Guide to Niagara, Vol. 1 published in September 2019, OPIRG Brock has self-published a second volume on this community guide intended to showcase so many amazing local favourites, too often missed in mainstream promotions of Niagara.

Whether you’re a new student to Brock or Niagara College, a tourist in the region, or you have grown up in the region, this guide has something for you! With an updated list of local businesses, social and cultural services, and community activist groups, we are so excited to showcase the continually changing and expanding work in our region!

We have also included an extensive list of annual dates and resources for supporting Indigenous communities, campaigns to promote, and self-education. The guide also includes information related to COVID-19 updates. While we know that this information is ever-changing, we want the relevant links and resources easily available to all readers of the guide. We have also added a more extensive list of independent makers, artists, and vendors.

Aaron El Sabrout, https://toreachpoise.itch.io,  - Just a trans alien living somewhere on Turtle Island, writing stories and making art.

A Collaboration between the Laurier Office of Indigenous Initiatives and LSPIRG. Published in 2018

Why hello there! And welcome to our first ever “I Am Not a Costume” zine. Our team has created this collection of resources, discussions, and definitions to complement our costume campaign. We would like to begin by acknowledging the land that our campus and community resides on. Wilfrid Laurier University, as well as the communities of KW and Brantford reside on traditional Anishnawbe, Haudenosaunee and Attawandaron (Neutral) territory. This land (along with the rest of Turtle Island i.e. North America) was occupied by settlers over generations of colonial acts such as state sanctioned oppression, violence, murder, and the attempted control of Turtle Island’s indigenous peoples. Control mechanisms such as the creation of reserves, the Indian Act, residential “schools”, the theft of children from their families, stolen resources and ingrained stereotypes in the settler population, has allowed a situation where the history of this land is not commonly discussed. And when it is, the violent and oppressive nature is often left out. We at LSPIRG believe that it is not only important to say the names of the nations who historically resided onthis land, but to also take critical action to change our relation with each other and the land. We promote discussions about what decolonization and reconciliation might look like and, to the settler population (which includes many of us at LSPIRG) we promote discussions about the history of how we got here, how our presence can impact our surroundings, and how our privilege can allow us to reinforce colonial attributes. This area of Turtle Island is subject to the Two Row Wampum Treaty (an agreement between Haudenosaunee and Europeans that signifies two vessels – a Haudenosaunee canoe and a European ship – traveling down the river together, parallel but not touching the other) and the Dish With One Spoon Treaty (to acknowledge the fact that we all eat out of the same dish [all depend on the same land and water].This means we are responsible to make sure the dish is never empty [to take care of the land and the creatures we share it with], and to never take more than what we need). We are all treaty peoples, and we all have a responsibility to uphold those agreements of peacefulness and non-interference).

This zine was born out of the need for a celebration of Black femininity. Despite the many systems created to undermine our worth, agency and presence, we exist. We shine. We thrive. Eclipse is a rallying call to displace the poisonous, anti-Black beliefs we have been fed for so long and reveal who we really are.

RadiOPIRG: James Gordon Interview

RadiOPIRG on CFRU 93.3FM, a radio program that interviews activists, rad people and community events in Guelph and beyond.

This zine contains the artist statements and bios of those who contributed to this project as well as photos of the squares taken by Amber Farrington of Honey and Lux Photography. It was compiled by Mabe Kyle, the visionary behind this queer community quilt project. Thanks to the Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) for grant funding that, in part, made this project possible.

RadiOPIRG: BIPOC Gear Library

RadiOPIRG on CFRU 93.3FM, a radio program that interviews activists, rad people and community events in Guelph and beyond.