[updated September 13, 2022]
Zines by category in alphabetical order so it’s easy to find stuff or see if we have what you’re looking for.
(And almost everything is a link!)
Note: The Ace Zine Archive does not sell any zines “available for purchase”. All of the zines that are listed as “available for purchase” are being sold by the zine creators themselves (or possibly by their chosen distributors).
- “Ace History & Issues”
- “Ace Omens” (not available)
- Ace Toronto zine
- “Aces in the Church”
- “Asexual Content“
- “Asexual Feminism“
- “Asexy Life: On Asexuality & Challenging Heteronormativity“
- “Brown and Grey: An Asexual People of Color Zine“
- “Entertaining a Ghost: Writings on Modern Relationships“
- “f-ace-ing silence (words by aces– silenced in asexual/ace spaces)“
- “Hard off #1: yay! friendzone & other delights“
- “It’s discourse, archie“
- “j.a.m.i.e.“
- “Just Say No Thank You: A Zine About Being Asexual & Vegan“
- “Notes to My Past Self“
- “Our Side Ace Week 2021 Zine“
- “Rotten Zucchinis: The Zine“
- “The Asexual Manifesto” [1972]
- “The 4 N’s: Animal Rights & Asexuality“
- “ToTully Aces“
- “Weird Terrain: Musings From an Asexual Perspective“
- “A Handy Guide To: Asexuality” (not available)
- “A Pocket Guide to Asexuality“
- “A zine/some tumblr text posts about asexuality” (not available)
- “Ace Face“
- “Ace is Queer: A Zine About Asexuality” (available for purchase)
- “Asexuality: A Public Service Announcement” (not available)
- “Queerplatonic Primer”
- “Taking The Cake: An Illustrated Primer on Asexuality”
- “The Ace Zine” (selected pages available)
“Beyond 101” Informational Zines:
- “Extensive notes on some aspects of… Neoliberalism, Homonormativity & Ace Discourse“
- “How to Date an ASEXUAL… and Other Essays“
- “Reflections of a liminally Jewish, atheistic, non-binary aroace… on Relationship Anarchy, Accessibility & Sitting shiva“
- ““‘Sex’ is not a thing,” “textual intimacy,” and other essays on consent, friendship, intimacy & community“
- “A: An Aromantic & Asexual Journey“
- “A: Blackout Poetry from an Asexual Perspective” (not available)
- “Ace Escort” (not available)
- “A is for Asexual“
- “Ace of Hearts” (partly available)
- “Ace of Wands” (not available)
- “An Asexual’s Firsts” (available for purchase)
- “Asexy” (not available)
- “Conversations among aces & some disability stuff“
- “Cuddle Sutra: A Guide For Navigating Through Sexual/Asexual Mixed Relationships” (partly available)
- “Demi” (available for purchase)
- “Hotblood“
- “Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder” (available for purchase)
- “Just your ordinary DEMISEXUAL” (available for purchase)
- “Loving While Fat OR Too Fat To Love“
- “No, Thank You” (partly available)
- “Not Broken, Just Me! A collection of memories of an asexual’s journey to identity. Ages 12-20s”
- “NOT NOTHING: An Asexual Perzine” (available for purchase)
- “Pieces #13: on being a romantic asexual” (available for purchase)
- “QAT Person” (Queer Ace Trans) (available for purchase)
- “Reflections on Identity & Embodied Queerness“
- “the ace ish“
- “Unkissed” (not available)
- “We Exist: An Asexual Zine” (mostly available)
- “What I lost to find this“
Zines with ace-related content:
Collaborative (or General) Zines (with at least 1 ace-related piece):
- “2Fucked, 2Furious: Still Sexually Dysfunctional in Sex-Positive Queer Scenes” (available for purchase)
- “All About That Queer Shit (A helpful guide for confused straights“
- “Artificial Womb #4” (available for purchase)
- “Asexual, Bisexual, Cissexual” (available for purchase)
- “Basement Babes #8“
- “BEFOK“
- “Bi Focus #2“(not available)
- “Brav_a #1“
- “Colby Queer Zine“
- “Deaf Queers” (zine be available soon)
- “F**k Yeah Comics! The Queer Edition” (available for purchase)
- “Fucked: On Being Sexually Dysfunctional in Sex-Positive Queer Spaces” (available for purchase)
- “Hoax” #10, #12 & #13 (available for purchase)
- “IKI #4 The LGBTQ+ Issue“
- “In Camouflage: A Zine on the Intersection of Autism and Gender“
- “Intersections: A Zine Exploring the Intersections of Disability & Sexuality“
- “Juggling the Rainbow #3“
- “Let’s Kiss” (available for purchase)
- “Lips: Expressions of Female Sexuality“
- “Omnia: 4th Ed.“
- “Paper Currency: A Zine About Zines” (available for purchase or directly from creator)
- “QT 101 Presents: The Plus is a Minus“
- “Relationship Anarchy Discussions: Reports from the RAD 2019 Unconference“
- “Static Zine (Volume 1, Issue 1): Heal & Grow“
- “Stay Gold, Pony Boy: Queer Geek Culture and the Brony Phenomenon” (not available)
- “Sober Queers Do Exist” (not available)
- “Talking Trash #3: Love Stories“
- “The Bandit Zine #8: Love & Heartbreak Through An Intersectional Lense“
- “Treading on Eggshells“
- “Turpid Zine” (ace pieces only from relevant issues available)
- “Versions of Violence: Queer Women and Femmes on Heterosexism” (available for purchase)
- “Virgin #2” (not available)
- “Vitality“
- “What does a queer relationship look like?“
- “When I Am Dead, My Dearest: A Hallowe’en Zine“
- “White Blackbirds: More Conversations with Women Who Aren’t Married and Don’t Want to Be” (not available)
- “York Queer Women’s Group“
Collaborative / General zines with possible ace-related content (to be confirmed):
- “I knew a motherf*cker like you and she said…” (multiple issues, not available)
- “Nowhere 2B Found” (not available)
- “Prude: Compilation Sexuality Zine” (not available)
- “Quantify” (multiple issues, not available)
Perzines (Mostly) by Aces (not ace-focused but with some ace-related content):
- “(meta)paradox” #1-3 (ace-related pages available) & #5 (available for purchase)
- “A Visitor in Myself” #3, 4, 5 (available for purchase, selection available)
- “Anecdata” #1,3 (ace-related pages available)
- “Axolotl #2” (available for purchase)
- “Chickweed #7” (ace-related pages available)
- “Dirty Laundry” (available for purchase)
- “Everything’s Fine: And On And On” (available for purchase)
- “Four Miles From Queer” (not available)
- “I am Not a Girl“
- “No Talking: A Zine About Social Anxiety“
- “Pieces” #8 (available for purchase, selection available)
- “Possession Obsession” (available for purchase)
- “Psychometry: A perzine on found objects” (ace-related pages available)
- “Raised by
WolvesThe Internet“ - “Reflections on non-binary gender (over time)“
- “Seawitch #5 & #7” (available for purchase)
- “The Real Ramona #2” (ace-related pages available)
- “The Unstraight A” (available for purchase)
- “Virgin #1” (available for purchase)
- “Venus in Leather” series
- “Wanderer #4” (available for purchase)
Perzines with possible ace-related content (to be confirmed):
- “V. Reject” (not available)
(Not-Specifically-Ace) Arospec-Focused Zines
- “an aromatic manifesto“
- “Aromanticism 101“
- “Arospec 101” (available for purchase; pwyc)
- “Don’t Talk To Me About Love“
- “Heartless Bastard Motherf*cker: A Vent Zine About Being Aromantic“
- “Is it lonely, being aromantic?”
- “On Maybe, Possibly, Potentially, Probably Being Aromantic“
- “The Aro Zine“
- “Was // Am” (partly available)
French:
- “A Zine: Réflection collective sur l’aromanticisme / asexualité“
- “Suis-je asexuel∙le, aromantique, aroace? Guide de questionnement autour de l’asexualité et l’aromanticism“
German
- “chronisch grumpy” (available for purchase)
- “Wer A Sagt, Muss Nicht B Sagen” (available for purchase)
Spanish:
Publications:
Comics:
- Coming Up Aces [some sexually explicit content]
Upcoming, Delayed, Lost or Abandoned Zines
- Ace Up My Sleeve (abandoned?)
- Asexy Life #2 (abadoned) [sequel to Asexy Life]
- AsexyZine (not the perzine) (2011: lost?)
- Being Demisexual (upcoming: perzine)
- Evergreen Queer Alliance Asexual Awareness Week Asexuality Zine (2014: lost?)
- perzine about being a “transWoman, an Autistic person, a physically disabled person, a radical leftist and a kinky demisexual” (upcoming: perzine)
- The Asexual Style Manual (2014: delayed)
- The Ethical Ace (abandoned)
General ace zines:
- Ace Toronto zine issue 2 (Ace Positivity)
- Ace Toronto ace fiction zine
- Asexual Content Zine
- A.A.N.T.H. (an aro ace nonbinary trans haikyuu zine)
- sexuality (and aromanticism) zine
- Call Me… Maybe: Fancying, Fucking & 4eva Alone Under the Ace Umbrella
- f-ace-ing silence (#5 and on-going)
- Other – A zine for aromantic asexual agender people
- Soft Eroticism zine
- Spectrum: Asexuality Zine
- The Weird Ace/Aro Feels Zine
Zines that welcome ace-related content or mention ace stuff in their call for submissions:
- All in Your Head [queerness, neurodiversity and disability zine]
- Fat Sex Zine
- Gender Variance 101: An Educational Zine
- Hoax #13
- Hydra [re: mutiplicity/systemhood]
- Olly, Olly, Oxen Free [re: sexual and gender identities and coming out]
- Queer Intersections Zine
- Sexual Assault and Sexuality Compilation Zine
“Not-Quite-Zine” Stuff:
The Ace Zine Archive Project is a work in progress and we need your help!
- Do you know of any aces zines or zines with ace-related content we’re missing?
- Would you like us to add your ace-related zine to this archive?
- Would you like to get involved in the project? (e.g., reading zines, writing sumaries, etc)
Contact us: ace.zine.archive@gmail.com
Submit and discuss ace-related zines & calls for submission: http://acezinearchive.tumblr.com/