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Jimmy Dunson, Rebel Hearts Publishing, and The Pirates of Florida
Guys, we have truly arrived as artists: someone is pirating our work in Florida!
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who_is_page was tabling at a zine fair in Florida and chatting with us simultaneously, and suddenly sent a photo saying, “hey, someone’s giving away copies of the Bad Day Book!” I asked for their contact info, Page got it for me, and emails began!
So, there are different kinds of pirates who pirate for different reasons. There are the jerks who see artists as not worth the effort of paying (“it’s free on the Internet trolol cry moar”), but then there are people who pirate out of love, expanding a work’s reach, acting as free advertising, and so on. There are more ways to pay someone than in money, you see.
I spoke to Rebel Hearts Publishing and quickly realized I wouldn’t get a dime out of them; they were the “knowledge should be free” type of anarchists, and I respect that. What’s more, I can speak that language. I had zero desire to get into an intellectual property beef with them, and my one-pagers like Bad Day Book are too cheap to have strong profit margins. Besides, it’s not like I have a huge fanbase in Florida. Dude’s not competing with me and has no desire to; he just got a copy of BDB at a community acupuncture center that’s since shut down, and he found it so useful and valuable that he’s been copying and sharing it ever since. If that’s not the ideal piracy scenario, what is?
So I went, “wanna trade?” Because any freegan worth his salt knows the power of barter. He said sure, and I exchanged the last stray Madgic floppies and more one-pagers for a fat stack of zines, mostly focused on religion because that’s what I expressed interest in.
There are a good few neat ones, but I want to focus on one in particular that I fucking loved: Jimmy Dunson’s “Knocking from the Inside: Breaking Free from Mental Imperialism.” It’s currently available only on paper at www.rebelheartspublishing.com for $3 (the cost of shipping, basically) and guys, this zine is a winner and a keeper. If you’ve been too intimidated to take on the fat monster that is Paris Williams’s “Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift In Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis,” Dunson’s floppy zine covers some similar tenets, from a layman anarchist Internal Family Systems (and thus very multi) perspective. From the very first paragraph, I was hooked:
“Humanity is profoundly sick. This hydra has many heads, but at its root is the same mental illness: the belief in one’s superiority, another’s inferiority, and thereby the right to dominate. We see this in every axis of oppression: race, class, gender, ability, species, nationality, immigration status, age, sexuality, body type, educational attainment, language, attractiveness, color, religion. We see this in colonizer’s relationship to indigenous peoples. We see this in humanity’s relationship to the Earth. We see this in the sane’s relationship to the insane. And if we take an honest look inward, we have internalized this way of being and how this disease is present even in our relationship to ourselves and our different parts.”
BOOM. One paragraph, explicating a phenomenon I have been trying to express for years!
Because this is a paper-only release, I want to try and digitize this so blind folks and overseas people can read it. Knowledge, after all, wants to be free. And I feel this zine is especially useful for the spirited/many-selved, what with lines like, “through listening, working with, and supporting my different parts, especially the parts most marginalized, to lead their own healing process, I build a long-term more sustainable, resilient, and powerful sense of self. I don’t need to save myself. I need to listen, support, and be in solidarity with my different parts.”
And I never would’ve known about this great work if not for getting pirated! What a wonderful payment for my work!
who_is_page was tabling at a zine fair in Florida and chatting with us simultaneously, and suddenly sent a photo saying, “hey, someone’s giving away copies of the Bad Day Book!” I asked for their contact info, Page got it for me, and emails began!So, there are different kinds of pirates who pirate for different reasons. There are the jerks who see artists as not worth the effort of paying (“it’s free on the Internet trolol cry moar”), but then there are people who pirate out of love, expanding a work’s reach, acting as free advertising, and so on. There are more ways to pay someone than in money, you see.
I spoke to Rebel Hearts Publishing and quickly realized I wouldn’t get a dime out of them; they were the “knowledge should be free” type of anarchists, and I respect that. What’s more, I can speak that language. I had zero desire to get into an intellectual property beef with them, and my one-pagers like Bad Day Book are too cheap to have strong profit margins. Besides, it’s not like I have a huge fanbase in Florida. Dude’s not competing with me and has no desire to; he just got a copy of BDB at a community acupuncture center that’s since shut down, and he found it so useful and valuable that he’s been copying and sharing it ever since. If that’s not the ideal piracy scenario, what is?
So I went, “wanna trade?” Because any freegan worth his salt knows the power of barter. He said sure, and I exchanged the last stray Madgic floppies and more one-pagers for a fat stack of zines, mostly focused on religion because that’s what I expressed interest in.
There are a good few neat ones, but I want to focus on one in particular that I fucking loved: Jimmy Dunson’s “Knocking from the Inside: Breaking Free from Mental Imperialism.” It’s currently available only on paper at www.rebelheartspublishing.com for $3 (the cost of shipping, basically) and guys, this zine is a winner and a keeper. If you’ve been too intimidated to take on the fat monster that is Paris Williams’s “Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift In Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis,” Dunson’s floppy zine covers some similar tenets, from a layman anarchist Internal Family Systems (and thus very multi) perspective. From the very first paragraph, I was hooked:
“Humanity is profoundly sick. This hydra has many heads, but at its root is the same mental illness: the belief in one’s superiority, another’s inferiority, and thereby the right to dominate. We see this in every axis of oppression: race, class, gender, ability, species, nationality, immigration status, age, sexuality, body type, educational attainment, language, attractiveness, color, religion. We see this in colonizer’s relationship to indigenous peoples. We see this in humanity’s relationship to the Earth. We see this in the sane’s relationship to the insane. And if we take an honest look inward, we have internalized this way of being and how this disease is present even in our relationship to ourselves and our different parts.”
BOOM. One paragraph, explicating a phenomenon I have been trying to express for years!
Because this is a paper-only release, I want to try and digitize this so blind folks and overseas people can read it. Knowledge, after all, wants to be free. And I feel this zine is especially useful for the spirited/many-selved, what with lines like, “through listening, working with, and supporting my different parts, especially the parts most marginalized, to lead their own healing process, I build a long-term more sustainable, resilient, and powerful sense of self. I don’t need to save myself. I need to listen, support, and be in solidarity with my different parts.”
And I never would’ve known about this great work if not for getting pirated! What a wonderful payment for my work!
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