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Kersplebedeb is excited to be tabling at Montreal's Expozine again this year! Expozine 2022Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20, 11 am – 6 pm1025 Bélanger (Église Saint-Arsène), Jean-Talon métro, accessible venue. Free admission.For questions, or to register as a sponsor, contact us by email at: expozine@arcmtl.org.   EXPOZINE, Montreal’s annual small press fair, is Canada’s largest and one of North America’s largest too! Over the course of one weekend each fall, some 270+ different vendors and creators of all kinds of publications (in both English and French) present and sell their works to some 15 000 visitors. Expozine was...

Kersplebedeb is excited to be coming back to Canzine in Ottawa! Come see us and hundreds of zinesters and other small presses! Sunday, November 6th Ottawa Art Gallery50 Mackenzie King Bridge11 am - 6 pm Canzine, Canada’s largest festival of zines and independent print culture, is back and in person at the OAG in Ottawa! Canzine is THE event to discover zines and small press works. First held in Toronto in 1995, Canzine has since expanded to Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Brampton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and Halifax, each hosting hundreds of writers and performers, displaying thousands of zines, books, prints, pins and...

Kersplebedeb will be tabling at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday September 10. Come check us out! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022, from 2 PM, La Plaza Cultural Community Garden 16th Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair https://www.facebook.com/events/587848412514661 https://anarchistbookfair.net/ The NYC Anarchist Book Fair brings hundreds of anarchists, anarchy supporters and curious visitors together in New York City (on Lenape land). The book fair and related events offer a space for the anarchist community, bringing together anarchx-feminists, activists, scholars, workers, immigrants, queers, trans, artists and multi- racial individuals. It also offers an opportunity for the curious to learn about anarchism tradition, philosophy, praxis...

There are two events in Montreal's NDG neighbourhood—Parc Girouard to be specific!—on September 10th, and even if Kersplebedeb weren't tabling at both of them (which we are!) we'd be encouraging you to go. Noon to 10pm - Festival Defund la Police https://www.facebook.com/events/600897598360188 Defund la Police Festival is an event dedicated to defunding the police, reinvesting in communities, and a creating safer city for everyone. The festival will include a series of talks and workshops on various aspects of community based safety, music and art, food and games, and many opportunities to make new friends and get more involved in the...

“I abandoned the pitch because I don’t think I’m the right person to write this story – I have no idea what it’s like to be Black... I can send you the Google doc with my notes, too?” I flinched inwardly. It was an innocent and properly motivated offer: Helen, a freelance journalist, was offering to give up something for me, stemming from her concern to live out an ethos of racial justice. But I worried that it was also a trap. Even setting aside the mistake about the power dynamics of the conversation (I am Black, but also a...