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🍉 DIY zine project about illness, disability and neurodivergence | Out now Issue Nine: Space ✨🌱🪐🚀

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Hi friends,

More hands on deck are needed. If anyone is able to spare 30 minutes a week to help Dill & Team Dill with some basic admin, it would be such a huge help. More details on the types of tasks involved can be found in the slides.

Please feel free to share with anyone you think might be able to help, and please engage with this post to help get it seen by more people. Any additional help would make a big difference.

Many thanks for your continued support with the fundraiser, it means such a lot.

❤️

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• Slide 1: A slide with a light pink background and black sans serif font.
HELP NEEDED! is a large black heading in capital letters with a yellow rounded square background.
Can you spare 30 minutes a week to help a disabled person with simple admin tasks? is bold black text outlined in yellow.
To the right of the yellow outlined text is a photo of Dill lying in bed and smiling as they eat their first baked cookie in years. Underneath is a yellow dashed line.
Four bullet points in black text: No advocacy or decision making involved. No extensive medical knowledge or experience required. You will not need to provide services with your personal details. All tasks can be done on your phone at a time that suits you!
Message @teamdill_ on Instagram is positioned to the right of the bullet points in bold black text on top of a yellow abstract, circular shape.

Image descriptions continued in comments ⬇️ HELP NEEDED!
Can you spare 30 minutes a week to help a disabled person with simple admin tasks?
No advocacy or decision making involved. No extensive medical knowledge or experience required. You will not need to provide services with your personal details. All tasks can be done on your phone at a time that suits you!
Message @teamdill_ on Instagram. by @drawnpoorlyzine

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21 days ago

OCTOBER 🍂 Ko-fi mail!! 🧡

These are the physical rewards you can get this month, depending on your tier.
Including a mini-zine about ME, by the wonderful @skunkonwheelsart ✨

Monthly subscriptions are essential for Nafas' survival –thank you to each one of you who has supported them so far! <3

#digitalart #illustration #disabledartist #procreateart #illustratorsoninstagram
art postcard froggo autumn by @drawnpoorlyzine

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9 days ago

Something a bit different but also the same 🦭🤷‍♀️

Image description: a photo of a handmade felt banner. It has a black background, red tassels and in light yellow letters reads ‘my legs hurt’. Either side of the letters are two felt red and orange flames. Image description: a photo of a handmade felt banner. It has a black background, red tassels and in light yellow letters reads ‘my legs hurt’ by @drawnpoorlyzine

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Dill is a beloved disability justice activist, poet, painter, writer and dedicated community organiser from Leeds. Since 2018 they have been living with Severe ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) a chronic condition that causes life-limiting fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and affects their ability to communicate. Severe M.E causes Dill to have very complex needs.

In 2024, the community successfully raised money for Dill to access specialist healthcare and private advocacy services. This enabled Dill’s access to life saving expertise at extremely critical points in their health journey for the last 2 years, such as during their traumatic, 13 month hospital admission. With the help of their mother, advocates, and the community, Dill was discharged from hospital in September 2025.

Sadly, after discharge, Dill’s health once again dangerously deteriorated. They continue to use their extremely limited energy to advocate for themselves, and try to manage their healthcare needs with support from their friends. They have not had consistent access to appropriate, professional healthcare advocacy, which has strained their health immensely. This means Dill is forced to push past their safe energy limits to manage essential services on their own.

Therefore, in recent months, Dill used the remainder of the funds raised in 2024 to access professional advocate support again. Professional advocacy has made some small improvements to Dill’s health possible & access to this is vital to sustain and build upon what we have all waited so long for, which is why we are fundraising now.

The success of this fundraiser will ensure Dill continues to have access to healthcare specialists and advocacy through a professional service, with more expertise and capacity than Dill’s friends are able to offer. Ensuring they continue to have consistent support will help them to rest and pace, as well as focus on their rehabilitation & psychological goals.

Ultimately, we hope that continued access to advocacy will stabilise Dill’s health & ensure their care continues to safely meet their needs. Every donation brings Dill one step closer to rehabilitation & a better quality of life.

❤️ ID below Slide 1: Help Dill access lifesaving advocacy

Dill has Severe M.E and very complex health needs. They require a professional advocate with the expertise and capacity to support them with:
• Communicating their views and advocating for them
• Understanding and remembering information
• Accessing and navigating essential health, social care and support services

Donate to protect Dill’s health so they can continue making progress.

Swipe to find out more.

Link: tinyurl.com/advocacy4dill by @drawnpoorlyzine

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Anti inaccessible structures
Anti jargon
Anti clarkson

Anti jargon summary of zine: Please do the work to rebuild working structures. Stop relying on disabled people to do endless unpaid work and make no change. Stop blaming disabled people.

ID 1: A mini zine cover with colourful star stickers, a hand holding a lighter surrounded by flames, and the words ‘BANDWIDTH’ and ‘REACHED.’
ID 2: the first two inner pages of the zine. To the left, there is a pixelated email icon in the background the text reads, ‘To whom it may concern, we’re so tired of trying to restructure your expectations.’. On the right, the background is a painting of a person with a grimacing emoji. The text reads, ‘Your current optics, that rigidity, serves nobody could be improved with flexibility accountability.’
ID 3: the fourth and fifth pages of the zine. On the left an image of a disco ball with eyes on top. The text reads ‘It’s possible we’ve seen how things could be. we have told you, not just blue sky thinking.’ The opposite page has a sleeping dog image, the dog looks a bit fed up. The text reads, ‘change will not be achieved unless the current structures are archived, phased out, disbanded, dissolved, taken offline.’
ID 4: The sixth and seventh pages of the zine. On the left, an image of tulips, and a pointing hand, a small cat with a tie the text reads, ‘Stop asking us to focus on your focus group unless you focus on new outcomes.’ The right page shows a bird, an arrow, and a red block of text reading, ‘Please block out time in your diary really give it 110%.’
ID 5: the back cover of the zine. It shows a chihuahua infront of a glitching text box and the text reads, ‘When you’re ready to make something new, let’s circle back.’ ID 1: A mini zine cover with colourful star stickers, a hand holding a lighter surrounded by flames, and the words ‘BANDWIDTH’ and ‘REACHED.’ by @drawnpoorlyzine

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🥵🥵🥵🥵

Love to everyone who has been having a rubbish time with the heat 🙏✨

Image descriptions:
ID: A mini zine cover with the words ‘Heat Intolerant Heat Wave,’ a disco ball, a fuzzy Elmo puppet raising its arms at the front.
ID 2: inside pages of the zine. On the left, images of a skeleton, a house, a prescription bag, flames, and the text: ‘I am’.
On the right page the text reads ‘an empty bag of crisps folded up into a triangle.’ And there is an image of crumpled crisp packets and two folded into triangles.
ID 3: on the left page, image of a washing machine and flames, ‘ A spin cycle of discomfort, a bin of bad feelings, a sleeve caught on a door handle’. On the right the central image is a boneless chicken, a cactus and a vintage boy dressed as a devil. The text reads ‘cousin Boneless, the chicken from Cow and Chicken’.
ID 4: Inside pages of the zine. The left page reads ‘Clean socks except within seconds they are wet and full of sand’ and shows flaming yellow socks, a vintage TV, and a sleeping cat on its back. The right page reads ‘A dried up glue stick, A cat in a cone, A dropped ice cream,’ with images of a cat in a cone, a glue stick, and a fallen ice cream.
ID 5: back of the zine, the text ‘How about you?’ a hotdog character, a small pink UK character called Mr Blobby, a fan, and a fluffy white cat face collage in the foreground. A mini zine cover with the words ‘Heat Intolerant Heat Wave,’ a disco ball, a fuzzy Elmo puppet raising its arms at the front by @drawnpoorlyzine

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4 months ago

Some lovely photos from a zine workshop last month for Pride is a Trans Led Protest @homotopiafest

Big thanks to @emeri____c for setting this up, check out their amazing project @transinfovan .

Photos by Emily Collins ✨

ID 1: a photo of six handmade mini zines placed up right on a table. Around them are making materials and behind them we can see the head and shoulders of a person who is sat at the table.
ID 2: a photo of zines and materials on a table. In the foreground is a zine with ‘trans rights!’ And a ‘trans info van’ sticker. Behind them are a pair of glass folded up.
ID 3: In this photo, a masked person is stood in the foreground looking through a folder. To their left, is a table of zine making activities that people are sat at. At the very back, there is a wall of skateboard decks.
ID 4: A masked person sat at a table, busy working on their zine, materials around them. Behind them is another person looking to the right.
ID 5: in this photo, three people are sat at a table busy making their zines. In the foreground, washi tape is being placed on paper. In the back, a person is cutting out paper.
ID 6: a photo of materials on the table. There are scissors, images of flags, star stickers and two zines. One is called ‘I miss the spook school’ the other is called ‘everything is upside down’. ID 1: a photo of six handmade mini zines placed up right on a table. Around them are making materials and behind them we can see the head and shoulders of a person who is sat at the table. by @drawnpoorlyzine

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4 months ago

ME Awareness Month is coming to an end, but support and advocacy must continue.

ME is one of the most under served conditions and many of those living with it are made even sicker by having to advocate for themselves.

This zine is a is a preview of a collab with Nafas🫶. As a longtime fan of their work, it was really great to do this.

Nafas is a disabled illustrator and poet currently stuck in bed with Very Severe Me and Long Covid. Follow and support their work @lovenrageillustrations

The full zine is available through their Ko-fi and is included in a bundle of their work for this month’s subscribers.

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ID 1: The front cover of a mini zine against a pale blue background. It has a red grid washi tape border. In the center is a grainy photograph of ocean water with dark rocks. Text on top reads ‘Try tricking your body And it will trick you back’. At the bottom reads ‘Poetry by Nafas’.
ID 2: Open zine pages with a blue and white grid washi tape border. runs along the top and The background image shows a coastal landscape with grass dunes, a lighthouse, and a blue sky. Two cut out fish illustrations overlap the scene on the right side. The text goes across both pages and reads ‘Did you forget?, my body whispers, You knew you couldn’t keep them in here forever, Yes, I knew, dear body, I knew it all along, But what choice did I have
Tell me, What choice do I still have?’ ID 1: The front cover of a mini zine against a pale blue background. It has a red grid washi tape border. In the center is a grainy photograph of ocean water with dark rocks. Text on top reads ‘Try tricking your body And it will trick you back’. At the bottom reads ‘Poetry by Nafas’. by @drawnpoorlyzine

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5 months ago

A silly little zine about being an unspiration 🫶✨ it’s very warm.

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ID 1: Front cover of the zine - ‘UN-INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES’ text collage over a desert mountain landscape with colourful star stickers.
ID 2: The inside of the zine, it is landscape. The first page is directly above the second. Page one - floral and mountain collage with text reading ‘I’m not sure which condition is causing that symptom” and below’ My legs hurt,’ decorated with an image of a flower in the background.
ID 3: Pages 4 and 5 of the zine. The first is a sunset collage with silhouetted figure and text reading ‘Tomorrow might be a bit worse than today’ and the second page says ‘Tired, how are you?’ with flowers and star stickers.

ID 4: Page 6 and 7 - the top page has a sunset background, the text reads ‘Believe in yourself and you still might only be able to have a go for a bit,’ . The lower page has a. Floral background, text says ‘Yes - I’ve tried turmeric’.

ID 5: This is the back page of the zine. Water and water Lillies are in the background, there is a cut-out figure of Ben Affleck looking stressed and smoking. Text reads “Those meds can cause dry mouth,” ID 1: Front cover of the zine - “UN-INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES” text collage over a desert mountain landscape with colourful star stickers. by @drawnpoorlyzine

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For Nafas @lovenrageillustrations

Let me know in the comments, what animal groups do you think are the best? 🦨🫍🪲🐻

Details:
�5 pounds per entry, or 4 entries for £15
�Either as a one off to their PayPal - bit.ly/supportnafas
�Or sign up to one of their monthly tiers on Kofi
ko-fi.com/supportnafas

Message @liliomwrites with your entries
Open to UK and EU
End 31st of May

#trendingreels #millionsmissing #art #disability #solidarity by @drawnpoorlyzine

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