Two "To Gaza With Love" Mini zine created in honor of 52,000 Palestinian pregnant women listed among victims of Israeli airstrikes.
Image descriptions: 2.5 x 2.5 mini zine, red or white cover with the word Love written in all caps
Two "A Zine About Love" mini zine
A 2.5 x 2.5 mini zine titled A Zine About Love includes black and white illustrations of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Assata Shakur
“The humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s three-month military campaign against Hamas in Gaza counts some 52,000 pregnant women among its greatest victims. As airstrikes push 1.9 million people into an ever-smaller corner of the besieged enclave, disease is spreading, famine is looming and levels of anemia are so high that the risk of postpartum hemorrhage has soared and breastfeeding is often impossible. Forty percent of pregnancies are high-risk, CARE International estimates.
Prenatal care is almost nonexistent — what remains of Gaza’s hospital network is on its knees, at 250 percent capacity and consumed with treating mass casualties from Israeli bombing. Far more women are giving birth outside of medical facilities - in displacement camps, even in the street - than inside them.”
“Damage to facilities and communications blackouts - the strip lost cellphone service for a week this month - have left Gaza’s health ministry unable to compile reliable data for infant or maternal mortality during the conflict.
But doctors and aid groups say miscarriage and stillbirths have spiked.”
Source: Washington Post
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A 2.5 x 2.5 mini zine titled a zine about LOVE includes black and white illustrations of bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Assata Shakur
Quotes used in the zines "ONCE WE RECOGNIZE WHAT IT IS WE ARE FEELING, ONCE WE RECOGNIZE WE CAN FEEL DEEPLY, LOVE DEEPLY, CAN FEEL JOY, THEN WE WILL DEMAND THAT ALL PARTS OF OUR LIVES PRODUCE THAT KIND OF JOY." -
AUDRE LORDE
"LOVE IS AN ACTION, NEVER SIMPLY A FEELING" bell Hooks
"I believe in the sweat of love and the fire of truth" Assata Shakur