Month: October 2025

New tiny zine: Girls to the Front

Posted on by Liz Henry

I have a new little zine ready and printed! It is the same size as the “Take the 49” and “Copies” tiny poetry zines from last year, but has extra internal pages.

It’s called Girls to the Front and is basically one medium length poem about riot grrrl.

little zine covers and inside pages ready to fold, next to a saddle stapler

The cover images are a little collage I made of Mia Zapata, Alice Bag, Huggy Bear, and Bratmobile.

If you want one, you can send me a SASE and a dollar, to

Liz Henry
Burn This Press
PO box 720011
San Francisco CA 94172

(put 2 stamps and an extra dollar if you want 2-3 tiny zines – I did a 2nd printing of Take the 49 and still have 1st printings of Copies)

Bad Inventions, linguistics edition! M’Dude’m

Posted on by Liz Henry

I have invented an excellent gender-confused term of address. It is not really gender “neutral”.

Sometimes, when my haircut is just right, strangers address me something like this: “Sir, uh ma’am, uh, sir, uh I mean . . .” and then they trail off in confusion. If my gender presentation confuses people, that’s perfect! I like it to weight a bit more to the masculine side but not to be actually passing as a man.

I present to you the gender-non-conforming, masc-leaning, equivalent to “M’lady” or “Ma’am”: “M’dude’m”.

You’re welcome!

Bad Inventions: Vertical Loom and cat tree combo

Posted on by Liz Henry

It’s time for . . . BAD INVENTIONS! Today’s terrible invention and bad idea is a vertical loom, the kind that you would stand or sit in front of to weave a big tapestry, combined with a beautiful, complex, cat tree for your cats to play on.

Penelope would not have had to stay up late un-weaving her work on Laertes’ shroud if she simply had plenty of cats and an inviting structure for lounging placed on top of the loom. She could sleep peacefully, knowing her cats and kittens were on the job.