Hello,
I am writing to request a copy of your zine, the Illiterate Digest. I read a review of it in Factsheet Five #58. Finally, something by people of color-there isn't that much. I'm making an assumption here, I know. It doesn't actually say that the editors of this zine are not white people. Anyway, why do you think that the vast majority of zine producers are white? a) no Kinko's in the hood, b) people of color in the U.S. have less time on their hands than whites, c) other? Just a question. Money? But what about all the middle class Blacks & Asians. Curiously silent. Too angry? Maybe. Too mainstream? I have enclosed $1 as requested in the listing (barring any sticky-fingered postal employees).

Thanks!
Nimmy Abiaka

P.S. I am a first-generation American, 20 something, Black dyke on the edge of insanity, in case you were wondering.

Talk about presumptuous! -aye. ID was founded by Will Rogers, who was white and Cherokee. Likewise, I'm mostly white (go figure, we're related)-to the point where I can't get a tan. Instead, I turn this amazing shade of lobster red. Material for ID comes from anyone around that I can pester into giving me stuff,. That's a fairly wide scope, including Blacks and Asians, but assuredly not the middle class ­ upper lower class all the way! But actually, I 'm starting feel too angry and mainstream to write anymore... -@

America and Crew
Friends:

America and I met at the IAIA Student Art Show last month and talked, a lot of it about being Gælic and outcast ("No Irish need apply"). At the time I sort of suggested that I might submit some stuff so here is some stuff. Although I am not a white elitist (is that spelled right?) I am attending grad school at St. John's here in Santa Fe but please forgive me that indiscretion. I'll do better next lifetime. If anyone asks, I am Stewart clan, out of the dispossessed seafaring Bragdon family, probably illiterate (at least in English) and very seasick when they landed on the coast of Maine eons ago, and married into the wild, cattle-stealing reivers, the Armstrongs.

Sincerely,
Julie Ann Armstrong

Lee the Gælic Expert is busily eating her Lucky Charms, but says (with a full mouth) "I'm Clan Frasier and you owe me some cattle!" She also has Clan Gordon's tartan on her underwear. So... do you think the slacker plaid-wearing thing is a sign of Gælic pride? Is Albacore a fish or Scottish punk rock? And when is St. Andrew's day, anyway?

Lee Wee : "Do you have the Gælic?"
Honky 2000: "Why, yes."
Lee Wee: "Better go to the clinic!"

Oblivion is a one-way ticket town. -William Penn Adair Rogers