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[[Image:Enola-dismay_ngnm-32_2018.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|''No Gods No Mattress #32'', Spring 2018 (2nd edition, November 2020)]] | [[Image:Enola-dismay_ngnm-32_2018.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|''No Gods No Mattress #32'', Spring 2018 (2nd edition, November 2020)]] | ||
| − | '''''No Gods No Mattress''''' (2009 | + | '''''No Gods No Mattress''''' (2009-2019) is a serial [[Perzine|perzine]] by [[Enola Dismay]] out of Oakland, CA with occasional stints from New Orleans, Pittsburgh, PA, and Portland, OR. The series includes thirty-three issues. |
| − | The zine stems from other zines she made, including ''Story of My Life''. She often writes from a personal perspective on topics including traveling, squats, feminism, consent, [[Anarchism]], | + | The zine stems from other zines she made, including ''Story of My Life''. She often writes from a personal perspective on topics including traveling, squats, [[feminism]], consent, [[Anarchism|anarchism]], zines, and underground music such as [[punk]], but especially [[goth]]. The reader is often involved with the growing process that Enola is engaged with as she peppers her harsh experiences with an urge to self love. She often prints a modest run of 150 copies. |
Enola released a single zine entitled ''Not! No Gods No Mattress'' in January 2020 about her travels in 2019. | Enola released a single zine entitled ''Not! No Gods No Mattress'' in January 2020 about her travels in 2019. | ||
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==Issues== | ==Issues== | ||
| − | ''NGNM #1'' | + | ''NGNM #1'' - 2009 |
| − | ''NGNM #2 | + | ''NGNM #2: Tales of Recent Vagrancy Pt. 2'' - Spring 2009 |
| − | ''NGNM #3 | + | ''NGNM #3: Tales of Recent Vagrancy Pt. 3'' - Spring 2009 |
''NGNM #4'' - Summer 2009 | ''NGNM #4'' - Summer 2009 | ||
| − | ''NGNM #5 | + | ''NGNM #5: The Triggering Issue'' |
''NGNM #6'' - Autumn 2009 | ''NGNM #6'' - Autumn 2009 | ||
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''NGNM #7'' | ''NGNM #7'' | ||
| − | ''NGNM #8 | + | ''NGNM #8: Three Intros!, Heartache!, Travel!, Trauma!, Some Things I Did! .. and that’s not the half of it..'' - February 2010 |
''NGNM #9'' | ''NGNM #9'' | ||
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''NGNM #13'' | ''NGNM #13'' | ||
| − | ''NGNM #14 | + | ''NGNM #14: The Travel Issue (No. Seriously.)'' |
| + | :Houston Anarchist Book Fair, New Orleans, Being propositioned by college bro in french quarter vs. trucker at truck stop, not catching out, hitching, lots of disappointment, montell jordan, old friends, new friends, southern california | ||
| − | ''NGNM #15'' | + | ''NGNM #15: Darkest Places'' |
| − | ''NGNM #16'' | + | ''NGNM #16: Sweet 16'' - February 2012 |
| − | ''NGNM #17'' | + | ''NGNM #17'' (includes bonus zine: ''Operation Parentsburgh 2012'') - Spring 2012 |
| − | ''NGNM #18 | + | ''NGNM #18: Hawai'i 510'' - December 8th 2012 |
| − | ''NGNM #19'' | + | ''NGNM #19: WXYZ'' - Summer 2013 |
''NGNM #20'' | ''NGNM #20'' | ||
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:a thick zine about squatting in Oakland, working at a weird super dysfunctional cafe, befriending stray cats, courting her childself and her inner-teenager bully. I just love Enola's rambling, detailed stories so much, they are never cynical and they always interconnect living on the extreme margins with funny stories and also super intense things about abuse and healing, with really good layout images and always some magic or magical thinking. | :a thick zine about squatting in Oakland, working at a weird super dysfunctional cafe, befriending stray cats, courting her childself and her inner-teenager bully. I just love Enola's rambling, detailed stories so much, they are never cynical and they always interconnect living on the extreme margins with funny stories and also super intense things about abuse and healing, with really good layout images and always some magic or magical thinking. | ||
| − | ''NGNM #22 | + | ''NGNM #22: What Grew in the Place of My Losses'' - Fall 2014 |
:Super thick, like 114 pages. Being a goth, witchy abuse survivor traveling and hitchhiking around through LA, Joshua Tree, Flagstaff, Tucson, Miami Beach, Lake Worth and more! learning about desert plants, heartbreak, dancing, the similarity between being posi and being in denial, healing, warmth, abandon mansions, adventures, old friends and new. | :Super thick, like 114 pages. Being a goth, witchy abuse survivor traveling and hitchhiking around through LA, Joshua Tree, Flagstaff, Tucson, Miami Beach, Lake Worth and more! learning about desert plants, heartbreak, dancing, the similarity between being posi and being in denial, healing, warmth, abandon mansions, adventures, old friends and new. | ||
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:Trainhopping and traveling and picking up hitchhikers and sleeping in bus stations and campgrounds, kittens and awkwardness and sex and vulvodynia, rain and friendship, the mythical sister city of Atlantis, marginalization and fashion and poverty and crud goth (mix between goth and crusty) and magic and that's only the first half! | :Trainhopping and traveling and picking up hitchhikers and sleeping in bus stations and campgrounds, kittens and awkwardness and sex and vulvodynia, rain and friendship, the mythical sister city of Atlantis, marginalization and fashion and poverty and crud goth (mix between goth and crusty) and magic and that's only the first half! | ||
| − | ''NGNM #24 | + | ''NGNM #24: HLRS Tour Zine: fighting grumpiness/hating on stuff/bad music reviews/cats/retreating/friends/pretty boring layout'' - March 2015 |
:Touring with the band Healers: Fresno, LA, cats on tour, San Diego, Tuscon, Auston, NO and Mardi Gras with demo/parade with cop effigy on fire. Queer parties and thinking of building a shack/home. | :Touring with the band Healers: Fresno, LA, cats on tour, San Diego, Tuscon, Auston, NO and Mardi Gras with demo/parade with cop effigy on fire. Queer parties and thinking of building a shack/home. | ||
''NGNM #25'' | ''NGNM #25'' | ||
| − | ''NGNM #26 | + | ''NGNM #26: The Abandonment Issue: Housing, estrangement, PTSD, lost friends, fear'' |
''NGNM #27'' | ''NGNM #27'' | ||
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''NGNM #29'' | ''NGNM #29'' | ||
| − | ''NGNM #30 | + | ''NGNM #30: I am filled with so much hatred that fuels my love for everything else.'' - Summer 2017 |
| − | ''NGNM #31 | + | ''NGNM #31: I live on'' - Fall/Winter 2017 |
''NGNM #32'' - Spring 2018 (2nd edition, November 2020) | ''NGNM #32'' - Spring 2018 (2nd edition, November 2020) | ||
| − | ''NGNM #THIRTY-freakin-THREE | + | ''NGNM #THIRTY-freakin-THREE: conspiracy, pyramid schemes, sadness, the usual'' - Winter 2018/2019 |
:The final issue | :The final issue | ||
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| + | ==External Links== | ||
| + | [https://enoladismay.com/ Enola's website] | ||
[[Category:Zine]] | [[Category:Zine]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:07, 14 August 2023
No Gods No Mattress (2009-2019) is a serial perzine by Enola Dismay out of Oakland, CA with occasional stints from New Orleans, Pittsburgh, PA, and Portland, OR. The series includes thirty-three issues.
The zine stems from other zines she made, including Story of My Life. She often writes from a personal perspective on topics including traveling, squats, feminism, consent, anarchism, zines, and underground music such as punk, but especially goth. The reader is often involved with the growing process that Enola is engaged with as she peppers her harsh experiences with an urge to self love. She often prints a modest run of 150 copies.
Enola released a single zine entitled Not! No Gods No Mattress in January 2020 about her travels in 2019.
Enola is also the author of I Wish They'd Fix the Wires (2022- ).
Issues
NGNM #1 - 2009
NGNM #2: Tales of Recent Vagrancy Pt. 2 - Spring 2009
NGNM #3: Tales of Recent Vagrancy Pt. 3 - Spring 2009
NGNM #4 - Summer 2009
NGNM #5: The Triggering Issue
NGNM #6 - Autumn 2009
NGNM #7
NGNM #8: Three Intros!, Heartache!, Travel!, Trauma!, Some Things I Did! .. and that’s not the half of it.. - February 2010
NGNM #9
NGNM #10
NGNM #11
NGNM #12
NGNM #13
NGNM #14: The Travel Issue (No. Seriously.)
- Houston Anarchist Book Fair, New Orleans, Being propositioned by college bro in french quarter vs. trucker at truck stop, not catching out, hitching, lots of disappointment, montell jordan, old friends, new friends, southern california
NGNM #15: Darkest Places
NGNM #16: Sweet 16 - February 2012
NGNM #17 (includes bonus zine: Operation Parentsburgh 2012) - Spring 2012
NGNM #18: Hawai'i 510 - December 8th 2012
NGNM #19: WXYZ - Summer 2013
NGNM #20
NGNM #21 - Winter 2013/2014
- a thick zine about squatting in Oakland, working at a weird super dysfunctional cafe, befriending stray cats, courting her childself and her inner-teenager bully. I just love Enola's rambling, detailed stories so much, they are never cynical and they always interconnect living on the extreme margins with funny stories and also super intense things about abuse and healing, with really good layout images and always some magic or magical thinking.
NGNM #22: What Grew in the Place of My Losses - Fall 2014
- Super thick, like 114 pages. Being a goth, witchy abuse survivor traveling and hitchhiking around through LA, Joshua Tree, Flagstaff, Tucson, Miami Beach, Lake Worth and more! learning about desert plants, heartbreak, dancing, the similarity between being posi and being in denial, healing, warmth, abandon mansions, adventures, old friends and new.
NGNM #23
- Trainhopping and traveling and picking up hitchhikers and sleeping in bus stations and campgrounds, kittens and awkwardness and sex and vulvodynia, rain and friendship, the mythical sister city of Atlantis, marginalization and fashion and poverty and crud goth (mix between goth and crusty) and magic and that's only the first half!
NGNM #24: HLRS Tour Zine: fighting grumpiness/hating on stuff/bad music reviews/cats/retreating/friends/pretty boring layout - March 2015
- Touring with the band Healers: Fresno, LA, cats on tour, San Diego, Tuscon, Auston, NO and Mardi Gras with demo/parade with cop effigy on fire. Queer parties and thinking of building a shack/home.
NGNM #25
NGNM #26: The Abandonment Issue: Housing, estrangement, PTSD, lost friends, fear
NGNM #27
NGNM #28
NGNM #29
NGNM #30: I am filled with so much hatred that fuels my love for everything else. - Summer 2017
NGNM #31: I live on - Fall/Winter 2017
NGNM #32 - Spring 2018 (2nd edition, November 2020)
NGNM #THIRTY-freakin-THREE: conspiracy, pyramid schemes, sadness, the usual - Winter 2018/2019
- The final issue
