Therapeutic Edgelands Zine Club: Issue #14

Publisher: AWE Society Press
Editor: Bridget Quinn (2026)

Contributors: Violeta Antonette, Taylor Hanigosky, Amas Muhammad, Lauren Rossi, Chandler Storrs, Anna Sysling, Ren Suchyta-Korany, Rachel Thompson, A Ranic, Keith Rodgerson, Claire Tromener and poet of da soil. Collages by Liane Al Ghusain, Aziza Knight, and Bridget Quinn adorn this season’s Wheel of Attention pages.

Issue 14 of the Therapeutic Edgelands invites us to consider protection and care in our local relationships with writings by two Detroit based creators: Maya Davis and Tawana Petty.

Maya’s poem of care across species brings attention to the legacies of those whose bodies and homes have been used (and ravaged) by the empire. Instead Maya lovingly cares for silk worms – inviting them to build their homes and emerge, winged into this beautiful and broken world.

Tawana’s piece Defending Detroit, offers another narrative of protecting our home– she asks us to think critically about the so-called opportunity of technological development of Detroit. She implores us to resist the ever growing surveillance state with its eugenic habits and increasingly automated weapons. Tawana lovingly critiques and pushes back -- and she invites Edgelands readers to do the same.

Our text editor, Owólabi Aboyade expertly orients us in a time between times, and imagery drips off the pages too… As you can see!

Therapeutic Edgelands Zine Club is a quarterly publication and experimental eco-therapy project. Each issue includes reader artwork and several “invitations” that encourage connection with nearby wilds, creative making, a slower circular sense of time and the development of eco-social healing practices. This is a slow, analog social media—we go to the edgelands and share what we find there.