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Linda Simpson's revolutionary zine, conceived in part in response to the AIDS crisis, returns in time for Pride Month.

Translation: like my comrade ust said, for peace in ukraine. �* these people came to our land. no one was waiting for them here, no one asked them to come. and what do you want to tell the russian soldiers that are shelling you? run. we were not calling you here. run away. there is nothing else to say. either you stay here forever, in the ground, or you go back home and stop killing children and destroying homes and families. go back home while you are still alive. their steady determination, ...

What about you, mark? translation: like my comrade ust said, for peace in ukraine. �* these people came to our land. no—one was waiting for them here. no—one asked them to come. and what do you want to tell the russian soldiers thatare shelling you? run. we were not calling you here. run away. there is nothing else to say. either you stay here forever in the ground or you go back home and stop killing children and destroying homes and families. go back home while you are still alive. their...

Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of Thing, felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe Thing published ten issues between November 1989 and summer 1993. Zine cofounder Trent Adkins appears on the cover of the third issue, pictured here at lower left. Amber Huff In February 2021, dance-musi...