Welcome to my Zine World!
I have been making various types of zines off and on since the 80s, my current zines are Reproductive and Disability Justice focused. I am working on turning all of my client and support handouts into a Zine/Booklet format…stay tuned!
WHAT IS A ZINE? A zine is a short pamphlet or booklet that is self published. The word zine is short for magazine to imply a little magazine. It can be a one piece of paper folded artfully or a 16 page half sized booklet…or anything in between. They are self published and can be printed or digital or both. There are both little and big festivals where people sell and trade zines.
I am part of the WRFG Zine Club that meets 1st and 3rd Mondays at the WRFG Meeting Room inside the Little 5 Points Community Center.
Purchase a Zine by sending $8 for a Digital PNG copy
$8+$3 shipping= $11 total for a print copy, please add a buck or $2 more if you are buying multiple zines
Cash App or Venmo to ZiahMcK (look for my pic in a blue t shirt), include a note for which Zine(s) you are purchasing, your name and either your email or physical address in note section.
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Birth Autonomy Zine- topics we should all understand because all humans are born
Why is the United States Maternal and Infant Mortality Rate is so drastically high, especially for Black people and Disabled people? Why do people have a 45% chance of experiencing trauma during birth? What choices can really change a person’s outcome? Let’s have these conversations before people get pregnant so that they make choices early in their process and their community supports them.
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Birth and Disability Zine
Newest Zine! The How Does Disability Inform Birth Choices and Bodily Autonomy? Zine mostly focused on educating doulas and healthcare professionals about how they can make their care more dignified and accessible for Disabled clients. Great for Disabled people to help plan their journey through fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
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Advocacy skills for how to navigate the current medical industrial complex
Created for an 2025 Atlanta Free Fair workshop on how to advocate for yourself. Real world scenarios and how to advocate for yourself within the current medical systems to get your needs met when they don’t have access to having a patient advocate or doula with them.
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Loony- A Fan zine about the Heated Rivalry Fandom
From ReHeats, to Corrective Experiences, to the Queering of Literature, to Disability Topics….everything that the Fans talk about is in here!
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EDS Zine in Memes
My Updated Op Ed written for EDS Awareness Month May 2026 illustrated with memes. Memes are the way chronically ill people share heavy topics with humor, sure to get a chuckle out of anyone while bringing awareness to everyone.
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Main Character Energy- No Longer Supporting Cast- Romance Books with Disabled people as the main characters
A Zine because I realized that I didn’t dislike romance books, I just couldn’t relate to ableist, boring, neurotypical characters. I am specifically sharing books that show disabled joy and independence, not just struggle.
For EDS & HSD Awareness month May
here is my EDS Meme Zine
Touch the bottom right corner of the zine or use the slider bar at the bottom to flip the pages
All Humans Are Born Zine ReSource Index
Things all people should know about birth locations and bodily autonomy because we are all born.
This support page for my Zine series. It is a work in continual process, each time you come back here, or to my website in general, there will be new information and links. Vol 1 Birth Autonomy is out and 2 & 3 are being edited now, topics to be announced soon.
Want a print copy?
Purchase the Zine by sending $8
$8+$3.50 shipping= $11.50 total for a print copy
Cash App or Venmo to ZiahMcK (look for my pic in a blue t shirt), include that is is for a BA zine, name and address in note section.
“The Performance”
A MUST WATCH Video for anyone that is planning on giving birth ever by Freedom For Birth, Rome Action Group
ReSources in the order that they appear in the Birth Autonomy Zine
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The Effect of Doulas on Maternal and Birth Outcomes: A Scoping Review
Alexandria Sobczak
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Evidence Based Birth Handout on the Evidence on Doulas
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Is fear of childbirth related to the woman’s preferred location for giving birth?
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Obstetric violence in the United States and other high-income countries
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Remembering Sarah Hudson Grant, a Black midwife from the South
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Modern midwifery improving women’s health all over the world
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*Transfer to hospital in planned home births: a systematic review
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Evidence Confirms Birth Centers Provide Top-Notch Care
By Rebekka Dekker, PhD, RN,
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Trends in Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity During Delivery-Related Hospitalizations in the United States, 2008 to 2021
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Traumatic birth and childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder: International expert consensus recommendations for practice, policy, and research
Susan Ayers et al
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871519223003098
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"The Performance" by Freedom For Birth Rome Action Group
A funny but very real depiction of how trying to conceive a child through having sex might go in a similar invasive atmosphere as a hospital birth room
Podcasts
Evidence Based Birth
Birthright
Birthing Instincts
Films
The Business of Being Born
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives
With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US

