It’s Complicated Zine #1: Totally Crushed Out! is the first issue of a series of zines about feminist writers’ relationships to the artists whose misogynist work we love. Edited by Judy Berman and Niina Pollari.

Issue #1 is 52 black and white pages, with a full-color cardstock cover designed by Gina Abelkop of Birds of Lace.

Included are the following essays:

• Nona Willis Aronowitz on Eminem
• Brooklyn Copeland on Marlon Brando 
• Elisabeth Donnelly on The Afghan Whigs
• Nina Mashurova on Charles Bukowski
• Tom Ribitzky on the men of Ayn Rand
• Judy Berman on Glam Rock

Editors: Judy Berman / Niina Pollari
Publisher: self-published
Pages: 56pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Notes: saddle-stitched, b/w
Release Date: 2012