Legalize crime +

"There's no genre for this writing, no way to pin down neatly the two zines by Winter gathered here as Legalize crime + Against revolution. These brief statements, arranged so starkly on the page, have the look of a political manifesto or perhaps the declarative Holzer-Kruger-esque conceptual pieces that come up on our feed. And despite their air of leftist critique, Winter's words are condensed and akin to poetry. Besides which, there are no arguments here, no spirals into tunnels of logic, no shout-out to Marx nor shouting at the masses. It's actually because of the intensity and terseness and artfulness of these zines that we've included a conversation between the author and editor as an introduction." "This is writing that speaks to trans women directly and without any compromise as an expression of one trans woman's desire for a different way of living in the world--beyond capital, beyond prisons, beyond gender and identity and politics as we know it. And then there's the trans separatist, nihilist current running through the text, which unexpectedly echoes the essay where Esdras Parra wrote of herself decades ago, 'I have no honor, nor homeland, nor faith... I remain as apart from things, be they society, family, tradition, history, as I was in my youth, or perhaps more than back then, now that I know there is no hope. That the future does not exist. That only the here and now prevails...'" --Back cover.