The Maenad's Bone Garden

I would be mourning the death of the indie press but seemingly they've all decided to stick their heads in the sand like everyone else.    The trans pubs are especially the worst - Complain, quietly, but do nothing.    But publish nothing that is not safe and happy.   Very middle-class.  It's offensive this attitude.  Anyway, who cares.    The Fifth Issue of Maenadum dropped earlier this month.   I wanted to take this opportunity mention the Notebooks series that we have been producing for a few years now.    The Maenad’s Notebooks are transcriptions of the contents of my personal journaling that has not seen processing, production, and publication elsewhere. Not complete work, this attempts to capture the essence of a working creative’s “desktop environment” over the course of a VERY eventful year under heavy duress. Freedom Year One - a year in the life of a Maenad This publication features work inspired by the Wri...

  Mad pride and mad as hell, The Maenad returns with a fifth installment of the Maenadum zine. One year into the so-called “resistance” and it has failed us. Those of us with mental health conditions, the disabled, the neurodivergent, and the gender nonconforming are facing an onslaught, largely invisible in the face of the ICE gestapo. The coup d'état of the so-called United States remains unopposed save by those directly on it’s front lines – black, brown, poor, and immigrant communities across the country, law abiding people by the thousands have been abducted off the streets and shipped off to black sites and prisons in foreign dictatorships. And yet no one yet is hunting suits.  We remain, defiant, under siege, waiting for the thugs to come to our door. Maenadum , a voice of mad pride and neurodivergent, queer rage, returns with our fifth ‘zine, written over the last two years – basically since Biden turned the cops loose on the kids (you know, again). Spannin...

  While I am in _no way_ comparing myself to the Grand Dame, I ran across this and I thought my own version would be ....maybe insightful, definitely funny.     Formatting borked because I'm still using Blogspot but I think it's pretty comprehensible.    Why are blogging platforms married to weird one and three quarters space bullshit?    The preview is so spread out it makes baby Jesus cry and go WTF google?  You can kill kids but you can't fix this?  Losers.  The Maenad Morning Routine  Wake up (stuff) Get out of Bed Go to the bathroom Sit on the bog and contemplate the void until you are done Come back to bed - return to bed and get back up in 45 minutes or Get up Boot up the computer (Industry) Go to the bathroom again Make bed and tuck in plushies Put on glasses Put on any clothings from the bed adjacent pile that suit your that-moment sensory needs Get meds, -either put on coffee and get something to drin...

A tiny Book Completion Breakfast for the Maenad today.  (posted with a slight delay)  Finally put the Space Girl's Guide to the Empress Imperium  (available soon!  Releasing later this September) to bed I am glad I thought to budget for this, especially in light of this month’s rent increase!  Good times!   Anyway, I made a nice, large, cooked breakfast with proper ingredients and junk.    Delicious cod and polluck filets with an olive oil, garlic and a mix of cayenne, paprika and crushed red pepper  a dash of sea salt to finished On the side we have...vegetables I needed to use up.  Some sliced carrot, and partial bags of both broccoli and cauliflower (I know that never happens right)  chicken bouillon, a bit of msg, dill as fuck, pepper, garlic salt, onion powder,  some packet noodles to replace the sudden “Oh shit I thought I had those” 4 minute egg noodles I was going to use (fish was almost done!) some olive oil to make th...

 Most recent  published work - Alienation & Hue in Unstable , available from Querencia Press.   Two images from Unstable (2025 Querencia Press) Unstable (2025, Querencia Press) If you wish to support the artist  patreon ko.fi  itch.io pay pal  venmo also my most recent collection is still available, electronically and in print, from kith books Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods:  Depositions on Capitalism, Piracy, Death, Money, Sex, and Work Print e book My erotic liberation collection the Ishtar Cycle , published in 2021 by Lupercalia press is now available from our online stores patreon link   Ko Fi link Socials  BSky   Instagram    

  Gwendolyn Harper (She/They) sometimes writing as the Maenad is the author of The Ishtar Cycle (2021), and Flying the Jolly Scarlet Gambling with the Gods (2023) Their anthology work has appeared in Unstable!, True Grit, Bone Milk Vol 2 and Vulcanalia 21. Work has appeared at ZiN Daily, Writers Resist, 365 Tomorrows, the World History Encyclopedia, Beyond the Underground, and Cream Scene Carnival. She has also been published in the Fahmidan Journal, Corporeal, Troublemaker Firestarter, and Engendered. Best of the Net Nominee 2023. Columnist at Cream Scene Carnival. They have read for the Farside Review. Founder/publisher Dreaming Gynoid Studio, author of the Galaxy Black RPG Editor & Publisher of the Sub-ether zine since 2020 A queer, disabled, angry punk Goddess, Gwendolyn writes about trauma, sex, politics, pop culture, science fiction, history, space, and sex work. They have lived experience of homelessness, intimate partner violence, drug abuse and addiction as we...

This morning I was nearly wrecked by a spam email. Let me unpack that. I am however passively what google calls a “local guide” I take lots of fucking pictures and do reviews of places I go and so on. This morning I opened my inbox and there was a thing from them; it said Gwendolyn we miss your point of view! And said it had been 90 days since my last contribution – I guess that means my “new phone” has now been out of service longer than it was functional.  But we live in an era. *I* live in an era, where automated spam messages will say to me things that no one living has ever said to me Food for (particularly miserable) thought Updates  (Links in Super Special Minty Green! )   Loaded what (might) be the first (or the only) of (maybe) a notebooks (series) – I dunno.  Originally I wanted to scan in the actual pages from Fall 2022 – Fall 2023 and then put the copy over that but like most of my more interesting print/POD/digital book emulation ideas, it requ...