To best enjoy the zine, download it, print it out and collate it yourself!

The first page is the center of the zine. The second page goes on the back of it.

And so forth outwards until the last page, which is the cover!

Again, enjoy!

--Max

Dear Icaristas,

It's a zine! Mad Love — 8 1/2 x 14, 45 pages — emerges into the world just in time for Valentine's Day! Clad in a screaming neon pink cover, Mad Love manages to be both serious and hilarious as it looks at mental health from one queer's radical perspective. Including:

--"RAD Disorder". Could YOU have DSM 309.95? Revolutionary
Activist/Radical Artist Disorder, openly diagnosed in America since the Beatniks, continues to spread wildly! Check out the symptoms: YOU might have it TOO!

--"How I Became a Thief". An artful piece of creative nonfiction about the power of story and who gets to tell it.

--"I Know Where I'm Going, and it Ain't Where I've Been: An Ani DiFranco Story". Ever been haunted by a song? Part personal essay, part fanzine, this piece lives the liminals between past and present, local and remote, life and art.

--"Mad Love". In which Max makes a fool of herself asking out a girl, and has no shame!

--ALSO: A creative nonfiction sketch of Max in the baby-babydyke years! A memorial essay for Bob Kohler, longtime radical gay activist! A letter to the mad movement! Lots of pretty pictures! A CARTOON! AND MORE!

What does it mean to be healthy in a fucked-up society? How do we foster sanity, individually and collectively? How do we create and disseminate Mad Love? Download now for some answers -- and a hell of a lot more questions!

Enjoy!!

Mad Love,
MAX

"Minds! New loves! Mad generation!" -Allen Ginsberg, from "Howl"