Learn Your ACABs

$25.00

An alternative alphabet + mindful colouring book illustrated by TextaQueen and written by TextaQueen + 10gentle collective*.

24 pages, offset edition of 1000 printed on recycled stock with a local sustainable printer.

Edition of 1000. Hand-numbered and initialled by TQ.

The book’s text follows the tune of The Alphabet Song, the original lyrics are now morphed into acronyms and expressions about different identities, prison abolition and community resistance to this world’s oppressions.

Here are the first few lines..

A – C – A – B

F – T – P

No more prisons, end slavery 

H – I   Jack patriarchy

O – K   It’s time for First Nations Sovereignty 

It’s illustrated with dizzying detail including a mouldy doughnut, a flaming cop car, the dunking of a deserving statue, a rainbow-riding narwhal and exploding gender-reveal balloons!

A mindful colouring book for all ages and for now!

[Disclaimer: If it wasn’t clear, this book does not teach the traditional order of the Roman alphabet]

Sales of the book go towards setting up TheySwarm: an artist residency for ‘diverse and dispersed’ artists that TextaQueen will peer mentor in their Collingwood shopfront studio. It’ll be for queer and trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour with priority to disabled artists.

+ $1 from every book sold goes to Wuurn of Kanak LandBack initiative.

TheySwarm’s dream is to find a balance between accessing Art World networks and keeping the ‘by us – for us’ attitude of queer / punk / crip /  DIY / BIPOC community – to create an emotionally, physically, and financially sustainable space for connection and creativity.

Keeping with the aspirations of the future residency –

CRIP + CRAZY QTIBIPOC individuals get FREE DIGITAL DOWNLANDS (email me!) plus a $5 discount on the printed book. Use the coupon “C+CQTIBIPOC” at checkout for your discount.

**10gentle collective is an anonymous international collaboration between diverse creators producing satirical and critical anti-oppression material.

387 in stock