Te girl is tall, the purse is small, the zine is bite sized! With the release of no. 2 cementing bitezine as a semestrial publication, we wanted to anchor this issue in the now. These past years have seen structures of power take action to increasingly limit our access to care and to public life. Within this context, the theme of bodily autonomy seemed like an accessible starting point for sharing our subjectivities and strategies of resistance. While planning this issue, a lot of our conversations gravitated towards DIY HRT, a practice we had dreamt of documenting from thebeginning of our literary ambitions. It quickly became evident that publishing a user guide to DIY HRT within the bitezine anthology format would be biting off more than we can chew… which is why we are proud to release Taking Care: A Transfeminist DIY Guidebook to HRT coming out later this year! The following pages witness our authors and artists tackle the ifs, buts, hows, and whys of reclaiming our own bodies. May the strength, vulnerability, and sisterhood of these entries shine through. -Publisher
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