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"PUNX'N'KWEENS - Summer of love" (2025)
A photo zine by Aimé Dabbadie documenting the punx'n'kweens show on August 7th 2025 at Neue Zukunft in Berlin.
Punx’n’Kweens is a wild, queer drag punk cabaret featuring a rotating crew of legends: Nancy Nutter, Bleach, Mad Kate, Anita Drink, Rosa Peligrosa, Pull Out Boy, Tom Stom, Turbobiiitch, Bláthin, Levita, Rouge-Ah, Texas Terri, Roc Roc It, Fleshpiece, Caratoes, Fibi Eyewalker… and that’s not even the full list. If you missed the Summer of Love special, don’t worry. This zine captures it all.
La Sosi’s Holy Sweat (2024)
A photo zine by Aimé Dabbadie documenting a performance by Malmö based drag icon La Sosi at Sweat Rave Collective’s 10 years birthday party in an old underground cruising toilet in Berlin.
FANMAIL4FANZINE is the result of a zine workshop led by Aimé Dabbadie in 2025. The participants were invited to write and compose 2 fanmail pages about a zine found in the Feminist Archive Collection (FFBIZ) in Berlin.
The participants chose to work with the following zines: Just Say No Thank You by Star (2007), Fat is Beautiful by Crystal Hartman (2006), Nancy. A queer zine issue #1 by Alex Creep (2011), Ezku, a german trans gazette (1981), Why is the zine so important within the feminist punk subculture by Harriet Alana (2012), Violet by Thomas Rieske (2005), Lesbian Hanky Panky, Melbourne’s Lesbian History explored via the hanky code (Author & date unknown), Autofeminista, a zine about a german association promoting knowledge & skills sharing among women using the example of cars (198X), Auf-Stellungs-kata-log von Nutten u. Nüttchen e.V, a german sex worker-led zine by Carin (1987), Prayer, Lord I am on full dose testosterone and my libido is just by Mata (2022) & Die Krone & ich, a german drag King zine (2004).
the soft invisible weight of your absence takes so much space is a zine published in 2022 compiling photographs, paintings, prints, fabrics, visual poems, and texts exploring and diving in the themes of absence and grief. Delving into what seems insignificant at first, such as unreadable notes, blurry photos, missed shots and faceless portraits, Aimé threads different multi-layered attempts to grasp the space that remains where absence begins. Haunted by the influence of writers such as Marguerite Duras, Sarah Kane, Jean Luc Lagarce and Fabrice Melquiot, they explore the different feelings tied to absence and grief relating to the concepts of identity, gender, relationships, family, the body and collective imaginaries. The result is visions of paradoxes, in-betweens and nonplaces, suspended outside of time and space, flying out of a stranger’s hands.
THE QUEENS OF TENERIFE (2022)
Passing by Tenerife in 2022, Aimé Dabbadie found their way to Babylon, a queer club in a basement where drag queens perform every night. They gathered a collection of black and white analog photograps from two nights spent there into a zine.
SANT’AGATA’S ROOM (2024)
A noise poetry zine by Aimé Dabbadie & a.Monti
"Sant’Agata, patron saint of Catania resuscitates as a trans guy to meet Kathy Acker and Sarah Kane at a dyke bar, later goes to study love with bell hooks and an underpaid tour guide. Together they bake booby cakes and explore wormholes in which they become one and all of us."
POLEFLUID'S HOT HOT SWEAT (2025)
A photo zine by Aimé Dabbadie documenting a performance by pole performer Polefluid at a SWEAT party in an old underground cruising toilet in Berlin.
XEM SKATERS 1, 2 & 3 (2016-2018)
Xem Skaters is a community queer skate zine founded by Aimé Dabbadie in June 2016. It was created with the aim to start the conversation about homophobia, transphobia and genderqueer visibility in the skateboarding scene. More info & stories on Xem Skaters here.
SHEENA IS (2025)
A photo zine documenting the first ever drag punk open stage SHEENA IS on March 16th, 2025
"Berlin is built on punks. Drag is punk. SHEENA IS a new open stage drag night in Berlin! At a legendary venue SCHOKOLADEN ! Hosted by BLEACH with drag punk DJ ANITA DRINK till midnight!"
HEALING (2020)
A soft top surgery recovery zine
QUEER ZINES NOT DEAD (2025)
This zine is the result of a zine workshop led by Aimé Dabbadie in 2025. The participants were invited to take the role of the writer and the editor with the prompt to submit to expired open calls from zines found in different digital archives as well as Aimé's personal archives.