Circumschism / That's Nuts!

My 2025 hallozeens!

Circumschism (world building through castration anxiety: there will not be any photos of irl flesh dicks in this zine) is any investigation into circumcision through history. Stemming from my inkling that early Christianity may have benefited from the Olympics requiring a foreskin to compete. This winds up being probably not causal, as the contemporaneous Roman occupation doesn't seem to require kynodesme. That's a centuries prior Greece thing. Anyway, yes, lot of dick mutilation modification is recorded because importing slaves meant itemised inventories, complaints, and xenophobia of How Other People Do Their Circumcisions, Not Like How We Have Normal Parts.
(First presented as a PowerPoint party presentation for Helen's birthday)

That's Nuts! (Things I have learned in proximity to nut allergies: carving out one nutless house in a world that loves putting nuts in things) is about food that has nuts in. Sometimes not even food. Nuts turn up as desiccants, oils, protein, garnish, fibre, shelf stability, cheap but fancy. As a nut participant, you may think "I know a peanut butter when I see it!" but there is nut in haircare, nut in dogs, nut in so many things. This zine hopefully makes it easier to understand your friends with nut allergy and how that affects what they buy.