No Drugs, No Masters

Uncivilized Distro is taking submissions for a new zine, “Anarchy With an X”!. This zine project is all about radical sobriety, straight edge, temperance, and related abstinence cultures and lifestyles and their relationships with anarchy and abolition. 

Is your sobriety related to a critique of capitalism and the state? What about Colonization, Civilization and Collectivism? Is it an affirmation of a collective good? Is it social or individualist? Vegan and Anti-speciesist? An interesting question to consider is the tension between voluntary abstinence found in anarchist sobriety and the Prohibitionist or Statist positions. Relatedly, the role of temperance in the Progressive and Modernizing / Urbanizing efforts of the 19th and 20th centuries is something to possibly explore. 

Submissions due July 1, 2026. 

Format:
In digest zine form: 9 or 10 point Times New Roman Font, two columns.
Maximum sizes:
-Essays and creative writing: 2,000 words
-Poems: 2 pages (please include notes on formatting)
-Letters: ~350 words
-Artwork: 2 continuous pages (or any amount of smaller pieces)

Copies by mail? Send to:
Uncivilized Distro
Po Box 72
Seymour IL, 61875

Digital copies? Send to: tmwg1995[@]protonmail.com

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“When the slave was drunk the slaveholder had no fear that he would plan an insurrection, or that he would escape to the North. It was the sober, thoughtful slave who was dangerous and needed the vigilance of his master to keep him a slave” – Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, pg. 183 (1892)

“In the Southern States, masters induce their slaves to drink whisky, in order to keep them from devising ways and means by which to obtain their freedom. In order to make a man a slave, it is necessary to silence or drown his mind. It is not the flesh that objects to being bound—it is the spirit [...] In no other way can this be so well accomplished as by using ardent spirits! On Saturday evening, it is the custom of the slaveholder to give his slaves drink, and why? Because if they had time to think, if left to reflection on the Sabbath day, they might devise means by which to obtain their liberty”  – “Temperance and Anti-Slavery: An Address Delivered in Paisley, Scotland on March 30, 1846” by Frederick Douglass

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