Another beautiful day outside, another zine complete! Conversations with Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue limited edition zine #5/12 ‘Creativity’ is done. This issue is really special to me. The conversations in this zine are by far some of my all-time personal favourites. Each of the people I spoke to has had influence on my life, via [...]

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I just got back from the copy shop with Conversations with Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue limited edition zine #4/12 ‘P.M.A.’ (Positive Mental Attitude) in hand. This time around, after starring at a wall of coloured paper for 20 minutes trying to decide what colour to make the cover – my friend Anita suggested double rainbow [...]

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I’ve  just completed the latest issue in my limited edition zine series Conversations with Punx. Conversations with Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue Zine #3 ‘Love’ …handbound with silver cord on marbled paper + hand drawn gold heart ♥ is available to order by contacting me directly at: conversationswithbianca [at] gmail [dot] com. 79 pages… in-depth interviews with members [...]

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Dear Friends, I hope you all have been well! Just in time for the holidays, CWP Zine #2/12 [Courage] is now available!!  Cover art (design, handpainted screen + screenprinted) by Jhonny.  The featured conversations on punk, spirituality & creativity in Zine Two of the limited edition 12 zine series include: Larry Livermore (Lookout Records, the Potatomen, the Lookouts) Henry [...]

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Michael Iafrate of Rock & Theology blog recently chatted to me about Converstaions With Punx. Iafrate is currently working on essays, and a short book, on punk rock and religion. He was thrilled to discover my project, along with my pal Brian Peterson’s book Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and [...]

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It’s almost time to retire CWP Zine One featuring: Ian MacKaye, Don Letts, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Johnny Siera, Greg Attonito and Shanti Wintergate. Thank you to everyone who ordered a copy, subscribed, came to the launch or wrote me saying they enjoy reading the site—your correspondence, feedback, encouragement, love & support is appreciated. I thought I’d [...]

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Hollie & the crew at RENEGADES EMPIRE—an independent Australian punk publication—were kind enough to feature me chatting about Conversations With Punx. The issue also features The Ramshackle Army, Manic Pistoleros, The Meaniacs, This Is Not Ok and more. It’s super rad there’s a lot of positive energy, time and effort going into punk publications in [...]

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It’s been 43 days since I last posted. A lot has happened. Over the coming weeks I will endeavour to bring you up to speed so please bear with me. It feels nice to be writing you all again. One of the most significant things that have come to pass in my hiatus from ConversationsWithBianca.com, [...]

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FINALLY the moment of truth! It’s time to share Conversations With Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue with you all! It’s taken a long time to get to this point. Thank you so much everyone for being so patient, understanding, supportive, encouraging and in-general just all-around rad! Conversations With Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue is being released as [...]

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Photo by Eric Vogel I am incredibly lucky to have some very strong, creative, forward thinking, beautiful, innovative, independent, inspiring women in my life. I decided that I wanted to help raise the Universal awareness of their awesomeness. They’re ruling their Universe one day at a time, they’re being them and they’re making a positive [...]

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