ddc press
ddc press publishes zines, books, and print ephemera with a focus on artist projects, queer narratives, and critical theory.
The Dirty Dishes Collective is a collaborative project co-founded by dani neira and Cassia Powell. Grounded in friendship as a mode of working and producing knowledge, our practice centers care, collaboration, and gathering.
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- dirty dishes by the dirty dishes (zine, 2025)
- Dog Ears (zine, 2024)
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APPROXIMATIONS - artist book (2024)
- measured by hand Exhibition Ephemera (2024)
- Eat in Take out (zine, 2024)
- dear diary - zine (2023)
- the immortality of the crab: On Gossip - zine (2023)
- becoming a breeze - artist book (2023)
- RIPPLES (zine 2022-23)
the
dish rag
The dish rag is a quarterly, subscription-based mail project that will deliver mail directly to your door <3
Each issue will include a combinations of mini zines, love letters, postcards, bookmarks, and more!
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Issue 01: postage (on queer friendships, distance, and post stamps)
$7/issue, $20/year (4 issues)
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needlework /
queer gossip
4x5” prints (2025)
Risograph printed by Moniker Press, edition of 150.
$10 CAD
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dirty dishes by dirty dishes
dirty dishes by the dirty dishes - zine (2025)
Risograph printed by Moniker Press, edition of 150.
$18 CAD
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dog ears
Dog Ears - zine (2024)
By dani neira Published by ddc press
Risograph printed by Lucky Punch Press, edition of 100. A3 poster + accordion-folded zine
Dog Ears explores material kinships in independent publishing. Taking the form of a reading list compiled from and by independent publishers from Vancouver and Berlin, the zine seeks to map out a network of print-based relationships.
Contributions from: Nina Prader (Lady Liberty Press), Malte Spindler (Lucky Punch Press), Erica Wilk (Moniker Press), Kitt Peacock (Dane Press), Julia Fabricius (Krater Books), Rachel Lau (Queer Reads Library), Cassia Powell (DDC Press)
$18 CAD
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APPROXIMATIONS
artist book (2024)
By dani neira
Risograph printed by Colorama, edition of 20.
"Approximations" is a two-fold, cloth-bound book holding found and processed images of the artist’s grandmother’s home and neighbourhood in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Meditating on distance, memory, and machinic vision, this book displays a small selection of synchronicities. It is legible from either side as it holds mirrored booklets, one's images reproduced in CMYK, and the other's processed through edge detection and printed in metallic gold on black paper.
Not available for purchase
Eat in
Take out
Eat in Take out - zine (2024)
The Eat in Take out zine consists of community-generated recipes, stories, and photographs from Paolino Caputo, Alanna Edwards, Mel Granley, Dani Neira, Josh Ngenda, and Rudra Manani. Prompted by personal and cultural experiences with food, we were pleasantly surprised to find our email inbox filled with recipes for doughy comfort food: bread, bannock, arepas, pancakes, and dhokla.
Eat in Take out was a project and collaboration with artist Snack Witch/Joni Cheung at Flux Media Gallery.
Not available for purchase
measured by hand
measured by hand - Exhibition Ephemera (2024)
Published by ddc press
Vitória Monteiro and Lan “Florence” Yee
Risograph printed by Moniker Press, edition of 150. Exhibition takeaway + letter-writing stationary
Exploring the architectures of memory, measured by hand considers how we hold and build space for personal and cultural histories.
By donation
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dear diary
By Cassia Powell, published by ddc press
Printed on xerox, available upon request
dear diary is a part of Powell’s project series in between you and me, researching gossip as a form of queer counter-archive. This zine functions as a tool to learn more about tender moments, juicy secrets and intimate details shared with a close friend.
$7 CAD
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becoming a breeze
becoming a breeze - artist book (2023)
By dani neira
Published by ddc press
Risograph, edition of 10
Becoming a Breeze is a reflection on structures, seeing and slipping. Taking the form of a breeze block as a departure point, the book considers how both physical and digital architectures of power — including algorithms, monuments, and hostile structures— shape sightlines and classify bodies. Through personal poetics, the breeze block becomes a lens for considering the possibilities of porosity. By becoming a breeze, what might we slip through?
Not available for purchase