Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?

Description: Friendship is hard because everything is hard. This book examines social structures to demonstrate how people mend an unravelling social fabric.

Brief description:

Lee Arden is originally from Algonquin land in the Ottawa Valley, and now calls Montréal/Tiohtià ke/Mooniyang home. They are the author of many zines, including PALS:
The Radical Possibilities of Friendship, Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels Like, and the novella Summer Shade.

Lee founded and runs Sheer Spite Press, a small press and zine distributor focused on beautiful, affordable work by creators who face barriers such as transphobia, ableism, and poverty in their practice. They're also a member of the organizing collective for Dick's Lending Library, a community-run library in Montréal that specializes in the literary, political, and artistic work of trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit authors, and a past intern and forever collective member for the Queer Zine Archive Project. Lee is white, trans, an anarchist, a Quaker, and a deeply imperfect friend, but they try.

Review Quotes: "A friend-letter (which is like a love-letter, but more complicated) to the ordinary glory of being with others, in all our mess and beauty, The Politics of Lonely is an incisive call to build worlds in which friendship is more and more accessible, for everyone."--Alexis Shotwell, author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times