I dreamed I was assertive!

Author:Celia C. Pérez

Summary:Celia Perez, prolific zinester (Skate Tough You Little Girls and Picaflor are two of her other titles.) and school teacher cum librarian writes this perzine, which changes shape as issues progress. The first issues include stories about the evils of Jane magazine compared to Sassy, Lynda Barry, Celia's love of Martha Stewart and Oprah, race, and her life as a 26-year-old Latina sixth grade teacher in the backwoods of Florida in a predominately black middle school. Also included are pieces about her past, including her complicated relationship with her Batista loving Cuban-American father, her difficult hair, meeting her husband, and how she became so bossy. Later issues feature less clip art as Perez begins using a quarter-size format and in Issue 5 moves to Chicago. The Halloween issue includes recipes, spooky reads, and Halloween folklore and number 11 is mostly about cooking and Alice B. Toklas and includes some of Toklas' recipes. In issue 12, Celia's husband and son go on a trip to Arizona and she deals with her anxiety of living alone for a few days. Topical issues feature prominently in this zine, but so do book, food, music, and zine reviews