Rena Yehuda Newman is a lifelong writer, artist, and zinemaker. Here is their zine library, articles, and other published works. You can also purchase digital versions of their zines here on their Gumroad store.

The Testosterone Survey Zine is a 60-page community health art project compiling the results of a nearly-400 person survey documenting the experiences of people medically transitioning on testosterone. The only resource of its kind, this zine features analysis and trans-joy graphics illuminating the qualitative data of hundreds of transmasculine people.

This zine is a public health art project designed to empower people transitioning on testosterone with knowledge, help us ask vital questions about our bodies and needs, and hopefully, make us all feel a little less alone. This zine was also designed for doctors, educators, therapists, and all those who care for transgender people to learn more about our experiences, struggles, and needs as they relate to medical transition using testosterone.

Creating it was a labor of love; the information belongs to the community. That’s why this zine is always free or donation for download here.

This zine collection of poetry, prose, and art by non-binary & transgender creators illustrates the joy and beauty of gender euphoria (the wonderful opposite of gender dysphoria). Funded by Kickstarter as of April 28th, 2018.

Inspired by the resilience of transgender youth, this collection was created with the belief that joy is resistance. With this collection, fifteen contributors are joyfully expanding a meaningful, and textured canon of what it means to be transgender & non-binary in 2018. Sharing our moments of triumph, beauty, and euphoria is a powerful way to dictate our own stories as full human beings, capable of immense joy. Gender Euphoria seeks to heal & open new conversations.

It is available for download for free or donation here.

69 Writing Prompts For Deviants: Creative Prompts for Hot, Do-It-Yourself Sex Stories – with 46 bonus prompts!

This zine is jam-packed with 115 total sexy prompts to get you started with writing the steamy stories of your wildest dreams. Whether you’re a professional novelist or never picked up a pen, a curious vanilla beginner or a seasoned, kink-heavy pro, these prompts have something to offer everyone – so pick a number and get writing.

Exploring erotic imagination and sexual desires through writing is one of the healthiest, sanest, safest ways to better understand and discover who you are and what you want. Whether it’s to get yourself off or find some new ideas of how someone else could turn you on, writing your own smut can make you a better lover to yourself and others.

This zine aims to inspire more and better written porn and erotica for us all. Human sexuality is so diverse and spectacular; there should be excellent content for all tastes. I’ve designed each prompt to be general enough for writers to insert their interests and fetishes, but specific enough to spark fantasy, intrigue, and creative appetite. Using these prompts is a way of exercising your sexual citizenship, protecting freedom of expression, and doing your part to make the world safer for good sex!

It is available for digital purchase here.

This zine contains a fabulous list of 142 Jewish Writing Prompts (Plus 78 Bonus Prompts)! Created by Editor in Chief of New Voices Magazine Rena Yehuda Newman as a resource for their own writers workshops and classes, this long list of Jewish creative freewriting prompts is now available to the world. Highly recommended for Jewish Educators looking to help guide students to deeper understandings of their own Judaism, this zine is packed with new ways to explore what it means to be Jewish.

These prompts touch on topics from embodiment to family, shabbat to diaspora, spirituality to sexuality, memory to ancestry, and so much more. There’s a small index in the back with different groups of prompts, too. There are so many ways to use this zine, but it all starts with picking up a pen and selecting a prompt. Writing prompts are a meaningful way to explore a Jewish identity. We each have our own Torah to reveal and our writing is part of the revelation.

“142 Jewish Writing Prompts” is available for digital purchase here.

“Chasing Prophets” is available for digital purchase here.

So you’re transmasculine and want to get on Grindr. Maybe you’ve had a drought over the past year (or six), maybe you went on testosterone and your sexuality came alive in new ways. Maybe Tinder wasn’t doing it for you, maybe you need something fresh, maybe you’re curious, maybe you just want to get fucked. Maybe it’s some, none, or all of the above. Either way, this zine is for you.

Written by Rena Yehuda Newman in the post-vaccination queer landscape of Summer 2021, this guide was created to help demystify the gay sex marketplace app known as Grindr. For many transmasculine people interested in queer sex with men, Grindr is intimidating and may feel impermeable. But this zine posits that the slutty nature of the app is exactly ripe for our own brand of sexual deviance. Transmasculine people are attractive and sexy unto ourselves, and it’s high time we claim that place in the spotlight. “We belong on Grindr, and the more of us there are, the less scary it’ll be.” With this zine, Rena Yehuda hopes to empower other trans people to have the queer sex they’ve dreamed of, but were too afraid to seek out.

Filled with advice, sexy comics, personal anecdotes, safety tips, fantasies, erotica, and original queer theory, this zine provides an overview of what you can expect to find on Grindr, ideas for profiles, musings on texts and sexts — and how to use the app for purposes of self-love and queer healing.

“On The Grind” is available for digital purchase here.

“An Antidote: Reflections on Queer Shame” is an honest zine about desire, body, queerness, transness, and the often invisible and malicious feeling of shame. Queer shame is a pervasive and damaging thing, but shame changes once it is spoken or written or drawn. Healing is possible. Queer Shame is not useful. Maybe a shame zine can help.

This zine is content-heavy, full of comics, writings, and snippits about queer shame.

“Shame shapeshifts. It looks like other things, pretends to be rational, protective, useful. You will learn it by its opacity, by its inability to be known. It exists best in negative space, and often it needs to be exposed from the outside in order to see it in relief.”

“An Antidote” is available for digital purchase here.

A stand-alone sequel to “An Antidote: Reflections on Queer Shame”, this zine traces the shards and aftermath of a break-up with an “ex non-boyfriend”, defining the often invisible identity “butchfag”, and explores the feelings of shame specific to queer transmasculine desire for men and masculinity. Deeply personal and honest, “Butchfag: More Reflections on Queer Shame” paints a portrait of the pain of relationships that languish without ever being named and dreams of a world in which our lovers do not hate themselves for loving us.

This 48-page zine contains personal writings, comics, drawings, snippits, and scraps from the sketchbook of its author.

“I want better for us, all of us. For the boys who love us, are intoxicated by our sexy ambiguity and genderfuckery, the way that butchfags can control a room, seem more significant and specific than almost anyone you’ve met. The way we’re gentle and powerful all at once. And I want better for us, who have often settled for romances that cannot ever be called what they are, must languish without ever being named, and live long stretches of time without sex or love on our terms, the way we want it according to our wild, splendid dreams. We don’t have to believe that we’re the problem anymore.”

“Butchfag” is available for digital purchase here.

Inspired by Avram Katzman’s “Flaming Jewboy #2” from 2000 // 5760, Rena Yehuda Newman has worked to publish a response to this groundbreaking queer Jewish zine in 2020 // 5780. A reflection on masculine Jewish attraction, this zine is filled with short writings and art about desiring Jewish bodies as a young, queer Jew.

“Flaming Jewboy #3” is available for digital purchase here.

“House of Jacob // People Israel” is available for digital purchase here.