Slutty Garage is an independent zine founded by Abigail Baldwin in 2022. In 2024, after selling out it’s first five issues in print, SG went on hiatus.

Currently, we are working on an anthology, set for release at the end of 2026. Until then, our digital library is available here for free!

Previous to Slutty Garage this website served as the personal blog of Editor-in-Chief Abigail Baldwin. That archive is available here.

Letter From The Editor

Dear Reader, 

I started Slutty Garage in 2022 out of desperation. I was unemployed for exactly ten days. I know how to be idle. In fact, I relish it, but in the early 2020s, which happened to coincide with my own personal early twenties, I was restless and frustrated. It was the kind of frustration that can only result in the need to create a zine with a nebulous concept and a name that doesn’t quite make sense. SG started from an unspecific vision, but a lot of desire, yearning to be heard, to create, to make some kind of stamp even if it was a stamp in the sand. 

Over time we found our voice. I began describing Slutty Garage as a zine about sex, identity, and music. Then, I came out as a lesbian and thought it would behoove me to market SG as “queer.” We were never marketed as much else but a name. “Slutty Garage” always sounded a bit sexier than the content warranted. I always took it to represent a scrappiness, to evoke a certain sexuality while representing the DIY nature of what we were creating. 

Between August of 2022 and March of 2024 I funded, edited, designed and published five issues of Slutty Garage, each around a different theme, featuring work by over fifteen different writers and artists, several of whom were recurring. SG is based in Los Angeles and was distributed primarily in Echo Park, but our contributors come from all over the country. I am incredibly grateful for every artist who trusted me with their work and for everyone who bought tickets to our release parties, or performed at them, or bought issues, or read their friend’s copy. I guess for a while, I felt like you were all hanging out in my garage. After all this time, and whatever SG evolves to become, I recognize that the community was the whole point. 

With love, 

Abigail Baldwin