SHRED OF DIGNITY SKATERS' UNION RAGAZINE #< Tom Jennings, Editor. Published by Shred of Dignity, San Francisco, 1988. First edition. Tabloid, 17" x 11", 20 pages, illustrated in b&w throughout. VERY GOOD Condition: folded as issued, light age toning, small chip at top of spine fold, the folding is a bit off and the pages are not quite flush, otherwise, bright, clean, and unmarked. Scarce.

Shred of Dignity Skaters' Union Ragazine was a San Francisco skateboarding queer punk zine. This jumbo issue was published in the fall of 1988 after over a year of preparation.

The Shred of Dignity Skaters' Union was a radical pioneering San Francisco skater rights group formed in the mid 1980s to combat citywide bans on skateboarding. Arising from the skater punk and queer punk scene they united skateboarding, punk rock, DIY and social resistance. It was formed by Tom Jennings, Duke Crestfield, and Shawn Ford after City supervisors banned skateboarding on the streets of San Francisco. They overturned the bans by organizing a loose network of skaters, punks, and anarchists to defend their interests and engage in political street activism. Functioning as both a skater's rights group and a creative collective, the Shred of Dignity Skaters' Union rented a warehouse on Shipley Street in 1988, creating a "warehousehold" which served as a counterculture living, working, making and organizing space for queer punks and activists. The collective was involved in many local underground experimental scenes including 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley. Two seminal underground queer punk zines emerged from the Shred of Dignity collective, Shred of Dignity Skaters' Union Ragazine and HOMOCORE.