Applications in Climate & Society, Spring 2021

What is a zine?

Zine definition from Scissors & Chainsaws No. 2 : Diary Comic Zine Made in July 2020 During International Zine Month by Nina Echozina, excerpt shared with permission

Anything anyone wants to add?

Read

Skim a zine for four minutes and then switch, for four rounds. You will not be able to read these zines in their entirety.

• Spring - Dream Passport: To a Better World (made by a group from last year's class)
• Summer - Chosen Ones : a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanzine
• Fall - Ungrateful Black-White Girl (please be patient if the zine takes a minute to load)
• Winter -  A Pocket Guide to Covid-19 Etiquette with Elaine Swann by Malaka Gharib

Find more Barnard zines to read online. (Not now--later!)

Reflect

Take two minutes to make notes about what you absorbed and how zines feel to you.

Discuss

What kind of person made the last zine you looked at, and why?

Why did the creator(s) make a zine instead of...

• a book

• a poem

• street theater

• a Tumblr

• an Instagram post

• a meme

• a protest

• a letter to the editor

• etc.

How to the images complement or complicate the text?

Consider

Take three minutes to think about which elements you connect to and how you might use them to make an academic argument in a non-academic way.

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