The Perzine Is Political: Critical Thinking with Casual Texts

Joy (9:30-9:45)

Read zines by minoritized creators (9:45-10:45)

• why might zines appeal or not appeal to people holding minoritized identities?
• what did you relate to (or not) in the zines you read?
• when did you first see someone who had similar experiences, background, culture, and looks as you in media?
• how did the identities of the zine creators impact their work?

Break (10:45-11)

Read Piepmeier Intersectional Identities from Girl Zines (11-12)

• do critiques of whiteness "fracture the feminist facade," destabilize it? consider "Now the white girls --which meant a majority of the people there -- were being told that they were the oppressors as well." and their"clear discomfiture with the prospect of their complicity" and the "violence" of deferral
• we criticize because we care
• what does it mean to center marginality?

Check in about Wednesday homework

• Reflect in writing/art about how your identities inform your work
• read Evolution of a Race Riot
• Kate Eichhorn on Wednesday

Read and react to Evolution of a Race Riot & readings
 

Gif from Baby You're a Firework zine by Jing Yu

Joy (9:30-9:45)

Special Guest Kate Eichhorn!!! (9:45-10:45)

Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at the New School Lang College

Author (books only)

• Influence without Power: Feminism in a Digital Era (The MIT Press, forthcoming)
• Youth Culture and the Long History of Social Media (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
• Content (MIT Press, 2022)
• The End of Forgetting (Harvard University Press, 2019)
• Adjusted Margin (The MIT Press, 2016)
• The Archival Turn in Feminism (Temple University Press, 2013)

Break (10:45-11)

More on critical research TBD (11-12)

Homework

Read Zine Librarians Code of Ethics zine

Joy (9:30-9:45)

Discuss genre zines (9:45-10:45)

Break (10:45-11)

Discuss Zine Librarians Code of Ethics (11-11:45)

Final project (11:45-12)

• minimum of three 8.5x11 pieces of paper folded however you wish
• the zine can be on a topic of your choosing
• feel welcome to respond to a prompt from A Zine Idea for Each Like zine or a SCOTUS decision
• the zine should include a variety of
  • self-reflection
  • engagement with the texts we read in class
  • reference or inspiration from a zine you read in or outside of class
  • risk-taking/bravery
  • love and rage
  • visual elements
  • see the Zine Elements page for more suggestions
  • ethical use of sources

Catalog searches, catalog one of your own zines, discuss (homework)

Read "Why Zines Matter" for homework

Field trip to the Design Center

• safety training
• intro sessions
• play time