ARCH 3901: History of Architecture and Feminism

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?

The Readings

Content warnings: police violence, racial injustice

• Disorientation: Barnard & Columbia 2020
• Why Is the Government Like This: A Zine About Fighting for Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice in the Age of COVID19
• Evolution of a race riot / edited by Mimi Nguyen
• Requium : A Mass for the Repose of the Souls of the Dead / by Nontsikelelo Mutiti

Find more Barnard zines to read online. (Later!)

Reflect

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

Discuss

Take five minutes in a breakout room.

Why did the creators choose to make a zine?

How to the images complement or complicate the text?

Which elements appeal to you for how you'd like to communicate research and self-documentation?

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