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Employee Resources Group: Disability Zines

This guide accompanies a workshop for Barnard's Disabilities Employee Resources Group

Zine Construction

"written and illustrated instructions for creating a pamphlet out of a single sheet of paper"

Reminders

  • Leave a 1/4" margin around your pages
  • Remember your zine will be copied or scanned, so light text and images may not reproduce well
  • Don't be perfect
  • You do you

Prompts

  • How to talk to me
  • What I wish everyone knew about...
  • My name: how I got it, what else it could have been, how I chose it, the story behind it, others with the same name, how I feel about it, etc.

Elements

Essay * Poem * Review * Drawing * Collage * Personality Quiz * Crossword Puzzle * Playlist * Top Ten List * Likes/Dislikes * How To * Comic * Rant * Blank Space * Art * Handwriting * Typewriting * Design Software * Stick Figures * Blackout Poetry * Reply to an article

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