POLS3341: Grassroots Activisms and Social Change

Introduce the zine you read to a neighbor or two:

• Why did you choose this zine?
• What does the zine say about its creator--directly or indirectly?
• Why do you think they chose a zine as their medium?
• Are there graphics in the zine? Handwriting? Collages? Do they complement or complicate the text?
• How does the zine make you feel?

Group discussion.

What is a zine?

Share a word or phrase that you associate with zines. It's okay to repeat what someone else said!

Nijsten, Nina. Scissors & Chainsaws No. 2 : Diary Comic Zine Made in July 2020 During International Zine Month. Gent, Belgium: Nina Nijsten, 2020.

On the Zine Spectrum (by Lea Cooper, who has a PhD in zines)

• self-published
• handmade
• visible authorship
• DIY
• counter-cultural
• reproducible
• visual-text-material
• third space knowledges
• (intentionally) limited distribution
• self-identifies as a zine
• not for profit
• amateur

How are these factors present (or not) in other publishing media, e.g., Instagram, a textbook, Sidechat, the NY Times, the Free Beacon, Urban Studies journal