Zines, Zines, Zines!

Zines are...

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

• DIY
• Mini magazines
• Collages
• Scrapbook
• Self-published
• A reclamation
• Personal
• Identity
• Empowering
• Relatable
• Impact

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)

A range of spectrums:

• 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