Zines for Fun, Fighting the Power, and Self-Documentation

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Zine sample-palooza!

Read/skim a zine for three minutes and then switch, for four rounds--last round, your choice of these zines.

[Content: curse words, sexuality, nudity, violence]

Round 1

• Spring - Asian American Feminist Antibodies
• Summer - It's Corona Time : A Zine About Not Handling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Well
• Fall - Femmes Unite #2
• Winter - Yell Zine #3

Round 2

• Spring - It's Corona Time : A Zine About Not Handling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Well
• Summer - Femmes Unite #2
• Fall - Yell Zine #3
• Winter - Asian American Feminist Antibodies

Round 3

1. Spring - Femmes Unite #2
2. Summer - Yell Zine #3
3. Fall - Asian American Feminist Antibodies
4. Winter - It's Corona Time : A Zine About Not Handling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Well

Round 4

1. Spring - Yell Zine #3
2. Summer - Asian American Feminist Antibodies
3. Fall - It's Corona Time : A Zine About Not Handling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Well
4. Winter - Femmes Unite #2

In breakout rooms discuss for eight minutes:

• Did one or more of the zines have an impact on you? On the creator?
• How do the zines document their time?
• Are there graphics in the zine? Handwriting? Collages? Which ones can you imagine using in a zine?
• How does the zine make you feel?

Group share.

What is a zine?

magaZINE, independent, self-expression, community, time capsule, self-edited, feminist, uncensored, compilation, homemade magazine, shared, feminist