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Make Your Own Culture: Who Zine Creators Are, Why They Do What They Do and Why It Matters
1. Make Your Own Culture: Who Zine Creators Are,
Why They Do What They Do and Why It Matters
Presented by Jacinta Bunnell & Jenna Freedman
SUNY New Paltz, February 2013
In the interactive presentation Make Your Own Culture: Who Zine Creators Are, Why They Do What They Do and Why It Matters, Jacinta Bunnell (zine maker and artist) and Jenna Freedman (zine librarian and librarian zinester) will explore zine history, culture and their role in intersectional feminism.
Self-intros?
DEFINITION
Self-published and the publisher doesn’t answer to anyone
Small, self-distributed print run
Motivated by desire to express oneself rather than to make money
Outside the mainstream
Low budget
No need for any special equipment or knowledge
Portable
An expression of Do It Yourself (DIY) culture
Foster a community among their creators and readers
No ISSN, no barcode, no paid ads
HISTORY
17th century pamphlets in England: Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660
18th century revolutionary US—Common Sense
20th century science fiction and soviet dissidents, beat poets and punk rockers, riot grrrl, art books
TYPES
Personal, political, fanzine, literary zine, mamazine, art zine, comix, DIY zine, compilation zine, split zine
Barnard's zines are written by New York City and other urban women with an emphasis on zines by women of color. A woman's gender is self-defined. We also collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on activism, anarchism, body image, third wave feminism, gender, parenting, queer community, riot grrrl, sexual assault, and other topics.
WHO
Young people: majority teens & early twenties
Mothers of young children
librarians!
Writers and artists, bookmakers
WHY
Proof I exist
Communicate/share
Create/contribute
E.g. Kelly Shortandqueer—feels an obligation to his community (FTM transgender people) to document his experience
FROM The Long Tail, Self-publishers are
Differently motivated, not differently skilled
Amateur does not equal amateurish
Low selling does not equal low quality
WHY
Control
Only choice
ART
Additional means of communication
Collagechaos
Cut & pastefree
Juxtoposition, contrast
A d.i.y. guide to preventing sexual assault.
[S.l. : s.n., 200-]
1 folded leaf : ill. ; 22 x 36 cm.
Subjects
Rape > Prevention.
Subjects (Genre)
Zines.
Political zines.
DIY zines.
This collage-style DIY zine gives definitions of sexual assault, tips on how to prevent it for oneself and others, and ways to help survivors. It references the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, RAINN.
Cover title.
Book
Bookmark As http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/5621076
Astrogirl.
Two rapes in the third person to be read deadpan.
Berkeley, CA : Astrogirl, [2003?]
29 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Rape.
Sexual harassment.
Subjects (Genre)
Zines.
Personal zines.
Summary
A cross between abstract poetry and a journal, this typewritten experimental personal zine describes the presence of sexual harassment and assault in everyday life and the ways in which men wield power over women.
Cover title.
Book
Bookmark As http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/5453693
Mika.
Cutting : a diary / written by Mika.
[Portland, Ore.?] : the author, 2010
[8] p. ; 11 cm.
Subjects
Cutting (Self-mutilation)
Asian American women > United States > 21st century.
Prostitutes > United States > 21st century.
Self-esteem.
Harm reduction.
Subjects (Genre)
Zines.
Personal zines.
Journal detailing the author's experiences working as a street-based sex worker on Portland's 82nd Ave., practicing self-cutting, and visiting a doctor for a prescription for anti-depressants.
Cover title.
Purchased from the author at the Women of Color Zine Symposium, 2012.
Book
Acquired On June 24, 2012
Bookmark As http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/9503475
Gomez, Nyky.
Skinned heart : numero tres / Nyky Gomez.
Seattle, WA: the author, 2011.
[28] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series
Skinned heart ; no. 3.
Subjects
Mexican American women > 21st century.
Hispanic American women > 21st century.
Race relations.
Punk culture > United States > 21st century.
Working class > United States > 21st century.
Interpersonal relations.
Subjects (Genre)
Zines.
Personal zines.
The third issue of Skinned Heart, queer Mexican-American Nyky's cut and paste perzine, discusses her move from Flagstaff, AZ to Seattle; the changes in her understanding of punk communities, polyamory, abusive relationships, competing for male attention, losing white friends, and gardening. She also includes a drawing of her garden plan.
Purchased from Fight Boredom distro in 2012.
Cover title.
Book
Bookmark As http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/9746502
Melton, LaMesha.
Cocoa/puss zine. #5, Bigger, blacker, harder, faster, deeper / LaMesha Melton.
[Minneapolis, Minn.] : Lamesha Melton, [2010?]
18 p. ; 22 cm.
Subjects
African American women > 21st century.
Single mothers > United States > 21st century.
Blacks > Race identity.
Women graduate students > United States > 21st century.
Sex > United States > 21st century.
Feminism.
Subjects (Genre)
Zines.
Personal zines.
This perzine addresses LaMesha Melton's many roles in life: as a pregnant African-American woman, a single mother, graduate student, and sexual being. She discusses her body image issues involving both her "nappy" hair and weight, her participation in online pro-anorexia communities, her current pregnancy, defying gender stereotypes in raising her son, being "one of the Goddess's whore priestesses," and a positive sexual encounter she had with a group of men. She also includes short diary entries, an IM transcript, a letter to Shakira about how she is her "thinspiration," and a Cocoa/Puss Manifesta addressed to black women.
Cover title.
Purchased from the author at the Women of Color Zine Symposium, 2012.
Book
http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/9503474
Altadonna, Ashley.
Gendercide : v. 3, part 1 the chemical warfare issue / Ashley Altadonna.
[ Milwaukee, Wis. : Milo Miller ; 2007]
Description
[6] p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Series
Gendercide ; 3, pt. 1.
Subjects
Transgender people > United States.
Hormone therapy.
Sex change.
Subjects (Genre)
Zines.
Personal zines.
Issue 3 of Gendercide focuses on the idea of chemical warfare as it relates to gender transition. Ashley Altadonna, an MTF activist, filmmaker, and singer/songwriter in her 20s, writes about her experiences with hormone replacement therapy and how she felt better in a more feminine body. This is a one page folding zine illustrated with clip art.
Cover title.
No.5 subtitled "cherchez la femme," 2008 and cataloged separately.
Book
http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/6316126
Durden, Krissy.
Figure 8.
Portland, OR : Ponyboy Press, 2001-
Issues Published no. 1-
v. : ill. ; 18-22 cm.
A self-identified fat woman, Krissy Durden advocates a size-positive body image for fat chick and debunks health myths surrounding obesity.
Subjects
Body image in women.
Self-acceptance.
Discrimination against overweight women > United States.
Subjects (Genre)
Zines.
Political zines.
Notes
Title from cover.
Journal/Periodical
http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4221165
Jacinta bio
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