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Speaking Out with Zines
- 1. SPEAKING OUT WITH ZINES BannedBooks Week 2018 UNG Libraries
- 2. BANNED BOOKS WEEK ■Censorship ■ Banning & challenging books: libraries, bookstores, schools
- 4. BANNED BOOKS WEEK ■Censorship ■ Banning & challenging books: libraries, bookstores, schools ■ Censorship at the point of access: "freedom to read" ■ What about the freedom to create & to publish?
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- 6. What's a zine? "...a self-published work created for passion rather than profit." - Independent Publishing Resource Center Usually small-circulation Usually handmade/photocopied
- 7. Types of zines ■Zines can be: – The voice of one person – A collaborative effort ■ Zines can be: – Handwritten, collaged, photocopied – Designed via digital publishing software – Online-only
- 8. Zines can beabout: ANYTHING! – Topics are as diverse as the interests & perspectives as the people who write them
- 9. “I, like manyothers, was inspired to create a document in which my own voice could be registered... ...a document that through its materiality, its visual elements, and its content articulated where I was at that moment in time.” -Alison Piepmeier
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- 11. How they started ■Pamphleteering – Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1775) ■ Sci-Fi Fanzines – The Comet (1930) – Allowed groups of like-minded people to communicate, share ideas, find community
- 12. Zines & thePunk Movement ■ 1970s: copy shops = cheaper/quicker production ■ Intersections between punk & zines – Punk: anyone can make music – Zines: anyone can write about it ■ Don't see yourself reflected in the media/music? – Do it yourself! Image credit:Wikimedia Commons
- 13. Zines & thePunk Movement ■ 1970s: copy shops = cheaper/quicker production ■ Intersections between punk & zines – Punk: anyone can make music – Zines: anyone can write about it ■ Don't see yourself reflected in the media/music? – Do it yourself! From the zine "Sideburns"
- 14. Zines & thePunk Movement ■ 1970s: copy shops = cheaper/quicker production ■ Intersections between punk & zines – Punk: anyone can make music – Zines: anyone can write about it ■ Don't see yourself reflected in the media/music? – Do it yourself! ■ Feel like you're inaccurately represented in the media? – Do it yourself! Dun-dun-dun
- 15. Zines & thePunk Movement ■ Riot Grrrl ■ Started in the 1980s with women in the punk scene who felt underrepresented
- 16. Zines & thePunk Movement "When I flip through these American punk zines, all I see are pictures after pictures of what looks like the same guy with an almost-shaved head... God, it gets boring! Just once, I'd like to see a photo of a girl playing a guitar and really working at it... ...there are so few girls into hardcore here... I'm TIRED of living through someone else!" -Anonymous contributer, MaximumRocknRoll
- 17. Zines & thePunk Movement ■ Riot Grrrl ■ Started in the 1980s with women in the punk scene who felt underrepresented ■ Gave platforms to female punk groups like Sleater Kinney, Bikini Kill, LeTigre, etc. ■ Zines > new genre
- 18. Soviet Samizdat ■ Americanzines: voices on the margins of the marketplace ■ Soviet zines: voices on the margins of the state ■ Samizdat = "publishing house for oneself" ■ Blossomed after 1966 Sinyavsky-Daniel trial – Convicted for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" ■ Literary works, news, open letters, censored material, surveys, complaints, religious material, manifestos
- 19. Soviet Samizdat (continued) ■ Thetradition of samizdat to bypass government censorship of the media continues today ■ NyomtassTe Is – "Print itYourself" – Hungarian prime ministerViktor Orban – 3 businessmen in his pocket own Hungary's 18 regional newspapers Article fromThe IrishTimes
- 20. Zines today ■ Stillgoing strong! ■ Zine conferences, conventions, clubs, workshops – Alt Press Fest, Atlanta Zine Fest, L.A. Zine Fest ■ Growing with the internet – Zine storefronts: Etsy, Big Cartel, personal websites – Zine blogs/forums: Zines a Go Go,We Make Zines, BrokenPencil ■ Zine collections & archives – Barnard Zine Library,Toronto Zine Library
- 21. VOICES @ THE MARGINS #blkgrlswurld A zinefor "young African American metalheads"
- 22. VOICES @ THE MARGINS BadTherapy/RadTherapy When therapyworks... and when it doesn't
- 23. VOICES @ THE MARGINS TheTenth "Black, gayand unbothered"
- 24. Why are zinesstill popular in the internet age?
- 25. Let's make a zine! ■Grab a template or a blank sheet of paper ■ Put something on it! Words, drawings, collage, poetry, song lyrics, etc. ■ Themes: – censorship – self-expression – representation